Roast, Fish Sticks and Pizza for Dessert – Amateur Baker Creates Cakes That Look Like Savory Dishes
The bad news is the delicious-looking hunk of roast beef, burrito or fish fingers featured in the photos below are not what they seem. The good news is they are actually cakes designed by English amateur baker Louise Caola. Ever since she was a little girl helping her mother around the kitchen, Londoner Louise Caola […]
Armored Sports – Russia Holds World’s First Ever Tank Biathlon
Probably bored with the usual sporting event, the Russian Military decided to introduce tanks into the mix as a way of spicing things up. Tank Biathlon is a mechanized sport in which tank crews have to guide their vehicles across an obstacle course and prove their accuracy by shooting various targets, in as little time […]
Interstate Dating – Single Entrepreneur Uses Highway Billboard to Find Love
Finding true love can be really hard, but a young entrepreneur is hoping the giant billboard he recently put up in the Chicago area will make things a lot easier. It cost “a few thousand dollars”, but the man says finding his significant other is worth every penny. “…I’m Gordon! Let’s have dinner!” is the […]
Adventurous Food Blogger Cooks with Cat Food, Toothpaste and Grass
Sick of pretentious food blogs, Collin McQuistan, a foodie from Glasgow, Scotland, set up an unconventional blog where he documents all kinds of gourmet dishes cooked with weird ingredients like cat food, grass and toothpaste. 41-year-old Collin McQuistan only started his offbeat food blog last month, but he is already making headlines in international media, […]
Cabinet Maker Spends 13 Years Building a Boat in His Backyard
Mike Stock had always wanted to own a boat, but could never afford to buy one. 13 years ago he decided to build his own in the comfort of his backyard, using the skills he had acquired working as a cabinet maker in West Bountiful, Utah. It was supposed to be a five-year project, but […]
The Dark Side of Cooking – Naturally Black Chicken
Did you know there was such a thing as black chicken? And I don’t mean as in dark feathers, but black skin, bones and even internal organs. There are actually several black chicken breeds in the world, especially in Asia, but the most popular of all has to be the Chinese Silkie. Silkies are beautiful […]
Nothing to See Here, Just a Hamster Steering a 15-Tonne Truck on a Narrow Quarry Road
To prove how easy it is to drive their new trucks, Swedish automaker Volvo transformed the steering wheel of one of their big rigs into a hamster wheel and let a tiny rodent steer the vehicle up a narrow quarry road. Volvo’s new Dynamic Steering uses an electric motor to replace the driver’s muscle power, […]
Snowshoe Baseball – A Taste of Winter in the Summer Months
What do you get when you combine a winter pastime like snowshoe running with a summer sport like baseball. The answer would be snowshoe baseball, a unique sport played every year in Lake Tomahawk, Winsconsin. With its beautiful lakes and gorgeous scenery, Lake Tomahawk has always been one of Wisconsin’s most popular tourist attractions, but […]
Utah Man Has Eaten Over 12,000 Big Mac Burgers in the Last 30 Years
He doesn’t look like your average junk-food addict, but 64-year-old Dennis Rosinlof says that he’s been hooked on McDonald’s Big Macs for the last three decades. During that time, the Utah man estimates he has consumed at least 12,000 burgers. Dennis started eating Big Mac burgers when he started working as a salesman, 30 years […]
Talented Self-Taught Illustrator Doodles on Her Thighs
We recently learned women’s thighs can be used as premium ad space, but Boston-based film student Jodi Steel found a new intriguing use for her upper leg. She recently shot to internet fame after photos of her detailed thigh drawings went viral on popular news sharing site, Reddit. Like many other bored students, Jodi Steel […]
Lamborghini Aventador Model Made Entirely Out of Paper and Cardboard Looks Mind-Blowingly Realistic
Seattle-based designer Taras Lesko has spent the last few months building a nearly-life-size replica of the Lamborghini Aventador exclusively out of printing paper and cardboard. We first featured Taras Lesko’s paper masterpieces back in 2010, shortly after he had completed his amazing 4-foot-tall Freedom Gundam. In 2011 he surprised us all again with an even […]
Feelling Lonely? Rent a Japanese Middle-Aged Man for $10 an Hour
Ossan Rental (or “Middle-Aged Guy Rental”) is the newest bizarre rental service in Japan. As the name suggests, it allows people to rent an average middle-aged Japanese guy for ¥1,000 ($10) an hour. There are a lot of crazy people-renting services in the Land of the Rising Sun, from the now famous Soine-ya Prime rent-a handsome-boyfriend service, to […]
Androgynous Disney Fan Is Both Prince and Princess in Amazing Photo Series
Richard Schaefer is a talented costume design major at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles, but he’s also a huge fan of Disney fairy-tale characters, so he spends a lot of his time creating real-life costumes of princes and princesses. The young Disney costume maker is also quite androgynous, and he knows it. […]
Arizona Man Builds World’s Smallest Roadworthy Car
Growing up, Phoenix-based Austin Coulson was always fascinated by all the cool automotive records he found in the yearly Guinness Book of Records, and dreamed of one day having his name mentioned in the famous publication. He recently got his wish, after building the world’s smallest roadworthy car. 29-year-old Austin Coulson says he developed a […]
The DTV Shredder – A New Breed of Extreme All-Terrain Vehicles
What do you get if you combine a skateboard, a jetski and an ATV? That would be the DTV Shredder, a new toy for power sports enthusiasts created by the guys at BPG Werks. Designed to appeal to a variety of extreme sports fans, the Shredder is a personal vehicle unlike any other you’ve seen […]