A Laboratory of the Future Human Experience
Future past predictions don’t always look as expected.
Historic LOLs has a collection of German prints from around a hundred years ago illustrating predictions for the year 2000. In this one, we’re supposed to be able to walk on water, with the help of balloons and a waterwheel…
Continue reading… “German Futurist Predictions”
Excentricity
It’s like something straight out of the mind of Tim “The Toolman” Taylor … but German. This is hands-down the craziest road vehicle we’ve seen in a long, long time.
Continue reading… “Excentricity – Crazy Road Vehicle Powered by Screwdrivers”
Technische Universitat in Munich, Germany.
Stairs are great and all, but they’re certainly not the most fun way to get down from the top floor of a building. I’m pretty sure that honor goes to slides. Which is why I really want to visit the Technische Universitat in Munich, Germany.
Continue reading… “German University Installs Giant Slides in Building”
They will attach global positioning system tracking devices to birds and get them to find the corpses of people who have disappeared in remote areas.
Policeman Rainer Herrmann said: “It was a colleague of mine who got the idea from watching a nature programme…
Rotel Tours
This bus owned by a German tour company features a six-foot-long bed for each of its passengers. The company claims to operate some 3400 “Betten auf Rädern,” or “beds on wheels.” Want to see Africa lying down? (Pics)
Continue reading… “Rotel Tours – A Hotel on Wheels”
In Hitler’s distorted view, these Bavarian children would have represented racial purity
The photographs published of Hitler attending the Wagner music festival in Bayreuth, Germany, give a tantalising glimpse into how the Nazi leader relaxed when he was not ruling Germany or trying to conquer the world. (Pics)
Continue reading… “Unseen Photos Reveal the Private Life of Hitler Part 2”
Golden Showers of Vending Goodness
Shoppers in Germany will soon be able to buy gold as easily as bars of chocolate after a firm announced plans to install vending machines selling the precious metal across the country.
TG-Gold-Super-Markt aims to introduce the machines at 500 locations including train stations and airports in Germany.
The company, based near Stuttgart, hopes to tap into the increasing interest in buying gold following disillusionment in other investments due to the economic downturn.
Gold prices from the machines – about 30 per cent higher than market prices for the cheapest product – will be updated every few minutes….
Continue reading… “German Vending Machines to Sell Gold”
If you’re a discerning eater, you know the age-old mantra: everything’s better with bacon.
Continue reading… “Bacon iPhone Case”
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The mating habits of the water shrew, detailed in “Our Wonderful Nature” – hilarious animation short by Tomer Eshed, from the German Film & Television Academy.
Continue reading… “Mating Habits of the Water Shrew”
Because he spent much of his time traveling, Martin Luther undoubtedly tried many kinds of beer, but there is only one with claims to the effect that it was his favorite…
Continue reading… “The Beers of Martin Luther”
German doctors have succeeded in transplanting two complete arms onto a 54-year old man in what their hospital said was the world’s first operation of this kind.
Continue reading… “World’s First Double Arm Transplant”
Visitors to the German capital disappointed to find little of the Berlin Wall left can now have it reappear before their eyes with a gadget offering a self-guided tour.
Continue reading… “GPS Device That Offers Self-Guided Berlin Wall Tour”
