Hasta La Gadget!

Beauty isn’t only skin deep. Sometimes, the most beautiful people on the outside happen to be the nastiest, ugliest people on the inside. Similarly, plain Janes and boring Johns might not look like much physically, but they can have the purest, kindest hearts of gold.

Remember how Wes Naman used Scotch tape to show just how easy it is to uglify people on the outside? Another photographer took a page from Naman’s book to come up with a series of photographs of ugly people – this time, made ugly with nothing more than a pane of glass.

Unlike tape, you can’t actually see the glass in the picture except for the drops of water on some parts of it. I’m sure you’ve tried pressing your face to the glass and making weird and funny faces when you were a kid; these models were tasked to do the same thing, and the effects aren’t pretty.

And of course, on the other side of the glass, photographer Rut Mackel was there to capture the results for the world to see.

[via PetaPixel]

Redditor Sarcasticonomist says that his family has a lawn dinosaur named Dug. They dress him up according to the season, and he even has his own Facebook page. I can only assume that the owners of the home are named Fred and Wilma.

He says that the dinosaur was purchased from a place that sold such things, though I’m not sure what store sells large dinosaurs. Who does this? Well, somebody does. It certainly makes for a fun neighborhood attraction. I especially love this big guy dressed in a bunny suit for Easter. Here he is getting ready for the big game tonight:

Guess he’s not a Ravens’ fan. Dinosaurs would be so pissed at us if they were still around to see this. The joke’s on them. We rule the Earth now! And no one can stop us. Well, except for those aliens that abduct us and will one day rule the world side by side with the robots.

[via The Mary Sue]

With the advent of E-mail and online bill payment, I don’t find myself buying postal stamps very often. But I guess I should at least keep track of what sort of collectible stamps are being made, since I’ve managed to miss out on some cool designs over the years. For example, back in 2007, the US Post Office issued this cool Yoda postage stamp.

Yoda U.S. Stamp via catwalker / Shutterstock.com

He almost looks like the holographic Yoda from the end of Return of the Jedi. I’m actually surprised that nobody ever mailed me a letter with Yoda on it. And now that the cost of a First-Class letter has gone up to 46 cents, you’d have to add on another 5 cent stamp if you even tried.

On the plus side, you can still find these collectible stamps for sale over on Amazon for about $16 to $20 for a sheet of 20. I wonder how much postage it would take to mail a First-Class letter to the Dagobah system.

They don’t look stable, but I’m sure some Star Wars fan out there would risk falling over just for the chance to wear these one of a kind pair of shoes made by Mike Warren, a Play Editor  at Instructables. As you can see, not only do they have Artoo’s uh, face, at the toe, they also use R2-D2 toys as their heels.

As you can see in the picture above the shoes each have a blinking LED on the toe area. The heels also retain their toy features, i.e. they can also light up as well as make Artoo sounds.

Use the Force of your browser and head to Instructables to find out how you can make your own astromech heels.

[via Mashable]

Beijing isn’t doing so hot right now. I don’t mean their weather, and I’m not talking about their economy either. Rather, I’m talking about the alarming reports regarding the state of their smog-laden atmosphere, which news agencies have been covering non-stop since a week ago.

As if that isn’t enough to raise awareness on the situation, entrepreneur-slash-activist Chen Guangbiao is now marketing canned air to fellow citizens with the hopes of creating a bigger buzz about the situation.

Hopefully, the Chinese government will take action – and soon. People have already been advised to stay indoors and wear masks to protect their lungs from the smog. The air won’t clear up on its own if the people don’t do something about it, and from the looks of it, it’s high time they take matters into their own hands.

Going back to Chen and his canned air, it would seem like what he’s selling is more of a novelty than an actual product. I say this because of the variety of canned air he currently has up for sale, like post-industrial Taiwan, revolutionary Yan’an, and pristine Tibet.

Aside from that, Chen claims that his cans of air come with a chip that detects the concentration of negative oxygen ions; when it reaches a certain concentration level, the can’s lid automatically shuts. But at 80 cents a piece, I doubt he’ll be making much of a profit.

But still, the idea and the goal behind the entire project is a commendable one. I just hope it helps drive the point home and that something good and substantial comes out of it.

[via Dvice and Los Angeles Times]