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Shelter dog Roosevelt was born with deformed front legs, which made running around impossible for the poor little guy until his new owner Stephanie created this wheelchair rig for him.
Now Roosevelt likes to take his wheels off road, tearing it up and playing like a pup again.
Here’s an inspiring word from his owner:
The only difference between Roosevelt and other dogs is that instead of a collar I snap on his wheels to take him out. … People think he should have been put down because they think he’s suffering. But he wakes up happy every day. If you had a child with a disability you’d try to enrich them, give them opportunities. So why not do the same with a dog?
Roosevelt has a sweet set of wheels, and a pretty sweet owner in Stephanie as well. Not bad for a dog considered by some to be destined for euthanasia, eh?!
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The bad thing about attending MIT is the cost of tuition and living expenses adds up to approximately $55,000 a year. The good thing is you can blow off a little steam once in a while by playing the video game Tetris-on the side of a building!
Student gamers gently hacked the controls of the Green Building on campus and put on a dazzling light show while playing a grand scale version of Tetris. I hope they played like champs, because if not the whole neighborhood now knows how bad they are at the popular puzzle game.
Now that’s what I call putting your college degree to work for you!
–via Nerd Bastards
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That's
what one recent poll of bachelors discovered:
The research found that 11% of bachelors would rather own the popular Apple gadget than gain a new love interest.
And 3% said they would happily leave a current partner if they were rewarded with the tablet device, the poll of 600 people by online casino RoxyPalace.com found.
Usually when people tell you to put a bag over your head, it’s an insult. But this bag was made to wear over your head in an emergency situation, and it might save your life if an earthquake hits while you’re out shopping.
The Grappa was created with the thought that most people carry reusable bags now when they do their shopping, and if an emergency situation should arise you’ll probably have one close at hand.
It has a hard plastic bottom and mesh sides, so your head is protected from falling debris while the side mesh helps filter out particles in the air.
I don’t think I’d feel very safe with such a flimsy source of protection on my head, but it’s really more of a concept design than the ultimate safety gear, and I can’t wait to see what kind of safety functions are built into everyday items in the future.
Marudai claims that its heavy steel cell phone case will protect your beloved from all but the largest of small arms rounds. What caliber is your phone case rated to? If you don’t know, then you need to experiment and find out.
Link (Google Translate) -via The Firearms Blog
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Think that Monster Cables are pricey? Take a gander at this: the $12,000 Transparent Reference XL Speaker Cables. That's right - $12K.
Just one of the many Crazy Expensive Stuff from the High-End Audio Show in New York from Cool Material blog: Link - Thanks Mike!
My name is Zeon Santos, and I am a snackaholic. Which is why I am so excited about the Babycakes pie pop maker!
The ingenious design lets you cook the pie pop top without baking the stick, and you can make a variety of flavors and crusts as each pop bakes in an individual non-stick pocket.
And to top it all off the pie pops only take about 4 minutes to cook, so you won’t have to wait long to be chomping down on some mini pie goodness!
Link –via Super Punch
You have to get out of bed. Oh, no, this clock isn’t going to lure you out with freshly-cooked bacon. Nor will it slap you in the face or toss you on to the floor. But you will have to leave your bedroom and show some basic cognition:
There is no snooze button. If you unplug it, a battery takes over. As wake-up time approaches, you cannot reset the alarm time.
It could be the world’s most exasperating alarm clock.
Once it goes off, to stop it you must get out of bed, go into the kitchen or bathroom, and punch the day’s date into a telephone-style keypad. That’s the only way to stop the loud ‘ding-ding,’ designed to sound like a customer angrily banging on a concierge bell at a hotel.
My suggestion for a heavy-duty version: the user must solve a basic algebra problem before the alarm turns off.
Link -via Marginal Revolution | Official Website | Photo: AP
Image: DietDiet
[in Japanese]
Can you trick your brain into thinking that you've eaten more than you really have? Apparently so! A team at Tokyo University developed a special pair of "food glasses" that help dieters by making it appear that they're eating a lot more food:
LinkThe video eyewear processes the image to enlarge the food's appearance while maintaining the original size of the hand and surroundings. The idea is that tricking the wearer into believing that they've eaten more than they really have will give them a greater feeling of "fullness."
The stats appear to bear this out, at least slightly: according to the Yomiuri Shinbun, a test group of 12 men and women ate 9.3 percent less cookies than normal when shown the 50 percent enlarged image, but 15 percent more when the glasses were set to reduce the cookies' size by 33 percent.
