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A Japanese coffee company, Georgia Max Coffee, modified the bathrooms of ski areas around Japan to promote their coffee energy drinks. The comfort stations atop the ski resorts handle the bathroom business in a conventional manner, only the interiors.

Garage for a swimming pool! Paul Leery, a man with moderate means, but whose vision was keen, converted his one-car Baltimore City garage into a swimming pool. He replaced three quarters of his garage roof with Plexiglas paneled roof on wheels that..

Whenever the creative graph is on a decline, someone from somewhere acts as a flag bearer, initiating stability where creativity is the winner. The initiator in this case is a man named Justin Gargasz, for his creative ‘Vessel’ – a jacket that..

Chinese therapy – how to get rid of backaches? Well, just howl like a wolf, simple! A Chinese woman named Hong (42), of Ganzhashan Qian village, Fuzhou, has been howling like a wolf for the past 26 years. Why? Because by doing so her pain just fades..

Daito Manabe is an artist/programmer/DJ based in Tokyo, Japan. He is known for his crazy video over the net, ranging from electric stimulus to his latest craze for LED’s. There are a couple of video of his latest fad after the jump, hope you like…

Safety saves! Well, if you happen to reside in the sub-continent region, where terror(ist) strikes are more of a routine and life is always at risk, perhaps, you need something to bank upon – police (of course not!), a handkerchief (well, maybe)….

Almost a year ago, a Chinese man built himself a 3 ft tall mobile phone, touted the ‘world’s largest (working) cell phone’. With time, and considering the ongoing technological advancements, this record was broken when Cricket Wireless and…

Pin can cause you injury if it pierces your feet, but designer JimRuck has crafted it into a geeky bathroom scale. The designer has opted excruciating looking pins for his weighing device as thousands of pins are the main component. Pins allow the…

Given a leader so huge, fearsome and the largest land mammal as a friend, the way through the woods isn’t a problem for birds on the road. Friendship, a blessing in disguise and a picture that doesn’t have a price, both related, only if you’re..

For all those fond of leaving behind their imprints, rise up and take notice of Photoshaper launched by Shapeways. The service allows you to upload your photo, turn it into a monochrome depth map and print it out in 3D. Position it into a photo frame.