Decaying before your very eyes
Meat After Meat Joy is a group exhibition of contemporary artists who use meat in their work, currently running at the Daneyal Mahmood Gallery in New York City. Curated by Heide Hatry, the show’s title refers Carolee Schneemann’s performance/happening Meat Joy (1964, embedded below), itself projected in the gallery. The show [...]

Difficulty Sleeping? Try Sex.
Though humans sleep away about one-third of their lives, sleep science is relatively new. But the latest results show that sex trumps sport as a sleeping aide. These are just some of the results presented at the annual convention of the German Sleep Society (DGSM) in Kassel, central Germany, where 1,500 scientists [...]

 
Flat Light Bulbs
Light bulbs are…well bulbous. They take up way too much room, are a pain to store due to their shape, etc. Those newer corkscrew deals are no better. It’s an old design for an old world. That’s why Joonhuyn Kim’s concept makes sense. (Pics)

 
Children Living With Adult Smokers More Likely To Be Hungry
SmokingResearchers at the New York University School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital Center found that children living with adult smokers are more likely to be underfed.
Data was analyzed on 8,817 households with children for a period of 3 years. In that time they found that 15% [...]

3D Monitors
iZ3D has been making 3D gaming monitors for a while, but now they want to enhance your gaming experience even more by replacing your boring dark gray monitor case, with something that looks like it came straight out of Gears Of War 2 or Fallout 3. The monitor itself uses a slide in polarizing [...]

Mazda Electric Racing Car
 The Mazda “KAAN” is an electric race car for the futuristic tracks of 2025, and part of the LA Auto Show’s Motorsports 2025 Design Challenge. Like all of the crazy submissions, the KAAN has its own little back story:
 

Photo: Dr Jim Gehling, South Australian Museum

Before dinosaurs, this strange eight-armed creature ruled the Earth:
Scientists have discovered what they believe is an eight-armed creature, which colonised a large section of the world’s oceans over 300 million years before the first dinosaurs emerged.

The bigger the cushion …

Overweight women are more likely to have had sexual intercourse than thin ones, research has found. In a study of 7,000 women 92 per cent of those who were overweight had slept with a man. The figure was only 87 per cent among those of a “normal” size. The research, carried [...]

1,200 newly hired patent examiners attend the new USPTO Patent Training
Academy, a university-style approach to teaching USPTO’s new examiners.
USPTO Reps will be on hand on [...]

Spaced Out Jewelry

At $9 each, these awesome Space Invaders tags are outrageously expensive for a cutout of vinyl connected to a little string of aluminum pearls. Never the less, a fantastic idea: with the proper engraving, they can be worn as the dog tags of the ragged space marine from the 8-bit Earth invasion to [...]

 The Hummer Tank
If you’ve got an H2T but you’re not happy with the gas mileage — finding it way too high — your options are limited. Sure, you could bolt on performance mods, but we’d suggest these elegant and subtle tracked belts to replace your efficient pneumatic tires. (Pics)