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- Really Hang-Out at Tokyo’s Hammock Cafe
- 70-Year-Old Woman Looks Like She Just Turned 40 Thanks to Vegan Diet and Rainwater
- German Man to Sell His Face for Tattooed Advertisements
- Speech Jammer – The Wacky Japanese Device That Stops People from Talking
| Really Hang-Out at Tokyo’s Hammock Cafe Posted: 07 Mar 2012 01:53 AM PST
Who needs chairs when you can just relax and have a cup of coffee or tea in a comfortable hammock, right? That was probably the idea behind Mahika Mano, a popular Tokyo venue, better known as the Hammock Cafe. Located in the Kichijoji district of Tokyo, a place renowned for its chill-out atmosphere, Mahika Mano fits in just perfectly, with its hammocks hanging from the ceiling inviting passers-by to just sit back and enjoy a tasty drink. As soon as you walk in, the first thing that hits you is the absence of chairs, but as soon as you lay down in one of the hanging nets you start to wonder who ever got the crazy idea of using chairs, when hammocks are so much more comfy. As you can imagine, this unique cafe is pretty busy (sometimes you have to wait in a queue to grab a Tokyo’s Hammock Cafe seems to be heaven on Earth, but there’s a hook. The place doubles as a showroom for a company called Hammock 2000. It’s a try-before-you-buy marketing scheme that allows customers to enjoy themselves, relax, test out different types of hammocks and even buy them, if they want. It’s a win-win situation for both parties.
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| 70-Year-Old Woman Looks Like She Just Turned 40 Thanks to Vegan Diet and Rainwater Posted: 07 Mar 2012 01:04 AM PST
Just yesterday, we wrote about Dr. Life, the man with a 70-year-old's face and a 20-year-old bodybuilder’s physique. Well, now in the news is another 70-year-old who seems to have found the secret to eternal youth, only hers doesn’t imply using growth hormones and testosterone. Annette Larkins doesn’t look a day over 40, thanks to the diet and lifestyle she maintains. She looks so young that people mistake her to be the daughter, when she's out with her husband of 54 years, but I suppose he isn't complaining. Mrs. Larkins says the secret to her beauty lies in the raw vegan diet, consisting of organic vegetables, fruits, seeds and nuts grown in her own garden, she calls the 'fountain of youth'. The woman doesn’t touch anything that has been cooked. And another strange thing she does is collect rainwater, to keep her garden blossoming, but also to drink. But the resident of Miami-Dade County, Florida, didn’t always have such a healthy lifestyle. In fact, she consumed meat regularly, as her husband used to own a meat factory way back in the 1960s. It was then that she decided to change her eating habits forever. And what a great decision that was. I mean, just look at her! When she started off, Mrs. Larkins was just looking for a few health benefits and never anticipated that she would look like a 40-year-old at the age of 70. In the 27 years that she has been eating raw, Mrs. Larkins has written two booklets called Journey to Health and also produced a DVD containing all her healthy secrets. Her husband, Mr. Larkins, wishes he had followed her example, because now he looks much, much older and also suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure. He takes prescription medicine every day, but Annette doesn’t even take an aspirin. I do know a few people who consume a raw diet, myself, but don't look as young as this woman. Perhaps she's also got good genes, or there’s something miraculous in that rainwater she drinks?
Instead of buying all those over-advertised “beauty secrets”sold by cosmetic corporations, maybe we should just take a look at people like Annette Larkins for secrets to a longer, healthier lifestyle. Just my 2 cents…Oh wait, I forgot, we’re looking for quick, easy ways to improve our looks! If you want to learn more about this incredible woman, be sure to check her official website, www.annettelarkins.com. 70-Year-Old Woman Looks Like She Just Turned 40 Thanks to Vegan Diet and Rainwater was originally posted at OddityCentral.com  |
| German Man to Sell His Face for Tattooed Advertisements Posted: 07 Mar 2012 12:29 AM PST
A German man loves dogs so much that he wants to build a museum dedicated to St. Bernard dogs. So what does he do to raise the money? Why rent out his face, of course. The idea seems so simple, I wonder why people don't do it all the time. Maybe because no one wants to walk around with a bunch of advertisements TATTOOED on their face. But Uwe Troschel has no such qualms, so he's perfectly happy to rent out sections of his face for companies to place their advertisements on. Each section comes at a price of its own. So to put up an ad on Troschel's forehead costs 50,000 euro, and each cheek, 20,000 euro. The nose is priced at 2,000, and if any company is interested in the entire face, it would set them back a whopping 100,000 euro. His intentions are commendable, but I’m not sure this is the right way to go about helping his four-legged friends. After all, when this is all said and done, they might not even recognize him… Photo by Dirk Sukow Interestingly, the concept of renting out human body parts for advertising is not new. It started many years ago when an American woman had GoldenPalace.com tattooed on her forehead for $10,000. Also, a few months ago we wrote about this woman from New Zealand who was auctioning off a space on her backside for advertisers. It's crazy, what people are willing to do for money.
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| Speech Jammer – The Wacky Japanese Device That Stops People from Talking Posted: 07 Mar 2012 12:12 AM PST
Ever came across someone so annoyingly chatty that you wanted to shoot them with an invisible gun and shut them up? Well, you might just be able to, thanks to the Speech Jammer. It's a Japanese invention that could very well be the perfect answer to all the talkative people out there. The device is said to be powerful enough to jam a person's speech from up to 98ft away. Sounds too good to be true, right? The inventors, Kazutaka Kurihara and Koji Tsukada, explain how it works. The prototype invention supposedly records the obnoxious speech with a directional microphone, adds a 0.2 second delay, and then fires it right back at the prattler with the help of a directional speaker. So there's basically a delay between when the person says something and when they hear their own speech. This would mess with the person so bad, that they would soon be rendered speechless for a while. Perfect! But then, the device itself looks so huge and scary in its current avatar, I think people might shut up the very moment it was pointed at them. Nevertheless, I can think of a countless uses for the Speech Jammer. Got into an argument with your spouse and he/she is screaming their lungs off? Just speech jam them! At least for a while, so then you can get a chance to shout too. Or even better, both parties should own a Speech Jammer. It would be fun to watch a shouting match with abrupt silences in between. But if I ever got to use one of these, it would be at a movie theater on those pesky people talking on their cell phones. I'd prefer a smaller version though, something that fits comfortably in my palm.
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