Chinese Companies Equip Workers with Brainwave Reading Helmets to Increase Productivity
It sounds like something out of a Black Mirror episode, but according to recent news reports, Chinese companies are using special helmets to monitor workers’ brain activity in order to reduce stress, manipulate break times with the ultimate goal of increasing productivity. The South China Morning Post recently reported employee brainwave monitoring in China is […]
Hood Houses – Used Jacket Hoods Recycled Into Cozy Homes For Stray Cats
South Korean ad agency Cheil Worldwide partnered with Molly’s Pet Shop, a popular pet shop chain, to provide stray cats with comfortable shelters on cold winter and spring nights, by recycling old jacket hoods into cozy homes. Called Hood Houses, the ingenious cat cribs were created to raise awareness about South Korea’s stray cat problem, and also […]
Resourceful Chinese Ingenious Use Perpetuum Mobile Device to Fool Their Pedometer Smartphone Apps
In China, health insurance companies apparently offer discounts to people who can prove they get enough exercise every day by using their mobile phones to monitor their movement. Only instead of actually going for walks, some people use ingenious perpetuum mobile devices to cheat the system. I first learned about China’s “mobile phone cradles” a […]
Controversial High School Class Has Students Hatching and Raising Chickens Before Killing and Eating Them
For the past 60 years, every generation of freshman students at Izumo Agricultural and Forestry High School, in Izumo, Japan’s Shimane prefecture, has taken the “Class of Life”, a controversial six-month course during which the students help hatch and raise chickens, before having to slaughter and eat them. Last year, the Class of Life at […]
This Pocket-Friendly Machine Signs Your Name for You, Costs $365,000
Whether you’re a celebrity or a famous author who spends a lot of time giving autographs, or just a busy businessman who doesn’t have time to sign mountains of documents, you can now spend $365,000 on a state of the art Signing Machine, and it’ll do it for you. I bet you didn’t even know […]
Russia’s Recently Completed Floating Nuclear Power Plant Dubbed a “Nuclear Titanic”
While countries like Germany or on track to completely phase out nuclear power plants by 2022, Russia’s is building more of them and even making them floatable so they can provide power to remote areas. However, not everyone is convinced that placing a powerful nuclear reactor on a ship is such a good idea. Looking […]