unique and interesting: August 2010

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

How To Grow A Rainbow Rose

In 2004, two Dutch companies, River Flowers and Zandbergen, experimented and successfully grew a rose that had its petals rainbow colored. As petals get their nourishment through stem, the idea is to split the stem into several channels and dip each...

For sale on eBay: a CellSensor EMF Ghost Detection-Paranormal Activity & Measurement Meter.A spirit emits a pulsating electromagnetic field. Paranormal activity will activate the CellSensor with a spiked needle, a beeping sound and a flashing light...

NewsCred lets you create newspapers about your interests and passions and share them with your friends. The service is totally free for one newspaper but if you want to have one in your own domain you need to pay a month subscription fee.You have full...

Ode To Quantum Mechanics

A long time ago I studied quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is a branch of physics providing a mathematical description of much of the dual particle-like and wave-like behavior and interactions of energy and matter.Quantum mechanics is difficult to understand. Theoretical physicist Richard Feynman...

image creditThere are some things which require a great deal of patience and others that simply go beyond that. This is just one - an enormous rendering of Minas Tirith from Lord of the Rings - made entirely out of matchsticks. This is not a hobby,...

When you are delusional, you lose the ability to distinguish reality from fantasy. Sufferers stumble through life, constricted by pseudo-worlds of their own making. Although the term was first coined in 1977, symptoms of delusion have been recorded for...

Matt Braun and Chris Mufalli designed a beer bottle with marks on the side to let you know what notes are made when blowing across the bottle when the beer is at those levels.Tuned Pale Ale is a product that explores the musical affordances in everyday...

Vintage pocket calculators from the 1970s listed by compa...

image creditIn Russia the keen eyesight of the pigeon is put to a very practical use for, at one factory in Moscow, they are used to sort ball-bearings. After four or five weeks special training, the birds inspect the ball-bearings as they pass on a...

My Wife Knows Everything' Beats 'The Wife Doesn't Know'

What happens when during a horse race at Monmouth Park on August 22, two horses compete neck and neck to the finish, one being the #3 horse Mywifenosevrything and the other being the #7 horse Thewifedoesntknow?You get a very funny announcement.(via Miss Cellan...

Great hands-on science. Dissect this sanitary owl pellet which contains the skeletal remains of an owl meal. Learn about the owl's habitat, place in the food chain, and predatory skills. Use some archaeological skills to piece together the skeletons...

The largest plants in the world are the giant redwood trees of North America. Sequoias can grow up to 350 ft or more in height and may be up to (26 ft across. They can weight more than nine times as much as a blue whale, the heaviest animal that has...

11 Foot 8

Low clearance can be a real challenge for a truck driver. Especially inexperienced drivers of rental boxtrucks seem to be quite oblivious to the warning signs. So frequently do trucks crash into the 11-foot-8 railroad bridge at Gregson and Peabody in Durham, North Carolina, USA, that the railroad company...

The Palettenpavillon by German designer Matthias Loebermann is a structure made entirely from shipping pallets, ground anchors, and tie rods.Designed to be easily assembled and dismantled, and then entirely recycled at a later date, the resulting building...

The Emmy Awards are an annual presentation for outstanding achievement in U.S. television. They are considered the equivalent to the Academy Awards for film and are presented in various sectors of the television industry, including entertainment programming,...

Kodak Kodachrome Film Test 1922

A sample of some of the earliest color motion picture films. In this test, made in 1922 at the Paragon Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey, actress Mae Murray is joined by actress Hope Hampton modeling costumes from The Light in the Dark, which contained the first commercial use of Two-Color Kodachrome...

image creditIn 1969, the Army Corps of Engineers accomplished an awesome feat: They turned off Niagara Falls. They did it to clean up the area, and check for structural integrity. Here are pictures of this bizarre episode in structural engineering ...

Expedition Titanic

Expedition Titanic is a free website that lets you explore and watch Titanic wreckage footage entirely through your web browser. You are virtually taken deep into the sea and the site of the wreckage is loaded up.You can see a scale diagram of the wreckage....

Designer Yeongwoo Kim created this Eco Urinal where men can pee and wash in the same stand. What Kim has done is incorporated the wash basin just above the spot you take aim to pee.The reason cited is that you'll save a water flush cycle, coz when you...

Bandai, a Japanese toy maker, released the 'Neko Nyanbou,' a fake cat paw with claws that can be controlled by a small switch hidden in the 'handle.'What can you do with the cat paw? You could scratch your back, scare a colleague or use it just as an...

image creditIn the Mopti region of Mali a group of people, numbering less than a million, retain a unique cultural and architectural heritage which they have enjoyed for hundreds of years.To outsiders their way of life, and certainly their buildings...

For those who grew up on the A-Team TV Show or are big fans of Rocky, Mr. T will always be a memorable personality which is simply larger than life. Although you do not see him as much in TV or movies these days, he is still a personality to be reckoned...

Dress up your headlights with a touch of fashion and a twinkle of crystal.(thanks Co...

Live On From Beyomd The Groove

When the album that is life finally reaches the end wouldn't it be nice to keep that record spinning for enternity? And Vinyly offers you the chance to press your ashes in a vinyl recording your loved ones will cherish for generations.Record a personal...

Dictionary: bottomless. adj. Too deep to be measured.Too deep to be measured? We'll see about th...

Wouter Scheublin's Walking Table

Dutch designer Wouter Scheublin created a walking table. The table is carried by two sets of mechanical legs and starts walking when it is pushed.(thanks Co...

Memes are skills, habits, songs, stories, or any other kind of information that is copied from person to person. The term was coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.A meme can experience variation and mutation; they can become extinct...

Tomorrow, Sunday, August 29, 2010 will mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall in Louisiana. Five years ago, Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, centered on New Orleans, as a Category 3 hurricane. More than fifty levees were breached by...

