Textile Tentacle Arms

Did you ever feel inferior to the almighty tentacle monsters of the world? Fortunately, you can now mail-order your very own tentacle arms for only 15 bucks each. 🙂 While we’ve been using our primitive, apelike arms like a bunch of jerks, the squids of the world have been clutching their prey with their superior […]

Czech Art Group Faces Charges After Staged Nuclear Explosion

On June 17, the Czech art group Ztohoven hacked into a weather channel showing panorama views. Into the peaceful panorama of a mountain view, they inserted a pretty realistic nuclear explosion: Ztohoven see their hack as a comment on media credibility:

Your Chances of Survival in a Zombie Attack

You probably studied the instructions for surviving a zombie attack in detail. Maybe you even trained a little with a zombie simulator. Now it is time to put your knowledge to the test. Fortunately, there is a sophisticated (*cough*) test for everything on the internet. Of course, there is also one for the question “What […]

Photos of Weird Communist Monuments in Yugoslavia

Jan Kempenaers created some really beautiful photographs. Especially striking are those of several monuments in Yugoslavia. Unfortunately, there isn’t much background information included on the photos, but according to Boing Boing they originate from the communist era. To me, they have this wonderfully weird and freaky atmosphere. I would not have thought that someone would […]

Freaky Tentacle Chandeliers by Adam Wallacavage

Chandeliers have a reputation of being antiquated. They just aren’t trandy anymore. Maybe Adam Wallacavage can help this kind of lighting to new fame. He builds chandeliers in tentacle designs. There is a tentacle for every taste. Black tentacles. Bright pink tentacles. Thick tentacles. Slim tentacles… 🙂 The only downside ist he pice: The pinc […]

Controlling Need for Speed with a Spring Horse (and a Wiimote)

Again, someone finds a creative and weird use for the Wiimote: Need for Speed, controlled with a Spring Horse. According to the creator, it took him 10 to 15 minutes to “upgrade” the sping horse. Here the shortened short instructions: 1.Connect WiiMote to PC 2.Attach WiiMote to Spring Horse 3.Install GlovePie 4.Load joystick script included […]

Sun Jar – Conserved Sunshine

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could store sunlight in a preserving jar? Something like that must have wandered through Tobias Wong’s mind when he got the idea to Sun Jar. Sun Jar is a jar which stores sun energy at day using solar cells. At night, it uses this energy to power LED lights […]

Well Done – Baking an Annual Report

The Croatian agency Bruketa & Zini? designed an annual report for the food company Podravka which needs to be baked before one can enjoy it.

QuakeRunner – Quake as Physical Exercise

In Quake, you sweep around virtual avatars all the time. Probably your avatars get really healthy through the regular exercises, but yourself are becoming fat and fatter because you’re sitting in front of your computer all the time. Doesn’t that suck? Maybe this is what Martin Faust was thinking when he created QuakeRunner. It is […]

ARQuake – Merging Game and Reality

This project should be fuel to the thoughts of paranoid people who think that violent games like Quake turn players into bloodthirsty homicidal maniacs which can’t differentiate between game and reality anymore: ARQuake tries to merge Quake’s virtual world with the reality.