10 Coolest Finds of the Week #3
Blonde Causes Most Expensive Car Crash of the Year (SWNS) You Can Own Your Own Town for Just $800,000 (Geekosystem) A Journey to Find the Mysterious and Elusive White Spirit Bear (Environmental Graffiti) World’s Longest Motorcycle Can Seat 25 Riders (Metro) World’s Most Expensive House Goes on Sale for $175 Million (Daily Mail) Guinness Record […]
Submarine Enthusiast Converts Small Barge into U-Boat Replica
Richard Williams may be 51 years old, but he still has the dreams of a young boy. Sure, he’s not the only one, but unlike others he set out to fulfill them. I guess it’s true what they say, better late than never. As a child, Richard was a big Star Trek fan, but never […]
German Fashion Designer Creates Clothes from Milk
Yes, that white stuff cows make. Anke Domaske, a German fashion designer/microbiologist, has found a way to create a special fiber from milk and use it to make fashionable eco-clothes. The 28-year-old designer realized there’s more to milk than meets the eye, and since she’s always had a thing for science, she and her team […]
Sweet Meat Desserts by Jasmin Schuller
They might look good enough to eat, but Jasmin Schuller’s desserts aren’t at all what they seem. The artist made them using weird ingredients like meat scraps, blood and grease. Austrian artist and photographer Jasmin Schuller proves you don’t unnecessarily need image processing software like Photoshop to put consumer perception to the test. For her Sweat […]
Chinese School for Gold Diggers Proves Big Hit
Why bother building a successful career, when you can just marry yourself a rich guy that will pamper and take care of you, forever? A Chinese school, ironically named the Beijing Moral Education Center for Women, claims it can teach single ladies how to get their hands on a billionaire. I know, it sounds like new […]
Thai Artist Builds Functional Alien-Predator-Themed Motorcycle
What if an Alien and a Predator decided to put aside their differences and have a baby? It sounds crazy, I know, but I’m guessing that’s what Roongrojna Sangwongprisarn had in mind when he built this mad-looking motorcycle. Roongrojna is a Bangkok-based artist who creates all kinds of awesome metal sculptures, based on popular monsters, […]
Indonesia’s Laughing Cock Craze Is No Laughing Matter
Roosters being sold for hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars might sound like a joke to you, but in many parts of Indonesia it’s very serious business. They look like ordinary cocks, but it’s only when they start crowing that people realize just how special they really are. Instead of the normal “cock-a-doodle-do”, these birds make […]
Mom Celebrates Divorce by Tattooing 85% of Her Body
Jacqui Moore, a 41-year-old mother of two, covered 85% of her body with tattoos, in celebration of her divorce and the beginning of a new chapter in her life. When Jacqui, from Oxford, England, divorced her husband Martin, in 2003, was so happy about her new found freedom that she decided to get a tattoo […]
Japanese Clone Factory Makes Creepy Lookalike Dolls of Its Clients
If you’ve always wanted to have yourself cloned, you’re probably going to have to wait a few more years, but in the meantime you can get a creepy doll that looks just like you, from the Clone Factory, in Japan. Danny Choo, of Culture Japan visited the quirky Clone Factory, in Tokyo’s Akihabara district and […]
Students Take Ice-Cream Making Courses at Italy’s Gelato University
I thought making ice-cream was pretty easy, but it seems that if you really want to get it right you have to take courses at the Gelato University, in Bologna, Italy. Ice-cream making was one of the last thing I would have imagined required attending a university, but in reality thousands of students from all […]
Pretend Guitarists Compete at US Air Guitar Championships
22 of America’s best air-rockers gathered at Chicago’s legendary Metro, where they pulled out their best pretend-guitar-playing tricks, hoping to take home the title of US Air Guitar Champion. Most people only practice air-guitar moves in the privacy of their own homes, away from prying eyes, while listening to their favorite rock song, but for […]
100-Year-Old Crowned Ms. Alabama Nursing Home
Felma Schrimshire, 100, was named the winner of the 2011 Ms. Alabama Nursing Home pageant, out of 75 grey-haired contestants from across the state. They may have more grey-hair than your average pageant participants, but the ladies who competed in the Ms. Alabama Nursing Home contest proved they have just as much style and grace. […]
Iowa Welder Hopes to Break Record for World’s Largest Bicycle
Lewis, a small town in Iowa, US, may soon be acknowledged as home to the world’s largest bicycle. A local welder took the task of building a giant bike after hearing the annual Great Bike Ride across Iowa was passing through his town. Duane Weirich is either one of the biggest cycling fans on the […]
Chinese Couple Sell Their Three Kids to Play Online Games
A young couple, from Dongguan, China, have reportedly sold all their three children for money needed to keep playing online games at Internet cafés. According to Chinese newspaper Sangxiang City News, Li Lin and Li Juan, both under 21, first met back in 2007, in an Internet café. It was their obsession with online gaming that […]
Designer Creates World’s First Bulletproof Kimono
Designer Miya Ando chose to celebrate her Japanese origins by creating a long-sleeve kimono entirely from stainless steel plates and sterling silver rings. While it hasn’t been tested yet, considering the materials used to create it, Miya Ando’s furisode style kimono might just be the world’s first bulletproof kimono. Well known for her mastery of […]