Hasta La Gadget!

All water is created equal. So how come some bottles are way more expensive than others? It’s all in the packaging and marketing, my friends, and there are only too many people who are willing to part with tens of dollars for a substance that they can get for a couple of cents from their tap.

If, however, you’re extremely particular about the water that you drink (and can afford it!), then you might want to check out the 44-page water menu (PDF) that Los Angeles-based eatery Ray’s & Stark Bar has unveiled.

When we say “water menu”, we mean exactly just that. It will be a menu listing down a “variety” of water, including some that have been imported from countries all over the globe. Among the pricier ones is Berg, which is harvested from the glaciers in Western Greenland and costs $20 per bottle.

In all fairness, each bottle of H2O gets a spacious two-page spread, so the menu really lists only 20 individual bottles. Decisions, decisions.

[via Foodbeast]

It’s a match made in gluten-free heaven every time – if you find your match on Glutenfree Singles, that is.

There’s no guarantee that you’ll stay together all throughout each other’s lifetimes, but at least you can avoid one problem most gluten intolerant people run into on first dates: incompatible diets.

It seems like a trivial thing, but it’s not so trivial if you have strict diet requirements because you have a health problem. Like gluten intolerance, for example.

Whether you have celiac disease, are gluten intolerant or choose to be gluten free for health reasons, we welcome you to GlutenfreeSingles, a website committed to building a national and global community for those who are gluten free.

Living a gluten-free life can be challenging, especially in a world where gluten-soaked foods are just about everywhere. At GlutenfreeSingles, you are not alone!

The site boasts that it’s a dating and networking site so “you never have to feel alone, awkward, or [like] a burger because you are gluten-free.” The world is full of other gluten-free-diet-loving people, and this site more or less promises to help you find your match.

Check the site out here.

[via Geekologie]

There are alarm clocks that wake you gently, and there are others that torture you to get you out of bed. The Carrot Alarm iOS app on the other hand will make you wake up so you can hang out with a GLaDOS clone. How GLaDOS-y is Carrot? She says she kills a kitten everytime you hit the snooze button. I’m not kidding. I hope she is.

Carrot’s clock is easy to use. It’s the alarm part that makes her special. And by special I mean evil. After greeting you with her cold voice, she’ll make you play a minigame before she turns the alarm off. But she has a good side too. As you use Carrot, you earn points that unlock additional sound bites and music.

Carrot is lurking at the iTunes App Store. Pay $0.99 (USD) to let her invade your life.

[via Pocket-lint]

Combining art and nature is nothing new, but having live animals as participants in exhibitions is a bit more unusual. Luckily, these hermit crabs don’t move too fast, particularly since they have entire artistic cityscapes on their backs, fashioned meticulously out of plastic by Japanese artist Aki Inomata.

You gotta love videogame marketing. First we got, pre-orders, then DLC, then exclusive DLC based on where your pre-order. Now they’re using pre-orders as viral advertisements. If you thought the $190,000 (USD) pre-order bundle for Grid 2 – which included a street legal race car – was ridiculous, get ready to hit your computer with a penetrator bat.

The upcoming balls-to-the-wall insanity simulator that is Saints Row IV has a pre-order bundle exclusive to the UK store Game. It’s called the Super Dangerous Wad Wad Edition, and it costs $1,000,000. That number becomes a tad sillier considering only people in England and Wales can buy it. They should’ve just priced it an even £645,000. So what does that obscene amount of money get you? Let’s hit the image above with the Inflator Gun:

A Lamborghini Gallardo? Sweet! A trip to space? Whaaat! Plastic surgery? Yeaiiee- wait what? That bit makes me think that this bundle is either a joke or, well, a joke. On the pre-order page, it says that the person who buys this bundle has to accept that the “content of the ‘Super Dangerous Wad Wad Edition’ must be taken as stated and cannot be deferred.” The buyer’s going to get a plastic surgery whether he likes it or not. And after he’s done getting a new nose, he’ll still have to pay $10 to get the game’s DLC because the Season Pass isn’t included in the bundle. That’s how the 3rd Street Saints do.

[via Game via Joystiq]