American Public Media's "Marketplace" Shanghai Bureau Chief Rob Schmitz got an inside look at Foxconn, the Chinese company that manufactures the iPad for Apple. In this exclusive report, Rob takes a look at how the iPad is born:
LinkThe first misconception I had about Foxconn’s Longhua facility in the city of Shenzhen was that I’ve always called it a ‘factory’ -- technically, it is. But after you enter the gates and walk around, you quickly realize that it’s also a city -- 240,000 people work here. Nearly 50,000 of them live on campus in shared dorm rooms.
There’s a main drag lined on both sides with fast-food restaurants, banks, cafes, grocery stores, a wedding photo shop, and an automated library. There are basketball courts, tennis courts, a gym, two enormous swimming pools, and a bright green astroturf soccer stadium smack-dab in the middle of campus. There’s a radio station -- Voice of Foxconn -- and a television news station. Longhua even has its own fire department, located right on main street. This is not what comes to mind when you think “Chinese factory.”
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With room for 35 rifles and 70 handguns, the BedBunker can hold a substantial portion of your gun collection. The vault replaces a set of box springs, so it doesn’t take up a lot of room in your house. When you need a gun, just push the mattress off and open the door.
Product Page -via DVICE (where there’s a video)
Apple's iPhone is so popular in China that even the dead want one! It's the latest trend in burnt paper offering, a distinctly Chinese tradition where Hell Bank Notes, and paper items resembling cars, luxury villas, computers and so on, are burnt to send to the deceased.
Many shops on Taobao, a major Chinese website for online shopping, sell paper digital devices, including iPhone4 and iPad2, as the Qingming Festival, or Tomb-Sweeping Day, approaches, the newspaper said.
On sale are not only the paper-made devices themselves but also a full range of accessories such as chargers, earphones and data lines. The prices vary and can reach several hundred yuan.
"We hope the deceased can also feel the progress of our society," said a customer who did not give his name.
Can't forget the paper chargers. Those paper iPhones are worthless without 'em: Link
Purdue University’s Society of Professional Engineers broke its own world record Saturday by demonstrating a Rube Goldberg contraption with 300 steps. Not only that, they made it relatively compact, as these things go, by creating rotating courses that fold out on cue. All that just to blow up and pop a balloon! Link -via The Daily What Geek
Previously: Purdue Sets World Record in 2011.
Apple's
iPad costs an arm and a leg here in the United States, but in China, the
organ you'd have to part with is the kidney:
It sounds like the stuff of urban legends, but the official Chinese Xinhua News Agency is reporting that five people have been arrested for alleged involvement in the removal and selling of a teenager's kidney for transplant, according to the Associated Press.
The Xinhua story said the 17-year-old student, identified only by his surname Wang, gave up his kidney for money, some of which was used buy two of Apple's most popular products -- an iPad and an iPhone. [...]
As the story goes, the mother of the student uncovered the plot. According to Xinhua, she asked her son how he could have afforded an iPad and iPhone, and he told her that he had sold one of his kidneys.
The video tantalizingly beings with a pan across the table, revealing one marble machine after another. YouTube user denha makes them, in vast quantities and astounding quality. The most amazing scene is at 4:35. It shows one machine hurling steel marbles into a bucket with perfect accuracy.
-via reddit
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Dr. Dennis Filips, a retired surgeon in the Canadian Navy, saw a lot of traumatic wounds in Afghanistan. He figured that there had to be a better way for troops to stop blood loss immediately after a wound. So he developed a hinged clamp that snapps over a wound. Needles anchor it in place as the clamp holds the wound together and reduces blood flow. Watch a simulation video at the link.
Link and Product Page -via OhGizmo!
Rockboard’s Descender board is equipped with treads wrapped around heavy rollers. It’s built to go over terrain completely impassible for normal skateboards. Would you enjoy riding it?
The old “Do Not Enter” sign just didn’t do the trick. You have to wonder how many problems they had before deciding to post a sign to spell it out for everyone. Then again, if people using GPS don’t read signs, will this help at all? Link
Tom Scott immediately saw the need for a parody of the Google Glass Project. Honestly, a lot of people saw the opportunity, but he produced it, in a hurry. -Thanks, Ray!
Previously from Tom Scott: Spider-Man, Star Wars Weather, and Rats.
