Anything and Everything that is cool, hot, fresh and classic.
A few days ago, I was wondering what the next Sony Bravia ad would be, and then as if on cue, one arrived!
Called the Domino City, it features hundreds of colorful dominoes falling through a city in India:
And like all good ad campaigns should, there’s also a behind the scenes if you’d like more info on how this was made:
[Via: Adverblog]
The New York Times wrote a great article about the changes that tea is going through lately in response to its surging popularity.
[New York Times - Tea's Got A Brand New Bag]
Designers Laura and Paulina make these Bibi iPod covers that turn your little guy into a little monster.
[E-Mail For Information: laurenandpaulina@hotmail.fr]
[Via: Gizmodiva]
Netdisaster lets you unleash some fury on the web. Try it out on DYH.
[Via: Mobile Whack]
ParkAtMyHouse.com lets users let and rent parking spaces that would otherwise go unused.
[Via: Autoblog]
A few brave and lucky hackers made a homemade flamethrower out of a toy water gun and some wiper fluid (and some stupidity).
[Via: Clip A Day]
Urban Monarch and Modern Drunkard put together two great guides about how to score free drinks when you go out. Put down the credit card, and slowly step away.
[Urban Monarch - Drink For Free]
[Modern Drunkard - The Fine Art Of The Free Drink]
[Photo Via: marc_l'esperance's]
Gawker put together a great map that documents the smells of the New York City subway system. Care for a tour?
[Gawker - New York City Subway Smell Map]
The ThrustPac straps to your back and “converts horsepower to thrust to push you on any of your favorite devices”.
[Via: Sci Fi Tech]
Funny Cool Stuff created 10 different finger themes that you can use when you want to decorate your digits.
[Funny Cool Stuff - Finger Artwork]
Popular Science has a ‘hands on’ with the Dyson Airblade, a 400 mph hand dryer.
[Popular Science - Dyson Airblade]
Alang, India is famous for one thing: Recycling cruise ships. Peter Knego got a chance to visit the ship graveyard, and the pictures are breathtaking.
[Peter Knego - On The Road To Alang]
[Via: Neatorama]
MapOfSpringfield.com has created a huge map of the town where The Simpsons live. Google Maps, eat your heart out.
PingPongPixel is an interactive art experiment that uses colored ping pong balls to create giant images.
[Via: Josh Spear]
WhirlyBall “combines lacrosse, hockey and basketball with bumper cars”. Can sports get any better than that?
[Via: Dethroner]
Lifehacker put together a great guide on “How To Beat A Speeding Ticket (Or At Least Better Your Chances)”.
[Lifehacker - How To Beat A Speading Ticket]
Meet People Drink Identifiers from ATYPYK make the task of keeping an eye on your drink a clever conversation starter.
[Meet People Drink Identifiers]
[Via: Better Living Through Design]
Toyota wants to know how personal your car is with their Human Touch ad. It’s kind of creepy though.
[Via: Autoblog]
Tampon Crafts turn that time of the month into an excuse to craft.
[Via: Dethroner]
Artist Felix Beck created a non-visual graffiti project called Soundbombs, “innocuous-looking 6-inch plastic shells that broadcast short clips (lines from Shakespeare, flatulence, or anything else you record) to unwitting passersby”. He doesn’t sell them, but instead takes applications, and prospective users must tell him where they will use it and how much they’re willing to pay. Get loud.
[Via: bookofjoe]
Pepsi created an ad for the new Black Cherry French Vanilla flavor that included three senses: “sight, sound and scent”.
[Via: MIT Advertising Lab]
Sodium Laurel Sulfate, and ingredient in toothpaste, blocks sweet sensors on your tongue, which explains why orange juice tastes so bad after you brush.
[ABC - Why Does Orange Juice Taste So Bad After Brushing Your Teeth?]
[Photo Via: Strelitzia]
Information Architects put together a great read about interface, with a focus on the McDonald’s Cheesburger, the iPod, the Nintendo DS, and Google.
[Information Architects - The Interface Of A Cheeseburger]
Stuart Haygarth created the Tide Chandelier out of man made debris that washed up along a stretch of the Kent coastline. “The sphere is an analogy for the moon which effects the tides which in turn wash up the debris”.
[Stuart Haygarth - Tide Chandelier]
[Via: MoCo Loco]
A new pepper has been crowned king of hot thanks to the Guinness Book of World Records. The Bhut Jolokia chili (AKA The Naga Jolokia Pepper) from India registered 1,001,304 Scoville heat units, far surpassing the previous champions, the Red Savina chili, which only registered 577,000 units, and the Dorset Naga, which registered between 876,000 and 970,000 units. Just to give you an idea, here are the Scoville heat units of some of the peppers you probably ingest on a more regular basis:
Hot salsa has just been given a new definition.
[Wikipedia - Naga Jolokia Pepper]
[Via: Slashfood]
Having been to India and seen the craziness that is the rickshaw firsthand, I can’t imagine why anyone would want to travel 2,000 miles in one, but that is just what 34 teams from seven countries are doing for the Rickshaw Run charity adventure.
Traveling from Cochin in Southern India through “police, mechanical disasters, shocking pot-holed roads and heart-stopping winding mountain tracks”, the teams will pilot their rickshaws to Darjeeling in Northern India over the course of two weeks (or more for some unfortunate teams).
The rickshaws are 145 cc, two stroke, single cylinder, air cooled, four speed, three wheeled death traps with 7 hp and a hydraulic expanding show to slow you down from the top speed of 55 kmph (though they go faster down hill). The roads are described as “average, bad, terrible and non-existent depending on where you go”. At the end of the run, the rickshaws will be donated to local taxi drivers who are usually forced to work day and night just to pay off the huge debt they take on from purchasing their rickshaw, and donations will be made to Mercy Corp, the trip’s fundraising partner. I just wish good luck and good vaccinations to those who participate.
[Via: PistonHeads]
