The NapTV let you watch TV while lying down, and as a bonus, you can sit on it
How many times have you tried to watch TV while lying down, but the angle was all wrong? You put up with it for a little while, but your neck starts kinking and before you know it, […]

 
Classic prediction from Modern Mechanix in 1957
The robots are coming! When they do, you’ll command a host of push-button servants.
In 1863, Abe Lincoln freed the slaves. But by 1965, slavery will be back! We’ll all have personal slaves again, only this time we won’t fight a Civil War over them. Slavery will be here to […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrOAXTkei3E

 
Going for the record - insanity record
A man gets 11,000 feet up into the air by hanging onto a bunch of helium-filled party balloons…
 

To many on the team, the “Even dead people need mouthwash” campaign
seemed like an act of desperation. But to Carl, it was all about breaking new ground
Top 10 Photos of the Week
Join us on this week’s journey into wacky and wonderful photos.
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34tgu7ULkeM

Fans have been longing for a full scale Star Wars robot to ride around in
Here are a series of video of those attempts. Some are pretty cool.
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXBL6bzAR4

I’m not sure how we’ve lived this long without knowing this about cats
 
Two professional engineers illustrate the proper care and practical benefits of cats.
 

Padlock women’s pants turned out to be a dumb way to curb prostitution
A bid by a local government in Indonesia’s East Java province to curb prostitution by asking masseuses to wear a padlock on their pants was an insult, a newspaper quoted the minister for women’s empowerment as saying.

Outer space seems vast and empty, but the space directly above Earth
is quite crowded with satellites and … space junk!
Between the launch of Sputnik on 4 October 1957 and 1 January 2008, approximately 4600 launches have placed some 6000 satellites into orbit; about 400 are now traveling beyond Earth on interplanetary trajectories, but of the […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwBzhw6ukzU

Some of these are quite scary.  Live television is exciting because anything can happen. Most exciting of all is when ‘respectable’ television journalists succumb to the unexpected (they trip, get mauled by animals, lit aflame, etc.) right there on your TV.
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPeWwSiAXr0

This one is crazy. NBA star Kobe Bryant is a spectacular jumper, but his insurance company would never let him do a stunt like this. In this Nike ad, Bryant executes a perfectly timed leap over a speeding Aston Martin DB9 Volante.
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEjoga1yrn0

Nicknamed “The Door to Hell”, this place is situated near the small town of Darvaz in Uzbekistan. Ever since the geologists ignited the site so that no poisonous gas will come out, the cavern has been burning for the last 35 years without stop. Second video after the jump.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXBeu7o9uUM

Here’s a YouTube clip of Marcel W. Helland playing one of the world’s rarest musical instruments (only 25 or so exists): the contrabass saxophone. As you can see, it’s quite large (about 6 foot 4 inches or 1.9 m tall) and heavy (45 lb. or 20 kg).

 
It’s hard to translate the original text from Russian, even with bablefish, but the best we can glean from it, these gentlemen paid to go on a hunting trip and just happened upon this beast.
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axwMxUBL_ws

This is amazing.  Next time you start wishing you could live the simple life in Japan, think again. True, not everyone has this problem, but these sheer fact that the staff people have to assist with cramming people aboard indicates this is nothing new.
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaEYYSomz9c

The next time you start feeling comfortable about airport security, just think about this video.
 

 Tricy Nicole Predki, a University of Colorado student,
in a sensor suit that controls her dance music.
Plants that send thank you notes, player pianos that follow the dancer’s movements, and umbrellas that warn you of upcoming rain are just a few of the uses of embedded computers described in this article from the NY […]

Most children are told to stay away from chewy candies to keep their teeth cavity-free, but children in Venezuela who ate a special cavity-fighting candy had 62% fewer cavities than those who brushed their teeth regularly, researchers said.
Children in the study were testing the effectiveness of BasicMints, an experimental fluoride-free treatment designed […]

Meteorite enthusiasts the world over know of the Fukang Meteorite. Discovered in the Gobi desert (near Fukang) in China eight years ago, the extremely rare and beautiful Pallasite meteorite is thought to have originated at the mantle-core boundary of very large differentiated asteroids that were destroyed during the early formation of the solar system over […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQNKRDFanQE

For all you women who continue to wonder why men can’t ever seem to hit the toilet, this game is for you.
Super Pii Pii brothers is a Wii game that provides a virtual peeing experience. The purpose of the game is to get as much pee in the toilets as you can while spilling as […]

From the world of technology comes another mind blowing innovation that simply sweeps you off your feet. The programmable tattoo appears on the skin through nanotubes. The sensory conductors are the size of human hair and displays images on the skin, they are displayed when the power is on and keep appearing even when […]

If you’re like me you get frustrated by the fact that all gas masks tend to look alike - standard military issue chemical warfare prevention stuff. Well, you can start to breath a little easier (even if it’s through a mask) because famed designer, Diddo Velema, has gone out of his way to make gas […]

 
Jyoti lines up with her classmates
A teenager from India who stands at a tiny 1ft 11in (58cm) tall is the smallest girl in the world.
Jyoti Amge, 14, is shorter than the average two-year-old child and only weighs 11lb (5kg).

Lausanne, Switzerland
Several more after the jump
 

Rama, the world’s first cama, finally has some friends to play with.
The hybrid animal, the product of breeding a llama and a camel, has been the only creature of this kind since her birth in 1995.
But now, thanks to better breeding techniques, there are three more camas roaming the Arabian desert.

Scientists in Borneo have been “gasping for air” according to New Scientist. Ironic, as they’ve discovered a frog that doesn’t have any lungs at all, but rather absorbs oxygen through its skin.