Your well-rested host, Brian Heater is back from his sabbatical and he’s joined by Dana Wollman and Joseph Volpe to talk about Google’s timely Halloween release of Android 4.4 KitKat, Sony’s new SmartWatch 2 and the benefits of having a curved smartphone. No one dressed up for the holiday, but if …
Those without a Nexus 5 in their hands already may not have noticed the fact that a brand new home screen feature has been added to Android 4.4 KitKat: Google Now. This system has been part of Android for several iterations of the OS now – a couple of generations, that is – but this […]
So how can you customize a BMW in a really unusual way? Well, if you have a graveyard full of yak bones, you can just apply them all to the car and make it into a flying beast.
This dragon BMW Z4 was on display at the recent China Import and Export Fair in the Guangdong province. It is gold underneath and all of the rest of it is cut mountain yak bone. Yakkity yak…give my bones back!
I bet those yaks have a bone or three to pick with the builder of this car. Why is the dog chewing on the car again? The decor on this BMW is a real bone-nus. Is that the new XBone? Sorry, I’ll stop.
[via Daily Mail via Geekologie]
This awesome zombie cake looks terrifying. Terrifyingly delicious. I would love to get a slice of that rotting flesh and bone. This undeadible masterpiece was created by the Tattooed Bakers for the opening of Miss Cakehead’s Feed the Beast cake shop.
The horse of the apocalypse is a red velvet cake that took over 200 hours to complete. It’s got some really nice detail on its festering wounds. What makes this cake even better is that it pours a circulating fountain of rum out of its nostrils and into a cauldron.
Cake and rum? From a horse? How awesome is that? Eat, drink, then eat some more, then drink some more and sooner or later you will be on top of this cake trying to ride it and slipping all over the place from the icing. Then breaking it in half and falling on the floor. Sugar and rum are a powerful combination.
[via Boing Boing via Geekologie]
It’s one thing to make a product using aluminum or plastic recycled at a plant. But recycling cans into chairs—on the same street they were found—is something else. That’s exactly what the resourceful designers at Studio Swine did on a recent trip to São Paulo.
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This week in our time capsule news round-up we have an iPhone in Florida ready to make a 110-year journey, a water-themed time capsule in L.A. that hopefully won’t be a huge disappointment, and a peculiar hodgepodge of stuff in San Antonio from 1986 — including a Chili’s menu and a weightlifting trophy.
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This week we’ve had the opportunity not only to see our first glimpses of Android 4.4 KitKat, but to test it on a variety of phones. What you’re seeing here is the first look at homescreen-based “OK Google” voice commands – aka hands-free mode – on an HTC One. This device is amongst a wide […]
It’s no secret that the 3DS’ Swapnote app makes it easy to exchange salacious images, but that’s apparently news to Nintendo. The company has shut down internet-based SpotPass messaging in Swapnote after discovering that online forum goers were using the feature to trade in “offensive material.” The …
I just can’t stop looking at how the drops carve the water, one after the other, making a hole in it. The experiment was captured by the Brigham Young University’s Splash Lab. Here’s their description of what’s happening:
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They say that laughter is the best medicine and I guess I would have to agree. Around here some of our best days have nothing to do with big, heavily planned events, but more about the laughter we have shared over something silly. This being said, I’m constantly on the lookout for small items that can add to to my arsenal of pranks and practical jokes…
Check out the Talking Toilet Paper Spindle, designed to make you laugh your, um, butt off, this replacement spindle lets you personalize and record a 9 second message for any unsuspecting soul looking to use your facilities. Set in motion the second your bathroom guest begins to help themselves to some toilet tissue, the Talking Toilet Paper Spindle comes complete with suggestions for websites that contain some useable sound effects and movie quotes, or simply add your own.
So whether you want to make someone laugh, or literally scare the crap out of them, the Talking Toilet Paper Spindle may be for you. I’m thinking it might be just the right place to leave important “To Do” memos for my husband, because he’ll never be able to say he didn’t get the message!
The Talking Toilet Paper Spindle replace most standard toilet paper rollers and require 2 AAA batteries (not included) and with a price tag under 10 bucks, you won’t be able to wipe that… grin off your face. Available now at amazon.com.
[ Talking Toilet Paper Spindle – Get’s you Rolling copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
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