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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Chinese University Students Sit in on Extra Classes Just to See the Beautiful Teachers
Students at the Sichuan Normal University in Chengdu, south-west China, are apparently studying harder and sitting in on extra classes just to see their ‘impossibly beautiful’ female educators. Photos of 16 attractive female teachers from Sichuan Normal University have become a hot topic on Chinese social media websites, after they were uploaded online by their school. […]
Hungarian Anti-Semitic Political Leader Discovers He Is a Jew, Moves to Israel
Four years ago, Csanad Szegedi was a deputy leader of the radical nationalist Jobbik party in Hungary, and he blamed Jews as well as the Roma people for his country’s problems. But then he learned he was a Jew himself, and everything changed. Szegedi was once notorious for his extremist views and anti-Semitic statements, and as a […]
App Gives Japanese Drivers Free Coffee for Not Checking Their Phones at The Wheel
In a bid to convince drivers in Aichi Prefecture to keep their hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road, a new Japanese smartphone app offers free coffee coupons to drivers who don’t check their phones for at least 100 km. For the last 13 years, Aichi Prefecture has recorded the highest rate of traffic […]
Mother Forces Toddler Son to Sit in a Parking for 20 Minutes to Save Her a Spot
A photo showing a young boy sitting in a busy Kuala Lumpur parking lot has been doing the rounds online, causing controversy. According to the original Facebook post, the boy had to wait all alone in the hot sun for 20 minutes, to save the empty spot for his mother, while she went to bring […]
Activist To Wear All The Trash He Creates in a Month
Environmentalist Rob Greenfield wants to change the way Americans think about their trash footprint by wearing every piece of trash he creates over 30 days. “For one month, Rob Greenfield is going to live like the average American. He’ll eat, shop, and consume just like the average American which produces 4.5 pounds of trash per […]
The NoPhone Air – Plastic Phone Packaging with Nothing but Air Inside
While millions of people around the world eagerly awaited the release of Apples’s new iPhone 7, dozens of attendants at the Fireside Gathering – a no-phone, no-reception event held at a summer camp two hours west of Ottawa – had to make due with a “revolutionary NoPhone Air, a simple phone package with nothing but […]
Meet the Man with the World’s Best Memory
He has won the World Memory Championship eight times in a period of ten years, can memorize a full deck of cards in a few seconds and is banned from casinos all across the world. He is Dominic O’Brien, the man with the world’s best memory. Looking back at his childhood, 59-year-old Dominic O’Brien admits […]