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  • June 7, 2013
    Is the car even full? This is a video from Saudi Arabia of some guy on the hood of a car casually texting while cruising down the highway at speeds around 60MPH. That seems dangerous. It reminds me of that video of the guy laying down on his motorcycle and texting. I just d... / Continue →
  • February 28, 2013
    Sunglass manufacturer Oakley teamed up with fine scotch maker Macallan to develop 'The Flask', a $900 carbon fiber, steel and aluminum drinking flask. Why? Filthy stinking rich people, that's why. ...the The Macallan x Oakley Flask (£600; roughly $900) draws upon the latte... / Continue →
  • February 7, 2013
    Because this is the sad, sad world we live in, here's a $45 iPad Pedestal Stand from CTA Digital. It combines the ass-wiping practicality of a toilet paper holder with the entertainment-while-you-strain-on-the-john accessibility of an iPad. Now I know 100% of the population u... / Continue →
  • December 12, 2012
    These are the top 10 "trending" (search queries with the highest amount of traffic over a sustained period in 2012 as compared to 2011) global Google search and Google image searches for 2012. All in all, a pretty depressing collection. Surprisingly absent from the list were ... / Continue →
  • December 7, 2012
    Because nothing says "I'm a badass who takes eye care seriously" like a pair of sunglasses with temples that look like little assault rifles, this is a pair of sunglasses with temples that look like little assault rifles. They're a collaboration between Jeremy Scott and Linda ... / Continue →
  • December 6, 2012
    This is the $25 USB Squirming Tentacle from ThinkGeek. You plug it in and it squirms. AND THAT'S ALL. It doesn't store any data or anything, it just squirms. It's the textbook definition of a novelty product. You want to see something squirm for cheaper? Here's what you d... / Continue →
  • November 20, 2012
    Note: You can download a 65KB text file of the entire 189,819 letter word HERE. This is a video of some guy pronouncing the longest word in the world, which is the chemical name for titan (aka connectin), a human protein, and the largest known protein. It takes brobro 3-hou... / Continue →
  • November 8, 2012
    This is the incredibly ridiculous Russian 'Sberbank Visa Infinite' credit card. It's made of pure gold and has 26 diamonds in it. It makes me hate wasteful rich people even more than I did before, which was already a lot. The card costs $100,000 to obtain, $65,000 of which g... / Continue →
  • November 6, 2012
    This is the $40,500 Meneghini La Cambusa refrigerator. It costs a fortune but keeps food cold just like the $400 fridge I bought on Craigslist. I don't know, maybe this one won't smell like a corpse when it shows up. The fridge includes, in no particular order: a refrigerator... / Continue →
  • November 1, 2012
    Ahahahahha, I'm posting about shirt buttons -- SOMEBODY COME END ME. This is the $3 (that's too much) Button 2.0. It's a shirt button that can clamp the cord to your headphones. That's pretty much it. Unfortunately you need to know how to sew to replace your regular buttons... / Continue →