Archive for July, 2007

Marine life under the Antarctic Ice flows

Found this amazing photo essay of marine life living under the Antarctic Ice flows. The photographer, Norbert Wu, worked in Antarctica from 1982 to 1996. He took these off of the coast of Antarctica in partnership with the U.S. National Science Foundation. The photos in the slide show and more are available in his book, [ READ MORE ]

Cell phones save a life

I’m sure you have heard of people using the back light on their cell phone as a temporary flashlight. I’ve even done it myself. That back light can be pretty bright. This apparently happened to a group of surgeons in Argentina. It seems that they were in the middle of an appendix operation when the lights [ READ MORE ]

What I’m listening to: Matisyahu – Youth

Lately, I’ve been listening to Matisyahu quite a bit. His music is a little different, and he doesn’t fit any particular genre. Most of the music world can’t quite decide what to classify him as. Because of that, you probably won’t hear his music on any terrestrial radio stations. I would classify his music as [ READ MORE ]

The smile trainer

Do you have a strange or weird smile? If you do, then this is probably the product you need. From the land that brought you square watermelons and personal mech suits, comes the smile trainer. Just put this little strip of rubber in your mouth, and it will help train your facial muscles to have [ READ MORE ]

The history of house cats

The Smithsonian magazine has a great article about the history of house cats. Cats have been around humans almost as long as dogs. The ancient Egyptians revered them as sacred, mummified them when they died and buried them in special cemeteries. Today there are about 90 million house cats in the US. The best quote in [ READ MORE ]

Redheads protest Wendy’s racist mascot

50 redheads in New York got together and rode the subway to a Wendy’s to protest its racist mascot. Videos and pictures of the entire event are posted at Improv Everywhere. The entire event was staged the Improve everywhere group as a joke. Of course, no one but the “protesters” knew it was a joke. [ READ MORE ]

Harptallica: Harp renditions of Metallica favorites

Harptallica is a Metallica cover band with a bit of a twist. All of their music is done with harps. The video above is their rendition of “The Unforgiven,” one of the classic Metallica songs from the self titled black album. The music actually is pretty good. Who would have thought that Metallica songs would [ READ MORE ]

Bionic Hands: Soon we will all be cyborgs

A company in the UK called Touch Bionics, has developed the first artificial hand with individually powered digits. The hand is controlled entirely by the nerves that remain in the patients arm. So a person who has this hand installed can receive almost the full use from the prosthetic that they had from their own [ READ MORE ]

FoneJacker prank call

This is seriously one of the funniest videos I’ve seen. Kayvan Novak, a comedian in the UK has created a hilarious video to go with a prank call he makes to an electronics store. In the call, he pretends to be a foreigner, who thinks he must pronounce the many acronyms used by the electronics [ READ MORE ]

Wooden Supercar made by furniture company

JapanProbe has a story about a Japanese supercar made entirely out of wood. Apparently it is a promotional vehicle made by a furniture company in Japan. The car has a max speed of 80km/h. It’s pretty cool looking. The video below is in Japanese, but it does show the car in action. Via JapanProbe: Japanese Wooden Supercar [ READ MORE ]