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Hennessey Venom: The Quickest Car In The World
With a Guinness judge in attendance, Hennessey Performance made two back-to-back runs with a Hennessey Venom GT down the 8,000-foot runway at Ellington Airport in Houston and did zero to 300 kmh (186 mph) in an average of 13.63 seconds. That’s enough to topple the previous “production car” records held by the Koenigsegg Agera R, which hit 200 mph in 17.68 seconds, and the rolling nuclear ...
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Creepy Tufted Toad Sofa
Another brilliant addition to Maximo Riera’s animal-form furniture line is the Toad Sofa. Máximo Riera has been a practicing artist for over thirty years. Whilst predominantly working in photography, painting and sculpture, he has also published a collection of poetry. Inspired by his travel and experiences through Europe and the Caribbean Islands, Máximo’s vibrant use of colour and evocative attention to detail have been an inspiration ...
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Spicy Stilettos For Sriracha Lovers
Hourglass Footwear is selling a pair of spicy stilettos for the Sriracha hot sauce lovers of the world. The “Rock Out” stilettos feature a hand-painted pop-art interpretation of everyone’s favourite Rooster hot sauce all over the platform shoe. We can’t be sure, but it appears as though there are only one pair of these babies up for grabs. Hourglass Footwear is a cool Seattle-based company that ...
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14 Quirky Photos of Loving Storm Troopers
You know what is awesome? Juxtaposition. We love when artists juxtapose subject matter with concept, which is exactly why we’re fans of Leah Minium’s collection of photos of Storm Troopers portrayed as loving friends or family. Minium took this photos to share with her instagram followers and on her blog. The Storm Trooper figurines belong to her sons, and sometimes she likes to grab a few ...
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Musical Coffin Serenades The Deceased
Swedish company Pause has developed the CataCoffin – a burial coffin that comes with a CataCombo Sound System that will pump music into the (un)listening ears of the dearly departed. A custom-built 2.1 amplifier, 2-way speakers, tweeters with external cooler and an 8-inch subwoofer specially tunes to the coffin’s acoustic space come standerd with the CataCoffin. The deceased can listen to their favourite tunes well into ...
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Swedish Band Releases Playable Record Made Of Ice
Swedish band the Shout Out Louds have created a limited edition version of their new single Blue Ice as a playable piece of ice. As the first single to be released from its Optica album, the band created ten boxes, containing a plastic record-shaped mould and a bottle of water. Offered to fans and press, those who got their hands on the boxes could fill the ...
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T-Shirt Vending Machine Accepts Tweets As Payment
Created by the India branch of advertising agency Ogilvy, the campaign saw a large billboard kitted out with 60 shirts and a mechanism that pushed each one forward a small amount every time someone tweeted with the hashtag ‘#RainingSolly’. According to reports, people around the billboard were then invited to use their phones to interact with it, while a large screen displayed their tweets. The user ...
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Cool Interactive Map of WWII Bomb Sites
For the record, bombs are not cool. Bombing people, is not, in any way…cool. But this interactive map that explores the London Blitz during WWII made us say “WHOA!”. The shock factor behind the awesome Bomb Sight website is unrivalled. It was developed by a team at the University of Portsmouth and gives a detailed overview of where the bombs Germany dropped on the UK landed ...
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Moldable Chocolate That Acts Like Modelling Clay
Why anyone in the world would ever need or want a box of flexible, moldable chocolate that can be worked like modelling clay is beyond our comprehension. But, apparently, this hot-ticket item from ThinkGeek promises hours of fun and a delicious chocolate treat at the end of a craft session. The Moldable Magic Chocolate Kit includes milk, dark and white chocolate. But what we are curious ...
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Seriously Advanced Prosthetic “Terminator” Arm
Major advances in the prosthetics industry have led to the development of the bebionic3 by RSLSteeper – a carbon-fiber myoelectric hand which is also made from aluminum and alloy knuckles. The bebionic3 moves by responding to muscle twitches in the upper arm, and uses sensors to trigger one of 14 pre-pgroammed grips that mirror common human hand movements. Users can finally engage in delicate movements, like ...
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Death Star Ice Cube Mold
Keeping your drink cold doesn’t have to be boring thanks to the Death Star Ice Sphere Mould. The 2.4″ diameter deathstar mould is dishwasher and freezer safe, made of food-safe silicone and makes any drink infinitely cooler (pardon the pun…or don’t) than ever before. As a bonus, the Death Star Sphere Mould can be used to make soap or chocolate, too, but let’s face it – ...
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Luggage With Built-In Scooter
Running from one terminal to another with your carry-on luggage just got a lot easier thanks to the awesome Scooter Luggage by Micro. Developed in tandem with Samsonite, this handy little luggage case of 26L capacity features hard-side construction and has a built-in kickboard that folds out to transform the luggage into a mobile pieces of transportation. Rolling around on a luggage scooter seems kind of ...
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15 Amazing Macro Photographs of Snowflakes
Remember cutting out snowflake designs from folded pieces of paper as a kid? Well these photographs by Russian photographer, Andrew Osokin, serve as great inspiration. The intricate detail and delicate forms are thanks to Mother Nature herself, and luckily, through the science of macro photography and Osokin’s keen eye, we can admire these crystal beauties up close. Next time you’re running for cover from the snowy ...
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Pizza Hut Perfume
What better way for Pizza Hut to celebrate having reached 100,000 Facebook fans than by creating a Pizza Hut perfume? Prompted by a joke on the official Pizza Hut Facebook page, the company’s advertising agency decided to run with the idea and manufacture 110 bottle of Eau de Pizza Hut. The scent boasts top notes of freshly baked, hand-tossed dough – the same smell that makes ...
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Super Nerdtastic Spock Hoodie
This Spock hood sold through ThinkGeek is exclusively suitable for fashion-flawed nerds who still manage to wear things like this and be cool about it. The hood is actually made for the ladies, but we won’t tell if you wear one, dude. The Spock Hoodie comes with pointed Vulcan ears on the hood and a drawstring so you can tighten up your hood and rock your ...
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Real Birds Using Twitter
Latvian conceptual artist and creative director Voldemars Dudums created this insanely clever bird feeder using an old computer keyboard and some cubes of bacon fat. When the birds would fly down to snack their inadvertent key presses were fed to an api that parsed each little tap into a bonafide tweet on the @hungry_birds Twitter account (fyi, these particular feathered friends became political during the U.S. ...
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Laurent Chehere’s Crazy Flying House Photographs
French photographer Laurent Chehere is known for his commercial work for clients such as Audi and Nike, but after a change of interest he left advertising and traveled the world with stops throughout China, Argentina, Columbia, and Boliva. From his numerous photographs along the way was born his flying houses series, a collection of fantastical buildings, homes, tents and trailers removed from their backgrounds and suspended ...
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Funky Portraits Drawn On Old School Maps
Artist Ed Fairburn draws incredible portraits on maps. Sure, it sounds like a simple idea and an easy thing to execute, but this type of careful composition and use of shading in illustration is not easy accomplished by many. Fairburn claims that his art is largely figurative, and through the exploration of the human form, he is ble to examine the patterns and structures which exist ...
