Disc-It is a custom gas grill company in Albequerque, New Mexico. It makes the grilling experience very personalized by selling unique designs for every interest and speciality. The legs and base reflect individual design specs, and often the wok-shaped pans do, too. Each one is fueled by clean-burning propane.
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Is your piano worn out? Or do you just not know how to play? If that old piano isn't serving any useful purpose, you can give it a new one! Home Crux shows you 9 ways to repurpose old pianos. This upright was turned into a handsome bar with a wine rack, liquor cabinet, glasses, and LED interior lighting. When closed, it looks like any other piano.
A man is like a multi-tool. He's got several useful functions, as well as a fish scaler. Sarah C. Andersen puts her multi-tool boyfriend to work for everyday household tasks.
My wife most often uses the Be Tall For Me function, but I also kill bugs, open jars, and drive Phillips screws. She's never asked me to scale fish, but I'll be ready immediately if she does.
-via Tastefully Offensive
In most Star Trek scenes in which two or more ships meet, they'll face each other on the same plane, as though they were traveling in two dimensions, not three. This is physically unrealistic, but it's the only way to avoid the impression that a lot of ship captains are smashed drunk.
Lately, I've been re-watching Enterprise, the last Star Trek television program. The writers corrected many of inconsistencies from the previous shows. You can occasionally see ships meeting each other in non-parallel fashion.
-via Geek Tyrant
Although the patient pup may not feel like his roommate is much of a friend right now.
In his defense, the thieving dog may have thought that his companion couldn't figure out how food works and needed a demonstration.
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Dave Hax makes helpful videos that illustrate science experiments, such as how to get an egg inside a bottle, and essential interpersonal skills, such as how to steal pizza without getting caught.
For this trick, Hax shows how to burn a candle underwater. Yes, really! All you need is a bowl of water, a candle, and a lighter. When properly arranged, the candle wick will continue to burn even when it's below the level of the surface of the water.
-via Laughing Squid
You get a candy cornocopia! Jessie Oleson Moore, the internet's CakeSpy, melted an entire bag of candy corn on a cookie sheet in her oven. It turned into a flexible sheet of candy corn that resembled orange stained glass. She rolled it into the shape of a horn, then filled it with more candy corn, creating a Horn of Plenty that's perfect for both Halloween and Thanksgiving.
(Photo: Barna Páll-Gergely and Nikolett Szpisjak/ZooKeys)
This is the Angustopila dominikae, a resident of Guangxi Province, China. At 0.86 mm across, it's the smallest known land snail in the world. It's 1 of 7 new microsnail species discovered by Dr. Barna Páll-Gergely and his colleagues in Guangxi Province. They published their findings in the journal ZooKeys. It's a landmark discovery, but Páll-Gergely admits that they don't know what evolutionary advantage such a tiny size could offer the Angustopila dominikae. The Guardian quotes him:
We cannot explain their size by adaptation to the environment. For very tiny insects we can guess the evolutionary reason why they evolved like that, but in the case of snails it is much more difficult. The whole family of species are all very small and their common ancestor, which lived maybe 60 million years ago was also very small. Since then this very tiny species survived somehow in different geographical areas and under different climates.
-via io9
(National Geographic/David Gruber)
What is biofluorescence? Jane J. Lee of National Geographic explains that it's:
[...] the ability to reflect the blue light hitting a surface and re-emit it as a different color. The most common colors are green, red, and orange.
Biofluorescence is different from bioluminescence, in which animals either produce their own light through a series of chemical reactions, or host bacteria that give off light.
This property is found in some fish, crustaceans, and corals. But now, for the first time, scientists have found it in a reptile. David Gruber, a marine biologist, led a team that searched for biofluorescent creatures off the Solomon Islands. They were shocked when an Eastern Pacific Hawksbill Turtle swam into view and glowed:
Though cats and snails are natural enemies, the cats are surprisingly relaxed--not a trace of fear from either one. Shiro is so peaceful that he's almost asleep, rousing only to kiss his companion. Kuro noses the snail curiously, who responds in kind. It's the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
How did the snail end up on Shiro? His owner has a great hobby: putting objects on Shiro to see how he will react.
