via youtube.com
Courtesy of KLM at the Manchester Airport, UK.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Electrolux Design Lab 2010 Finalists
via youtube.com
Seems like Apple has a lot of influence in design.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Bumblebee Camaro Crash at Transformer 3 Filming in DC
via youtube.com
DC Police Chevy Suburban responding to emergency call somehow gets inside a closed set and has a collision with the Bumblebee Camaro being used to film the Transformers 3 movie. This was not in the script or part of the movie.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Another Planet Humans Can Make a Mess Of
Gilese 581g is the first potentially habitable planet ever found according to astronomers. If only we can get all the bad people there and let the good people stay on earth even if it means they have to clean up the mess bad people make.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Dancing Girls Make In-Flight Safety Demo Much More Interesting
via youtube.com
One reason why you might want to consider flying Cebu Pacific.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
This Lego Wedding Ring has Unlimited Potential
Is it cool or is it cool? There should be a lego jewelry store to upgrade this ring. Just hope it doesn't fall off though.
Try doing a backflip off the Mega Ramp on a tricycle
via youtube.com
I love this clip. Travis Pastrana is awesome.
Don't let being disable stop you from doing the wheelchair backflip
via youtube.com
This video is meant to show not only people ON chairs but EVERYONE that when life gives you limits, push them.
Maybe there should be an X-games for the disabled.
It's not a parking meter, it's a car!!!
via youtube.com
An agency provides thick people for jobs they are good at, such as arguments, which they are apparently very good at winning "because they are too thick to realize they've lost."
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Saturday, September 25, 2010
This chair looks like magic!
via youtube.com
The ulo chair was designed by Ian Walton for his final Degree Project in the BDes Industrial Design at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Where Do Good Ideas Come From?
via youtube.com
"With Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson pairs the insight of his bestselling Everything Bad Is Good for You and the dazzling erudition of The Ghost Map and The Invention of Air to address an urgent and universal question: What sparks the flash of brilliance? How does groundbreaking innovation happen? Answering in his infectious, culturally omnivorous style, using his fluency in fields from neurobiology to popular culture, Johnson provides the complete, exciting, and encouraging story of how we generate the ideas that push our careers, our lives, our society, and our culture forward."
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
This Professor is a Cyborg
via edition.cnn.com
I think I saw Arnold Schwarzenegger (I can't believe I spelled that right the first time!)
Pack your bags, we're going to space.
via youtube.com
"Virgin Galactic is on track to become the world's first commercial spaceline. If you have ever dreamt of joining the incredible group of pioneering astronauts your opportunity has arrived."
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
5 Insane True Facts About StarCraft: The Professional Sport | Cracked.com
You can probably see now why Koreans and other StarCraft pros are so nervous about StarCraft 2. After almost 12 years of playing the same exact game and working out their little strategies and gambits, it feels almost as set in stone as chess. Imagine becoming a chess grandmaster and suddenly being told to throw it all away because they've come up with a Chess 2. Backwards-moving pawns! Bishops that can teleport! Elevated squares! Cats and dogs living together! Mass hysteria!
via cracked.com
lol
Monday, September 20, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
The Living Camera
via youtube.com
Amazing memory! Just one helicopter is all it takes to memorize how a whole city looks like in details.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Soccer Playing Robots
From the World Cup of robotic soccer governed by the Federation of International Robot-Soccer Association.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Wear a Helmet When Playing with a Giant Slingshot
via youtube.com
You just never know what can happen.
Zeroing Animation | Fubiz™
via fubiz.net
A beautiful experimental video called "zeroing" directed by the motion-designer Andrey Nepomnyaschev based in Moscow in collaboration with Studio Takt for sound design.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
'World's Rarest and Most Expensive' car wax
via gizmag.com
$37,070 for car wax that doesn't promise anything is just nuts, at least for a poor guy like me. Here's what it says on broughandhowarth.com, the vehicle appearance specialist responsible for the The Definitive Wax Marble.
"Beautifully hand crafted in a solid marble pot, Definitive Wax Marble is the most exclusive wax available in the world today and with only one 480ml pot currently in existence it's also the rarest.
