Few legal substances are as addicting and therapeutic as popping bubble wrap. It’s catnip, eucalyptus leaves, coca leaves, maple syrup, honey and coconut water combined into a transparent, air filled plastic sheet. Humans lose hours to get the quick fix of popping every last air bubble. It turns out animals, like this raccoon, do the same. I think seeing this video makes me hate raccoons a little less.
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Bubble wrap is very handy for packing and protecting fragile items. It’s also great for stress relief. It’s even useful for making art and clothing. But using bubble wrap to take hot pans out of the oven normally results in a pile of melted goo, along with third-degree burns. Unless you’re talking about this special mitt, that is.
The whimsical minds at Fred & Friends designed this protective silicone oven mitt that looks just like you wrapped your hand in bubble wrap. Unfortunately, you can’t actually pop the bubbles on the Poppin’ Hot Oven Mitt, but then again, you wouldn’t want to have to replace your oven mitt every day either.
You can get the Poppin’ Hot Oven Mitt over at Perpetual Kid for $17.09(USD). And in case you were thinking you could DIY instead, don’t.
[via The Green Head via bookofjoe via Laughing Squid]
Popping bubble wrap is pretty calming. It’s an unconventional means to deal with anger or frustration, but hey, it works and it’s way cheaper than a session with a therapist.
Taking bubble wrap to the next level is LA-based comedy “imaginator” Eric Buss, who came up with the fascinating contraption that’s aptly called the Bubble Wrap Bike.
The bicycle isn’t made of bubble wrap, although bubble wrap is a huge component of it. The front of the bike is outfitted to hold and dispense a sheet of bubble wrap as the rider goes along. The bike’s wheels run over the bubble wrap with each push to the pedal, popping it along the way.
It’s weird, it’s strange, it’s all about bubble wrap and I think it’s amazing in a cool-but-I’d-never-ride-this-myself sort of way.
On a side note, what a waste of good bubble wrap!
[via Reddit and DPaF via Laughing Squid]
Wow, you didn’t realize there was a way to roll down the street in style like this. THAT SOUND! It’s like a big, long continuous fart. This guy is gonna make millions.
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Some people relieve their stress by popping bubble wrap. Others exercise their creativity and showcase their talent by creating portraits using bubble wrap. And by ‘others’, we mean artist Bradley Hart.
He probably had to buy rolls and rolls of the stuff and he clearly spent a lot of time working on his project. But I think his efforts paid off, because just take a look at what he made. This here is a bubble wrap portrait of Steve Jobs.
Not that you needed me to tell you, because you were probably able to recognize him on your own.
What Bradley did was fill syringes with certain colors of acrylic paint. He then painstakingly injected different colored paint into various bubbles on the huge sheet of bubble wrap to create his unique portraits.
Pixels on computer screens store our memories with social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The process of injecting bubble wrap with paint in order to create one coherent picture, references pixilation as a combination of 1’s and 0’s that result in an image for us to consume.
Bradley’s What? Where? When? Why? How? series of bubble wrap portraits will be on display at New York’s gallery nine5 until March 26, 2013. Do drop by if you’re in the area.
[via My Modern Met via Dvice]
The only reason why bubble wrap exists is so that people can pop them. That’s a universal fact. So color me surprised when I found out another thing you can do with bubble wrap: make art. Bradley Hart injected bubble wrap with paint to create these wonderful portraits. More »
Secure your precious iPhone 5 in Strapya’s Bubble Wrap case. This is one of the few times that you’d rather own the imitation than the real thing, because the bubbles on the case will never burst. More protection for your phone and more popping for you.
Just look at how much fun this guy is having:
Well, that escalated quickly. You can go order the Bubble Wrap iPhone 5 Case from Amazon for about $19 (USD). I’ll be over here, rinsing out my eyeballs.
[via Inventor Spot]
You have to wonder: if that girl who was wearing the itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polkadot bikini was afraid to come out in the open, how would she feel if she were wearing this bubble wrap bikini instead?
I know that there’s some sort of craze involving bubble wrap these days, but I never imagined that it would come to this. It’s not that it’s bad; it’s actually pretty cool in a very strange and offbeat way. It also kind of reminds me about that story about the emperor and his new clothes; while it’s definitely something to be awestruck about, it’ll leave the wearer exposed and out in the open, in the figurative and very literal sense.
As you can see, the bikini leaves nothing to the imagination. The bubbles on the bikini aren’t the only thing that’ll go pop when you wear it to the beach, that’s for sure.
Apparently, this extremely daring bikini was an actual product from the early 1990s and was kept in storage (with minimal bubbles popped!) by Etsy seller BlackBettyVintage. The bubble wrap bikini is up for sale for $25 NZD (~$22 USD).
[via GizmoDiva via Incredible Things]
Some people turn to ice cream or power-shopping when they’re stressed. Others watch movies, play with their dog, or sleep it out.
Still others find that they relieve their stress best by popping a whole lot of bubble wrap. And helping make bubble wrap more available is this Bubble Wrap Anti-Stress Station by artist fra-biancoshock.
He set up this little installation at a bus stop in Milan where he tacked on sheets of bubble wrap along with a sign that indicated just how many minutes of popping action a person can have with each.
It’s convenient, it’s fun, and it’s one of the simplest way to relieve stress without breaking the bank. Need to quit stress-shopping? Bubble wrap bursting is definitely something you have to try!
[Rebel Art via Design TAXI via Bit Rebels]
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