Burger King Japan is rolling out the limited edition, sliced squash embellished “BK Pumpkin” Whopper on October 26th, just in time for Halloween. Two slices of fried pumpkin not enough for you? Drop an extra 100 yen on the “Pumpkin Bomb”, a BK Pumpkin with 10 (count ’em, 10!) pumpkin slices.
Scarecrows are supposed to be scary… to crows. Japanese farmers take the age-old crop protecting concept to a whole, new, terrifying level with scarecrows so weird and disturbing they freak out anyone or any bird who sees them.
“Wall Story” removable wall stickers add personality to outlet cover plates, light switch covers and more. They stick without using permanent adhesives and peel right off when you’re moving or redecorating.
Want to guarantee your trick or treaters will leave you with a lot of tricks? Then try giving them terrible candy like Gummy Haggis, chum mints or ghost pepper candies. You’ll be sure to get all kinds of eggs and toilet paper across your front yard by the next morning.
Neurowear, the creators of those bizarre Necomimi cat ears, have taken the field of brainwave actuated mood indicators to a new, lower level with "Shippo", the world’s first mind-controlled wearable tail!
Strangers won’t mess with one’s personal portable potables thanks to Bandai’s Magic Pets, plastic critters who “live” in your water bottle, personalizing it and keeping owners entertained all the while.
You gotta love the Russian company SKN for converting old Russian ammunitions
into diamonds, and didn’t you always want to know how many steps you’d
have to take to create the inevitable splash of coffee on your carpet?
But the SpeechJammer in 2012? A machine that delays speech and
makes one stutter is decades old, and it actually has the practical
application of helping stutterers speak without stuttering.
Purple prose phrased headline aside, a slow leak in a large bag of powdered violet dye brought big trouble to a little Chinese village. The generically dark powder wasn’t noticed as it spilled from a truck passing through town but when rain fell, villagers suddenly saw their world through rose-colored glasses.
Burger King Japan’s “Premium KURO Burger” hits the grill on September 28th in celebration of BK’s fifth anniversary in Japan. The limited edition black-bunned Whopper features dark ketchup colored and flavored with squid ink.
Would George H. W. Bush have liked broccoli if his mother referred to it as "Power Bunch Broccoli" instead of just plain (hold your nose) broccoli? Research from Cornell University’s Food and Brand Lab says he would.
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