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The Crovel, short for Crowbar Shovel, is the must have tool for survival in most any situation. It’s a spade, machete, saw, crowbar, hammer, and can also be used as a grappling hook, basically an amazing wonder-tool for extreme conditions. Guaranteed to make surviving the zombie apocalypse a whole lot easier.
Oh, you think that shaving with a straight razor is hardcore? Don’t tell that to Alexander Karpenko, a Russian professor who has been shaving with shovels since he was 16. While he was growing up, his grandfather, a veteran of World War II, told him that it could be done. So Karpenko tried it with a very sharp shovel and found that it worked!
Link (Google Translate) -via Oddity Central | Photo: Tden.ru
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Some folks have pool toys that are more involved than those of other folks. What could possibly go wrong? -via Cynical-C
Garden Plate – $14.95 and Garden Utensil Set – $19.95
Do you have a fussy eater on your hands? Make meals fun again with the Garden Plate and Garden Utensil Set from the NeatoShop.
This fabulous plate comes complete with ramps and breaks to separate food into groupings. It is specially designed to work with the shovel shaped spoon, rake fork, and the garden hoe pusher (to make it easier to gather food and push it onto the fork and spoon). Playing with your food just got a whole lot more fun!
Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more Mealtime fun!
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This one’s for the East Coasters, who undoubtedly have this thought in mind when they shovel their way out of mounds of glorious snow (California perspective here, folks): "Who invented the shovel, so I can thank them for such a wonderful invention, as I dig my way out of mounds of dreadful snow?"
Bjorn Carey of Life’s Little Mysteries did the detective work:
Like many East Coasters, I spent just a little bit of time digging out from this past weekend’s snow storm. As I stabbed my wood and aluminum shovel at a hip-high snow bank, I couldn’t help but marvel at the tool I was using. So simple, yet so useful.
The first known shovels, I found out in the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology, were discarded ox scapula (shoulder blades) that folks in Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain used to move soil and rocks. 5,000 years ago, people probably didn’t need to clear a path through snow drifts to get to their car, but I’d bet that they used these tools to push around snow, too.
“Follow the path you’re on” is not always the best advice -especially if the path maker is a prankster! I don’t where this video originated; the short description in Polish was not helpful. -via Arbroath
Photo: ECAL/Florian Joye
Going to the bathroom doesn’t get much simpler than this. Behold the "Simple Toilet," as envisioned by Jessie Neukomm (bag) and Alejandro Bona (shovel) for the University of Art and Design Lausanne (ECAL), Switzerland. Link [in French] – via Cribcandy, Thanks Justine Dufrenne!
