Adjustable breast implants
These breast-implants can be adjusted after surgery, varying the size of your fake tits based on your post-operative feelings about them until you’re perfectly happy with your wobbly plastic boobs.
The Spectrum is a technologically innovative design that allows the surgeon to continue making adjustments to the breast after your breast augmentation operation. A small, removable fill tube is left temporarily attached to the breast implant after surgery. The tube is accessible to the physician by injection through the skin. In a simple office procedure, breast implant size can be varied until you have achieved the result you desire. At this point, the fill tube is removed (again, in a routine office visit) and a self-sealing valve immediately closes and seals the breast implant.
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Digital camera disguised as giant vintage locket
This gigantic vintage-esque necklace is actuall a Kodak 1881 camera, designed by Lindsey Pickett to look like an old locket. It has a pair of LCDs inside that display your photos. This is a neat idea, but man, that is one big locket — Flava Flav big.
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Armchair meets padded cell
The “Paddy Chair” is a cross between an armchair and a padded cell, described by designer Nick Melville as a “comfy chair for nutters.”
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Tiny perfect Hobbit doll-house
Back in 2005, LiveJournaller Obelia Medusa posted an extensive photo-record of her gorgeous Bilbo Baggins doll-house. It’s fantastically detailed with a huge larder stuffed with Hobbit food, teetering stacks of books, a clutter of Hobbit knick-knacks, and round doors and windows.
Link to work-in-progress shots, Link to finished project
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The Landlord
I’m a few days late, but can’t let the week evaporate without pointing to “The Landlord,” an internet video in which a famous celebrity argues with a child. No, not that one! Will Farrell and an irascible, tiny girl named Pearl McKay who likes to get her booze on, bitch. Video Link. Wired News has a related story .
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Magic 8-Ball vivisection
The Hanttula website has vivisected a Magic 8-Ball toy, revealing, among other things, an oracular D-20 in the middle. I roll to disbelieve.
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Gama-Go iPod case
Gama-Go makes superfun apparel and other cool merch designed by Tim Biskup, Chris Edmundson, and Greg Long. I just came across this tricky Gama-Go iPod case that disguises your MP3 player as a pack of smokes. Now only $14.99 from Urban Outfitters Online.
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Mursi tribeswoman with AK47 and iPod
Great photo entitled “Female member of Mursi tribe in Southern Ethiopia” — a woman with an AK47 and an iPod.
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Bone factory busted
Police in Keshia, West Bengal, India busted a human “bones factory” trading in illegal skeletons. Apparently, the perps supplied skeletons to medical students and folk doctors. From Reuters:
“We received complaints that several bodies were missing from graveyards and, while investigating the case, we stumbled on the secret bones factory,” (district police chief Peeyush) Pandey said.
The accused would take largely unburned bodies from Hindu cremation sites as well as from rivers where the dead are often disposed by the poor who cannot afford to cremate them, he said.
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Hobo Chili dog food also edible by people
Dick Van Patten is marketing a line of dog foods than can be shared by man and beast, including hobo chili.
The very same plant that makes food for humans makes Dick Van Patten�s Natural Balance Eatables For Dogs! Eatables is a complete and balanced premium dog food which contains a superior mixture of the finest meats, as well as fresh vegetables and premium ingredients your dog will love. This unique blend assures high digestibility and contains all of the nutrients, vitamins and minerals necessary for puppies through adulthood. Natural Balance Eatables For Dogs is a premium line of delicious varieties that contain a different taste of the world for your dog in every can.
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US nuclear lab is full of stoners
I can’t tell you how many times, after listening to some lame explanation about why security at the Los Alamos nuclear lab still wasn’t fixed, I though to myself, “What are they, stoned?”The answer, it turns out, is yes. At least some of ’em are. An Energy Department investigation, unearthed by Time, has turned up “35 cases involv[ing] drug use within the year prior to requesting a security clearance.”
Link to full text, with an update from someone who appears to be Los Alamos Nuclear Lab insider.
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Cookie with edible nutrition facts list
AndrewAndrew, a design firm, has created this cookie whose nutrition facts are printed right on the icing, in edible ink.
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Sex lube co’s data breach exposes 250K+ personal records
Sexual lubricant maker Astroglide is reported to have suffered a data breach recently, and it sounds like a doozy. Personal information about more than a quarter million people — including names, mailing addresses, and the specific variety of lube they purchased — ended up on Google-accessible web pages.
Some of the data may have been accessible online for days, months, even years (some records date back to 2003). And some of the data remains available through Google’s cache even now, because Astroglide apparently failed to clean up the mess properly.
Here’s a link to an April 21 blog post at Homeland Stupidity, and Wired News Threat Level blog has an extensive post with updates from Google spokespersons today.
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Impractical LED watch is all bracelet, part timepiece
I’m entranced with the latest TokyoFlash impractical wristwatch from the future. The Shinshoku tells the time with a set of impenetrable color-coded LEDs that shine through holes in the metal mesh wristband. It requires that you rewire your brain to learn an entirely new time-telling system, which is good mental exercise, and it means that no one will ever ask to borrow your watch, except for fashion.
