What on earth…?
Apparently some Lithuanian luxury cars are made out of metal, cardboard, copious amounts of foam and a *lot* of sheer, dogged manpower. Golly! Tags: lithuanian+luxury+car
Stool Money Box. Does anyone else find it a little strange that somewhere on this planet, someone thought that designing a piggy bank to look like a large brown pile of excrement would be, like…a *good* idea? That it would perhaps encourage saving? $35.09. We particularly enjoy their description sign off – ‘it is very lovely’. Weird weird. It is a money pot like the stool! It is have a comfortable feel and a fashion accessories. This unique money saving box is perfect for…
Toy Traveling is the world’s first travel agent for toys. That’s right, you can now send your toys off traveling around the world free from worry and safe in the knowledge they’ll be looked after every step of the way. For prices starting at 90 Euros, your precious stuffed thingie will get a passport and be sent off to an exotic location (well…Prague). They’ll then send you daily emails, get a profile on Facebook and take lots of touristy photos before…
Lazy days in the sun not enough for you? Need some more sizzle in your life? Well try out this Heated Hammock, which will warm your body up to a nice comfortable 122 F via some heating elements and a rechargeable battery pack. Weird product of the week award? $299.95. This is the only hammock with four heating elements woven into its surface. The heating elements generate up to 122º F of radiant heat to gently warm you from the…
Le Whif is a weird way to indulge your cravings while staying slim and healthy. Apparently. The idea is that rather than eating a bar of chocolate, you sniff/suck up the flavour instead. Smells a bit suspicious don’t it? The product comes in chocolate, coffee and assorted flavours and each tube will deliver around 8 whiffs of flavour to your taste buds and nasal cavity. Priced at £4.99 a box of three. Le Whif – an amazing way to inhale the taste…
It strikes me – as a rank amateur of course – that the last thing you would want in order to generate electrical power from the wind, would be a complex tethered kite concept. The Makani Airborne Wind Turbine system however combines just these elements in its proposed low cost power generation product. There’s lots of nice charts, pics and videos on the site, but you can’t help feeling that any system which relies on swinging an aircraft around on a bit of string at…
The MamaRoo is about as over-the-top ridiculous as any baby bouncer you’re going to find anywhere. It comes with five pre-programmed bounce settings to rock your tot to sleep, including ‘car ride’, ‘tree swing‘ and ‘ocean‘, as well as a designer plush balls mobile and the ability to plug your MP3 player into the thing to beam your choice of aspirational audio to the poor babe’s ears. Boggle! $199.99. Here’s where MamaRoo’s attention to detail blew us away. The balls are…
Um…a Japanese wind-up toy Dog that Pees. We have nothing more to add. Seriously. Around $12.00. [Via] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Ugo7XmVEI Tags: dog+pee, toy, gadget, japanese
This Terminator 6 ‘multifunctional slimming system’ has us a bit spooked. It’s not that we’re worried about the prospect of Skynet taking over our beauty salons, it’s more an irrational fear of this product spawning yet another dire digitally enhanced Arnie sequel, which would really be too much. Anyhoo, this thing can’t morph into different shapes (we hope) but it can and does use ultrasound to tackle cellulite, features a ‘tripolar’ fat burning function, and throws a vacuum and laser…
This Strand Craft 122 concept luxury speedboat yacht hybrid will apparently cost $17 million when built, travel at 50 knots and come complete with a free V12 supercar which you can fit into the rear luggage compartment. Something for Russian oligarchs and Middle Eastern oil barons only perhaps? Tags: strand+craft+122, exotic, luxury
The Wang XYW 3838 Cigarette Box Phone has been around for a while, but that doesn’t make it any less weird. Who on earth came up with the idea of sticking a bright red box to your ear in public? At what point did someone in marketing sign off on equating mobile phone chat with nicotine death? It’s a proper phone though. Quad band, 300K camera, microSD slot, twin speakers and MP3 and video playback. But it’s still weird, I think…
Disturbing report from The Guardian by Swedish author Henning Mankell. Tags: flotilla
The Bloom Pot is a polypropylene planter pot with a pair of 11 watt CFL bulbs inside. The upshot being you’ll always be able to find your plants in the dark, and, hopefully, you’ll stop tripping over them on the way to the out house. You know what? With a slightly better design you could illuminate the pots and help the plants grow at night. Oh well. Available in white, red or orange and in 40/60/100cm diameter versions £109.99 The…
German scientists have succeeded in doing something unimaginable with light and atoms which will probably, maybe, one day lead to a real live quantum computer. The Mainz Quantum Interface is so complicated to explain that only people with an IQ of over 190 can understand it, but from our cursory examination it appears to involve temperatures of just above absolute zero and levitating atoms 200nm above an incredibly thin glass fibre filament. Watch this space? As was demonstrated by the…
Hose Clothes – that’s right clothes, no nakedness in the garden please, folks. Now that your garden hose is all grown up and needs to act its age it will need some clothes. Yes clothes…. There’s a range of colours and easy fit styles to suit the fussiest of dressers too, and they’re fully washable should things get dirty… Around $27.95. Ours is a simple premise: hand watering can be more fun than it currently is. And your garden hose can…
