How do you get ridiculously long and massively heavy electrical poles to your construction site without hiring an expensive, purpose-built transport truck? If you’re in China, DIY! Workmen in Wenzhou get their poles to the holes quickly, cheaply and one-at-a-time thanks to a little ingenuity and some very loose traffic regulations.
On a diet and looking for a light meal? Try a light blue meal instead: Tokyo’s Tea Room 2525 has brought back a turquoise temptation from last summer, disingenuously dubbed "Blue Curry Loss of Appetite". It’s a great way to get the blues while losing weight.
A Chinese pig farm project inspired by the hugely popular online game “Happy Farm” has seen over 500 eco-friendly pig cottages spring up in the coastal province of Jiangsu. Though these swine are living fine, don’t get jealous: their luxurious digs are intended to encourage tastier meat.
The iPhone 5 has been released in China… and it’s delicious! Unless somebody from Apple Inc "calls out" the manufacturer on this frozen ice pop’s provocative name, hungry Chinese will be chilling their choppers on iPhone 5 brand Mango and Pear flavored frozen fruit snacks all summer long.
The puzzlingly named “Waffle Handle” stops evil doers, er, evil doors, from inflicting pain, injury and subdural hematoma’s on your precious snowflake’s pristine forehead. If you don’t have them, shame on you: you’re a bad parent who’s bad and should feel bad.
Does anyone remember when iPhone prototypes
were left behind in Silicon Valley bars only to be found by those
looking to make a quick buck while providing the techie world with an advance sneak peak at Apple’s latest iteration? In both cases, Apple execs were none too pleased and subsequent police investigations and threats of litigation were filed against Gizmodo and ex-Apple employees responsible.
Keep ON the grass! With Kusa Flip-Flops, your lawn is underfoot whenever and wherever you walk. The shaggy Syn-Turf soled sandals let you relive one of summer’s sweet simple pleasures: wriggling your toes in the cool green grass.
Lose that Duckface and put on a Blow-up Doll face! The "Face Slimmer" may make you look silly (or worse) while you wear it but the promised reward of a bonafide “beautiful woman smile” make three minutes a day of shame more than worthwhile.
The Tornado Beer Dispenser from Japan’s Asahi Beer invites toasting tipplers to go “Bottom’s Up!”… literally. The dispenser injects draft beer into the base of a specially designed plastic mug, in the process creating a short-lived alcoholic vortex of epic proportions.
Another season, another new & exciting Pepsi flavor! This time around the drink designers at Pepsi Japan have reached back to a traditional Japanese summertime treat, salted watermelon.
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