Tag Archives: fun

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Every University should have Giant Slides

‘By using this slide, you forfeit all rights to sue us.’ No this is not the lunch room at Google’s head office…This is the Technische Universitat in Munich, Germany. Those giant tubes are slides to go from the top floor to the ground level patio. The brains behind this work are the German artists Johannes

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Riding this Rollercoaster will cost you and Arm and a Leg

Theme parks cost an arm and a leg nowadays, but this theme park has a ride that will figuratively cost you an arm, a leg and possibly your head. A new theme park rollercoaster ride is to be rebuilt after dummies used to test it were left with limbs missing and scratches. The Swarm —

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Making Channel Surfing Fun Again – Remote Control T-shirt

At first glance the Remote Control T-shit may not look like anything exciting, however, take a look at where the power button is located. Just imagine where the control to the DVD player is hidden. From the mind of Rebecca Albrand, this t-shirt can control any television that can connect with a universal remote; the

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Get a taste of marriage with a Bizarre Virtual Marriage

Our Indian friends have come up with a bizzare idea just in time for Valentines. Much like those virtual babies or pets that allow infants to get a better understanding of what parenting is like before they actually encounter it, an Indian website is offering bachelors a ‘virtual wife’ to give them a taste of

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Playing with shadows was never this fun – Shadow Touch!

Prepare to be visually fooled – using a Wii remote control, Teruaki Tsubokura’s interactive artwork aptly called Shadow Touch!, enables you to play with shadows by touching, holding, or throwing them out the window. Using a flashlight-like device, Shadow Touch!, doesn’t use actual light. It utilizes the infrared camera from a Wii remote control, then

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Infect your friends with Herpes with the Herps and Purps iPhone app

Turning your friends into a herpes infected, black eyed, just look like they got out of jail look, has never been easier…thanks to Herps and Purps iPhone app. Touted as a playful way to “decorate” images of your “friends”, the app, which launched in November 2010, has been turning into massively popular way of sharing

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The Traffic Camera that pays you to drive the speed limit

Finally I think they may have got it right. After years of penalizing drivers for speeding, let’s start rewarding drivers that obey the speed limit. The Speed Camera Lottery, a winning project for Volkswagen’s Fun Theory series, sends tickets to speeders and enters law-abiding drivers in a lottery to win money. The man behind the

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Lego and the Real World co-exist in a creatively humorous way

I’ll let the video do the talking. It’s basically a simple and creative way of injecting a little Lego into our every day existence. Temujin Doran, a London filmmaker, won a prize at for this little ditty at the Cannes Lions advertising festival in 2010.