• skate house

    Old and busted: A room with a view; New hotness: A room with a half-pipe

    Why break your leg in a skateboarding accident in public, or in some guy’s dried-out pool, when you could do it in the comfort of your own home? That’s the thinking behind PAS House, the home currently being designed and built for professional skateboarder Pierre-Andre Sénizergues.  Featuring three rooms...
  • Blackberry Facial now available, might fix BlackBerry Neck

    Blackberry thumb move over. There’s a new social networking ailment coming our way and for $200 you can get the treatment to cure it. According to beauty professional, too much staring down at our cell / smart phone of choice answering text messages and emails is leading to more...
  • pringles

    Our most humble receptacle: Pringles pioneer buried in his can

    Last month, Fredric Baur, inventor of the original Pringles can, passed away at the age of 89.  And following his last wishes, Baur was buried in the can he helped to invent. When he first began to consider the humble receptacle as a serious option for internment in the...
  • Meanwhile in Poland: Zombie apocalypse proof home

      Behold, the zombie apocalypse proof home, or as they call it, the Safe House. It’s along the outskirts of Warsaw, in Poland, that the zombie apocalypse proof home has sprouted. An impressive masterpiece of cement and glass, and with its variable configuration outer walls, it’s also reminiscent of...
  • cat ears

    Furries rejoice: Cat ears controlled by brainwaves

    As if being a furry wasn’t expensive enough already – costumes, makeup, tail plugs, indecent exposure violation tickets, et cetera – the new black for the “animal cosplay enthusiast” community has just hit the shelves. Called “necomimi” the ears are controlled by different brain activity.  Supposedly, concentrating (on your...
  • Epic rap battles are storming the Internets!

    New on the Internet are what are now known as Epic Rap Battles, where the humorists take two figures of (some) importance and have them duke it out in a battle of the wits, over rap music. I have to admit having toyed with this idea myself but never...
  • Meanwhile in Copenhagen; a commercial sperm bike!

    I’ve poked fun at the Japanese a couple of times, yet for all their strange and sometimes uncalled for pass-times, I’d not yet seen a bicycle shaped like sperm. Yet here it is; In Denmark. The company using it, Nordisk Cryobank, is an European sperm bank and it uses the...
  • Hidden garage keeps up appearances, adds valuable parking space

    You live in an area where parking spaces are at a premium, have a Victorian style apartment building and don’t want to screw up its aesthetics by sticking a big ugly parking bay underneath it, what do you do? You could do what one building owner in San Francisco’s...
  • Blood Scented Perfume Available for Sale

    For all those who love the smell of blood you no longer have to hang out at blood banks to get your fix. Now there is a blood scented perfume just for you. Blood Concepts is the genius design of an Italian company who say the scent is “a...