India’s Two-Year-Old Snake Charmers
While other two-year-olds are just learning to walk and talk, the children of the nomad Vadi Tribe are introduced to the centuries-old art of snake charming. All the children of the Vadi Tribe come face to face with a poisonous cobra at age two, and go through a ten-year ritual, in which they learn all […]
Tokyo’s Real-Life RX78 Gundam
Gundam fans all over the world, rejoice! The life-sized RX78 Gundam robot has been completed and is expecting visitors. Just like the Hello Kitty Castle in Shanghai, China, might become a pilgrimage site for pink-loving girls, Tokyo’s RX78 could turn into the same thing for robot-anime enthusiasts. Announced back in March, as a way of […]
Lilliputan Terracotta Army Invades England
40,000 small terracotta soldiers storm into the Spanish Barn, in Torquay, Devon. The Terracotta Army is a famous art collection, by British artist Anthony Gormley, featuring 40,000 clay figurines. They were all made in St. Helen’s, Merseyside, as a community project. Children and their families were given clay balls to manipulate into a human shape, […]
Cool Mercedes Cake For Dad
Nothing says ‘I love you dad!’ like a sweet cake in the shape of a Mercedes Benz convertible. With Father’s Day approaching, a cake-shop from Suzhou, China, has come up with a line of special cakes, to boost business. This blue Mercedes cake is just one of the many cool Father’s Day presents that can […]
Edible Dough Hat
Now here’s one fashion accessory the world’s fattest man, or the world’s fattest athlete would just love to have. I tried tracing these photos to the original source to get more info, but got nowhere. I found them on a Russian photo site, but judging by the ingredients used, this tasty hat wasn’t made in […]
Largest Smurf Meeting Ever
Some of the most adorable characters in cartoon history, the Smurfs have an incredibly large fan-base. 2,510 students from Swansea University, UK, got together on June 8th to stage the largest Smurf meeting ever, and set a new world record. Participants painted themselves blue and wore pointy white hats, just like their beloved characters. The […]
Home-Made Death-Star Grill
That’s right Star Wars fans, the deadliest weapon in the universe has been reduced to cooking burgers in somebody’s backyard. Bryan A. Tate though it would be interesting to use two common Weber grills to create the ultimate Star Wars cooking device, the Death Star Grill. It is painted in completely safe barbecue paint on […]
iShoes – Walking is Obsolete
One more step towards turning ourselves into regular vegetables, the iShoes. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for progress, but some of these ingenious inventions are misunderstood by users and end up “helping” us in a very bad way, if you know what I mean. For example, these motorized shoes could make walking obsolete if […]
The Chinese Angel-Cat
This weird cat with wings was spotted in Chonqing, China. Although you might think the angel-cat of Chonqing is unique, there have been other cats with wings in Russia and the United States. Her owner says she wasn’t born like this, her wings started growing when she was one year old. A worker from the […]
Water Color Paintings by Hitler
Did Adolf Hitler miss his true calling? Should he have dedicated his life to painting instead of wreaking havoc across Europe? You be the judge. These are only a few of the Fuhrer‘s “masterpieces”, another set was auctioned at the end of April and managed to raise close to $150,000. Experts say the paintings appear […]
Hello Kitty Castle
Finally, the world-famous Japanese character gets a proper home…in China. Now loyal Hello Kitty fans from around the world can start their pilgrimage to the Hello Kitty Castle that was inaugurated in Shanghai. Not much I can say about this place, it’s very pink and girly-like and, judging by the popularity of Hello Kitty, it […]
China’s Kung Fu Soccer Team
Chinese discover deadly combination: soccer and Kung Fu martial arts. The first thing that came into my mind, when I first saw these photos, was the movie Shaolin Soccer. Ok, so it wasn’t the best film ever made, but it had a pretty cool idea, mixing a popular sport like soccer with martial arts. Now […]
The Blonde Black Bear
Well, it’s not exactly the blonde we’re used to, but it’s as blonde as a black bear can get. Known as a Spirit Bear or Kermode Bear, this polar-bear look-alike was thought to exist only in Indian mythology. Brave photographer Steven Kazlowski took some photos of a Spirit Bear, an achievement considered impossible among wildlife […]
Home-Made Washing Machine Grill
What can you do with a broken washing machine? Normally just drag it out of the house and dump it somewhere for the garbage-men to pick up. But not if you need a grill… Finally a way to put that old washing machine to good use and get some nice burgers out of it. Just […]
The Spira-Foam Car
It’s not very sexy, but it has a lot of other advantages conventional cars don’t. Invented by Lon Ballard, the Spira-Foam Car is made out of common motorcycle parts, covered by six inches of foam. It’s powered by a 110 cc scooter engine that returns 100 mpg, has a weight of just 320 lbs and […]