No Pants Subway Ride 2010
Around 3,000 people stripped down to their underwear, on Sunday, for the 9th annual No Pants Subway Ride. Started in 2002, with just seven participants, the No Pants Subway Ride has turned into an international tradition. This year, people from 43 cities, in 16 countries joined their New York peers and boarded the subway in […]
South-Korean Special Forces Winter Training
Every year, South Korean special-forces undergo serious winter training to strengthen their minds and bodies and to make sure the cold doesn’t affect them on live missions. More than 200 rangers take part in the grueling winter training session, in Pyeonghang, 180 km east of Seoul. They do gymnastics, swim in icy water, hurl snow […]
Russian Entrepreneur’s Mobile Sauna
It’s nice to see people coming up with original ways of earning a buck or two, and it doesn’t get much more original that Sergei’s mobile sauna business. In Sergei’s Russian village, saunas (traditionally called “banya”) were a must in every villager’s backyard. However, many locals still don’t have their own banyas, so our Russian […]
Mass Ice-Fishing at Hwacheon Ice Festival
Each winter, Hwacheon county, in South-Korea, draws-in over one million people to the Hwacheon Sancheoneo ice festival, held on a frozen river. Hwacheon Festival hosts sledding, ice-soccer and snowman-building events, but the highlight of the event is the ice-fishing for fresh mountain trout. Under the thick ice, abundant quantities of fish are waiting for skilled […]
The Hummus Wars Rage on
Just months after Lebanon set the record for the world’s biggest hummus dish, chefs from the Arab-Israeli village of Abu-Gosh snatched it away with an even greater achievement. On Friday, fifty cooks mashed up ridiculous quantities of chickpeas, sesame paste, olive oil, lemon juice and garlic and created the world’s largest hummus dish ever, weighing […]
Coca Cola-Powered Cellphone
Chinese designer Daizhi Zheng has created a mobile phone that uses sweet drinks like Coca Cola instead of lithium batteries. Zheng has been working on this revolutionary device for Finnish cellphone giant Nokia, and claims he has come up with a way of using sugar-based drinks to power mobiles. Any sweet drink, even sugar-sweetened water […]
Sausage Rugs Make You Eat Off the Floor
A German company created a series of sausage-inspired rugs that you can actually place around your house. Flachbild decide to spice up the carpet industry a little and came up with four cold-cuts inspired rugs. These are just the first out of an entire series and represent salami, mortadella, blood sausage and ham (pimento loaf). […]
Kalofer Men Celebrate Epiphany
The Bulgarian men of Kalofer celebrate Epiphany, an important Orthodox holiday, by performing a traditional dance in the freezing waters of Tundzha river. On January 6, the small town of Kalofer, located 200 km east of the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, was the scene of an unique event. The men dressed in traditional costumes and, […]
Jana’s Fun Cakes Are Edible Masterpieces
Her name is Jana Danae Groller and her love for baking, challenges and giving to people creates true edible masterpieces. With help from her husband Matt, Jana comes up with all kinds of cake concepts and together think up different ways of actually bringing them to life. Their collaborative work so far is pretty impressive, […]
Korean Winter Camp Turns Kids into Men
That’s right, at Ansan military camp for children it doesn’t matter if you’re a boy or a girl, they’ll make a manly man out of you. Located about 25 miles from the capital of Seoul, the Ansan military camp gives civilians the chance to strengthen their minds and bodies, by training in extreme conditions. The […]
Living in an Egg
Belgian design company dmvA has created an egg-shaped mobile living space, complete with everything a household needs. The VB-3 Mobile Living Space was constructed primarily out of polyester and features a bathroom, kitchen, bed space and storage niches. The nose of the white “blob’ opens automatically to form a type of porch. The VB-3 Egg […]
Jobless Chinese Dude Wears an LCD CV
That’s right, this is what it has come down to. People now have to display their resumes everywhere they go, in hopes of finding job opportunities. You Zu Lao Xu, a Chinese internet celebrity decided to wear an LCD displaying his CV, wherever he goes, in order to up his chances of finding a job, […]
World’s Largest Cup of Hot Chocolate
Better get a napkin and wipe the drool off the corners of your mouth, or you’re going to need a new keyboard. In a tasty effort to remind people of how important drinking milk (especially vitamin-D fortified milk) is during the winter months, the American Dairy Association and Dairy Council heated up the world’s largest […]
Post Yule Pyre 2010
The yearly event organized by the “Friends of the Rootless Forest” is just a nice way of parting with the evergreens that were once adored Christmas trees. But you know how we humans are, we like things just as long as they serve a a purpose. Same thing with Christmas trees, once the holiday season […]
Fan Builds Awesome War-Machine Costume
To celebrate the release of the Iron Man 2 movie, Superherohype-forums member Masterle 247 is building a replica of War Machine’s costume, complete with all his gadgets. Masterle 247 posted some cool photos of his work so far, and I have to say it already looks very impressive. The suit is made up of high […]