Um… it’s graceful looking?
This isn’t the first time we’ve featured questionable taxidermy here at Impact Lab, but artist Enrique Gomez De Molina’s creations may take the cake…
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Candy Cane Car
Happy…What The Hell?
Pogo Dave is “not” selling his Candy Cane Car on eBay because he is a contrarian, a “a master of reserve psychology” who does “not” enjoy entertaining people with his car. The 1991 Toyota Camry is covered in red and white reflective tape and has an exercise machine on the roof…
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Nine of the goofiest gifts in the SkyMall catalog
Brobdingnagian sports chair
You know the drill if you’ve ever been on a long flight. You’ve looked through all of your magazines, your book is at a slow point and your lapto p is out of power. It’s at this moment you pick up the SkyMall catalog, and marvel at the wonders within. (Pics)
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The fascinating quantum theory of pixels
Did you think that quantum physics is complicated? Try the quantum theory of It may help you understand the former or make your brain explode forever. But, if you are a nerd, it will make you smile…
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Top 10 Photos of the Week
Odds of failure – 100%
“Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offering to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.” – – Bill Gates
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Pool disappears beneath stone slab
Stefan Kanetis’s mother loved her life as a dancer, but paid a price for it when she was in her later years. The wear and tear on her body made it difficult for her to get around. Her doctor suggested swimming, but getting in and out of a pool would be very difficult. So Mr. Kanetis invented a pool with a floor that raised and lowered…
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More amazing 3d sidewalk art
3D art bringing it from below.
Street painting, also commonly known as pavement art, chalk art, sidewalk art, is the performance art of rendering artistic designs on pavement such as streets, sidewalks, and town squares with impermanent and semi-permanent materials. Street painting has been recorded throughout Europe since the 16th century.
Here is another great collection of the art form…
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Electronic drum machine T-shirt
Electronic drum machine shirt.
An actual, functioning drum machine on a shirt. A drum machine that contains a real working looper and 9 different kits with seven professional-grade drum sounds each. A drum machine that allows you to record loops that last up to three minutes. A drum machine that comes with a working mini-amp that you can clip to your belt. (video)
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1 Millisecond into a Nuclear Explosion
The very start of a very big bang.
Allegedly, this is a photograph of the beginning of a nuclear detonation. It was taken in 1952 during the Tumbler-Snapper tests in Nevada. At this point, the fireball is about sixty-six feet across. How was the photographer able to get a shutter speed fast enough to do it?
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Chevron admits oil leak in Brazil hasn’t stopped
When will the spill stop?
Things just keep getting worse for Chevron. First, a deepwater drilling mishap off the coast of Brazil last month caused thousands of barrels of oil to spill into the Atlantic, which only after some dodging did Chevron take responsibility for, followed by Brazil’s petroleum agency deciding to suspend the company’s drilling rights altogether. And then there are the fines which could end up costing Chevron close to $100 million. But lo, it get’s worst yet. Today, the oil giant admitted that the situation is far from resolved as many had assumed. That’s right, the leak continues, and Chevron’s not sure when it can be stopped…
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The trillion-frame-per-second video
Captured light ‘scattering’ below the surfaces of solid objects.
MIT researchers have created a new imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion exposures per second. That’s fast enough to produce a slow-motion video of a burst of light traveling the length of a one-liter bottle, bouncing off the cap and reflecting back to the bottle’s bottom…
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Top 10 Photos of the Week
Once again, FedEx has been testing out new delivery systems
“An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.” – – Queen Victoria
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