Geeky Fan Builds Real-Life Wall-E Robot
Mike Senna, a computer programmer from Orange County, California, has spent the last two and a half years building a real-life Wall-E robot, from scratch. It moves around, rolls and talks, but he doesn’t collect trash. In 2009, shortly after the movie Wall-E was launched, we featured some photos of cool Wall-E computer case mod, […]
School Children Dress Up Dead Animals in Bizarre Competition
Fund-raising school competitions usually involve cake baking and sporting events, but at one particular school in New Zealand it’s all about dressing dead possums in funny outfits for a bizarre best dressed furry animal contest. Looking at the photos taken at the Uruti School, on New Zealand’s North Island, you’d think this was a taxidermy competition, […]
Prends-Moi – The World’s First Weight Loss Perfume
Forget about painful diets and grueling exercise, from now on all you have to do to lose weight is spray on a little perfume. The magic fragrance is called Prends-Moi and is said to contain beta-endorphins that reduce the urge to overeat. Developed by the French perfume house Robertet, the Veld’s Prends-Moi slimming fragrance was […]
Pray-O-Mat – The Simple Solution for Getting Blessings on the Go
We live in such a busy world that some people don’t even have the time to go to church anymore. Luckily, there’s the Pray-O-Mat, a converted old photo booth that features 300 pre-recorded prayers and incantations in 65 different languages, and lets you get your blessing on the go. Waiting for the service at the local […]
Deodorgrams – An Anonymous Way of Telling People They Stink
It’s never easy telling someone they smell, but a new service called Deodorgrams plans to make it a little easier by anonimously sending friends and acquaintances a scented deodorant. I remember back in high-school we would get stinkers deodorants for their birthday, which was kind of cruel, and didn’t really work on clueless colleagues. Man, […]
Creepy Cremation Urn Shaped Like a Severed Head Makes Photos Obsolete
Who needs photos of a departed loved-one when you can have a detailed urn shaped just like their severed head to keep their ashes in? People are always coming up with offbeat ways of immortalizing their dearly-departed, but this has to be the creepiest yet. In the past, we’ve seen people’s ashes used to make […]
Man Creates Trash Can That Targets and Catches Flying Garbage
You know those movies where an author with writer’s block keeps throwing drafts over his shoulder trying to hit the trash can, but never seems to land one in? Well, that might just be a problem of the past, because someone seems to have invented a smart trash can that targets and catches flying pieces […]
New York Cafe Sells Only Tap Water for $2.50 a Bottle
Molecule, a newly-opened cafe in New York’s East Village, has sparked a lot of controversy when it started selling tap water for the price of $2.50 per bottle. It might sound like a scam, and many think it is just that, but the owners say the price is right for a taste of “pure H2O”. […]
Woman Turns to Serial Hugging to Cure Homesickness
After moving to the big city, Melinda Schmidt looked for a way to connect with people like she did with her friends and family back home, and found hugging helped. So she hugged total strangers every day, for a whole year. It’s tough moving to the city after you’ve spent all your life in a […]
Chivalry Is Alive and Riding a Horse through Canada
In a time when man has so many communication tools at his disposal, it seems odd that someone would use a horse to get their message across to the world. But that’s exactly what Vincent Gabriel Kirouac did to promote chivalry and polite manners in Canada. It’s not every day that you get to see a […]
Professional Cuddler Charges $60 Per Hour of Cuddling and Snuggling
A lot of people like to snuggle and cuddle, but Jacqueline Samuel, from New York’s Rochester area, actually opened her own business charging $60 for an hour’s worth of non-sexual cuddling and snuggling. There are moments in life when you feel the need to cuddle, but you have no one to do it with. That’s […]
Man Sits on Toilet for Two Straight Days to Prove He Gives a Crap
Sitting on a toilet isn’t the best way to get things done, except for one particular thing, but it was the perfect way for Simon Griffiths to raise $50,000 for his commendable project. Australian Simon Griffiths is a man on a mission. He’s planning to solve a big part of the world’s sanitation problem by […]
Woman Is Addicted to Water, Drinks 25 Liters a Day
I know what you’re thinking, we’re all pretty much addicted to water, but we don’t feel like drinking it every moment of every day, and we certainly don’t consume over six gallons of it, daily. But Sasha Kennedy does, and that definitely makes her a water addict. Drinking plenty of water is generally regarded as healthy advice, […]
Leg Humping Competition Celebrates Dogs’ Love for Our Legs
Usually, when a dog starts humping your leg, you’re quick to make him stop, but at the Humpy Awards, owners actually encourage their pooches to get it on with their legs. There’s the Grammys, the Emmys, the Webbies, and now we have the Humpys, which celebrate dogs’ natural behavior to hump your legs. This first […]
Brazilian Inmates Pedal Their Way to Freedom
At one particular Brazilian jail, inmates don’t actually need both wheels on their bicycle to make an escape. By pedaling on stationary bikes, they can reduce their sentence and also get into shape. The medium-security penitentiary of Santa Rita do Sapucai, a mountain range city about two hours north of Sao Paolo, has recently made headlines for […]