They are a snapshot of a bygone age and as these charming pictures from the 40s, 50s, and 60s show, growing up in post-war Britain was an experience that would be unrecognisable to today's children.It was a time when school dinners meant clearing your...

Movie stars have been known to do just about anything in the pursuit of looking good, but being beautiful isn't the only motivation in an actor's life. Some are so committed to their craft they will dramatically alter their appearance when a part calls...

SlipQuit

Remember the JetBlue flight attendant who left his job by exiting via the plane's emergency exit with beer in hand? Now you, too, can quit like the JetBlue guy with the SlipQu...

English Bulldog Watching TV Sitting On A Couch

It's her favorite show. She doesn't want to get bothered while the show is on.(via Neatora...

Just put the author's name in the box and create a French book cover.I made this book cover. 'Le Naufrage du Fleuve' which I believe means 'The Sinking of the Rive...

Beautiful sliding clo...

Every dog owner knows why they gave their dog its name, but how well do you know the story behind their breed names? For example, poodle comes from 'pudeln,' a German word that meant 'to splash,' so these brave retrievers were known as pudelhund, or...

Silence

A silence competition between internet personality Magibon and Facebook creator Mark Zuckerbe...

It may sound like a contradiction in terms, but scientists have created 'dry water.' The substance resembles powdered sugar and could revolutionise the way chemicals are used. Each particle of dry water contains a water droplet surrounded by a sandy...

Two weeks ago I posted an article about 'man caves,' rooms just for the guys. Now 'The Art of Manliness' tells us about the 'man caves' of 14 of history's great men.Within these rooms they formulated ideas that would change the world, wrote books that...

image creditIf you've ever gone on a road trip, chances are you've driven past a few unusual tourist attractions. And if you've stopped to take a look, you know they can range from odd to completely outrageous.Check out this list of 15 wacky roadside...

Rain Level Boots

These 'Rain Level Boots' by Italian designer Regina Regis are both stylish and informative as they tell the wearer how deep the puddle is he just walked into.(thanks Co...

Rescue Bear is a nice little game where you have to help bumbling bears roll, slide, and hurdle back to their nest. Click objects in the scene to help the bears reach the nest.Get all of the bears to the nest to complete a level. Wood can be removed,...

Researchers have discovered a new species of frog in Borneo which only grows to the size of a pea. Finding the mini frogs, named Microhyla nepenthicola, proved to be a challenge due to their size. Adult males range in length from 10.6 to 12.8 millimeters.There...

The quick and easy way to bring your bathroom tissue within convenient reach. This bathroom tissue extension hooks over your existing holder to make the roll easily reachable.Accordion-style extender pulls out and pushes back with ease. No more stretching...

Famous Boat Captains Compar...

The very name 'V8 Hotel' is enough to give any auto freak goose bumps and make him instantly think of being couched in one of his or her favorite car. Based in the centre of Stuttgart, Germany, guests can sleep in everything from a Morris Minor to a...

Her name is Arria and she is beautiful. What's more, she knows that and she surveys the Scottish landscape, arms outsretched like some giant four armed nineteen sixties soul diva about to launch in to a power ballad for the ages.In fact she is the creation...

Hygienically drink or rinse your mouth straight from your tap, without worrying about dirty hands or cups. Create a fun and convenient drink fountain from your tap by simply squeezing your Tapi.(via Laughing Squ...

image creditFrom Georgia's peaches to Maine's lobster, nearly every US state has its own prized food, and a festival to celebrate it. As delicious as these foods are, though, sometimes they can feel a little... boring. The next time you're in a culinary...

Scary Japanese Webcam Girl

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Although I'm not from Sweden I seem to be some kind of hero over there.As you can see here.Make your own Thank You movie.(via No Subscription Requir...

Use the Snazzy Napper and get your much needed sleep anywhere, anytime! It's like privacy in a bag. The Snazzy Napper is a lightweight blanket that blocks out distracting light.Wrap around a pillow, head cushion, or chair while traveling for extra comfort....

There are tons of tools to measure how well you're doing on Twitter in terms of influence, engagement, impact, trends and more. Klout measures your social media influence and reputation across the web, specifically on Twitter.It seems I'm a dabbler on...

Turn yourself into an ugly danc...

Depressant Drug For The Annoyingly Cheerful

Made by Pfizer, Despondex is the first drug designed to treat the symptoms of excessive perkiness.(thanks Co...

Interesting article about the Art and Tradition of Typography.For over 25 years Microsoft has been very focused on the development of type and type technologies. In order to fully understand the technical foundations of typography in Windows, a brief...

Singapore-based artist Anton Tang makes cardboard figurines and repositions them in Lilliputian set-ups full of humor and pathos, thus reimagining what it means to be human. He says:There are times when many of us would like to cover our heads with a...

The 200 Yard Gong Shot

Tucked away in the Gap of Dunloe in Killarney, Ireland, professional golfers David Howell, Paul McGinley, Marcel Siem and Rhys Davies attempted the impossible - to skim a golf ball 200 yards across the lake and hit a 9 inch gong target.(thanks Co...

How great would you feel if a real person called you every day to tell you, 'You're Awesome'? With AwesomenessReminders, a real person will call you every day to tell you how much you rock.If you're not around, they will leave you a voicemail. Only $10/month!...

John Lennon's toilet will be among the highlights of an auction of Beatles memorabilia next weekend. Lennon told a builder, John Hancock, to keep the porcelain lavatory and 'use it as a plant pot' after he had installed a new one.It was stored in a shed...

Can anyone please help Tammy.(via Miss Cellania) Miss Cellania just celebrated her blog's 5 year anniversary. Congrats, Miss...

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