Posts Written by Paul Strauss

With concerns about the fallout from Japan’s recent disaster affecting food supplies, Nils Ferber created this concept combining dinner plate with radiation meter. Whimsical, but well-intentioned.

Even the deranged dudes from epicmealtime have moms. Here they pay them a very special, very warped tribute for Mother’s Day. You might want to wait until after brunch to watch this.

David Murray has teamed up with Mia Schwartz to create this highly enjoyable pixelated spectre of a t-shirt – on sale until 5/13/11 right here. Any way you slice it, this is good old fashioned fun.

(NSFW: Language) The Lonely Island are joined by Michael Bolton for their latest track, although we’re not sure that they actually recorded the same song. Mr. Bolton, you’ve finally won us over.

You wouldn’t believe it from the looks of this image, but what you’re looking at is an incredible, working miniature model of an airport. More images and videos of the Knuffingen Airport here.

We’ve all heard about the critical role that a dog played in the takedown of Osama Bin Laden. Turns out cats have been involved in military operations for a while as well.

Because we all need to smile today: check out Adam Nilsson’s self-titled instrument of mass destruction, a complicated technical solution to aid in simple acts of vandalism art. (Thanks Robert!)

If you’re like us, you’ve probably got a laptop, a tablet, and a smartphone. René Woo-Ram Lee’s Bento Book concept lets you combine all three into a single gadget, then still use them individually.

Phil Jones has got the right idea here, reinterpreting the beloved Reeses Pieces-eating alien in a more youthful, modern form on this tee, available today only (5/7/11) at TeeFury.

In Soviet Russia, they use kittens instead of crash test dummies in what can only be called extreme animal testing. PeTA, we’ve been assured that no kittens were harmed in the making of this video.

Limited to just 500 cars, the new Cayman S Black lives up to its name with a sleek black exterior, black 19-inch wheels, black interior, black tailpipes, and bright bi-xenon cornering headlights.

If you picked up the Collector’s Edition of Dead Space 2, you know it came with a cheap plastic replica of the Plasma Cutter. Kipkay improved his by outfitting it with laaaa-ser beeea-ms.

Hyun-Seok Kim’s Puppy Robotic is a vacuum cleaner consisting of a mommy dog and her litte, who even have digital faces. The mom acts as the base unit and the four pups are her cleanup crew.

Long have we waited for the day that we could have digital books that felt like actual paper. The guys at E Ink are now showing electronic displays attached to flexible fabric and Tyvek envelopes.

We’re lucky if we can play Chopsticks on our toy piano, but this girl manages to play a violin, piano, and an exotic string instrument at the same time. We wonder if she’s playing two more with her feet.

After a woman has her house broken into, she invites two officers into her home to help identify the perp. Thanks to the skills of their sketch artist, one more baddie could be off the street soon.

If you think the idea of falling down the side of a mountain sounds intense, just watch this video of a rider whose snowmobile wipes out and leaves him tumbling for what seems like an eternity.

We’ve posted our share of silly animal videos, but we want to know if you love ’em or hate ’em. State your case over on Facebook, then check out something else that people either love or hate.

We’ve seen the da Vinci surgical robot fold tiny paper airplanes, so it should be plenty accurate to perform surgery on humans – or to remove your wish bone without making your nose light up.

The first full trailer for the updated classic(?) warrior tale stars a bunch of people with weird names that you’ve never heard of, the evil guy from Avatar – and the smokin’ hot Rose McGowan.

The latest trailer for Martin Campbell’s Green Lantern reveals some good new stuff, including a scrimmage with Sinestro, words with Kilowog, emerald swords and a badass flamethrower.

The Crovel (shovel and crowbar) eliminates the need for a plethora of tools in order to survive – it has 13 different tools for a multitude of tasks combined into one tidy package. (Thanks, Anton!)

The fine folks over at Paste Magazine have rounded up a gallery of sweet and geeky old school posters propagating the Galactic Civil War from both sides of the fight. Thumbs up. (Thanks Levi!)