May 25 2007 Nissan DUALIS Powered Suit
This mecha version of the Nissan DUALIS SUV was designed by anime creator/mecha designer Shoji Kawamori and stands stands 3.5 meter tall. It will be on display at the Nissan Gallery in Ginza from May 23 to June 13 and at the Sony Building in Ginza from June 25 to July 1. Check out a few videos of the DUALIS Powered Suit in action after the jump, although there's no way the real thing moves like that. Because if it did, Japan would've already unleashed these on the world and conquered us. I suspect the real thing moves similar to this or not at all.
May 25 2007 Carrier Bags
These carrier bags were designed by Jamie Wieck to look like they're literally carrying your stuff. It's a pretty slick design, and much more appropriate than creating a bag out of actual hands. Probably less bloody too.
More shots of the carrier bags after the jump.
May 25 2007 Opening A Combination Lock With A Stick Pin
This is a little tutorial on how to open a combination lock with a stick pin. It's not very informative, but at least it looks somewhat legit. Although once again I've gotta stick with my own personal method of opening a combination lock: biting through it with my teeth.
May 25 2007 Wall-Mountable Wireless Printer
This is a wall mountable wireless printer designed by Ransmeier & Floyd. It can sit on a surface or hang on the wall and displays printouts like a picture in a frame. Considering how flat screen displays and wireless laptops have evolved it seems weird this is the first flat-printer concept I've ever seen. Unless the one I invented counts. Which it shouldn't, because I just accidentally ran over my printer with my car. It didn't flatten so much as it exploded.
May 25 2007 Mini Chocolate Shoes
Tiny little chocolate shoes that come in tiny little shoe boxes? Don't mind if I do. Although I don't see what's so special about these since I already eat my shoes. My stomach's been hurting for the past, oh I dunno, three years?
May 25 2007 Disc Pod Dispenser
The Disc Pod Dispenser laods up a spindle of blank CDs or DVD's and ejects them out one at a time at the push of a button. It costs $14 and does the same job as if you just grabbed a disc off the top, meaning if you buy this you're officially the laziest person on the planet. And me? Well I'm officially the handsomest.
May 24 2007 Toddler Destroyes Monks' Sand Painting
Eight Tibetan monks spent two days cross-legged on the floor at Union Station, leaning over to meticulously create an intricate design of colored sand as an expression of their Buddhist faith. They were more than halfway done when, within seconds, their work was destroyed by a dancing toddler. And in typical Tibetan monk fashion, they simply smiled and started over. Which is probably a better reaction than I would've had: drop kicking the baby through a plate glass window while screaming "DIE!"
May 24 2007 Steinway Lyngdorf $150k audio system
Piano maker Steinway & Sons has partnered with Lyngdorf Audio founder Peter Lyngdorf to create a new line of ultra-high end audio visual systems. Steinway Lyngdorf, as the partnership is called, is releasing the Model-D music system which will include a full set of speakers and a receiver featuring Lyngdorf's RoomPerfect automatic acoustic calibration system. Less than 100 will be available at initial release, and these bad boys are gonna cost $150,000 each. Which is perfect, because why pay for a house when you can own speakers instead!
May 24 2007 Mickey-Mouse tomato
A Chinese man bought a tomato from his local market because it was shaped like a mouse.
Chen Guoping, of Dongzhuangqiao village, Zhejiang province, bought the 150-gram tomato. "It looks so much like a mouse head that I bought it without hesitation. It looks very funny," he said. His fellow villagers all say they have never seen a tomato like it, reports People's Daily.
Call me crazy, but I usually avoid fruit that looks like it's growing tumors.
May 24 2007 Battle At Kruger
This video was taken while on safari and shows a battle between a pride of lions, a herd of buffalo, and two crocodiles at a watering hole in South Africa's Kruger National Park. Throw in Voltron and you've got yourselves a war.
Video after the jump.
May 23 2007 Puzzle Table
This puzzle table was designed by Hsien Chang and was inspired by sliding puzzles. The grids can be designated to store different items and there are fitted baskets which can be removed for even greater convenience. To access the grids you just slide the dividers on the desk. The only problem is that you'll always have a square block missing from the top of your desk, and to get something from opposite sides you'd have to adjust the entire thing. Well that, or smash it in with a hammer. Which is what I do with all my desks. Drawers are for amateurs.
May 23 2007 Fanimation Enigma Fan
The Fanimation Enigma Fan is a 60" single blade fan and probably the sleekest ceiling fan I've ever seen. What would you expect to pay for something like this? $1 million? $2 million? No, my friends, for the low low price of $800 you too can have a fan in your home that looks like it was designed to remove the heads of criminals.
May 23 2007 Chest Of Drawers
Chest of Drawers is a chest designed by Tejo Remy and is made out of drawers collected from the street. Yes, that's right, the horrible monstrosity you see before you was done on purpose. It's a neat idea, but why did he use drawers he found on the street? I mean c'mon, it's pretty hard to pretend this isn't a giant pile of garbage when it literally is a giant pile of garbage.
One more shot of the Chest of Drawers after the jump.
May 23 2007 Japanese food fight
If you've never seen those videos where Japanese people dress in black and recreate scenes with Matrix effects, prepare to have your socks blown off. If not a single part of that last sentence made sense to you, just watch the video and you'll understand. Or you won't and you'll be even more confused. Either way, you should probably just give me your credit card information.
Video clip after the jump.
