When they auctioned off lunch with The Oracle of Omaha last year, it went for $650,100. This year they upped the ante…

Pipe Lighting at its Best?

The Lightpipe is a supercool light that looks like an industrial pipe.

Two Wheels of Change

Jamie Tomkins is an automotive designer with a great deal of talent. Recently he was tasked with creating a non-emissions vehicle for the Chinese population that could easily be used in the crowded streets. The inspiration for his final design came from an unlikely place.

Quick n Easy Handful of Fun and Mimicry

Here’s a fine instructable for making a YipYipYip Martian costume from Sesame Street, consisting primarily of lots of fabric, a couple Styrofoam balls, sponge and pipecleaners.

Here’s Gus!

A three-legged, one-eyed, cancer-afflicted dog named Gus has been crowned the World’s Ugliest Dog at a fair in California.
Gus, a Chinese Crested dog, beat allcomers to take the title at the Sonoma-Marin Fair.

Quicksand diving gained in popularity as the latest extreme sport, but only a few managed to survive
These photos are from the dark side of your own personality. A perspective so rarely shown that once there, people often lose their way back to reality. Enjoy the ride!

The drug tPA is the most effective treatment currently available for stroke patients, but its safety is limited to use within the first three hours following the onset of symptoms. After that, tPA may cause dangerous bleeding in the brain.
 

Some toys are so obviously dangerous, that you’ve got to wonder what they were thinking. Following Lawn Darts and the 1950s Atomic Energy Lab toy that included actual radioactive Uranium ores, the Fire Footbag seems so clearly dangerous, that you’d better move fast if you want one before the rest of the world follows Australia’s [...]

Feel free to climb aboard for an uber-cool ride
A concept and a modern interpretation of a rocking chair. The near circular form seen from the side is what makes the design unique. It allows for the rocking motion without being an attachment, but instead flowing into the rest of the chair. The upper part features [...]

Trunk Monkey ads have become Internet classics
“Thats my Trunk Monkey…” Its hard to find a good parking spot in the city… Trunk Monkey makes it easy. More after the jump.
 

Chinese hackers
They’re in our computers, reading our files. The Chinese government, that is, according to two U.S. Congressmen who recently accused Beijing of sending hackers to ferret out secret documents stored on Congressional computers. The Chinese deny any involvement, but if they were lying, would we be able to prove it?
The answer, according to computer [...]

 
Feeling shy to go to a party full of strangers? Fret not, for scientists are developing a wonder drug from “love hormome” oxytocin, which they claim could help banish excessive shyness.

World’s most luxurious cruise ship
There was a time when Titanic was the largest and most luxurious cruise ship. After it met it’s fateful end, many other cruise ships have been around, each surpassing the other. Now, the mega cruise ship which surpasses all of these ships will be launched next year. Called ‘Project Genesis’, [...]

Save a Sturgeon, eat Cavianne 
Cavianne may do for caviar what margarine has done for butter… become an artificial substitute that approaches the original in both looks and flavor. It could also do something for caviar’s source, the Caspian Sturgeon – chiefly, help save it from extinction.

 
Navi Bear
Every day we come across “random” type gadgets that are quite funny most of the time. The latest of these bizarre products is a GPS enabled Teddy Bear.