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Tuned Pale Ale Supports Your Drunken Musical Inclinations
Ever fancied forming a drunk musical ensemble? We’re thinking that’s exactly what you’ll get with Tuned Pale Ale, a microbrewed beer with a cleverly musical packaging.
The bottle itself comes with musical scales on the label, so you can use it as an in-tune wind instrument. Drink it down to the level of the note you want, blow into the mouth and it will play back the exact note. Chugging beer halfway sounds no fun? You can always pour the brew in a glass and refill the bottle with water – that way, you can play complete songs with your friends, all while you’re getting pissed drunk.
Tuned Pale Ale’s bottles use a unique washboard shape that allows it to transform into a single-note instrument when you blow into its snout. Since songs sound flat without a beat, it comes in a case that can also double as drums (sticks included). This [...]
Hops Holster Arms You With A Dozen Beers, Rambo-Style
No one goes to battle without a full load of ammo. If you want to get drunk, nothing gets you readier than the Hops Holster, a Rambo-worthy bandolier with a dozen insulated beer can holsters.
Wrap it around your body, hang it around your neck or wear it around your waist. Heck, tie it to a belt loop, pretend you’re a dinosaur and drag it like a tail. No matter how you rock it, you’ll get quick access to twelve cans of your favorite beverage, ready to serve your thirst right on the spot.
The Hops Holster can be worn like a regular belt, ably going around waistlines between 28 to 42 inches. Because the slots are insulated, your beer should retain a slight chill even if you spend some time working your way through the whole set. Each holster is designed to take standard 12-ounce cans, but we’re guessing you can [...]
Stay Puft Quality Marshmallows Deliver Sweet Softness, Serious Caffeine Dose
Roast marshmallows by the campfire, stay up all night. That’s what you’ll be doing when you skewer your hotdogs with the Stay Puft Quality Marshmallows, a heavily-caffeinated treat, dutifully endorsed by everyone’s favorite lumbering, paranormal monster.
Officially licensed by the Ghostbuster franchise, the product features the smiling mascot that destroyed parts of New York City prominently in the packaging. Lucky for you, that’s where the similarity with the real Stay Puft ends, so the sugary mallows might melt in your mouth, but they won’t have to taste like ectoplasm.
The Stay Puft Quality Marshmallows are actually gourmet treats – which is a shorter way of saying they’re supposed to be especially delicious. Even better, every single square piece is infused with over 100mg of caffeine, so all you need is to pop one to get you through the next meeting.
Each 7 x 4 x 2.5 inch box comes with sixteen marshmallows and [...]
Les 4 Mondes Could Be The World’s Most Expensive Coloring Book
Tired of waxing your Crayolas on cheap coloring books not worthy of your moneyed pedigree? Bring luxury into your elementary school art skills with the Les 4 Mondes Coloring Book, a ridiculously expensive volume of line drawings that retail for $130. Really.
Why the price? We’re not sure, either. It’s from luxury peddlers Hermes, which should explain some things about the decidedly steep pricing decision. There’s not even a discussion of what kinds of drawing it contains, although we’re guessing it’s more of Hermes’ luxury goods, clad in line art that you can color with shades of gold, rubies and other expensive materials. That, or unicorns that come alive after you color them.
The Les 4 Mondes is a 12-page coloring book, measuring 15 x 11 inches and printed with 24 different designs. Yep, it’s that thin, driving the resulting cost to over $10 per page. Hermes says it’s something both children [...]
Foot-Long Haute Dog: World’s Most Expensive Hotdog At Just $69
We’re not sure how legit the Guinness World Record thing is anymore, but $69 does sound pretty cheap for the “World’s Most Expensive Hotdog.” I mean, even I can afford that. I really can’t believe nobody came up with $1,000 hotdogs before, so maybe that’s an untapped market you’d want to explore.
Made by landmark New York City restaurant, Serendipity 3, the Foot-Long Haute Dog fancies up everyone’s favorite pick-up sandwich. Instead of hotdog in a bun with everything on it, it takes the same 12 inches of ground-up meat discards and loads it with a spat of fancy ingredients to justify the jacked-up price.
Let’s see: the frank is grilled in white truffle oil and placed in an admittedly delightful-looking pretzel bun. Then, the thing is topped with medallions of duck foie gras, black truffles and caramelized Vidalia onions, before being served in a shiny hotdog plate with heirloom tomato ketchup [...]
Fully Automatic Nerf Stampede ECS-50 Shoots 18 Darts Per Minute
Want to shoot evil people in your office with a rapid barrage of Nerf darts? Sure, you’ll probably be fired after such an episode, but the Nerf Stampede ECS-50 should sufficiently equip you with the hardware to do just that.
