Unusual Stuff

Leave it to the Japanese to take skin and improve it. They’re a very big consumer of science fiction media, and that seems to color their inventive drive, too. Researchers from the University of Tokyo have invented the most incredible digital display that I think I’ve ever seen. Japanese researchers have invented a flexible, thin […]

You really can’t trust an octopus.  They just don’t look like honest creatures.  They have too many arms and they’re too squishy.  So squishy, in fact, that they can sneak out of a six-inch drain pipe.  Such is the case of an octopus named Inky.  Inky the octopus escaped from New Zealand’s national aquarium.  The […]

So you’re on the Las Vegas Strip, taking in the sights and sounds and gawking at all the neon signs when you see a scuffle break out.  One of the fighters is 55-year-old Motley Crue lead singer Vince Neil.  The other is 52-year-old master thespian and dinosaur castle fan Nicolas Cage.  You might think you’re […]

Augusta National Golf Club is one of the most beautiful courses in the country.  It’s historic, and the Masters Tournament that it hosts every year is one of the most prestigious championships on the PGA tour, and in golf itself.  One of the many events that happen around the time of the Masters is the […]

With a record of 24-8, at various points the University of South Carolina had a strong chance to make the NCAA Tournament, which crowns the champion of college basketball.  The Gamecocks did receive an invitation, but it wasn’t meant for them.  The NCAA accidentally invited the wrong USC to the NCAA Tournament.  The invitation was […]

Japan is known for a lot of things, but spacious apartments isn’t one of them.  Most people in Japan live in very close quarters with their neighbors, so I would imagine that there isn’t a lot of secrecy when it comes to what your friends and neighbors are up to, even if it’s in a […]

Gawker, the famous gossip blog, loves to take down public figures.  After all, Gawker took down a congressman and routinely .  Hulk Hogan, former WCW and WWF champion, is definitely a public figure.  However, some aspects of a celebrity’s life should more than likely be off-limits.  When Gawker published a sex tape featuring Hogan with […]

Ford has about 60 percent of the police vehicle market throughout the world.  Other companies make cop cars, but Ford is the king of the cop car world, both the sedan and the SUV model.  Most cop cars are able to turn aside standard bullets, but this isn’t a normal world, and people want more […]

Hollywood loves a good excuse to get together and give out awards.  No reason quite as good as the business of making movies, right?  The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gathered in Los Angeles last night to give out golden statues to the best and brightest of the film industry during the 88th […]

SeaWorld Entertainment is a company in a lot of trouble at the moment.  A documentary exposing the violent behavior of their killer whales and a possible link between violence and captivity has caused the company to permanently shelf the very reason for its existence, the killer whale show, at some of its parks.  The company faces […]

Pat Summitt turned an afterthought into a powerhouse.  On February 17, 1985, the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers entered the Associated Press top 25 rankings for women’s basketball.  That streak has now ended.  The Lady Vols are out of the Top 25 after a staggering 31 year run near the top of women’s basketball.  That’s a […]

It seems like there’s only one real place women go to hide things.  It doesn’t matter what they’re smuggling, whatever they’re hiding gets stuffed into their bra.  Lots of cash?  The bra is fashion’s perfect pocket, and since there’s metal in bras, they can sometimes fool metal detectors.  However, some enterprising smugglers went past the […]

Burger King is a company in crisis.  Sure, all signs point to the company’s resurgence thanks to a 5 for $4 offer to get people into doors, but there’s still the perception that Burger King is America’s second (or third) fast food choice, and that won’t change any time soon unless Burger King changes it. […]

With every passing year, it seems like people are getting closer and closer to the habitats of some of nature’s most dangerous creatures.  In places like India, for example, those creatures can be really, really dangerous.  India is home to many rare and dangerous big cats, and those big cats are increasingly coming into contact […]

The more drones reach out to the skies, the more problems people are having with them.  Drones are straying into airports, traveling onto people’s property, and can be a huge nuisance in the wrong hands.  That’s why Dutch police are searching into ways to control drones.  There are ideas to remotely hack them, shoot them […]