Company Creates Virtually Indestructible Hoodie Designed to Last 100 Years
A hoodie isn’t really the kind of thing you ever consider passing on to your children and grandchildren, but then again, most hoodies aren’t made from Kevlar or designed to outlast their wearer. Adventure clothing brand Vollebak has been in the business of creating “cutting edge adventure sports clothing using insights and discoveries from fields […]
Japanese Professor Claims That Crows Respect Written “Do Not Enter” Signs
When a friend and “crow expert” told Katsufumi Sato to hang some “do not enter signs” on the outside of a building to keep pesky crows a way, the Japanese professor thought he was only kidding, but after three years of employing the bizarre strategy, he says it works perfectly. Sato, a professor of ethology, hanged […]
Panasonic to Launch High-Tech Deodorizing Coat Hanger
There’s no escaping technology, not even for the centuries-old coat hanger. Japanese company Panasonic has unveiled a high-tech hanger that not only keeps your clothes wrinkle-free, but also removes any odors from them. If you don’t feel like doing the laundry or taking your clothes to a dry-cleaner, or if you simply want to get […]
23-Year-Old Man Stuck in the Body of a 13-Year-Old Boy Due to Rare Condition
A lot of people look younger than their age, but 23-year-old Tomislav Jurčec, from Zagreb, Croatia, is an extreme case. Due to a fault in his pituitary gland, which controls growth and ageing, he remains stuck in the body of a 13-year-old kid. Tomislav admits that looking 10 years younger than his actual age does have […]
Chinese Woman Faints After Accidentally Breaking $26,500 Jade Bracelet at Jewelry Market
A woman visiting a jewelry market in China’s Yunnan Province passed out after accidentally dropping a jade bracelet worth 180,000 yuan ($26,500) and splitting it in half. The unwritten rule of “you break it, you buy it” is usually ignored by business owners when customers accidentally break beverage bottles, clothing items or other mundane products, but when […]
Artist Saves Up His Recyclable Trash for 4 Years to Create Powerful Photo Project
We often hear about the insane amounts of trash we as a species currently generate, but words and figures don’t make a very big impact on most people. Images work much better, so one French artist decided to actually show just how much trash a single human being generates over time. To do that, he stopped […]
The Sleeping Beauty Diet – Probably the Dumbest Weight-Loss Diet in History
If you’re sleeping, you’re not eating. That’s basically the main idea behind the Sleeping Beauty Diet, an increasingly popular weight loss method that encourages people to take sedatives in order to sleep for up to 20 hours a day and skip meals. It’s hard to even consider the Sleeping Beauty Diet an actual diet, because it doesn’t […]
Five-Storey Building in China Has a Road on Its Roof
Photos of a five-storey building in the Chinese city of Chongqing have been going viral on social media, for the simple fact that the building in question has a flat roof that also doubles as a road that cars actually drive on. Before we go into details about this particular architectural oddity, it’s worth mentioning […]
New App Lets You Date People Who Look Like Your Favorite Celebrities
Let’s face it, you’ll probably never get to go on a date with your celebrity crush, but, with Dating AI, a new dating app that uses advanced facial recognition technology, you can now find celebrity doppelgangers and ask them out on a date. The Dating.ai app works by analyzing a reference a photo you upload or select […]
Aging Wine on the Bottom of the Sea Could Become a Thing in France
Two years ago, a winemakers’ association in France dropped 120 bottles of red, white and rosé wine at an undisclosed location in the Mediterranean Sea, as part of an experiment to see if sea bed aging yields better results than traditional cellar aging. Members of “Les vins de Bandol” winemakers association said that they were […]
California Man Has Been Going to Disneyland Every Day for the Last 2,000 Days
Lots of people love going to Disneyland, but few enjoy the experience as much as Jeff Reitz, a 44-year-old Air Force Veteran from Huntington Beach, California, who has been visiting Disney resorts every day, for the last 2,000 days. It has become sort of a daily ritual, and after over five years, he still can’t […]
Designer Spends 9 Years Building the World’s Most Elaborate Paper Plane
Paper planes usually take about a minute to make, but one artist spent a whopping 9 years working on one, and he’s not even done yet. But, then again, this isn’t your usual paper plane, but a perfect 1:60 scale replica of an Air India Boeing 777. 25-year-old Luca Iaconi-Stewart, a young designer from San Francisco, describes […]
Costa Rica’s Turquoise River – A Natural Optical Illusion
Up until four years ago, Rio Celeste, a 14-kilometer river in Costa Rica’s Alajuela province, was a complete mystery to scientists, who could not understand why its waters had an unusual turquoise color. And then they realized that it wasn’t turquoise at all. Theories regarding the turquoise color of Rio Celeste had been circulating in the scientific community […]
Commercially-Available “Wonder Coating” Can Make Any Object Virtually Indestructible
Line-X is an ultra-durable line of spray-on coatings that is mainly marketed for use on truck beds, to make them tougher and provide protection against the elements. But this wonder spray can do so much more, including protecting a wall from an explosive blast, preventing an egg from shattering on impact when dropped from a tower, […]
Self-Taught Artist Creates Incredible 3D Drawings That Seem Ready to Jump Off the Canvas
Some people are just born with an insane amount of talent. Take 31-year-old Nikola Čuljić, a self-taught artist from Serbia. He has been actively drawing for only three years, yet look at the wonders that he’s able to produce with some pencils, markers and pastels. People had always told Nikola Čuljić that he had a talent for […]