This is a great idea for a kid's breakfast! Spoonful's recipe is simple enough that even kitchen klutzes like me could manage it. And it looks pretty healthy, too.
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Think about the romantic ambiance that these tiles could add to a pool, hot tub or bathtub! If It's Hip, It's Here has rounded up promotional images from five companies that make tiles that glow in the dark. Some of the photos demonstrate the elaborate nighttime designs that these tiles make possible.
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The artist Perspicere does amazing work with strings and nails, including this Batsignal image. Be sure to also check out the haunting nighttime photos of the installation.
Daylight Photos and Nighttime Photos -via Technabob
Roads? Where Matthew Riese is going, he doesn't need roads. He built this amazing hovercraft after raising $5,644 on Kickstarter. Riese's motive was a worthy one:
It's the year 2010, a new decade is upon us, and the question everyone is asking is, "Where is my flying car, already?!" What I'm building isn't a car, and it doesn't "fly", exactly, but I think it's a step in the right direction.
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What a perfect gift for some little boy or girl who wants to play picnic! Felicia Haywood made plush versions of all of the ingredients for a watermelon spiked with vodka.
Link -via Craft | Felicia Haywood's Site
I've just discovered that there's a crafting tradition of forging horseshoes into knives. This knife by Reed's Blacksmith Shop in Arizona is a good example. The blade is four inches long and the knife comes with a fitted sheath.
Pocket carry isn't safe, so A.F. 275 made a plastic over the waistband holster for his Nintendo Entertainment System Zapper:
After making it of course I had to range test it. So I ran through six rounds a Duck Hunt, drawing on each duck from a holstered position and nailed every one of them.
Martine Camillieri, the maker of this toy truck and many others, is a professional artist. But I don't see why otherwise non-crafty people like myself make similar works. All it takes is some bottles, bottlecaps, paint and stickers.
Link (Google Translate) -via Make
FBI agent Edward Nigma will bring down Batman, the murderer of Harvey Dent. He'll stop at nothing to accomplish that goal--even if it means cutting a deal the mysterious crime boss Scarface. Watch the story unfold in this oustanding fan film by Bryan Nest and Chris Wiltz.
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Modern Warmare's Dovahshy comes with an axe. But she doesn't need it. She has The Stare.
Dovahshy’s gear is based on the in-game armor, and heavily improvised by me to fit the equine form. She has a holstered axe, which you can see here [link] or in the linked tumblr entry. It's a completely original design based on her butterfly cutie mark. Carved into the wooden handle are the Dovah runes for “R M T”, standing for “Raan Mir Tah”, the Animal Allegiance shout- a most fitting dragon shout for Dragonborn Fluttershy!
Well, finally! I've been trying to teach my 3-year old how to laugh diabolically, but we're not making much progress. This compilation of the greatest, evilest laughs from movies will serve as an excellent training film.
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Craig Curran has been a successful travel agent for thirty years by always keeping ahead of emerging trends. One of them, thanks to Virgin Galactic, is space tourism. Now, instead of selling airline tickets to Paris, he's selling suborbital flight tickets to space:
It’s not like it was back in Curran’s travel agent heyday in the ’80s and ’90s, when customers would actively seek him out. For space tourism, he’s had to be creative. “I do speaking engagements,” he says. “I’ll speak in front of anybody who’ll have me.” He gives presentations about Virgin Galactic for country clubs and socials groups across upstate New York. [...]
But the best networking opportunities, Curran says, come in unexpected places. During a recent visit to Las Vegas, he was playing poker at the Wynn Hotel when the subject of space travel came up. “I took out my iPhone and showed [the other players] pictures of the SpaceShipTwo,” he says. “I showed them pictures of me and Richard Branson shaking hands, and it was the talk of the table.” He ended up meeting a potential customer—the managing director of a “very large firm involved in capital markets” that he declines to name. He didn’t make a sale (yet), but he still considers it an important lesson. “You just never know where you’re going to make that important connection,” he says.
Link -via Glenn Reynolds | Photo: Craig Curran
Fanny packs are stylish and functional. Yet they has acquired popular scorn. Perhaps Jungle Tribe's leather alternatives made to look like holsters will fix that problem.
Link -via The Breda Fallacy
If you'd like to be even more terrified at horror movies, researchers at Japan's University of Electro-Communications have just the right chair for you. The Chilly Chair will, on command, send mild electrical charges through you--just enough to raise your hair. The premise is that emotions are responses to physical changes, so changing a person's physical experience can alter his/her emotional experience:
Users sat in the chair, resting their forearms inside black tubes that arch over the armrests. To activate the chair, one of Fukushima's colleagues sent 10 kilovolts of electricity through the arches.
The arches are made of three layers. From the inside surface to the outside, the layers include an insulating dielectric plate, an electrode and a rubber plate. The voltage goes through the electrode, polarizing the dielectric plate. Users' arm hairs are attracted to the polarized material, so they stand up. People may experience a similar feeling when they take clothes out of the dryer that are charged with static electricity. [...]
At the same time Fukushima's colleague activated the Chilly Chair, he played a loud alarm sound and flashed an image of a wide-eyed, gaping-mouthed man on the projector screen in front of the chair. Unfortunately, we had already caught a glimpse of the surprised man photo while another SIGGRAPH attendee was testing the chair, so we were not surprised, but the hair-raising did feel prickly and a little unsettling.
It's still uncertain whether induced hair-raising truly enhances people's emotions, however. Before SIGGRAPH, Fukushima and his colleagues tested the chair under controlled conditions and saw promising results, but they had only six study volunteers.
In the study, three volunteers were suddenly blasted with an alarm while sitting in the Chilly Chair, while three heard the alarm without the effects of the Chilly Chair. Fukushima measured all six volunteers' skin conductance reactions, an electrical property of the skin that's known to change with fear and surprise. He found that Chilly Chair users showed stronger reactions. Chilly Chair users also rated their own surprise as higher.
Link -via Glenn Reynolds | Image: Shogo Fukushima, Hiroyuki Kajimoto
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