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Japanese Dude Needs Your Help to Travel the World and Take Photos of Beautiful Women

Posted: 14 Mar 2013 07:32 AM PDT

Kei Akatsu is a Japanese student who wants to travel the world and take photos of beautiful women for his Beauties World Map project. But he needs your help to do it. Traveling isn’t cheap, so he’s turned to an online crowd funding service to fulfill his dream. The Tokyo University of Science student spent half a [...]

Something Smells Rotten – Zombie Perfume for That Perfect Undead Fragrance

Posted: 14 Mar 2013 03:39 AM PDT

If you’ve always dreamed of smelling like a walking corpse, you’re in luck, because weird-perfume maker Demeter has recently launched Zombie for Him/Her, a new line of putrid fragrances for both men and women. Say the Zombie Apocalypse happens tomorrow and you find yourself all alone in a world full of brain eating undead. What’s [...]

Dark Side of Hong Kong – People Living in Metal Cages

Posted: 14 Mar 2013 02:06 AM PDT

Hong Kong is generally known the world over for its material comforts and affluent lifestyle. But there's a dark  it as well that not many are aware of. Parallel to the wealthy citizens of Hong Kong there exists a community that is unable to cope with skyrocketing housing prices. These people are quite literally forced [...]

Private Zoo Owner Plans to Spend a Year Living with Lions

Posted: 13 Mar 2013 05:20 AM PDT

Alexander Pylyshenko, the owner of a private zoo in the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine, has announced he plans to spend a year caged with two full-grown lions, in order to raise funds for a  proper care center for big cats. If this story sounds familiar to you, it’s probably because this wouldn’t be Alexander Pylyshenko first such [...]

The Impossible-Looking Pencil Sculptures of Cerkahegyzo

Posted: 13 Mar 2013 03:56 AM PDT

Cerkahegyzo is a Hungarian artist who transforms common pencils into seemingly digitally-altered works of art. In reality, the miniature sculptor uses just a few basic tools and mountains of patience to create these intricate masterpieces. Believe it or not, Budapest-based artist Cerkahegyzo manages to produce all these unreal artworks out of a single pencil. Some of his works [...]

Gallium – The Rare Metal That Melts in Your Hand and Attacks Other Metals

Posted: 13 Mar 2013 02:51 AM PDT

Remember those liquid metal Terminators from the Arnold Schwarzenegger movies? What if I told you that kind of material isn’t just the fruit of someone’s sci-fi imagination, but a real metal? It’s called Gallium and it has some pretty cool properties. So what makes gallium so special? Well, first of all, the brittle metal has [...]

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