By Andrew Liszewski The only downside to owning a dog that I can see is having to deal with their unmentionables left in the backyard. Now there are contraptions of all shapes and sizes designed to make cleaning up after your pup a bit less unpleasant, but this is definitely the first vacuum I’ve come across designed specifically for the task. The cordless Pooch Power Shovel sucks the waste directly into specially designed plastic bags... 

By Andrew Liszewski Believe it or not this inflatable contraption from Taylor Gifts is actually designed to eliminate neck pain. You wrap it around your neck and then go to town with the handheld pump until it’s inflated enough to relieve pressure caused by pinch nerves, tension headaches and osteoarthritis. On one hand $19.98 seems like a steal for a product that promises to reduce neck pain, but on the other hand the “If you have... 

By Andrew Liszewski I don’t care if you were the star quarterback, there’s nothing ‘cool’ about wearing a Jostens ring to commemorate your years spent in high school. So you can imagine what I think of these ‘Geek Pride’ models designed for kids who spent their spare time in front of a gaming console instead of playing sports, or debating, or whatever else high school kids do these days. [ GoNintendo –... 

By Andrew Liszewski This art installation seems to date back to 2006, but since it’s new to me, I’m going to assume it’s new to at least a few of you as well. In the same way a television uses colored pixels to produce images, the VSSTV plotter injects bubble wrap with cyan, magenta and yellow ink using a printhead featuring 3 long needles. Created by Gebhard Sengmüller, in collaboration with Jakob Edlbacher, Johannes Obermayr,... 

By Andrew Liszewski In past articles I’ve already made my frightening Nostradamus-like prediction that Hello Kitty will eventually take over the world. But that doesn’t mean the human race has to go quietly, and ironically this Hello Kitty themed chainsaw will be the perfect tool as we battle for our freedom from the forces of cute and pink. [ Hello Kitty Hell - Hello Kitty Chainsaw ] VIA [ Albotas ]  Read More →

By Andrew Liszewski If you have dreams of one day making it big in the NBA/WNBA, you can’t stop playing basketball just because the sun’s gone down… and the streetlights have all burned out… and the moon has disappeared. Not at all! You have to keep practicing until the wee hours of the morning, and the only feasible  Read More →

By Andrew Liszewski Continuing in their thrilling line of everyday item simulators like the Beer Can and FedEx Envelope , Bandai will soon be releasing their new Mugen Chokoreeto or ‘Endless Chocolate Bar’ keychain thingy. Like its predecessors it simulates the oddly satisfying act of breaking off a piece of chocolate again and again, without any of the weight gain or pimples. Available in Japan starting January 30 for about $7 a... 

By Andrew Liszewski If you’re subconscious self-conscious (sorry, still feeling the effects of CES) about making too much noise when you’re going you-know-what in the you-know-where, you can now get yourself a special stool because apparently just sitting isn’t manly enough. Based on exhaustive research involving a tea pot and a toilet bowl, the Pee Without Noise Stool puts you closer to the, um, action, keeping unwanted sounds... 

By Andrew Liszewski I’m kind of glad I only caught the tail end of that Cold War, because living with public service announcements like this on the wall would be kind of a downer. [ mappeal ] VIA [ bookofjoe ]  Read More →

By Andrew Liszewski Not only does this cantilevered drawbridge known as the Slauerhoffbrug in Leeuwarden, Netherlands look pretty amazing when it’s hoisting a section of the bridge into the air to let boats through, but I have to assume/desperately hope it doubles as a gigantic catapult when traffic is slow. Unfortunately something tells me that pesky ‘public safety’ issue would put a kibosh on those plans though. [ frozenly.com... 

By Andrew Liszewski Are you worried that vibrations in your sound system are affecting your listening experience? Well worry no more as MOON AUDIO has managed to find the secret to anti-gravity. That’s right, a technological breakthrough that would absolutely change the world is first being used on a floating shelf designed to reduce or eliminate vibrations. So how does it really work? By utilizing the latest advancements in magnetic technology... 

By Evan Ackerman This thing? This thing scares me . This is a problem, since it’s supposed to be relieving stress as opposed to causing stress. Seriously. It’s a stress relieving device that looks suspiciously like the mouth of a lamprey , which, in case you didn’t know, is a fish that bores into your flesh and sucks your blood out. …  Read More →

By Andrew Liszewski Now here’s a match made in heaven. The Cal Flame G5000 from Cal Spas combines a cocktail table with a firepit on the inside, making cleanup as easy as pushing all your trash, uneaten food and whatever else you don’t feel like cleaning up into the center where it will get incinerated. Genius!! Of course convenience like this comes at a price, $6,900 to be exact, but think to yourself, would you rather have almost... 

I usually consider myself to be a bit of a tech head, but now and again something comes along which makes me realise how low I really rate on the universal scale of geekery. The latest thing to blow to my sense of nerdy self worth is SurfaceScapes, a project dreamt up by students at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Centre, which aims to create a proof-of-concept for playing tabletop role-playing games on Microsoft’s Surface... 

By Andrew Liszewski Want to seriously stress out your co-workers? Be ‘that creepy guy’ in accounting who just hung up a photo that looks and sounds just like a ticking time bomb. But, upon closer examination they’ll find that the timer mechanism is an actual clock that isn’t counting down to any time in particular. Though something tells me security will still come a-knockin’ no matter how innocuous this really...