| VisionStation by Elumens is a low-cost and portable 3D immersive viewing system. It has a field of view of 160° (regular monitor only has 60°). This device is designed for simulation and training, oil and gas exploration, product presentation and oh yeah, entertainment! If it's too small for you, the company also makes larger models for up to 45 people! http://www.elumens.com/products/visionstation.html |
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| At 17 years old, Bryan Berg broke the Guiness World Record for world's tallest house of cards in 1992. He subsequently brokehis own records and set a new one for world's largest house of cards by building a replica of Cinderella's castle for Disney World. Link |
| A West Devon couple returned one day to find their white cat has turned pink. After rushing it to the vet, who found nothing wrong with the cat, decided to leave him be. Link (via Weird Events) |
| If you think real estate is crazy high in your hometown, consider this: A home in London, which has a width of just 5 feet at its skinniest, and about 10 feet at its widest, has just been listed for sale. This narrow house has five levels and used to be a hat shop. It has a medium-size tub that takes up an entire length of the bathroom. The asking price? $933,868. Link |
| For hygiene-conscious (obsessed?) Japanese, scented, extra-thick, unrecycled, luxurious toilet paper is a must. Some toilet paper are even moistened with aloe and have infused pinapple enzyme to counteract odor. Link (via notes from somwhere bizarre) Spaniards have their own version: a chic, very expensive all-black toilet paper. Link Ironically, Americans who out-eats everyone else and therefore presumably create the most poop, have to satisfy themselves with regular ol' Charmin. |
| Thai artist Kittiwat Unarom, also a son of a bakery owner, spent six months creating realistic human body parts bread sculptures. Kittiwat made edible human heads, arms, and feet from dough, chocolate, raisins and cashews. What started as a artwork became a business, when pranksters ordered edible human parts from Kittiwat's confectionary slaughterhouse. Link (via Aberrant News) |
| Eric Joyner is a talented artist with a penchant of drawing tin robots (and donuts). Link |
Terragen is an amazing software capable of generating photorealistic landscale images and animations. It can do mountains, seas, lakes, clouds, skies - and what's more: they all look like photos. Link | Gallery |
| Bacon bandage - everyone needs one! Link (via The Sneeze) Archie McPhee has a great collection of devil rubber duckies, nodders, parasite plush toys and so on! |
Having just moved to Arizona for a new job and not being able to afford real furnitures, Jose opted to make all his furnitures (yes, all - table, sofa, bed, desk - everything) from FedEx boxes. FedEx lawyers, however, are not amused. Link |
| A neat collection of veggies that look (or made to look) like animals. http://www.greenapple.com/%7Ejorp/amzanim/oddsends-veggies.htm (via Chapel Perilous) |
| The TransScreen created by a company called Laser Magic can create the illusion of a life-size, full color, 3D holographs. This cool screen gives a high resolution, projected 3D image that appear to float in the air with completely convincing 3D depth cues. No special eyeglasses required. The TransScreen is also invisible to the viewer when properly set-up. Link (via Presurfer) |
| "Beneath the surface" is a short video clip made by Tobias Landberg of the Comparative Physiology & Biomechanics Laboratory in University of Massachusetts. The clip shows an accelerated decomposition of a monkey specimen. (Warning: graphic content). Link |
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