A Laboratory of the Future Human Experience
Jason Freeny, the designer who brought us that amazing-yet-freaky minifig anatomy lesson last October, wants every Lego aficionado to know that there’s a huge red brick inside all of you. Continue reading… “There Is A LEGO Set For Every Collector”
If you’re a serious fitness nut, you probably have a routine of waking up to a 5 AM alarm, mixing yourself up a protein shake and then hitting the dark streets for a little pre-dawn jog. At least that’s the stereotype that I carry around when it comes to fitness nuts. If it’s true or even close, why not throw a little more exercise into your shake and double your calorie burn. Or just skip that stupid jog altogether and call the shake a reward for a morning of spinning. Continue reading… “Stationary Bike Blender”
Bid in a one-of-a-kind auction to have your DNA sequenced and interpretedDNA Strands: Sequencing individual genomes may lead to medical breakthroughs such as specifically tailored medications.
No doubt you have it on your calendars, but in case you forgot, the 25th is National DNA Day. Can’t think how to celebrate it? Well, if you have $68,000 or more lying around, you can bid for a chance to have your entire personal genome sequenced by Knome, a company that does such things. Continue reading… “How Will You Die For Only $68,000”
As homeless populations in most major cities around the world increase, now is the time to
begin creating sustainable housing solutions that defy convention. Dutch design group N55, in conjunction with the Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire, created just such a solution with the invention of the Walking House. Continue reading… “Walking House”
We’ve seen a NES crammed into a toaster and made functional before. And it was awesome. So of course the next logical step is giving the same treatment to an SNES. Continue reading… “Super Nintoaster”
The strangest business idea of 2008 has been awarded to Dollar Hot Dog! This concept is so wacky; it’s hard to believe it’s not a hoax. A company that cooks and ships fully-dressed hotdogs in standard white envelopes to south-facing mail boxes in the US for only $1…can they be serious?
Continue reading… “Strange But True Business”
