Podtime Sleeping Pod Blocks out the Outside World While You Nap

I like taking naps in private, but even I think that these Podtime Sleeping Pods are borderline ridiculous. While it seems like a pretty neat concept, it’s priced way too high (at £1,375 or about $2,148 USD) for mass enjoyment.

But if you’ve got money to burn and enjoy catching some Zzz’s in complete solitude, then you’ll love these sleeping pods. Each tube itself is fashioned from strong, poly-carbonate material. It’s got enough room inside to fit just one person and comes with a fitted mattress. Each one is illuminated with LED lights, and has storage and electricity as well in the event you’d like to charge up your gadgets while you nap. They can also be stacked two high if you’d like and upstairs or downstairs neighbor.

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If you’re interested in catching a nap in one of these tubes, you can get the Podtime online from Firebox.

[via Chip Chick]


Ham Dogger Lets You Cook up Burgers in the Guise of Hotdogs

I think hamburgers and hot dogs are fine as they are. But if you’ve ever wanted to eat your hamburgers just as you’d eat hot dogs, then there’s something called the Ham Dogger that’ll help you do it.

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The Ham Dogger is shaped like an empty hot dog bun. The space is where you’re supposed to put your raw hamburger patty mixture in so you can shape the patties like – you guessed it! – hot dogs. The product page boasts that you won’t have to buy two different kinds of buns ever again, which is economical (if not a little silly) in a sense.

Kitchen Art Ham Dogger1It’s available online from Amazon for about $10(USD), but if you don’t want to fork over ten bucks for it, then you can probably just roll your patties this way and that to achieve the same hot dog effect.


Sushi Bazooka Makes Perfect Rolls as Easy as Playing with Play-Doh

Every time I go to a Japanese restaurant, I stare in awe at the knife and food assembly skills of the sushi chefs. I can’t imagine making such perfect sushi myself, unless I could afford a sushi robot of my own. But with this gadget, I might be able to at least approximate decent looking sushi.

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The Sushi Bazooka is a special extrusion sleeve that you load sushi ingredients into. Just layer in your rice, veggies and fish, snap it together and squeeze. Out squirts a perfectly round sushi roll ready to be wrapped in seaweed and sliced. It’s like one of those old Play-Doh Fun Factory machines, but with fish and rice instead!

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While it does help you produce a perfect looking sushi roll, it won’t do anything ensure that you don’t kill your dinner guests with raw fish bacteria, so be sure to stick with fresh ingredients, and wash this thing thoroughly between uses. If you fancy yourself a homestyle sushi chef, you can grab the Sushi Bazooka over at Strapya World for about $25 (USD).

[via Design You Trust]


Human Skull Leather Purse is the Perfect Highlander Accessory

This human skull leather purse is perfect for goth chicks, anyone in the Addams family and of course women immortals in the Highlander universe. There can be only one! Are you the girlfriend of Connor or Duncan McCloud? After your swordfight and the quickening that follows, just put your trophy head in this thing and return home. No one will question what’s inside.

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This hand-formed leather skull clutch bag purse from Griffin Leather has been formed and tempered to keep its shape. It also has fiberglass/resin reinforcement where needed. Plus, it’s been dyed ox blood, of course. How can you pass this one up? Well, sadly it is already sold, but I’m sure that if you asked nicely, they would make one for you.

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Got Lazy Fingers? Now You Can Play Pong With Your Eyes

I once bruised my thumbs after a night-long marathon playing Tekken 3 with my college buddies. It was torture to go back to school the next day and hurdle through a pop quiz that served up mostly essay-type questions.

Bruised fingers are probably nothing new to you if you’re a true blue gamer. But if you’re itching to play something – anything! – while your digits are out of commission, then how about a game of Pong which you can play with your eyes? Sounds unreal, but it’s not.

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Dr. Aldo Faisal and his team from the Department of Computing at UK’s Imperial College took some glasses, tweaked them and rigged them with circuitry to track eye movements in 3D. And voila: wearers can now play Pong simply by donning the glasses, and looking where they want the paddle to move.

The glasses weren’t made specifically for playing retro arcade games, though, as the researchers came up with them to help people with mobility or motor control issues like MS or Parkinson’s to issue commands with their eyes. And as the video shows, it’s definitely promising.

[via Gizmodo Australia via Dvice]


Buttered Popcorn Vodka Gives Society Drunk Moviegoers

I hope you liked my use of the word “moviegoer” in the title, since it is a real word. Just like “perfooligan,” a word that describes someone who is the perfect hooligan – the epitome of being a moron. (I take that spot, if you were wondering, so don’t even think about it.) This Buttered Popcorn Vodka opens up so many possibilities! Too scared to watch the Saw movies? NOT WHEN YOU’RE BOOZED OUT OF YOUR MIND! You know what – let’s just go crazy right now. We’re going to make some Toaster Strudel, and it’s three in the morning, and it’s not even three in the morning, because the only time I see is TOASTER STRUDEL TIME. “How many?” How many times I vomited or how many bottles of popcorn vodka?

