Thursday, May 31, 2007

3D Aquarium on the Web

Chill out with some lazy swimming fish.
If you click on them, they twitch.

but watch out for sharky


Check it out here:
http://www.papervision3d.org/

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Mooo!

Aha! The Secret of Japanese Health and Longevity.


Oh, to be a Japanese farmer

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Diving for Meat

Someone should tell the aquarium that tigers don't like water.
He looks kind of pissed off.






Tigger don't like


The real story here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=458282&in_page_id=1811

Monday, May 28, 2007

Saturn from Below

The Cassini spacecraft spies a hyge vortex at Saturn's south pole.

Uh-oh, Saturn. I can see Uranus!


Details here:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070410.html

Saturday, May 26, 2007

Garden of Light Sabres

Put a bunch of flourescent blubs underneath powerlines and they light up from the excess power leakage. Makes you glad you don't live underneath.


Jedi farm

http://stopgeek.com/richard-boxs-light-field.html

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Whoooeee!

Elevator? Forget it. I'm taking the slide!

Crazy Belgian artist Carsten Höller created these for the Tate Museum.





I'm going in


More details here:
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/carstenholler/photos.shtm

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Floaty Bed

This thing is insane. Some looney designer from Holland built a levitating bed. It's got powerful magnets keeping it afloat, and little wires at the corners so you can't roll it.

The best sleep $1.5 million can buy
Trippy.

They say the magnetic field is safe, but I'm pretty sure you're going to get brain damage sleeping on that thing.

Oh yeah, and apparently you can have sex on it, but if you're sporting any piercings, I'd lose the hardware beforehand.

Friday, May 18, 2007

You Laugh, I Beat You!

This appears to be a Japanese game show. If you laugh, then you go bend over and a guy wails on your ass with a great big stick.


Bend over and give me 10-10-10

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Ughhhh!

This should be illegal.
Aren't there copyright issues? Can't someone do something?

Luke, I'm your father... by turkey-baster!

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Creepy

Check out the spooky dude buried on Mars.

don't freaking look at me

Here he is again in 3D (requires 3D glasses):

Begorrah! It's me mum!

Here's a higher resolution version in 3D:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070421.html


There's even a trail map:

5.5km. A thousand feet elevation gain.
Up the south face to the right nostril.


Hiking details here:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast24may_1.htm#trailmap

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Moon Hoax!

Yeah, that's right. It's a fake!
See here:




Ok, here's the real one:

Monday, May 14, 2007

Catch Me If You Can

Hipoqih have a GPS / Google Maps mashup for tracking your movements. Actually, it's not fully automatic - you need to send alerts to the system with your position.

Find your friends.
Or cultivate your own stalker... It's up to you!

There he is... the little rascal.


http://www.hipoqih.com/home_pc_en.htm

Friday, May 11, 2007

Crazy Sidewalk Perspective

The dude's name is Julian Beever.






...and the secret of how it's done


http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/index.html

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Golf Ball v Cantaloupe

Nutcase lab guys at Nike go nuts with a ball launcher



Got to do something with that physics degree.

More carnage here:
https://www.nike.com/nikegolf/juiceball/index.html

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Exhibitionism for Beginners

A public bathroom in Houston...
Or a safe place for kinky semi-public encounters?

You can get naked in there, or bring a friend and conceive an heir!
No one can see you - but you can see out. You're boinking in public. It's genius!


What's she up to?


Probably not used.

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

View From The Top

360 degree panorama from the summit of Mt. Everest. In QuicktimeVR.

Sit on it and rotate

For the full-on Everest experience, click here: http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen2/full22.html

Monday, May 7, 2007

Cog

From 2003: Amazing Rube Goldberg machine from a disassembled Honda Accord.

606 takes to get it perfect

best quality version:
http://www.thelinkportal.co.uk/video/content/adverts/hondathecog.html

Google video version:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3315561934334960419

making of:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5247587045479046514

info on Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cog_(television_commercial)

Sunday, May 6, 2007

Fearless

Super-cool go-fast boats.
Designed by Porsche. Made in Miami. Now you can smuggle in style.

Fear Less... Live More

Only $300k while supplies last.

main site:
http://www.fearlessyachts.com/index_flash.php

more details:
http://www.rudderblog.com/article/fearless-yachts-launches-a-collection-of-custom-luxury-boats-with-porsche-design-studio

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Paint!

This time they blow up a whole lot of paint in Glasgow, Scotland.

Spectacular!
What a crazy mess these guys make.


High quality video:
http://www.bravia-advert.com/paint/thead/

Main page:
http://www.bravia-advert.com/

How they did it:
http://www.bravia-advert.com/paint/behindthescenes/

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Superballs

The famous Sony Bravia ad.
250,000 superballs rain down on San Francisco.

Look out below

High quality extended version:
http://www.bravia-advert.com/commercial/braviaextcommhigh.html

Sony Bravia Ad website:
http://www.bravia-advert.com/balls/

How they did it:
http://www.bravia-advert.com/commercial/