Kinda cool in a homeless kind of way. Proceeds from sales of  pseudo cardboard bedding go to benefit Dutch homeless charity.

So alcohol and guns do mix?

“Michel de Broin built a hot tub in a dumpster: “The dumpster is used to frame its contents – 1649 litres of filtered, chlorinated water. Its interior is lined with waterproof blue material while a pump and filter system ensures the purity of its contents. Powerful jets stimulate the sensorial exerience” …boingboing.net. Now this is what i call dumpster diving in style.

“Look National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, we understand this is your first walking, bi-pedal robot – but why the peel-away face? Just slap in some big manga eyes and button-mouth and we might be able to sleep at night. But no, you show up at the Taipei International Invention Show with this creepoid, capable of singing via synthesizer and walking 2-meters in a straight line — presumably in preparation to celebrate our demise”…Thomas Ricker/switched.com. Just one more step on the road to world-wide robot domination.

“Most people, in choosing a new home, look for comfort: a serene atmosphere, smooth walls and floors, a logical layout. Nonsense, says Shusaku Arakawa, a Japanese artist based in New York. He and his creative partner, poet Madeline Gins, developed a small apartment complex in the Tokyo suburb of Mitaka that is anything but comfortable and calming”…art.commongate.com

“People, particularly old people, shouldn’t relax and sit back to help them decline,” he insists. “They should be in an environment that stimulates their senses and invigorates their lives.”

Sweet, hot and fire engine red, the V4 Ferrari concept motorcycle is just that, a concept. So dream on, all you rich biker bastards, dream on.

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“The Third Eye further establishes the “dark” credentials of Wayne Martin Bleger Belger. His uncanny usage of human organs and bone, along with other common materials like metals and precious stones to make pinhole cameras are visible in this new creation. The skull of a 13-year-old girl forms the camera structure, while the empty ocular cavity plays the role of the lens. The image captured, like the theme itself, is eerie-hued and reminds you of ghoul stories featured on television”…gizmowatch.com Read the rest of this entry »

Tatoo who? Tatoo you! Not your average skin ink job. From the magic pen of Bryan Krause at Graphic Nature in Fairport Harbor. Can’t wait to see this when completed.

“…U.S. Army has just awarded a $4 million contract to begin developing “thought helmets” that would harness silent brain waves for secure communication among troops”…Mark Thompson/time.com

“Having a soldier gain the ability to communicate without any overt movement would be invaluable both in the battlefield as well as in combat casualty care,” the Army said in last year’s contract solicitation. “It would provide a revolutionary technology for silent communication and orientation that is inherently immune to external environmental sound and light.”

Now this is what I like to see, science catching up with comic books and science fiction.

This is the real deal. Not photoshopped. Created by Lar-Erik Fisk, a Vermont artist this VW BusBall car/sculpture is one cool piece of art. Rollin’, rollin’,  rollin’!

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