If you are one of those people (and you know you are) who likes to amaze you friends with little tricks and interesting facts then having a little gallium on hand is for you. It’s a great conversation starter or ice breaker when you pull out a little piece of metal and use your amazing mental powers to turn it into liquid in the palm of your hand.
Vending machines are awesome, in fact, people love to read about them
more than any other business idea or technological device (according to a
non-statistical, and completely subjective survey conducted by yours
truly). Now Eatwave Vending Machine is shaking up everything we thought
we could expect out of a vending machine. Vending machines have offered
hot food for a while, but not like this.
There’s more to being a chef than just searing or frying stuff up. A large part of the entire process is the preparation, and if you mess that part up, then you’ve effectively messed up the entire dish.
Columbia-based culinary school Escuela de Cocina Carull is well aware of that fact, which is why they came up with a truly unique and novel introductory cookbook that will test – and in the process, teach – students how to slice, so that they’ll hopefully make the cut.
Students will have to carefully slice through the workbook pages by following the perforated guides and precise lines on the cookbook in order to access the recipes within. When they get the cut right, the recipe is their reward. If they get it wrong, they probably won’t have any dish to work on… because the recipe will be sliced to pieces.
It might be hard to imagine how the cookbook works based on just reading about it, so check out the clip below to see for yourself:
Now that’s what I call hands-on education.
This innovative cookbook was designed by Juan Jose Posada for Ogilvy & Mather Bogota.
The concept of personal 3D printers has spread like wildfire, and Michigan Tech wants to make sure that the first things that people think of when the innovative product making platform is mentioned include harmony, joy and other peaceful goodies.
The Hello Kitty Reversible Plush Turkey is exactly what it seems to be: a soft Hello Kitty doll that, when turned inside-out, becomes a plush roast turkey branded with the Hello Kitty logo. It’s officially weird for sure, and an official product from Sanrio to boot.
There are a lot of drive-through places, but not many cater to cyclists. Sure, you can still go through the drive through on your bike, but it’s not the best experience in the world to be treated to the exhaust of other vehicles waiting in line – and some places expressly disallow bicyclists at their drive-throughs.
With the goal of providing cyclists with a better coffee experience when they’re on the go, urban authorities in Zurich teamed up with a team of designers to set up the Velokafi.
The Velokafi is essentially a bike-through coffee drive-in that is dedicated to serving cyclists. The highlight is perhaps the wooden tables with slits for the bike wheel that lets people have their coffee without getting off of their bike. To compensate cyclists for getting the word out about the coffee shop, baristas hand out free cups of coffee to cyclists who check in to Velokafi on sites like Facebook and Foursquare.
The Velokafi is part of Zurich’s strategy to improve their transportation infrastructure by 2025. Looks like things are going pretty well so far.
[via Pop Up City]
Whether you dad is a science nerd or a sci fi geek he will probably get a kick out of Father’s Day gifts with Dad imprinted on them in binary code. They are bound to draw comments and questions from his friends — and even a few strangers. They will also give dad a laugh as he tries to figure out what this is all about.
Rubber duckie, you’re so… BIG! Inspired perhaps by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman’s 16.5m (54ft) tall inflatable Rubber Duck currently afloat in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour, Chinese company KK Inflatable is selling similarly sized (and larger!) blow-up ducks online at Taobao.
Every kid needs his or her own special space to let their imaginations run wild. The dream of having their own playhouse, clubhouse, or treehouse. You may not have the right outdoor space to provide any of these for your child, but you can turn a portion of their bedroom into the house of their dreams with a Treehouse Bed from Pottery Barn.
Here’s some news that’ll have exotic food fans hopping: The Kyoto Aquarium will be serving three types of “Frog’s Egg Soup” in their on-site restaurant cafe from June 1st through July 12th of 2013. The soup might look and taste a little weird but at least it won’t make you croak.
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