Cool Creations From Tokyo Design Week 2011
Here's a nifty little gallery of items from Tokyo Design Week 2011, including the glasses shown above, which were made out of sugar crystals which were formed naturally then reproduced in plastic via 3d printer.
Art and innovation collide in these interesting items, and some may even make their way into a store near you. Others, like the tusk inspired headgear or the strange knit yellow suit with duck hat, probably won't make it out of Japan. Thank your lucky stars!
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Scientists
have invented a super-slippery material inspired by the carnivorous pitcher
plants:
South Korea is a densely-populated nation, and so has diminishing room for appropriate places to bury the dead. A law passed a decade ago even requires people to exhume loved ones within sixty years of burial. Cremation has thus become increasingly popular, and one company has responded to this change by offering to turn human ashes into small crystal beads:
Committing
insurance fraud is bad, but killing pets for insurance money? Now that's
surely a crime deserving the deepest circle of Hell.
Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was a million-dollar movie star in 1921, when there weren't all that many million dollar movie stars. After a Labor Day weekend party, a young actress named Virginia Rappe was hospitalized and later died. Arbuckle was the prime suspect in her death. The prosecution's evidence came from the testimony of Maude Delmont, a woman with a shady past who kept changing her story.