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Postcards from 1900 depict tech of 2000
This collection of German postcards were originally give-aways in Hildebrands chocolates in 1900 — they depict the world as it would be in 2000. Included are a water-unicycle, slidewalks, locomotives pulling houses, personal airplanes, weather control systems, amphibious railways, police X-rays for seeing through walls, and, of course, zeppelins. Beautiful artwork, too.
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Dumb inventions that got patents
Here are 6 patents filed with the US Patent and Trademark office that are some of the dumbest inventions out there. Take for example the Helmet-Mounted Pistol. It’s a gun strapped to the top of a hat. You have to blow into the connected tube to shoot the gun. Can you imagine using it during war? There’ll be a lot of blowing.
Airbag Undershorts (2006)
What better way to magnify the humiliation of falling on your ass than with inflatable undies? These brainy briefs feature accelerometers that detect a tumble in progress, sending compressed gas into balloonlike pockets throughout the knickers. Phew � that was almost embarrassing.
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Kryptonite found in Serbian mine
When mineralogist Dr. Chris Stanely of London’s Natural History Museum did a Web search on the chemical formula of a recently-discovered unusual mineral, he was shocked to find out that the rock is Kryptonite . The mineral, found in a Serbian mine by the company Rio Tinto, consists of the same chemicals as fictional as described in the film Superman Returns. From the a href=”http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6584229.stm”>BBC News:
“Towards the end of my research I searched the web using the mineral’s chemical formula – sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide – and was amazed to discover that same scientific name, written on a case of rock containing kryptonite stolen by Lex Luther from a museum in the film Superman Returns.
“The new mineral does not contain fluorine (which it does in the film) and is white rather than green but, in all other respects, the chemistry matches that for the rock containing kryptonite…”
The mineral cannot be called kryptonite under international nomenclature rules because it has nothing to do with krypton – a real element in the Periodic Table that takes the form of a gas.
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Floating jellyfish pool-lights
These jellyfish pool-lights run on four AA batteries and float on the surface of your pool, looking luminescent, deadly and plasticky.
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Man chops off penis in crowded restaurant
A man ran into the Zizzi restaurant on The Strand, London, and cut off his penis with a kitchen knife. Police arrived and used tear gas to restrain him. From the BBC News:
The man was then taken to hospital in south London where his condition is stable. It is understood surgeons were unable to reattach his penis.
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Potentially Earthlike planet discovered outside our solar system
European astronomers have discovered what may be an Earthlike planet 20 light-years away from here, in the Libra constellation. The planet, named Gliese 518c, is five times more massive than Earth and orbits a red sun at a distance that could support the presence of water and, possibly, life. The Geneva Observatory scientists and their collaborators couldn’t observe the planet directly, so its discovery was actually an inferrence. Using a 141-inch-diameter telescope in Chile, they measured the wobble of the parent star, a phenomenon caused by the orbiting planet’s gravitational pull. Based on those measurements, they could then deduce the planet’s approximate mass and other information. From the New York Times:
“On the treasure map of the universe, one would be tempted to mark this planet with an X,” said Xavier Delfosse, a member of the team from Grenoble University in France, according to a news release from the European Southern Observatory, a multinational collaboration based in Garching, Germany…
The most exciting part of the find, Dr. Sasselov said, is that it �basically tells you these kinds of planets are very common.� Because they could stay geologically active for billions of years, he said he suspected that such planets could be even more congenial for life than Earth.
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NASA’s new 3D images of the sun are bitchun
NASA announces that the twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft have produced the first stereoscopic 3D images of our sun. Snip from press release:
The new view will greatly aid scientists� ability to understand solar physics and thereby improve space weather forecasting.“The improvement with STEREO’s 3-D view is like going from a regular X-ray to a 3-D CAT scan in the medical field,” said Dr. Michael Kaiser, STEREO Project Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
The STEREO spacecraft were launched October 25, 2006. On January 21 they completed a series of complex maneuvers, including flying by the moon, to position the spacecraft in their mission orbits. The two observatories are now orbiting the sun, one slightly ahead of Earth and one slightly behind, separating from each other by approximately 45 degrees per year. Just as the slight offset between a person�s eyes provides depth perception, the separation of spacecraft allow 3-D images of the sun.
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HEY HO LETS GO
Punk Rock For the People States love symbols. Colorado has the Stegosaurus as its state fossil. New York has the Sugar Maple as its state tree. And every state has an official song. But what about an official punk rock song? Connecticut is leading the way.
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The Death of a Nation
The death of Russia. A very interesting documentary made for Channel 4 in the UK on the state of modern Russia from Marcel Theroux.
Marcel is older brother of Louis Theroux and son of the travel writer Paul.
Marcel’s documentary style is more sober than that of his brother and he deals with a tragic subject delicately and with a sympathetic tone. A very depressing but nonetheless very watchable documentary told by a literate, compassionate journalist.
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panoramic navigation made easy
Field of View’s SPi-V engine (pronounced "spiffy") lets you take panoramic images from places like flickr, and turn them into interactive, full-screen environments.
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