Hasta La Gadget!

For obvious reasons, February 14th is the day that most single people dread. If you’ve been dumped, cheated on, lied to, or jilted by a scumbag of an ex-boyfriend (or ex-girlfriend) recently, then it’s time you placed an order in for some bitter Valentine candy. I don’t mean bitter, as in bitter to the taste. Rather, I mean sweet little heart-shaped candies that carry a mean and definitely not well-meaning message on each.

Necco is well-known for their candy hearts, and they’ve begun offering a ‘personalize your own Necco‘ service lately which you can use to achieve your bitter ends this (anti-)Valentine’s Day. They’ve got filters set up to prevent people from personalizing profanity-riddled hearts… But where there’s a will, there’s a way.

Crude, I know, but hey, anything to cheer the lonelies and the heartbroken on Not-So-Happy Hearts Day, right?

[via BuzzFeed]

If you’re lucky and if you do things right, then you’ll probably only have to plan a marriage proposal only once in your entire lifetime. So why not expend the right amount of effort and pour excessive loads of creativity and thoughtfulness into it to give your significant other the proposal of her (or his) lifetime?

Redditor rad_rob gave it a shot with his iPad proposal. Eddie wowed his girl (and thousands of geeks worldwide) with his Iron Man arc reactor proposal.

Matthew, on the other hand, popped the question with a Kinder Surprise Egg.

Matthew and Lori used to buy and gift each other with Kinder Surprise Eggs all the time before they were banned a few years ago. So Matthew decided to use it as the basis for his proposal and painstakingly took the chocolate egg apart and replaced the toy inside with a robot figure that, when assembled, forms a tiny MatthewBot on bended knee.

Of course, the ring itself was also inside. And in case you were wondering, Lori said yes.

[via SwissMiss via Neatorama]

Candy canes are one of those seasonal treats that only appear in stores during the holidays. So to maximize your candy cane intake this Christmas these minty spoons will let you integrate one into every meal. More »

Who doesn’t love chocolate? You can never have too much. You probably wish that you had a train-load of chocolate delivered to you every day. But what about a train that is actually made of the sweet stuff? A 111-foot-long chocolate train. Now that sounds delicious.

Photo: L’avenir

This train was created by “master chocolatier” Andrew Farrugia of Malta. It’s 2,755 pounds of fine Belgian chocolate – 6.5 million calories if you are counting.

Photo: L’avenir

He got the idea for the train last year, when visiting the Belgian Chocolate Festival in Bruges, with the thought that you can make a train as long as you want. Overall, it took Farrugia 784 hours to build this incredible thing, which is now officially the world’s longest chocolate sculpture ever built.

Photo: L’avenir

I call dibs on the engine. That’s always the chocolatiest part of any chocolate train.

[via Oddity Central via Neatorama]

My eight-year-old daughter swears up and down that Justin Bieber smells like cotton candy when he sweats. I wondered on more than one occasion where she got the story from, and I have told her that there was no way he could smell like candy when he sweats. It seems she was correct, assuming Bieber has a package of Deo Perfume Candy.

This new candy appears to be Russian and promises to block body odor from the inside out. The candy is sold by Amazon.com in the US and the maker of the candy says that you eat it, and it leaves your skin with a rose fragrance. The manufacturer claims that the candy contains geraniol, which is a alcohol found rose oil that aromatizes as evaporates through the skin.

One scientist claims that we know people who eat aromatic foods, like lots of curry or garlic, find that the food works its way into the sweat and influences how they smell. However, the scientists claim that no one has actually demonstrated that affect. The scientist, named George Preti, is a chemist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia. He says that a person’s body odor depends on the chemical composition of their skin secretions and the bacteria that feeds on the secretions.

However, Preti does admit that changing the composition of skin secretions by eating aromatic spices could change a person’s body odor. However, he says that we would need a placebo-controlled trial using the Deo candy and similar candy with no rose oil to determine if it was truly effective.

[via ABC News]

Deo candy is edible deodorant is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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