Posts Written by Paul Strauss

Jonas Damon has created a cool collection of wood-framed modern gadgets offered through Areaware. We especially like his latest, an old cathode-ray tube TV set that he built for the iPad.

Google beats Apple to the punch with their cloud music service, letting you upload your tunes to the Internet, playing them from all your computers and Android-based gadgets. Request a beta invite here.

YouTube musical phenoms Pomplamoose take on the song that’s been droning in our minds for the last year and a half, the Angry Birds theme song, putting their own unique spin on the track.

Colin Furze, who built the world’s fastest mobility scooter, has pitted it against an airplane in this video. We recommend wearing a helmet if you’re going to fly down a runway at 70+ mph, though.

In response to all the football, basketball and hockey trick shot videos out there, Brodie Smith responds with his flying disc. He just needs to cut the finger-pistol bit – and the porn soundtrack.

Patkau Architects created this group of temporary skating shelters huddled together by a skating trail along a frozen river in Winnipeg, which include a timber frame, plywood floor and seating inside.

We like our food spicy. We also like bacon. So what’s not to like about a spicy hot sauce, flavored with delicious bacon-y goodness? Absolutely nothing. We’ll have a side of bacon with ours.

Created by professor Sheila Kennedy and a team of MIT students, these rockers capture solar and kinetic energy, passing it along to USB gadgets and a cool electroluminescent lighting system at night.

We’ve all seen Roger Federer do this before, but that doesn’t detract from the hot-shot style of this between-the-legs winner from Spain’s Rafael Nadal at the Madrid Masters. (Thanks Kuang!)

Olivier Megaton’s Colombiana stars Zoe Saldana as a woman who witnesses her parents’ murder as a child, and grows up to be a stone-cold assassin, determined to get to the mobster who killed them.

Located at the corner of clever and smart: we are enjoying the simple tongue-in-cheek pun action going on here on David Schwen’s fun Broken Seal tee. It’s available over at Threadless.

(NSFW: Language) We’re not quite sure how they pulled it off, but a group of supper-clubbers recently took a ride on a NYC L train for an elegant six-course meal, delivered stop-by-stop.

The breathtaking views of Norway’s natural scenery don’t need much enhancement. Still, kudos to the Public Roads Administration for authorizing these amazing National Tourist Routes.

We can’t seem to find the pin on this bar of soap, cast from an actual WWII steel grenade. We’d advise against traveling with this in your luggage, unless you want “special” treatment from the TSA.

(NSFW: Language) We’re not sure what to make of a B-movie about little people zombies starring Penn Gillette, Adam Savage and effects by one of The Chiodo Brothers, but our curiosity is piqued.

If you don’t have time to sit through 7 hours of Star Wars movies, here’s Episodes I through III told in LEGO form, in record time. As an added bonus, you don’t have to listen to Jar Jar Binks at all.

This cool machine lets you cut foam and other sheet materials up to 27″ wide and 2″ thick using your computer as a controller. Computer and Shop-Vac not included. Also draws with Sharpies.

Cartoonist Dan Hipp created a these Adventures of Tintin-inspired book covers as tributes to classic science fiction films lie Star Wars, Alien and Tron. We only wish these books were real.

Don’t know what you’re looking for? Be sure to click the new “Random” link in our navigation for a 100% random post – selected by a room full of monkeys on typewriters.

Nobody will mess with your lunch if you carry it around in this spiny, prehistoric leather backpack, perfect for punk-rockers and paleontologists. So if you’re both, you’re really in luck.

If you ever wondered just how durable your car is, the guys at Volkswagen want us to know just how much they beat the crap out of their vehicles long before they ever hit the showroom floor.

Kid Rock and other savvy musicians are fans of Memphis blues musician Johnny Lowe, who forges collectible handmade guitars out of cigar boxes, pool sticks and other repurposed objects.

Robbie the dog is smart enough to fetch a stick and bring it back when his owner throws it to him. Unfortunately, he’s not bright enough to figure out that this is not his owner. Gotta love dogs.