Nordisk Cryobank (European Sperm Bank) is one of Europe’s leading sperm banks and the company was looking at environmentally-friendly alternatives to how they could transport their sperm samples to the fertility clinics around Greater Copenhagen.
This is what they came up with. It’s called the Sperm Bullitt.
Let’s hope it never crashes into the Oestrogen Cycle.
The Sperm Bike In Copenhagen (Copenhagenize)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOKUos0-Iw
This apartment building in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, where parking space isn’t just hard to find, it’s often more valuable than living space – was recently remodelled to include a ninja-style 4-car garage.
Researchers at Keele University in the UK have discovered that swearing actually increases pain tolerance. You knew that. But now you know that.
In the study, researchers asked participants for five words they’d likely use after hitting their thumb with a hammer; the first word listed would be their go-to profanity during the experiment. (They were also asked to list five boring words — ones they’d use to describe a table.) Participants were then instructed to submerge their unclenched hand in a container of 41-degree water, and keep it there — while repeatedly cursing — for as long as they could. Before and after plunging their hands into the chilly water, their heart rate was recorded. And after they could no longer stand the cold temperature, they were asked to rate the amount of pain they were in, too.
What’s surprising is that the researchers had thought that swearing would make the cold water feel much colder, lowering the participants’ tolerance for pain and heightening their perception of it. “In fact, the opposite occurred — people withstood a moderately to strongly painful stimulus for significantly longer if they repeated a swear word rather than a nonswear word,”
Swearing Really Is A Powerful Pain Killer Study Shows (MSNBC)
The work of Utah egg-carver, Brian Baity.
Apparently, he sucks out all the goo goo g’joob first.
Julijonas Urbonas, a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London, has designed a rollercoaster that will kill its riders with a series of carefully calibrated, sensitively sequenced brain-scrambling loops:
“Euthanasia Coaster” is a hypothetical euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster engineered to humanely – with elegance and euphoria – take the life of a human being. Riding the coaster’s track, the rider is subjected to a series of intensive motion elements that induce various unique experiences: from euphoria to thrill, and from tunnel vision to loss of consciousness, and, eventually, death. Thanks to the marriage of the advanced cross-disciplinary research in aeronautics, space medicine, mechanical engineering, material technologies and, of course, gravity, the fatal journey is made pleasing, elegant and meaningful.
The Skier-Controlled Tow Boat from gadgeteers, Hammacher Schlemmer.
A six-button control panel on the tow rope handle sends signals to the boat, allowing skiers to start, accelerate, decelerate, turn, or stop the vessel with slight thumb movements. The nearly 8′-long boat has a three-cylinder, two-stroke 70 horsepower engine with jet pump and axial flow propulsion, generating speeds up to 40mph.
The price: a mere $17,000. Buy one. Deserve to ski alone.
