Personal & Culture
Store wine bottles beautifully on your walls
A product called Wine Cell from the Danish design house Fiduz, is a beautiful way to store you wine bottles on your walls. Decorate your walls with your best wine bottles using these making any shape you want. Let your creativity flow
Toilet paper wedding dress
Nothing says love like a beautiful new wedding dress [designed with toilet paper]. The 9th annual Toilet Paper Wedding Dress Contest just completed in which designers used Charmin toilet paper along with glue, paper, tape, needle and thread. Is this "Out of the box" thinking? You can read the info and see more pictures here.
Couche Tard now offers Pizza & Spaghetti slushies
Quebec's most prolific corner store chain (Couche Tart) has decided to release 2 unbelievably weird slushie flavours of pizza and spaghetti. Slushies are a liquidy mix of flavoured iced consumed as a refreshment by many youths during Quebec's hot and humid summer days.
McDonald’s offers 3/4 Pound giant portion of french fries
Even if you loathe fast food, you have to agree that McDonald's has amazing French fries and now Japanese customers can buy 3/4 pounds of the glorious golden delights. This gigantic serving weighs in at 350g and delivers a smooth 1152 calories. This is a limited time promo selling for [the equivalent of] $5. So if your in Japan, make sure you pickup a serving and post pictures on Facebook to make your friends jealous.
Paper cup and stir stick in one
Yanko design has created a simple paper cup, called the +4.5 paper cup, that has a built in stiff stir stick. Simple, cheap and ingenius. Yanko webpage here.
30 person inflatable seating
The Beach 7 AirLounge is an quick to setup 30 person inflatable seat (and table). When your event is over, you can deflate the kit and storage it easily. Inflation takes 10-15 minutes (with the included pump). How much does all this goodness cost? Only $US7,000.
McDonald's french fry holder for your car
French fries are best eaten warm but it is difficult to do this while driving. Instead of being unsafe, a crack engineering team has created the Potato Holder. The device fits in your cup holder and holds your french fry container. It is a available now in Japanese McDonald's restaurants. You can read the Google translated version (to english) here.
Wear this shirt for 100 days without washing it
Wool & Prince claim that you can wear their new shirt for 100 days without having to wash or iron it. The company claims this is possible because of a new special wool technology that wicks moisture away (better than cotton), fold resistance and breathability. Putting aside "Mr disgusting" looking for ways to wash less often, this could be an amazing addition for business travellers looking for wrinkle resistant stay clean shirts. It could mean less content and lighter luggage.
Human powered Ferris wheel
This is an older video that shows a human powered Ferris wheel. It is incredibly unbelievably strange. Would you use it?
Is faux skin mini furniture art?
Strange and disturbing was my reaction when I saw pictures of this mini furniture covered in faux (fake) human skin. There is a visceral reaction of fear and disgust when you see something covered in what looks like human skin. To be clean, this is all fake material made to look like skin but still… it is disturbing. Why would anyone consider this art? Source: here.