Google is starting to work on augmented-reality glasses you can wear so you’ll have all your apps and internet and everything right there in front of your face any time you want. This is what they hope it will be like …someday. The details are on G+ (which I am still suspended from). Link -via The Daily What
Ozzy Dweller has about 5,000 old 3.5 inch floppy disks. He’d like to back them up, but doing so manually, he found, was just too tedious. So he built a machine that loads them into a computer, copies them, then ejects them onto the floor.
Why wasn’t this around when I was a teenager?! You kids these days are so spoiled by your newfangled technology. Researchers at Keio University developed an interactive poster of a popular singer that responds (favorably!) when you try to kiss her.
This video was posted on April 1. It could be an April Fools’ Day prank. But if so, it’s a completely believable one.
-via DVICE
The glorious march to making Star Trek real continues! We already have PADDs. Now, thanks to Peter Jansen, a researcher at the University of Arizona, we have a Next Generation-style science tricorder. Its sensors can measure temperature, humidity, magnetic fields, color, atmospheric pressure and more.
Okay, that’s done. Dr. Jansen, please get to work on a holodeck next.
Link -via DVICE | Previously: A Real Medical Tricorder
Tired of being called an Apple fanboy? Your detractors will think twice before calling you names if you sport this iPhone case! Behold, the Knucklecase, crafted out of a solid aluminum.
Your iPhone will be the toughest cell phone on the block! Link - via Digital Trends
See also: Fisticup and Stress Beater from the NeatoShop
Comments Off Kurt Grandis was plagued by an endless offensive of squirrels against his birdfeeder. He needed a solution, so he programmed sensors to detect the shape and color of squirrels — and only squirrels — then instruct a Super Soaker water gun to shoot them. Skip to 16:00 to see it in action.
-via Boing Boing
Owl Dust Buddy
- $7.95
Dusty computer monitor? "Owl'" help you clean it up with this cute Owl Dust Buddy from the NeatoShop. The microfiber duster cleans electronics, furniture, and more: Link
View more Owl items from the NeatoShop | Hundreds of neat New Items
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Bonnie
Miller of Benton Harbor, Michigan, is here to warn you about the dangers
of WWT.
That's Walking While Texting, if you don't know, which Bonnie experienced first hand one fine day when she walked off a pier into Lake Michigan while texting on her phone.
Tony Spehar of ABC57 News has the scoop:
Earlier in the evening Miller, her husband Greg and her 15-year-old son Quinn had been walking along the pier enjoying the weather. They had just passed the end of the railings that extend only about half the length of the pier when Miller realized she had to send a text.
“I had set an appointment for the wrong time and so I sent about three words,” Miller described. “Next thing you know it was the water.”
Miller explained she didn’t realize how close she was to the edge of the pier, she then stumbled after tripping over something and tumbled over into the water. She and her family estimate she fell at least six-feet into the water.
“Quinn said he just heard me say ‘Oh God’ and then a splash,” she explained. “When you’re down there and the water is very low and all you see is pier.”
Consider us warned, Bonnie! Link
There's
magic, there's old magic ... and then there's iPad magic. Here's a magic
show / business presentation by Charlie
Caper and Erik Rosales to showcase the city of Stockholm.
Geeks Are Sexy has the clip: Link [Embedded YouTube clip]
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The
folks are away, so it's time to party! Or so David Rowe's teenage daughter
thought. How could her dad find out if he's hundreds of miles away?
The geek way, of course, by measuring his house's power consumption using Fluksometer:
On New Years Eve 2011 I was in Geelong at a restaurant, 800km from my home in Adelaide. This year I happened to be away from my children, who were staying elsewhere in Adelaide while I was interstate. My home was supposedly vacant. However I knew it was very hot in Adelaide that day (40C) and I wondered if this would affect my power consumption, for example an increased duty cycle on the fridge. I am just that sort of power-geek.
So I checked my Fluksometer via my 3G android phone. I was surprised to see 1000W being used since 1pm – about what my Air-con uses. I also noticed that around 7pm the power jumped by a few 100W, just like the lights had gone on, or perhaps the TV.
Looked like some one was in my home. On New Years Eve. Hmmmmmm.
Damn you, technology! Link - via Gizmodo Australia
A rockin' jam session with your bandmates sure can make them thirsty - but are you going to send them to the drab ol' kitchen fridge to grab a few brewskis?
Here's a fridge that won't dilute your cool factor: the Marshall Fridge that looks like a guitar amp. And yes, the control knobs go to eleven. Link - via That's Nerdalicious
Don't have $300 to spend on a mini fridge? You can still get this Amped Up Coffee Mug from the NeatoShop for much less.
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