Billed as the “first fully automatic NERF Clip System blaster to date,” the gun spews ammunition at a rate of 18 darts per second – a volume of violence that’s bound to satiate even Rambo’s unquenchable bloodlust. The company calls it one of the most “exciting N-STRIKE developments released in over 40 years of NERF brand history” and it’s a tough claim to disagree with.
The Nerf Stampede ECS-50 blaster is huge at 29.9 x 14.8 x 4.4 inch dimensions and a full 6.2 lbs of weight. It comes with a pop-out bipod that doubles as a handle, along with a removable shield to help keep enemy shots at bay. The gun [...]
Miniature Accidents Waiting To Happen: Intersecting Slot Car And Train Set
Slot car racing is fun. Slot car racing with the risk of having your model run over by a larger vehicle is even more entertaining. That’s the kind of action you’ll get with the Intersecting Slot Car and Train Set, which has one section of the racing track crossing paths with a model railroad.
Great for fans of slot car racers, model trains and epic accidents, the toy set is made up of two tracks – one for the slot cars and another for the locomotive. The designs for both are rather basic, although the decision to have them cut off each other’s paths is definitely inspired.
When fully assembled, the Intersecting Slot Car and Train Set requires 51 x 57 inches of open space. The race track is made up of 15 pieces that lock in to form seven curves (including a 180-degree hairpin turn), while the 11 railroad parts tack [...]
Witness An Apparition Every Morning With The Minor Miracle Mug
Don’t believe in miracles? The Minor Miracle Mug might make a believer of you yet.
From the outside, it looks no different than any regular drinking vessel from the cupboard. Finish your coffee, however, and fix your eyes at the bottom to discover a miraculous image appearing out of nowhere, which the mug’s creators have playfully christened Our Lady of the Latte.
The Minor Miracle Mug is a ceramic coffee mug that’s as pedestrian as you can imagine – it’s white, it’s got a handle and it can serve steaming hot drinks with the best of them. Nothing special. Well, nothing except for a barely discernible, carved imprint of a popular Christian image on the bottom, which becomes more conspicuous when your pour a small amount of colored drinks onto it.
Remember all those news stories of tortilla chips that have been burned with biblical images, grilled sandwiches with “divine” messages and similar [...]
Modernist Cuisine, A Cookbook For Kitchen Scientists
Sous vide, the technique of using vacuum-sealed plastic bags to cook food at precisely controlled temperatures (to maintain the integrity of ingredients) is relatively new to most kitchen dabblers. It’s especially unheard of in my household where cooking involves either pouring oil in the pan or lighting up charcoal in the grill. So far, there have been little documented work in its processes. That’s about to change with an upcoming book called Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking.
Yes, it’s a cookbook. More than that, however, it’s a technological manual, detailing the application of scientific processes for creating sublime-tasting meals. Created by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, Chris Young and Maxime Bilet, the lavish guide details how pioneering chefs have applied science and technology to advance modern culinary arts.
Modernist Cuisine is a six-volume book, totaling a hefty 2,200 pages. It claims to be the “most comprehensive guide” to cooking [...]
MyStudio Puts Some Polish In Your Amateur Videos
Ever seen one of those kiosks at the mall where you can make CDs of yourself singing karaoke? No? Yeah, I don’t know about it either. It was some guy I know who recorded himself singing there every night of the week and kept all the optical discs for his personal collection. Oh yeah, the guy just happened to scrawl my name with a marker on the discs and dumped them at my house too.
Anyway, with that chapter of my life over, it’s time to turn over a new leaf. Like shooting videos of myself for later uploading to YouTube. And MyStudio, a self-service video recording kiosk, offers a heck of a way to do it, capturing you in HD video with studio-quality sound and a hefty lot of choices in both background music and scenes.
Want to film yourself singing You Belong With Me with a naked Taylor Swift in [...]
Rubber Bandit Pen Turns Your Writing Instrument Into A Projectile Launcher
Shooting rubber bands never went out of style. It just went underground and stuck with the cool kids. At least, that’s the story you’ll be telling yourself to justify your purchase of the Rubber Bandit Pen, an erstwhile writing instrument that doubles as a rubber band shooter.
Perfect for 40-year old project managers who never quite grew up, the pen comes with strategically-placed notches on either end, allowing you to arm it with a stretched rubber band. When ready to fire, simply click on the retract/extend button (yes, the same one that exposes the ballpoint tip) to unleash the rubber band on your next hapless subordinate. What are they gonna do, complain to management? You’re management, as far as they’re concerned. Hah!
