This $26,000 Office Chair Will Make You Feel Weightless
The Elysium chair relies on a carbon-fiber skeleton and a combination of electronic joints and bearings to create a sensation of weightlessness for the person sitting in it. This marvel of engineering is being hailed as the ultimate office chair, but it also comes with a hefty price tag of $26,000. Bearing the price tag of a […]
Only 5 People Have Managed to Finish This Giant Taco in the Last 18 years
Chacho’s Taco, a Tex-Mex eatery in Corpus Christi, Texas, has been challenging people to finish a spectacular 4-pound All-Mighty Taco in under 10 minutes ever since its inception, 18 years ago. During that time, only 5 really hungry people have managed to do it. The next-to-impossible eating challenge posed by Chacho’s Taco recently went viral on social media, after Norma […]
Japanese Sewage Trucks Now Smell Like Chocolate Thanks to Innovative Deodorizer Oil
From now on, drivers in Osaka Japan will no longer have to keep their distance when driving behind local sewage trucks to avoid their foul odor. That’s because sewage trucks now smell like delicious chocolate. Apparently, four Osaka-based companies recently joined forces to come up with a solution to mask the disgusting smell of vacuum […]
The American Town Where the Dead Outnumber the Living by a Thousand to One
Colma, a quiet Californian town of roughly two square miles is home to 1,700 living residents and over 1.5 million dead ones. Most of the town’s forever-silent population are people who lived and died in San Francisco, but, just like most of today’s living residents, couldn’t afford to spend their afterlives in the expensive metropolis. In […]
This Device Lets You wake Up Inside Your Dreams
Lucid Dreamer is an ingenious device programmed to detect REM sleep, the time when people dream more vividly, and emit low electrical impulses to help you realize that you are dreaming, allowing you to take control of your dreams and go on lucid adventures. Lucid dreams are dreams in which you realize that you are […]
Senegalese “Melanin Goddess” Conquers the Internet with Her Incredibly Dark, Beautiful Skin Tone
Khoudia Diop is a young Senegalese fashion model who recently rose to internet stardom after her unusually dark skin tone was captured in a photo for the Colored campaign, a platform that celebrates different skin shades. Khoudia’s melanin-rich skin has taken the internet by storm, and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, especially on Instagram, where […]
Man Claims God Told Him to Dig a Hole 18 Years Ago and He Has Been Doing It Ever Since
69-year-old Santiago Sanchez, from western El Salvador, has been spending his days digging away at a tunnel ever since God told him to do it, 18 years ago. A reporter recently entered the tunnel, but had to exit before reaching the end, due to respiratory problems, so no one really knows how long it really is. Every […]
“Cat Man of Aleppo” Cares for Hundreds of Abandoned Felines in the War-Torn City
The Syrian city of Aleppo is probably the most dangerous place to be living in right now, but while many of its residents have left their homes to escape the war, one man has remained behind to care for the hundreds of abandoned and stray cats. Known as “the cat man of Aleppo”, Mohammad Alaa Jaleel […]
Get a Life-Size Tattoo of a Burger, Win Free Burgers for Life
Cafe 51, a popular burger joint in Melbourne, Australia, is offering anyone the chance to receive a free burger per day, for the rest of their lives, if they get a scale tattoo of one of their delicious burgers, anywhere on their bodies. “Tattoos are for life, so why shouldn’t burgers be free for life […]
Japanese Bar Replaces Seats and Tables with a Giant Ball Pit
If you ever feel like connecting with your inner child while sipping on your favorite alcoholic drink, the Ball Pool Bar Dive in Osaka, Japan, is probably the best place to do it. Kids love ball pits, and the masterminds behind Ball Pool Bar Dive seem to think adults do too, so they got rid […]
Someone Invented an Alcohol-Free Spirit and People Are Loving It
Until recently, having an alcohol-free night at the local bar left you with only a few bland options – water, a sweetened soft drink or a non-alcoholic cocktail. But that was before someone had the brilliant idea to create Seedlip, the world’s first alcohol-free spirit. Ben Branson, the mastermind behind Seedlip, claims he came up with the […]
Turkish Company Creates Real-Life Car-Morphing Transformers
Thirty-some years after making their debut as cartoon characters, vehicle-morphing Transformers have finally become a reality, thanks to the efforts of a Turkish company out of Ankara. The R&D-focused company, called Letvision, recently wowed the internet with a presentation video for their prototype car-transforming robot, ANTIMON. The recently-released footage shows a red BMW M3 being unveiled […]
This Swedish Eco-Lodge Offers Tourists the Opportunity to Escape Modern Life
Modern life has its perks, but if you feel like taking a break from it all and going back in time for a few days, there’s a unique tourist facility in Sweden that offers you the opportunity to live in a wooden charcoal-burner hut located in the middle of a forest, cook your own food over […]
Bicycle Company Puts TV on Boxes, Reduces Delivery Damage by 80 Percent
Dutch manufacturer VanMoof has come up with a very ingenious way of making sure that its products arrive safely to their customers – printing a flat screen TV on their delivery boxes instead of a bicycle. VanMoof plans to sell 90 percent of its bicycles online by 2020, but after seeing a considerable number of […]
World’s Most Expensive Chili Peppers Cost $25,000 per Kilo
You should never judge a pepper by its size, especially when it comes to price. The Aji Charapita chili pepper grows is roughly the size of a pea, but there’s nothing small about its price. A kilogram of this stuff will set you back a whopping $35,000. Native to the jungles of norther Peru, the […]