Definitive Wax Marble has been formulated and blended exclusively for Brough & Howarth and is engineered to offer total protection to your vehicles paintwork, containing a unique blend of Brazilian #1 Carnauba wax, Beeswax and refined natural oils.
To ensure total exclusivity to our clients Definitive Wax Treatments can only be purchased through us directly or our approved and fully trained associates."
See? It doesn't say your car will shine forever or something like that. With that kind of money, I'd rather buy me a decent car and still have some change left for a wax job.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
BBC News - Chef's bid for world's most expensive cheese sandwich
A cheese show in Somerset is hoping to set the record for the world's most expensive cheese sandwich.
The Frome Cheese Show claims to be the oldest in the country and organisers hope its cheese sandwich, costing £110.59, is the world's most expensive.
Sandwich creator, Bath-based chef Martin Blunos said it was made with cheddar blended with white truffles and sprinkled with gold dust.
via bbc.co.uk
Aww man. That cheese sandwich looks yummy.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Tobias Wong Smoking Mittens
via selectism.com
Smoking is bad for you. If you're a smoker, you know that's not something new but sometimes you just can't help it. You gotta smoke when you gotta smoke.
Smokers will always try to find ways to smoke in any weather. The mittens are great for winter but how do you light the cigarette?
Open Bottles With Your iPhone - The iBottleopener
I thought it was a joke but I assure you it's real. The iBottleopener is a really cool iPhone case.
Giant Bubbles are Beautiful (Canon 550D)
via youtube.com
I'm going to get me one of them bubble makers.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Does speed reading training actually work?
via straightdope.com
What's the straight dope on speed reading? Evelyn Wood commercials in the late 70s showed people casually zipping through impressive-looking tomes, apparently having benefited from one of Evy's speed-reading courses. The concept, as I recall it, was that one learned to read not word-by-word but line-by-line and eventually paragraph-by-paragraph. It was claimed that in spite of the breakneck speeds you would "achieve a higher level of comprehension." It all seemed a bit implausible at the time. Anyway, speed reading seemed to disappear until recently, when it was reintroduced on those late night mail order "infomercials." What's the scoop?
Fur from China Ain't Cool - The Dirty Secrets of Branded Clothing
If you love animals, watching this might make you feel sick. The actions in the video are completely unnecessary.
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Watch on posterous
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
Most WTF Job in the World
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Watch on posterous
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Japanese Street Contact Juggling
via youtube.com
I've seen someone do this when I was in Glasgow. Mesmerizing Stuff
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Apple’s Macs Will be Cooler Than Ever
via wired.com
Touchsreen iMacs and MacBooks won't be far away from becoming a reality. The rumor is that it would soon be very real.
Time to save up guys.
Awesome in Slowmotion
via vimeo.com
Videos like these make me want to go out a buy a seriously cool high speed camera. Slow motion is cool, therefore Philip Heron is cool.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
A Tribute to Berlin Using Tilt-Shift
via vimeo.com
A good demonstration of a miniature effect called tilt-shift. You can make this effect by using some sort of special lens used to photograph architecture or by digital processing.
Masterpieces of Outdoor Advertising « Frivolositicious
Amazing Billboard and other outdoor advertising. Simply remarkable.
Masterpieces of Outdoor Advertising « Frivolositicious
Amazing Billboard and other outdoor advertising. Simply remarkable.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Duct Tape: HMO on a Roll
Duct tape is incredibly useful as an emergency medical remedy. One surprise for me is that it can be used as a wart remover. Apparently it works for a lot of people. If you're looking for the medical uses of duct tape, you can find a lot of them at OctaneCreative.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Saturday, August 21, 2010
12 Coolest Beach Towels « Frivolositicious
Looking to stand out at the beach? Check out these really cool beach towels; you can actually buy them.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
YoYoFactory Present: Jensen Kimmitt 2010 World yoyo Contest 1A 1st Place
via youtube.com
How the hell do you learn stuff like this?
Geek Army Knife
via likecool.com
No camping knife is better than this. There's everything here that a superhero might need.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Jacket Doubles as a Jacket and a Backpack
via ecouterre.com
Nice looking design but it'd troublesome taking off the jacket if you need something from the backpack
Lunartic_Hubless Wheel Prototype
via youtube.com
Lunartic is a Loughborough University Design and Technology final year project by Luke Douglas.
