Tag: BIZARRE

Do you know a person who truly can't go anywhere without his or her cell phone? If you do, we might have just found the perfect way to send them into the afterlife. According to an AFP report on France 24/7, a golden coffin equipped with an equally golden cell phone hit the market last week at a luxury fair in Verona, Italy. It brings a whole new meaning to the phrase, "Till death do us part." ...

Ever wonder what 'The Graduate' would look like if Todd Solondz took a crack at remaking it? We sure have, and we think we found our answer in Oklahoma. After her 14-year-old son suddenly disappeared, an Oklahoma City mother was understandably worried. When he finally returned home, though, things got even weirder. That's because he came back with 43-year-old Annamay Alexander, who claimed to ...

Just as touch screens are becoming commonplace on cell phones, a new prototype was recently unveiled at the Mobile World Congress 2010, in Barcelona. It'll make you do a double take -- in more ways than one. According to the Telegraph, NTT DoCoMo has created a gadget that lets users navigate their cell phones by moving their eyes. Yes, you could make a call, play a song, or check a text ...

We told you about one guy who figured out how to make a killing by developing a dirty iPhone application. When you think about it, it's sort of logical that his app sold well. (Scantily clad 3-D girls always equal tons of downloads.) But sometimes, there's just no explaining why an app rises to the top of the download charts. For example, consider the recent success of the new 'iMussolini' ...

What do you get when you place a bunch of hip, wireless-gadget-loving folks in a city crammed with historic, pre-World War II homes? Apparently, a serious Wi-Fi problem. According to The Wall Street Journal, many San Francisco residents have trouble accessing wireless Internet, and, in some cases, receiving a cell phone signal -- all because the chicken wire that may line the walls of their ...

Look, we've long been prepared for the proliferation of zombies. It's a good thing, too, because our own government is ready to turn hordes of soldiers into the undead. But first, they have to figure out how to make it work with pigs. According to ABC News, a recent medical breakthrough funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which involves putting the body in a state of ...

There may be no better feeling in the world than a good scalp massage, but unfortunately, nobody wants to sit around and massage our noggins all day. But we've found the perfect solution. It's called Headtime by South Korean company Kinatech, and this over-sized silver helmet will melt away all your worries and stress. According to Engadget, the device uses 29 silicone balls and 34 ceramic balls ...

Ancient Aboriginal instrument, we'd like you to meet modern technology. Who can you thank for this introduction? A nerdy white guy, not even from Australia. Musician and geek Kyle Evans took a didgeridoo, which is an Australian wind instrument, and modified it because he was interested in combining organic sound with modern technology. Evans can manipulate the noise that the custom-built ...

lose/lose from zach gage on Vimeo. Looking for a more exciting way to delete files from your computer other than simply dragging them into the trash bin? Game designer Zach Gage has created a space shooter that not only makes cleaning up your hard drive fun, but it makes the user ponder "choice and consequence, and by extension what it means to succeed or fail." Don't worry, 'Lose/Lose' isn't ...

For those of you who thought Herman Melville's 'Moby Dick' was too archaic, or just too hallowed, why not give a new translation a chance? According to the Telegraph, the epic novel about a man's quest for a white whale will be translated into Emoji -- a language based on the emoticons many Japanese use when sending messages via mobile devices. In order to accomplish this massive (and ridiculous) ...

Never ones to let an economic downturn get them down, Japanese researchers have created yet another bizarre robot that will probably never reach U.S. shores. The bots, shaped like large tiles, measure the pressure of your step and determine where you'll next place your foot, according to Popular Science. They then scoot to that spot on the floor, giving you the sensation of walking in place. ...

After hearing this story, many folks will never again look for jobs on Craigslist. A kind-hearted woman looking to make an extra buck was duped into playing along with a man's fetish. According to a report by Florida's WKMG last month, Janet Schulte, of Melbourne, Florida, answered an ad on the classifieds site to care for a man's older brother who supposedly had a "diminished mental capacity." ...

From time to time, kids have accidents on their way to school. Maybe they crash their bicycle and scrape their knee. Or, maybe they twist their ankle stepping off the sidewalk. Or, even worse, a car might hit them while they cross the street. Gerrit Blank, a 14-year-old German boy, has one of these stories, although it's a little less ordinary. According to a report from the Telegraph, a ...

Craigslist just keeps taking one hit after another. There has been, of course, the "Craigslist Killer," and the Illinois sheriff sued the site, alleging it promotes and facilitates prostitution. And who could forget that Connecticut's attorney general recently sent a letter to Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster, requesting the erotic services section be removed from the site? As if all that negative ...

Online retailer Amazon.com has recently removed listings for a Japanese computer game called 'Rapelay' in which the player stalks and rapes young girls. The game was not sold directly through Amazon, but was available for purchase through the site's third-party merchant program. Patty Smith, an Amazon spokesperson, told the AFP, "We determined that we did not want to be selling this particular ...