Promotional Superpower Stunt

Have you ever had someone spill a drink on your laptop? It happened to me once, and I got pretty angry. If only I’d had telekinetic powers… This whole thing might just be a big promotional stunt for the new Carrie movie, but it’s still pretty fun to watch. Cafe Girl With Fake Superpowers Freaks New Yorkers Out [Kotaku]

TomTato Plant

Setting up a vegetable garden is fun and all, but wouldn’t a freaky garden filled with Frankenstein plants be more along your style?  Yeah, leave the conventional gardens to the neighborhood moms and plant yourself some TomTatos instead. Created by UK horticulture company Thompson and Morgan, it’s a hybrid plant that produces both tomatoes and potatoes.  No, not a single […]

Edible Insects Pack

Seven different bugs await your teeth, tongue, dares, and palate in this Edible Bugs Gift Pack. Each tin contains one type of insect in the most appropriate flavor we could think of. Each is delicious, but we have to admit, the Sour Cream & Onion Dung Beetles have a special place in our hearts (because they just sound so foul, yet […]

Laser-Etched Advert on Meat

To create a poster for international design and innovation consultancy firm IDEO’s WebDev101 sessions, Digital Chops, US-based industrial and Interaction designer Ivy Hu decided to experiment with laser-cutting unconventional objects. The object that was victim to this exploration: meat (as it’s related to the word “chops” in Digital Chops). With a slab of meat and a laser-cutting room, Hu created […]

Strawberry-Picking Robot

What could be more blissful than lying back on your picnic blanket while a robot picks perfectly ripe strawberries for you? Yes, we all share this arcadian dream. Sadly, it comes with a $50,000 price tag. That’s roughly how much a new strawberry-picking robot will cost when it goes on sale in Japan early next year, so start saving now. Developed in part […]

One Lens, Many Frames

While it’s easy to change tops, pants, or shoes depending on the situation, the status quo for glasses is to have one pair of frames for everything. As glasses wearers ourselves, we should have the same choice with eyewear as we have for every other piece of attire. So here we are today with the world’s first interchangeable prescription frame […]

Tab Easy Bookmark

Tab is a simple and elegant bookmark that once installed, keeps your place as you turn the page. Never again will you have to worry about losing your page when you put your book down, and never again will you have to fold over a page to mark your spot. The ends of Tab adhere to the first and last pages […]

Dissect A Fish Toy

Kazuyoshi Watanabe, who owns a wholesale fish stall at Tsukiji Fish Market, a popular tourist destination in Tokyo, decided to create a toy model that would teach people how to dissect a fish. So he teamed up with Hobbystock, a maker of toy models, to recreate 10 genuine parts that you can slice and dice. And that’s just the fish. It […]

Algae: Your Next Petroleum

A new study from Bioresource Technology finds that algae-based biofuel can reduce CO2 emissions by 50 to 70 percent when compared to petroleum-based fuels. The study also found that algae biofuel is close to matching the Energy Return on Investment (EROI) of fossil fuels. The peer-reviewed paper concludes that algae is likely on par with or better than first generation biofuels and is poised […]