World’s 10 most expensive pens

10. Conway Stewart Westminster Teal Pen
Priced at $1,800, British pen company Conway Stewart has released the latest version of this popular pen this time in teal enamel.
The pen takes its design cues from the palace of Westminster with its Gothic style engraving on the cap and barrel. The small diamond-shaped recesses mimic the detail on [...]

3yr old buys mom digger in online auction

Sweet little 3-year-old Pipi Quinlan of New Zealand was able to cast the winning $12,300 bid (NZ$20,000) for her mom on an online auction site called TradeMe. The auction was for a full-sized piece of heavy earth moving equipment, as is used by construction workers, and not the toy the little girl thought it was.
Pipi [...]

NEC introduces world’s first USB 3.0 host controller

NEC has unveiled the world’s first SuperSpeed USB 3.0 host controller. The new standard is backwards compatible with its predecessors, USB 2.0, 1.1 and 1.0. Supporting transfer speeds of up to 5Gb/s, on paper, the µPD720200 is ten times the speed of USB 2.0.
NEC states that their new host controller makes it possible to broaden [...]

Mural art by John Pugh

Mural art by John Pugh

John Pugh’s Mana Nalu mural in Honolulu. Fire crews rushed to save the children from the mighty wave – before realising it was an optical illusion

An Egyptian style mural adorns a wall in Los Gatos, California. Pugh paints people into the mural to heighten the 3D effect

A mural entitled Art Imitating [...]

Holy Cow struck by lightning

The Daily Telegraph says: “HOLY cow! This hunk of beef is believed to have been struck by lightning – and somehow survived.
And we’re not cooking this up. It’s entirely feasible, James Cook University geo-sciences expert Jon Nott says.
“Cows are susceptible to lightning strikes because of both sets of legs being on the ground, and they’re [...]

Sleep Safe Tape

Sleep Safe Tape is a roll of standard transparent 1/2″ wide tape that has pictures of an eye printed along the length of the tape. Many situations exist where it is taboo to sleep despite the natural inclination of humans to rest their tired eyes. Examples include meetings, lectures, and conversations. With Sleep Safe Tape, [...]

Upside-down Photo by Brian MacFarlane

Take a closer look at this stunning photograph of a greylag goose.
Your eyes do not deceive you – this puzzling bird really is flying upside down but with its neck and head twisted the right way up.
The incredible display of mid-flight acrobatics is also a remarkable feat of wildlife photography and stunned the man behind [...]

Digitigrade Leg Extensions

These are Digitigrade leg extensions. They are made of steel and add 14 inches of height to the wearer. But these are not ordinary stilts; they give a person the uncanny and graceful appearance of an animal. It is really cool! The movement of the legs is genuinely graceful and naturalistic. It is a great [...]