Number of View: 603Taiwanese artist Long Bin-Chen uses discarded old books to create incredibly detailed sculptures that look like they’re made of marble or wood. Although all his artworks are made out of several books, he carves them all in such a manner that they fit together in a seamless manner. While he could use [...]
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Number of View: 782Each year Forbes.com publish a list of the world’s richest people based on the value of their assets, including their business stakes, cash, property, fine art collections and private yachts and planes. Take a look at the top 10 British-based billionaires 2010 1. Lakshmi Mittal This year, the first British entry on [...]
Number of View: 3924From Antartica’s Dry Valleys to the Socotra Island, some of the most fascinating alien-like landscapes on earth. Dry Valleys (Antartica) Antarctica’s Dry Valleys, with their barren gravel-strewn floors, are said to be the most similar place on Earth to Mars. Its fascinating landscape, located within Victoria Land west of McMurdo Sound, get [...]
Number of View: 21461. OneBreath: An Inexpensive Portable Ventilator Inspired by the need to help more patients in a crisis situation, such as a pandemic, postdoc fellow at Stanford University, Matthey Callaghan developed a no-frills ventilator that runs on a 12 volt battery that works for up to 12 hours and can be easily transported. [...]
Number of View: 29931. USB Keyboard Bra FINALLY, a keyboard with all the ergonomic support the hardworking geek demands. Angel Kitty’s USB Keyboard Bra from Japan is a bit of a stretch, as it’s… well, not really a bra so much as a keyboard affixed to a lacy pink bit of lingerie. And we’re trying [...]
Number of View: 4476 No. 1: Carrie Underwood $14 million The Muskogee, Okla.-born country girl used Idol to launch a massively successful recording career. A three-time Grammy country vocal winner, Underwood has sold 9.6 million albums. No. 2: Jennifer Hudson $5 million The multi-talented singer-actress won an Oscar in 2006 for her role in Dreamgirls. [...]
Number of View: 1287A South Korean woman who earned a driver’s license after 960 tries is ready to buy a car and get behind the wheel. Yonhap news agency reported Thursday that 69-year-old Cha Sa-soon passed the driving part of the test last month on her 10th try. South Korea requires a written test first, [...]
Number of View: 2397NewerTech iFolio – $129.99 This handcrafted Brazilian leather case will not only hold your iPad, but also documents, cards and even a pen, stylus or similar device. The left side features a hard back to protect your documents while the right side protects your iPad with non-marring, double-stitched leather straps. Best of [...]
Number of View: 3874 Abraham Shakespeare In 2006, Abraham Shakespeare (pictured), a barely literate 43-year-old truck driver, thought his luck had changed for the better when he won a $31 million Florida lottery prize. Instead, it was the beginning of worse troubles. He was reportedly hounded by friends and relatives asking for money. A year [...]
Number of View: 29121. Wikipedia Changed the way we find information. Before Wikipedia, most online encyclopedias were either sorely lacking in information, or required you to have a paid subscription to access their content. Wikipedia changed all that by not only allowing anyone to view the content for free, but also by allowing individual users [...]
Number of View: 3012Alabama State changing the value of Pi The April 1998 issue of the New Mexicans for Science and Reason newsletter contained an article claiming that the Alabama state legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi from 3.14159 to the ‘Biblical value’ of 3.0. Soon the article made [...]
Number of View: 2692Samsung Z130 Cigarette Mobile Phone Intruder Phone Unlike other comparable mobile phones, the Intruder measures just 2.5-inches in diameter and boasts a circular keypad that swivels out to reveal a 220 x 176 display. Out of the ordinary but highly appealing, the device’s most appealing attribute is its thinness – just a [...]
Number of View: 6359Paradise island caretaker Ben Southall, 34, of Petersfield, beat out nearly 35,000 applicants from around the world for the dream assignment to swim, explore and relax on Hamilton Island in the Great Barrier Reef for while writing a blog to promote the area. He was selected for the $111,000 gig – a [...]
Number of View: 1845 Enema Monument A health spa in Russsia has unveiled on June, 2008, its tribute to a medical procedure it administers there routinely: the enema! “We administer enemas nearly every day,” said Alexander Kharchenko, the head of the sanatorium which specializes in treating illnesses of the digestion tract. “So, I thought, why [...]
Number of View: 44141 .Tibetan monks need permission to reincarnate In one of history’s most absurd acts of totalitarianism, China banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs in 2007, the law, which strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is [...]