The aim was to use a hubless wheel to create a compact bicycle, with the benefits of a large wheel and belt drive.
Hubless wheels have appeared in bicycle concepts already, and were first invented by Sbarro. However, few concepts have made it to prototype and when only used for aesthetic purposes, the disadvantage of extra cost out weights the visual gain. Lunartic uses the hubless for a reason; to house the working parts, reducing the wheel base but not sacrificing conventional riding geometry.
Lunartic is supposed to be as compact as possible without folding or being awkward to ride, however there is the potential for the front wheel to fold up into the rear or for that space to be used for a laptop back, motor or dynamo.
This first prototype proves the unique theory behind the design but will require further development before being ready for mass manufacture.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
‘Biggest Drawing in the World’ is Fake
Swedish artist Erik Nordenenkar claims to have created the "biggest drawing in the world" by sending a GPS-equipped plastic briefcase on a squiggly, looping trip around the world, tracing out a 110,664-km (68,763-mile) unbroken line with the help of DHL delivery planes and trucks. The result: A self-portrait of the artist as a megalomaniacal god with a planet-sized Sharpie and a rather nice sense of line.
Problem is, the project is almost certainly faked, despite the footage showing the briefcase disappearing into the cargo hold of a DHL plane and a photo showing a stack of delivery receipts at the end. Why?
- DHL does not deliver to arbitrary latitude-longitude destinations.
- DHL is not likely to consider "trace a few looping lines through the Indian Ocean, without landing" as a valid delivery request, even with lat-long coordinates
- You can’t get a GPS signal inside the aluminum skin of an airliner
- No GPS system, even with supplemental batteries, would have lasted the 55 days the artist says his project took
- Details on the setup’s "extended tracklog and battery time" are suspiciously absent.
So yeah, we’re calling bullshit on this one. Nice picture, though.
UPDATE 5/27/2008: Yep, it’s a fake. The artist has added a line to the bottom of his webpage stating "This is fictional work. DHL did not transport the GPS at any time." And DHL confirmed that Nordenenkar never went any further than a warehouse the company allowed him to film in.
Image above from the artist’s website. Below, the artist’s video.
via wired.com
Dreamate Sleep Inducer » Coolest Gadgets
The Sleep Inducer sounds great but I always take off my watch before going to bed and my body associates having a watch on with being awake. Whether this thing works or not, I don't know.
Friday, August 13, 2010
MIT SENSEable City Lab's "Copenhagen Wheel" takes top US prize in Dyson Awards - Core77
via core77.com
At press time their website had not yet been updated with this news, but the 2010 James Dyson Award has announced their US National Winner, along with the US Shortlist.
Top prize goes to MIT's SENSEable City Lab for their Copenhagen Wheel design, a sort of smart wheel that attaches to existing bicycles and transforms them into "hybrid electric-bikes with regeneration and real-time sensing capabilities."
Its sleek red hub not only contains a motor, batteries and an internal gear system - helping cyclists overcome hilly terrains and long distances - but also includes environmental and location sensors that provide data for cycling-related mobile applications. Cyclists can use this data to plan healthier bike routes, to achieve their exercise goals or to create new connections with other cyclists. Through sharing their data with friends or their city, they are also contributing to a larger pool of information from which the whole community can benefit.
The wheel looks heavy. It looks good, it sounds great but I don't think I want it.
Seriously Cool Lego Wall Art (Space Invaders - Star Wars)
via flickr.com
I don't mind having this on my wall. The artist is willing to build a replica for anyone interested.
One Way to Hide Three Naked Women « Frivolositicious
Very cool bodypainting art. Didn't notice the women at all when I first saw the picture.
Samsung 3D projection mapping | haha.nu - the lifestyle blogzine
via haha.nu
Awesome Samsung 3D projection mapping public display in Amsterdam.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Strongest Kid You've Ever Seen Video
via break.com
Had the sound off when watching this. By the looks of it, he's Russian or Ukranian or something in between.
Seriously Cool Paper Sculptures
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