The Rubber Bandit Pen looks like any regular ballpoint writing instrument, measuring 6.25 inches long and 0.5 inches thick. Aside from the ability to be weaponized with rubber bands, it [...]
Evil Fortune Cookies Offer Bleak Insights, Sad Prophecies
Fortune cookies are great for drama. That’s why they’ve been used in countless references for various purposes in both TV and film, from delivering a profound message that changes the protagonist’s life to playing practical jokes. The Cookie Misfortune Evil Fortune Cookie is the same, except it does away with pearls of wisdom, choosing to advise you of your bleak, unhappy future instead.
Banal platitudes and hopeful encouragements are nice. The average person’s waking hours aren’t really filled with them, though. In truth, you probably spend your days working thankless jobs, getting dumped by ugly girlfriends and unsuccessfully attempting to improve your station in life. To be blunt, your life sucks.
The Cookie Misfortune Evil Fortune Cookies tell it like it is. From short, succinct pronouncements (“F*** you”) to profound assessments (“Your friends don’t really like you”) to the literary (“Life is nasty, brutish and short”), it shares life’s wisdom like a [...]
Custom Face Stamps Immortalize Your Likeness In Ink
Can’t get enough of your own pretty face? Plaster it across everything with a piece from Stamp It, which makes bespoke rubber stamps with your hopeless mug carved in.
All those documents that land across your desk in the office requiring your signature? Give them your stamp of approval by casting your beaming smile upon it. Each piece works just like any regular handstamp – dip it on an ink pad, slap it where you want to leave your impression and you’re done.
Instead of the usual signatures or Hello Kitty cartoons on it, Stamp It’s bespoke rubber markers are designed to leave an imprint of your face. Simply send in your photo, have it drawn and, once you approve the likeness, get it carved into a custom face stamp bearing your semblance.
They offer two sizes of stamps – 0.7-inch wide for solo faces and 1.2-inches wide for couples. Yes, you can [...]
Extend Your Limbs With A Pair Of Giant Cardboard Robot Arms
Why wait for the robot takeover when you can turn yourself into a giant robot now? Well, a cardboard one, at least, with these Giant Cardboard Robot Arms. Yes, you heard that right: Giant…Cardboard…Robot…Arms!
Brought to the world by the same guy who donned himself in full cardboard robot attire at the last Maker Faire, the wearable limbs give you two jointed giant arms that extend the average human arm by about three feet. That way, you can run around town giving people giant bearhugs and thunder-clapping their heads from a safe distance.
The Giant Cardboard Arms measure 5.5 feet long and 9 inches wide, making them large enough to strike terror at the heart of kindergarten children everywhere. Both left and right limb offer decent amount of motions, namely 90-degree bending of the elbows and 360-degree twisting of the wrists. They can be disassembled for transport and easily put back together.
According [...]
Limited-Edition Beer Comes With 55% Alcohol, Roadkill Packaging
Strong beer is good. Super strong beer that you drink out of the taxidermied carcass of dead animals is just inexplicably sublime. That’s exactly what you’ll get with The End of History, a 12oz bottle of fermented beverage with a nasty 55% alcohol by volume (ABV) rating.
The brainchild of Scottish brewery, BrewDog, the crazy-high alcohol content easily makes it the “strongest beer in the world,” beating out their own Sink the Bismarck drink, which was released just last February. The name is supposed to stand for the fact that this will be the company’s last high-ABV beverage. In their words, it represents “the end point of our research into how far the can push the boundaries of extreme brewing.”
The End of History is a blond Belgian ale, infused with fresh juniper berries and nettles picked from the Scottish Highlands. Extreme freezing techniques were used to induce the insane levels of [...]
Mom, I’m Invisible: The UnderFX Green Suit
Ever wondered how those low-budget YouTube filmmakers are able to do intricate puppet and robot scenes using homemade green screen backgrounds? Wonder no more with the UnderFX Full Cover Green Suit, a full body outfit designed to blend in with the green screen backgrounds for total invisibility.
Being a fledgling amateur shooting films in your dad’s garage is no excuse for crappy production. With this suit and a corresponding chroma key background, you can easily shoot a bunch of fancy scenes that your post-production team can painlessly isolate for further rendering, all at costs that should play nice with your art school dropout budget.
The UnderFX Full Cover Green Suit is a full stretch bodysuit that you can use to appear invisible with a similarly-colored background. It has a thinner, more transparent face area to allow for easier breathing and some visibility. The entire wardrobe zips off the back, so make sure [...]
