This little thing is so cute. The Honda Puyo looks more like it is for cuddling or fondling rather than for driving about on the road.

Built specifically for the Tokyo Auto Show, this car has no edges at all. Yup, that’s right, making it as smooth as a baby’s bum! The interior is equally fascinating. The developers decided to go with a minimalist theme. Stepping inside one of these pods is like stepping into emptiness. There is no more steering wheel but instead a joystick.

The car is meant to give out a warm and friendly persona. Featuring an ultra compact frame, high efficiency and fuel cell technology, let’s hope this concept car finds its way to roads worldwide soon.

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Why not give your birds a different a room with a view? Put them in the fish tank. So that’s like a cage in a cage…whoa dude that’s deep!

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British police are on the lookout for this dangerous £200.00 knife which was designed for killing wild bears and sharks. Senior police officers have been told that this knife kills by injecting a compressed ball of gas into the victim. The gas is capable of snap-freezing tissues and organs around the area of impact.

Better known as the Wasp knife, a needle located at the end of the blade shoots out the frozen ball of gas which immediately increases to the size of roughly a basketball, causing internal organs to fail and eventually death. Which makes me think of the movie ‘No Country for Old Men’ where the bad guy goes around killing people with a cylinder of oxygen (?). And for those who haven’t yet watched the movie yet, I don’t mean that he bashes them on the head with the cylinder either!

The knife [http://www.waspknife.com/] comes with a disclaimer that it can ‘down many of the largest land predators’. The fact that the Metropolitan Police have issued warnings means that the threat is very much a real one.

When this article was published in the Daily Mail, a reader commented that he knows of a ‘copy’ of the weapon being sold in Thailand for £180.00. The vendors demonstrate its effects on dead chickens and pigs. With the amount of trouble police are having with knife crimes and gangs carrying other such small concealable weapons, I am sure this is one nightmare they wish didn’t exist.

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Until September 28 this year, the Design Museum will be exhibiting a selection of Tim Walker’s photographs. If you don’t already know, he specialises in fashion photography. I hate to call it that because it comes with so many connotations. But you’ll definitely see him in fashion magazines (see Vogue for example where he has been commissioned several times).

I think they are more like moments captured from elaborate period drama’s or movie sets. Some of them are quite dreamy while others are just bizarre.

For a better idea why not check out the websites: http://www.designmuseum.org/exhibitions/2008/timwalker and http://www.thomastreuhaft.com/Tim_Walker/tw.html.

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This one is great! I was really chuffed when I read about this robotic coffee making barista. We have the Italians to thank for placing such an invention high on their to-do lists. Not so hard to believe when I think even the toddlers there suckle on espressos. The DEXMART robot project which incidentally costs 6 million Euro’s focused on the development of robotic hands.

Led by Naples university professor Bruno Sciliano, Justine’s (the robot) hand movements are so precise that it can mimic almost all the movements of a human hand. This of course refers to movements concerned for coffee making.

The goal for the team of researchers is to create a system which allows for 2 handed manipulation. Also, they are in the process of equipping the robot with sensors to make it conscious of space and its surroundings.

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I stopped drinking Coke and other soda’s years ago for health and political reasons. But sometimes I do get a small craving for it, although I have never fallen off the bandwagon with regards to my principles on this matter.

But have you ever wondered why Coke makes us so happy and there are millions of Coke-addicts around the world? Well simply because Coke gets you high. In spite of its cocaine content having been removed from it, Coke is so potent because according to Technorati:

The first 10 minutes is equivalent to 10 teaspoons of sugar right into your system. Yeah, that equates to 100% of your recommended daily intake. A sudden sugar intake would probably induce vomiting but we don’t because of Coke’s phosphoric acid which acts by numbing our taste receptors thus allowing us keep the drink down.

After 20 minutes, blood sugar levels spike which in turn, results in a surge of nsulin coursing through our system. This causes the liver to work overtime converting any sugar it finds (yeah, there’s a lot of this right now) into fat.

40 minutes on and any trace of caffeine left in the body is completely absorbed. This results in dilation of the pupils and a spike in the blood pressure. The liver reacts to this emergency signal by releasing even more sugar into the bloodstream. Just when you thought the worse was over, all adenosine receptors in your brain short circuit preventing drowsiness.

45 minutes later your body increases the amount of dopamine being produced to stimulate the pleasure centres of the brain. Quite the same way in which heroin and other similar hard drugs work.

After more than 1 hour after ingestion the phosphoric acid which has been having free reign finally binds with calcium, magnesium and zinc in the lower intestine causing an extra boost in metabolism. Then we begin to excrete calcium through our urinary processes which were set off by the high dosage of sugar intake and artificial sweeteners. Caffeine and its diuretic effects manifest forcing us to answer the call of nature and thus removing the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc from our system together with sodium and electrolyte.

After the sugar high comes the sugar crash which could result in irritability or sluggishness or even both. By this time any water to be found in the Coke or in your body has been depleted (through urine) together with nutrients found in the body. The next few hours there will be a caffeine crash and its effects could be amplified if you’re a smoker.

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This is hilarious. The most important question you need to ask yourself, “…how many cannibals could my body feed…” I suppose it’s apt this day and age when we’re at the door o destruction! Who knows, we could be acting in our own little Doomsday film some day. I sure hope I’m tasty. http://www.oneplusyou.com/q/v/cannibal_lunch

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