May 23 2007 Cat grows wings
This Chinese woman claims her cat has grown two 4 inch long wings.
"At first, they were just two bumps, but they started to grow quickly, and after a month there were two wings," she said. Feng, of Xianyang city, Shaanxi province, says the wings, which contain bones, make her pet look like a 'cat angel'. Her explanation is that the cat sprouted the wings after being sexually harassed. "A month ago, many female cats in heat came to harass him, and then the wings started to grow," she said. However, experts say the phenomenon is more likely down to a gene mutation, and say it shouldn't prevent the cat living a normal life.
So the cat is either an angel or a mutant. Either way it wins! Oh, wait, right. The mutant one...
May 23 2007 Ant fungus
This is a video of a parasitic cordyceps fungi attacking and consuming an ant. And yes, it's every bit as disgusting as it sounds. I almost clawed my skin off half-way through the clip. And by almost I mean I actually did. I'm typing this from the dead!
Check out the video after the jump.
May 23 2007 Beijing Olympic Medals unveiled
The medals for the 2008 Olympics have been unveiled and, uh, here they are. So you better get started on your replicas now if you hope to have them ready in time for the actual games. "Why yes, that is my Olympic gold medal from competitive monkey wrestling."
One more shot of the reverse side after the jump.
May 23 2007 Water balloon not exploding in high-speed
This is a high-speed video of a water balloon bouncing off the floor without popping. It's oddly hypnotic to watch. And by hypnotic I mean erotic. Chica bow wow chica bow wow. Check out the video after the jump.
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May 22 2007 Smoking jacket
Fiona Carswell on her Smoking Jacket:
The jacket has a built-in pair of lungs on the front. As the wearer smokes, the lungs fill up with the exhaled cigarette smoke and begin to gradually darken over time. This project was a result of exploring reflective design as it relates to the body, behavioral choices, and information displays.
The jacket probably would've been more effective if she used real lungs. Probably more illegal too. Just like my bald eagle jacket made from real bald eagles.
May 22 2007 Why you shouldn't follow directions too closely
Think that's bad? My house was built three feet tall, the exact size of the blueprints. I probably should've gotten my money back instead of deciding to move in.
May 22 2007 Line Rider meets Super Mario Bros.
Remember Line Rider? That wonderfully addictive flash game where you draw lines and a little dude on a sled rides on them? Well somebody recreated the first level of Super Mario Bros. with it. Check out the video after the jump. Or don't, because it's pretty boring.
May 22 2007 Deep Sea Creatures
The New York Times has a pretty nice (but short) slideshow featuring some deep sea creatures taken by French journalist Claire Nouvian for her film “The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss.” The thing above is called the Dumbo Octopus, and it's probably the cutest thing living in the deep. Which isn't a hard title to get, considering everything else down there basically glows in the dark and has about a 1 billion fangs coming out of its mouth.
May 22 2007 The Pecker Exerciser
From the Pecker Exerciser site:
The Pecker Exerciser is a much-needed gift for the bachelor. You can give it to him if you think he needs to "bone up" before his honeymoon or if you think that he may stop getting as much exercise after marriage. Purchase the Pecker Exerciser along with a sweatband and a bottle of water, and you're ready to go.
You mean there are dumbbells made specifically for my wang? All this time I've just been using rope and a bowling ball.
May 22 2007 Photo-realistic Illustrator art
Yukio Miyamoto creates photo-realistic pictures using Adobe Illustrator. He starts by tracing out shapes over photographic references and then fills them with gradients and blends to create the final product. Keep in mind that Illustrator isn't a 3D modeling program. These were created in 2D using nothing but gradients and blends. And what I can only assume is some form of computer sorcery.
May 21 2007 Rubik's Cube cake
Here's a tutorial on how to bake your very own Rubik's Cube cake. I'm not a scientist, but cake just tastes better when it's in cool shapes. I've actually got my own Rubik's Cube cake recipe, but it's basically just covering a real Rubik's Cube with frosting. Easy and delicious.
May 21 2007 Ferret vs jalapeno pepper
This would've been funny if the ferret had discovered the jalapeno on its own. And if the people laughing in the video didn't make me want to punch myself in the face. But neither of these is the case, so it's sad.
May 21 2007 Pac-Man skeleton
This Pac-Man skeleton was put together by Le Gentil Garçon and paleontologist François Escuilié, and was modeled after the skeletal structure of predatory animals. Which is basically just a lot of words that could've been replaced with 'Great Googly Moogly this is awesome!'
Thanks to Euba for the tip.
May 21 2007 Electrified laser defense system
This Portal Denial System was created by Ionatron and uses a laser-induced plasma channel to electrocute anybody that steps in its path. It fires a laser across an opening to create a conductive stream of plasma which acts as a virtual wire. Because the plasma is conductive, it can be used to fire a lethal or "less lethal" shot of electricity, electrocuting anybody that crosses the beam. Unfortunately, this thing is only authorized for sale to the US government. It's almost as if they don't trust people to install these things in their homes. Hey, I almost got my VCR working, so I'm pretty sure I can handle something as simple as an electrified laser beam. C'mon now!
A video of this monster in action after the jump.
May 21 2007 Starcraft II
Starcraft II, the sequel to the massively popular real-time strategy game Starcraft, was unveiled on Saturday. Check out the official site and make sure to watch the cinematic trailer. Just be sure you're wearing a diaper. Not because you'll wet yourself or anything, they're just really really stylish.
