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Skull Camera is Ultimate Halloween Photo Gadget
When I first clapped eyes on the pin hole skull camera by sculpture artist Wayne Martin Bleger, I was slightly disturbed. Plugged with pins and hinges, the thing looks a lot like Actroid-F without her facial plastery. However, having seen the pics this skull camera can snap, I am quite intrigued. The pin hole skull…
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Sniff Your Way to Good Health with LeWhif Inhalable Vitamins
If you are one of those painful patients who gags at the thought of popping a pill, this latest innovation may have you breathing a sigh of relief. The world’s first inhalable vitamin, LeWhif Vitamin, is the brainchild of Harvard biomedical engineer David Edwards. Edwards seems to have a fascination with the nose, as he…
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Tokyo’s Vampire Café is a Terrifically Terrifying Halloween Experience
If you fancy a truly terrifying eating experience this Halloween, you’d do worse than stick your neck into Tokyo’s Vampire Café in Ginza. Victims, sorry customers, are welcomed up the escalator and into a private booth in Dracula’s chamber, where they are sealed in for the duration of their meal. The extensive menu features dishes…
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Man Having Shoes Shined is First Human Captured on Camera
This rather scratchy image is being heralded as the first possible photograph of a human. Supposedly taken in 1838 by Louis Daguerre, the inventor of daguerreotype photography, you can quite clearly see a tiny little man in the left-hand corner of the Boulevard du Temple in Paris. Nowadays our pictures are populated by people –…
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Actroid-F is the Robot Nurse of Nightmares
Just when I thought things couldn’t get scarier than Japan’s Divabot, Kokoro (also Japanese) release Actroid-F is “the first true android” and a nurse at that! Actroid-F was previewed at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. Designed for use in locations where human interactions take place, ‘she’ can move her eyes, open…
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Pizza Express Installs iPod Docks in London Branches
The slightly up-market pizza chain, Pizza Express, is trialing iPod docks in one of its London establishments. The Pizza Express restaurant in uber-swanky Richmond will soon have iPod docks fitted behind the seats. This is the first step in an experiment by the restaurant chain to create a “Living Lab” restaurant of the future, with…
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Superfast Supercars to Promote Super-Speedy Virgin Broadband
Ever fancied zipping around England’s capital in a sports car? Well, here’s your chance. Virgin Media is celebrating the announcement of its 100Mb/s broadband with a fleet of supercar taxis. Want to flip round London in a Ferrari? How about popping down to Big Ben in a Porsche? Or mooching over to Marble Arch in…
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Hello Kitty Kawaii Paradise is Sickly Sweet Anime Hell
A white cat with a scarily high-pitched voice, nestling in a blindingly bright, candy colored world. It can be no other than Japan’s much-loved and tooth-achingly sweet Hello Kitty and her new theme park, Kawaii Paradise. Translated to ‘Cute Paradise’, Hello Kitty’s world is the latest addition to Tokyo’s up-and-coming redeveloped Venus Fort shopping complex…
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Sony Push the Stop Button on Walkman Production
Almost a third of a century after the original Sony cassette Walkman went into production, the sound system giant has announced its plans to stop making and selling the TPS-L2 tape cassette player in Japan. The first batch hit Japanese streets on July 1st 1979. The last batch was shipped to retailers in spring this…
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Dutch Excalibur is World’s Highest Climbing Wall
If you suffer from vertigo, stop reading now. It seems that a lack of hills has finally got to the Dutch. They have built what is being billed as the world’s highest climbing wall. Set amongst the plains of Groningen, The Netherlands, Excalibur towers 121 feet (37 meters) in the air above Klimcentrum Bjoeks (Bjoeks…
