Pay as You Flush – Landlord Allegedly Installs Coin-Operated Toilet in Rented Apartment
An apartment tenant in Melbourne, Australia, has recently taken to Reddit to complain about his landlord installing a system that allegedly requires him to insert one dollar every time he wants to flush the toilet. “Is it legal for my landlord to have installed a coin-operated flusher on my toilet?” the title of the tenants […]
Nexsey – A Sticky Tape That Makes Your Neck Look Years Younger
Nexsey is a medical tape designed to make women’s necks look thinner and younger. All you have to do is pinch the loose skin, tape it at the back of your neck, and voila – you just rolled back the clock by a few years. Nexsey is the brainchild of Linda Gomez, a seasoned beauty […]
Would You Pay $30,000 to Have a Beer Tailored to Your DNA?
A London-based brewery has recently launched a unique service that uses cutting edge genetic profiling to create “the world’s most personalised beer”, based on the client’s DNA profile. And it “only” costs £25,000 ($30,550). Ciaran Giblin, the brewmaster of Meantime Brewery, was the world’s first brewer to have a beer tailored to his own DNA, and was so […]
Artist Creates World’s Pinkest Pink, Makes It Available to Everyone but One Person
Pink is a nice color, but PINK is way better. Created by British artist Stuart semple, after a decade of working with paint manufacturers from around the globe, PINK is the world’s pinkest pink. If you’re interested, you can buy 50 grams of it for $4.95, unless your name is Anish Kapoor. In 2014, Indian […]
This Exceptional 32-Year-Old Can Speak 56 Languages Fluently
It’s not unusual for youth nowadays to speak more than one language, but 32-year-old Muhamed Mešić is not your typical polyglot. He can communicate fluently in 56 different languages and claims to understand over 70 of them. Ever since he was a little boy growing up in Tuzla, an industrial city in the former Yugoslavia (currently in Bosnia […]
Swiss Company Creates Chocolate That Makes Menstruation More Comfortable
In an effort to make women’s period more comfortable, Swiss confiseur Marc Widmer has come up with a special chocolate that he claims can ease cramps and has a calming effect on consumers. Called Frauenmond (German for “women’s moon”), the Swiss chocolate created by Widmer’s company, Chocolate with Love, contains 60% cocoa and 17 different […]
New Service Lets You Send Chocolate-Covered World’s Hottest Pepper Anonymously
Pepper Bomb Your Mom is a new online service that allows you to send chocolate-covered Carolina Reaper peppers – the world’s hottest peppers – to your friends/enemies anonymously, for just $9.99. This past summer, 18-year-old friends Lizzy and Sabrina shot to internet fame after filming themselves doing the world’s hottest pepper challenge and posting the footage […]
Thai Company Wants to Sell You This $1,500 Ghost Repelling Device
It might look like a DIY subwoofer, but the wooden box in the picture below is actually a ghost repelling device. The Trisaksri Ghost Repellent is made by a Thailand-based company called Boondee Workshop and cost $1,500 plus $140 for U.S. shipping. I know, it’s kind of pricey, but no one ever said keeping pesky […]
Fed Up with Abductions, Mexican Townsfolk Kidnap Gang Boss’ Mother
After seeing many of their loved ones kidnapped by a ruthless drug cartel, the people of Totolapan, a small town in Mexico’s Guerrero state decided it was time to fight fire with fire, so they kidnapped the drug boss’ mother. For years, Totolapan has been under the control of a gang known as “Los Tequillero”, led […]
Man Spends a Full Month Decorating His Home for Christmas
People generally love decorating their homes for the winter holidays, but how many of us would actually put a whole month into making sure that the whole place is filled with Christmas decorations? Well, one man does it every year. 43-year-old Jack Baremans, from Etten-Leur, a commune in southern Netherlands, has always loved the Holidays. […]
The Kooty Key – A Wacky Device That Helps Germaphobes Keep Their Hands Clean
Developed by champion bodybuilder and auto parts salesman Ken Kolb, the Kooty Key is a handy little tool designed designed to help people avoid touching germ-infested surfaces like door handles, ATM machine keyboards public toilet faucets. Ken Kolb says that he spent most of his life as a traveling salesman, and the years he noticed how air blowers in public restrooms were […]
Portland ‘Adulting’ School Teaches Millennials How to Be Functional Grownups
Millennials (people born between the early 80’s to the mid 90’s) are often labeled as lazy, spoiled and unable to act mature enough to handle adulthood, but a new ‘adulting’ school in Portland, Maine, is trying to change things by teaching millennials the skills required to function as real adults. Unless you spend a considerable amount […]
Company Celebrates Black Friday by Asking People to Crowdfund Useless ‘Holiday Hole’
Instead of spending their money on crazy Black Friday deals, Cards against Humanity, the company behind the popular namesake board game, asked people to donate to the digging of a useless ‘Holiday Hole’ in celebration of the holiday. Believe it or not, they managed to raise over $100,000. This past weekend, as Americans spent billions […]
12-year-Old Boy Learns to Sew So He Can Make Stuffed Toys for Sick Children
Fueled by a desire to bring joy to others, Campbell Remess taught himself how to sew when he was only 9 years old, and for the past three years he has created over 800 stuffed toys for sick children in hospitals. It all started three years ago, when Campbell asked his parents if they could buy […]
Russian Officials Use Photoshop to Fake City Cleanup, Again
Russian authorities in the city of St. Petersburg recently came under fire after it was discovered that they had used digital editing software like Adobe Photoshop to fake the cleanup of a local lamp post. Last week, a resident of St. Petersburg submitted a request on the local government official website asking that a lamp […]