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The Situation in the Situation Room



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

Shopping Cart Lounger



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

Tornado-Proof Car for Sale



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

Robber's Saggy Pants Thwart Beer Heist


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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.


Link via Lowering the Bar

Solar System Cake Pops



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.

Link via Craft

T-Rex with Chainsaw Arms Tattoo



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.

Link via F-Yeah Tattoos | Image: Joshua Ross

Fox Mulder's Wristwatch



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....

Link via blastr

Thermochromatic Urinal



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.

Link via Gizmodo | Photo: Matrix Agent

Clothespin Lamp


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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

Chess Set Improvised by Marine in Afghanistan



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

Kissing Transmitter Is Romantic in a Somewhat Awkward Way



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

Mad Max Electric Bicycle



Just awesome. Nathaniel Akin found this train of wheels parked by the side of a road. The drive is powered by an electric drill, which is fed electricity by two car batteries held in place with duct tape. The human driver is presumably fueled by beer in the cooler.

Link via DVICE

Fashion Statement: Wrapped up in King Kong's Hand



Korean fashion designer Kathleen Kye made a jacket that looks like the wearer is wrapped up in King Kong's hand. This piece, inspired by a dream that she had of being squeezed by a giant hand, was one of several that Kye made for her graduate portfolio entitled "The Body Collection."

http://korean-content.com/2011/03/31/fashion-designer-kathleen-kye-aspires-to-become-a-cultural-icon/ via Copyranter | Photo: Kathleen Kye

Jam Jar Mystery



Boing Boing reader Tyler Bartlett has been trying to understand the odd air pocket in this jar of raspberry jam:

I know this looks like we turned this jam jar upside-down and popped in in the fridge. But we didn't. My roommate brought this to my attention yesterday, and we have no idea how or why the jam is doing this. It did the floating thing yesterday, and when we had it at room temperature for a minute or so, the jam started to fall to the bottom again. We took it out of the fridge today, and again it floats.


How would you explain this event?

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Augmented Reality Tattoo



cranberryzero of I Heart Chaos just got inked, and his tattoo has a special feature. It can be scanned by augmented reality readers to produce an image from a Nintendo 3DS game. You can see a video of it rendering at the link.

Link via CrunchGear | Photos: I Heart Chaos

Previously: Augmented Reality Cookies

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