The Remember Ring Won’t Let You Forget Another Anniversary Again
If you’re tired of setting up notifications on your gadget in the hope that you’ll finally be reminded about your wedding anniversary on time, rejoice, because things are about to get a lot easier. The Remember Ring is a concept wedding ring that heats up 24 hours before the big day, letting you know it’s […]
Spanish Town Mails Dog Poo Back to Their Owners
Sick of having to clean up after irresponsible dog owners, authorities in Brunete, a small town 20 miles west of Madrid, came up with an ingenious way to keep the streets clean. They started sending the dog poo back to their owners in boxes marked “Lost Property”. The council of Brunete had not approved a […]
Experience Space Travel in the Back of a Japanese Bus
Long bus tours can be pretty boring, but Japan’s Star Fighter buses are so incredibly cool they just don’t give you a chance to get bored. If you think they look impressive on the outside, wait until you see what’s in store for passengers inside. Going on a Tokyo bus tour usually gives tourists a […]
Good-Looking Blonde Complains She Is Too Beautiful
It’s not easy being beautiful, at least according to 21-year-old Dana Adiva, who says her looks are both a blessing and a curse. She is treated like a princess, but the same time women are jealous of her beauty, and men just can’t help staring at her. Dana, an aspiring professional wrestler from Illinois, was […]
Anus-Shaped Chocolates – The World’s Most Outrageous Treats
From cooked insects to fermented bird meat, humans have been eating all kinds of outrageous foods for hundreds of years, but there are some things that I just wouldn’t dream of putting in my mouth. One of them is the anus-shaped Belgian chocolates sold by a cheeky British chocolaterie. If you think the chocolate “Edible […]
Japanese Cafeteria Offers Curious Eaters a Taste of Prison Food
In Japan, you don’t actually have to get thrown in jail to get a taste of prison food. The Prison cafeteria, in Abashiri, Hokkaido, specializes solely in food actually served inside Japanese prisons. I’ve often wondered what jail food tastes like, but I was never curious enough to commit a crime and find out. Luckily, for […]
Honebana – The Detailed Animal Bone Flowers of Hideki Tokushige
Excavated Neanderthal bones often had traces of pollen around them, indicating that even back then flowers were used to celebrate the deceased. Japanese artist Hideki Tokushige uses animal bones to recreate various flowers, thus honoring the longstanding connection between the two. “We’ve been creating paintings and sculptures for over 70,000 years and our relationship to […]
Fashionable Chicken Pets Wear Diapers and Colorful Outfits
Statistics show a growing number of American families are replacing cats and dogs with chicken as household pets, so I guess it’s no wonder we’re starting to see things like chicken outfits, diapers and saddles being sold online. Julie Baker is the owner of Pampered Chickens, an online business that sells a variety of accessories […]
Meet Raj Mohan Nair – The Super-Human Immune to Electrecution
A tenth of an amp is enough to kill an ordinary human being, but Raj Mohan Nair is anything but ordinary. This human conductor is able to withstand several amps of electricity passing through his body without suffering any bodily harm. Electricity Mohan or Electro-Man, as Raj has come to be known all around the […]
Amazing Model of Matsumoto Castle Made Entirely Out of Corrugated Cardboard
A Japanese artist known only as “Upunushu”, has created an amazingly detailed replica of Matsumoto Castle, a National Treasure of Japan, using only pieces of corrugated cardboard. Cardboard is certainly not the easiest medium to work with when trying to recreate an architectural wonder like Matsumoto Castle, but Japanese artist, Upunushu, proves it can definitely be […]
Idol Rock – Nature’s Balancing Act
The 50-acre expanse of Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England is home to a number of curious rock formations shaped by tens of thousands of years of erosion, but the most impressive of all is Idol Rock, a 200-ton monolith balancing on a tiny pyramidal base. The 15-foot high Idol Rock looks like it’s about […]
Fluffy Cows – Models of the Bovine World
Have you ever seen a cow that you simply couldn’t help want to cuddle? I hadn’t, until I saw these photos of extremely fluffy show calves that look like they’re modelling for some kind of bovine fashion magazine. I first spotted these real-life plush cows on Reddit a few days ago, and I simply fell […]
Prancersise – Probably the Most Awkward Fitness Workout Ever
Never thought horse prancing could be used as inspiration for a fitness workout, but here we are…Joanna Rohrback is the mastermind behind Prancersise, a bizarre exercise routine described as “a springy,rhythmic way of moving forward, similar to a horse’s gait, and ideally induced by elation”. Rohrback, from Coral Springs, Florida, even founded Prancersise LLC, a real company […]
Svolværgeita: Jumping the Goat’s Horns in Norway
Up until a century ago, the Svolværgeita or Goat’s Horns rock tower had never been conquered, but these days not only has it become one of the most popular climbing pinnacles in Norway, but thrill-seeking mountaineers defy death by jumping between its granite horns. Goat’s Horns peak was first climbed in 1910 by Carl Rubenson, Alf B. Bryn, […]
Executive Boxing Takes Corporate Rivalry to a New Level
The gloves were on at the second ever Executive Fight Night, in Tokyo, last week, as 14 corporate executives from seven different countries went into the boxing ring for some good, clean fun and settling rivalries between companies. “To usher in a new era of fitness amongst stressed-out Tokyo executives and stage a safe, professional […]