Joe Liles, among other media, creates art from printed circuit boards. This is the lovely and appropriately-named "Circuit Tree." You can see three other examples at the link.

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How does Peter Bristol's Cut Chair work? The secret is that the one solid leg is firmly anchored to a steel plate beneath the carpet:

A plate concealed by a thick carpet allows a robust cantilevered seat. Three well placed leg “stumps” and the chair looks as though it has just been magically sliced apart.

Bristol hopes to put the Cut Chair into production.

Link via Geekologie | Photo: Peter Bristol

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YouTube user maculifrons says that it's possible to desensitize young wasps to human fingers. I'm not sure about that, but clearly the wasp is somewhat domesticated.

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The Southern Pudu is the smallest species of deer in the world, and one was recently born at a zoo in Belfast, UK. When fully grown, Pudu are about 17 inches tall. This baby weighs only as much as a pint of milk! You can view more pictures at the link.

Link via NotCot | Photo: Belfast Zoo

The photo of President Obama and senior officials watching the live feed of the killing of Osama Bin Laden from the White House Situation Room has gone viral and produced some hilarious works of photoshoppery. My favorite, so far, is one featuring Michael "The Situation" Sorrentino from Jersey Shore.

Link via Super Punch | Image: Alexis Madrigal

Mike Bouchet of Cumulus Studios in Miami converted steel shopping carts into functional lounge chairs:

They are constructed from existing supermarket shopping carts. The metal is bent back and forward to create the shape of the seat and the child’s seat is reconfigured into an adjustable head rest. Sensible yet comfy cushions complete the lounge. Several versions will be presented including one chair fitted with a parasol and another tricked out with a night time reading light.

Just add some cushions and it'll look like a good patio chair.

Link via OhGizmo! | Bouchet's Website | Photo: Cumulus Studios

Storm chaser Steven Green had this custom car built so that he could drive it directly into tornadoes -- which he did so in 2004. The chassis was originally from a desert racing vehicle which was converted by Green into its current incarnation at the price of half a million dollars. The Tornado Attack Vehicle, as it's called, is now covered with 16 gauge steel and the bulletproof windows can withstand a .38 bullet if necessary.

Link via DVICE | Green's Website

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Due to his fashion choices, a beer thief in Florida got away, but not with the beer:

Surveillance video shows a man rushing from the EZ food store in Lake Wales, trying to steal two cases of beer.

But his pants were too droopy, he tripped, and the beer went everywhere.

He jumped into the back of a Chevy Malibu and the driver took off.

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Jeromina Juan of Paper, Plate, and Plane made cake pops that look like the planets of our solar system (minus Pluto, which shows which side she's on). The ring for Saturn was made with a candied disk shaped on parchment.

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Someday, we will tell our grandchildren of the chainsaw-augmented dinosaur menace of our youth. We will speak of the danger that was a part of our everyday lives -- a danger that they will are free of because of our labors. And they will believe us, because we will create the Wikipedia entries necessary to back up the claim.

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If you can think of it, there's probably a website about it. In this case, there's a blog devoted entirely to chronicling the wristwatches worn by Fox Mulder, a character on The X-Files. And for those of you who think that someone spent far too much time and energy studying something completely insignificant in far too much detail, let me show you some selected doctoral dissertations....

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The basic idea is that the heat of a user's urine creates pretty colors on the urinal.

Although this image is being posted on many different sites, I'm struggling to find any firm information about it. Perhaps it's better that way. I'm just going to tell myself that it's a really good photoshop, and no one actually built it.

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Steffi Min, an industrial design student in Brooklyn, reasoned that a light bulb could just as easily be clamped into a lamp as screwed in. So, for her senior thesis, she made a lamp that looks like a large clothespin.

via reddit | Designer's Website

A reader at Everyday, No Days Off sent in this picture of a chess set made by a US Marine deployed in Afghanistan. The kings and queens are .50 caliber cartridges and the rooks are 40 mm grenade cases.

Link | Previously: Cartridge Chess Set

No, not a simulator, but a transmitter. There's a real person on the other end of the wire (presumably a girl) sending the kiss, which is in turn replicated by the mouth piece built by researchers at Kajimoto Laboratory. They explained:

"This device is for communications within the mouth, in other words, the goal is to obtain the feeling of kissing."

"If you take one device in your mouth and turn it with your tongue, the other device turns in the same way. If you turn it back the other way, then your partner's turns back the same way, so your partner's device turns whichever way your own device turns."

"It is achieved only by motor rotations, and you control the rotation positions via PC. It is called a bilateral control, and the turn angle information is sent reciprocally by both devices to maintain the same position. Right now the values are handled by one PC, but if a system is put together to handle the values over a network, then it would be easy for this operation to be conducted remotely."

http://www.diginfo.tv/2011/05/02/11-0090-r-en.php via Geekologie | Photo: DigiInfo