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You know, this is the weirdest thing I’ve posted about in a while, and I make some weird posts. I put a picture of a forty year old man in lizard body paint on my Tumblr, and guess what? SO MANY REBLOGS. I took a tip from Charlie Sheen, and it turns out that being BLAZED all of the time is the best time for creativity. *Tries to balance a shoe on someone’s nose*

Please, my friends, drink this Buttered Popcorn Vodka responsibly. Don’t make a fool of yourself as I did in the last couple of paragraphs, and never…. ever… use Twitter while you’re intoxicated. Those things shoot out into the internet-o-sphere, and you can’t get them back. EVER. That picture of your special area is probably on every Twitter feed in the state by now – even Anthony Weiner is laughing at you, and his last name is an informal term for male genitalia.

You can get the Buttered Popcorn Vodka for $13 at a place called Party All The Time And Drive Cars Into Swimming Pools The Party Source, if you’re into that kind of thing. I’d much rather that you didn’t waste your life by drinking it away, so I’ll give you a few articles to feast on instead: the Beard Cozy for your beer cans and Star Wars Water Bottles. I just saved you thirteen bucks, friend.


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Wonder How It Feels to Be 75 Years Old? Then Wear the Age Man Suit

When I was a kid, I wanted to be older. Now that I’m somewhere in between young and old, I find myself wishing more and more that I were a kid again. That’s life, I guess.

None of my wishes had anything to do with the physical, though. But if you ever found yourself wanting to actually feel older (although I wouldn’t get why), then there’s a way to actually do that: just put on the Age Man Suit.

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Developed by Rahel Eckardt from the Evangelical Geriatrics Center in Germany, the suit lets anyone who wears it feel like a 75-year-old (or older) person. It bears 22 pounds down onto the wearer, making him or her feel what it’s like when they reach that ripe, old age. The helmet also deadens sound and has a yellow visor which blurs vision.

It was designed to give physicians and caregivers a sense of what the elderly feel like to encourage empathy. That is one thoughtful intention carried out with an equally ingenious idea.

[via TheGuardian via Dvice]


Aerographite is the World’s Lightest Material

Scientists from Europe have created what they claim to be the world’s lightest material. The material is called Aerographite and is said to be 75 times lighter than styrofoam. The new material is also electrically conductive, highly compressible, and seriously black in color. The material resembles a cobweb and consists of porous carbon tubes that almost appear smoke-like in the image.

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The image above was taken with a scanning electron microscope. The material weighs 0.2 mg per cubic centimeter. That makes the new material four times lighter than the previous record holder called Microlattice, made from nickel. Aerographite can be compressed up to 95% and still spring back to its original form with no damage. Compression up to a certain point actually makes the material more solid and stronger than before.

The material nearly completely absorbs light rays, creating what the scientists say could be called the blackest black. The material was created by starting with a zinc oxide powder heated to 900°C, creating a crystalline structure. Hydrogen is then introduced to react with the oxygen inside the zinc oxide resulting in omission of steam in seeing gas leaning porous carbon tubes behind. The scientists believe that material could be used in electronics for aviation or satellites and possibly for water purification among other uses.

[via MSNBC]


Too Lazy to Brush? Then Chew on a Rolly

Nothing emphasizes a person’s lack of dental hygiene more than bad breath. Too maintain healthy teeth, gums and breath, dentists recommend that people brush their teeth twice a day for at least two minutes. But even then, there are some people in the world who either forget or don’t bother to set aside at least four minutes a day to care for their teeth. Sounds pretty gross, but trust me, people who are like that do exist. (That’s one thing I learned after going to University with some guys who had the worst hygeine habits ever.)

So for all those lazy goons, there’s Rolly. It’s being advertised as a ‘toothbrush on the go’, but they look more like those tiny images of germs that you normally see in ads for products that are trying to get rid of said germs.

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Each rubber disk is covered with about 276 bristles that are coated with Fluoride and Xylitol. So instead of brushing, you can just pop one of these in your mouth and chew, chew, chew!

It wouldn’t be smart to replace your regular toothbrush with these, since the Rollies cost about $15(USD) for a pack of 12. But they’d definitely be great for use when you’re traveling.

[via Oh Gizmo!]


Tusken Raider Pushes a Pod Racer Stroller – Why Not?

The last time we saw a Tusken Raider and a Pod Racer together, the Raider was shooting at it. That’s not the case here. Either things got so bad in the race that he ended up pushing it and refuses to give up or he’s just starting this kid off young, hoping to make him a Pod Racing champion.
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This Tusken Raider is not wearing the traditional gear of his people either, unless there’s a Nike Store on Tatooine now. This custom-built Anakin’s Pod Racer baby stroller was spotted being pushed in the last leg of the “Course of the Force” race in San Diego.

That Pod Racer looks sweet though. Look how shiny it is. And the little Anakin has a lightsaber at the ready just in case any other racers try to pass him.

[via Obvious Winner]