-via Rocket News 24
See also: More of the Shironeko cats.
You are suddenly faced with the worst case scenario: no pizza. Thankfully, you've prepared for this disaster with the Portable Pizza Pouch. This essential piece of survival gear keeps a slice of pizza immediately close to you--just inches away from your mouth--in the event that you run out of pizza.
The resealable pouch fits around your neck with a lanyard. I suggest buying enough for a full pizza, then wearing all of them around your neck. With the world as unstable as it is these days, you can't be too careful.
-via First We Feast
Pull some paper off the roll from this toilet paper dispenser. The creaking roller sounds just like a constipated Wookiee. I suggest a new strategy, Artoo: let the Wookiee go.
(Image: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Alaska was the site of some nuclear testing during the 1960s and 70s, including the largest underground nuclear test ever conducted by the United States.
But Project Chariot was an entirely different idea. No one was trying to learn about the effectiveness of nuclear weapons. Instead, the Atomic Energy Commission hoped to use nuclear weapons in the way that civil engineers might use dynamite: as a way of blasting out land. The agency planned to blast a channel from the sea up the Ogotoruk Valley, turning the rocky land into a deep water harbor. If the experiment worked, then the next step would be to blast a new Panama Canal at sea level. By cutting straight through the Isthmus of Panama, there would be no need for locks.
In 1993, US Department of Fish and Wildlife Service author Douglas L. Vandegraft wrote about the program. He said that the Native Alaskans were less than pleased with the idea:
The villagers would not only be invited to watch the blasts, but would be employed as coal miners, railroad and harbor operators. The AEC was trying to entice them into cooperating with Project Chariot. They were told that all the people living in Point Hope, Kivalina, and Noatak would be temporarily relocated to Kotzebue or Nome for a year or so after the blast. They would then be relocated again, not back to their original homes, but to modern dwellings near the brand new harbor in the Ogotoruk Valley (Rock, 1962). The now very concerned residents of these native villages began their vocal opposition to Project Chariot.
Alaskans agitated against the dangerous and impractical program, ultimately contributing to its shutdown.
-via Atlas Obscura
Inventor Morgan Gustavsson and his partner Paul Binun are counting on you answering "yes." They've developed and are marketing a razor called the Skarp. Wave it over your skin, and it will cut straight through the hair. You can use this laser cutting instrument on any part of your body like a little lightsaber. Business Insider reports:
Morgan Gustavsson invented the IPL (Intense Pulse Light) laser in 1989, which is still a popular method of hair removal treatment. He always wanted to create a laser that could be brought to bear on the everyday shaving market, but there was a problem, he writes. Wavelengths of light had been discovered that could cut through dark hair, but light (or gray) hair was much more challenging to deal with.
But now he, and his partner Paul Binun, claim to have discovered a chromophore (part of a hair molecule) that is shared by all humans, and can be cut easily when hit with a particular wavelength of light.
-via Marginal Revolution
(Photo: Atomic 212)
Lucy Kelly of Sydney, Australia wanted to get the new iPhone 6S. But she didn't want to wait in line for hours on end at her local Apple Store. So sent a robot to wait in line for her.
The robot, which is made by Double Robotics, consists of an iPad with on a wheeled stand. Kelly's robot was third in line. While other people in the line braved the chilly weather, Kelly waited back in her comfortable office. Mashable reports:
Kelly is meanwhile chilling in the warmth of her office, while her robot counterpart stands in the wind and rain. The company she works for, media agency Atomic 212, has sourced and built six of these robots to play with in their office — her boss even attended meetings in Sydney while he was in Bali using one of them.
"We use them for everything, just to show new technology. It is a cool demonstration of what the future of technology will be," Kelly told Mashable Australia. "We are obsessed with them." […]
She will wait in line for one night, in a special tent that comes complete with a charger to keep her juiced up and gives shelter from the rain. Kelly will be her face and voice for the duration. "I am staying here the whole time," she said. If all goes to plan, the robot will then purchase the iPhone without any human interaction.
-via Oddity Central
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