Tag Archives: product

Why Polyamory And Homosexuality Are Wrong

Posted by on December 27, 2012 Comments Off

Poly is Greek for “many” and amor is Latin for “love”. Same goes for homo, which is Greek for “same” and sex, which is Latin for… “sex”.

Homosexuality? What barbarity! It’s half Greek and half Latin! — from the 1997 play The Invention of Love

There are a ton of other hybrid words like this: television, neuroscience, monolingual, sociology, amoral, bureaucracy, etc. In fact, there are so many that a word for words like this should exist: heteroriginal, from the Greek hetero meaning “different” and the Latin origin, meaning… “origin”.

From Zazzle, via FAIL Blog

Baby Mop

Posted by on October 20, 2012 Comments Off

Before you get too excited at the two-birds-one-stone genius of this, know that it’s just a concept or possibly a joke – from all the way back in 2008. In either case, you can’t buy it. At least not yet, so please someone please start a Kickstarter project. Also, one for a soundproof baby helmet.

Update from Nov 2, 2012: Well, someone finally started making these: a website called BetterThanPants is selling them for 40$.

From Asian Joke and Huffington Post

The Best Useless Box Ever

Posted by on July 29, 2012 Comments Off

Think Geek sells one of the greatest inventions of our time, illustrated in this 30 second video:

From ThinkGeek, via FAIL Blog

The 3 Best Things In HBO’s ‘Game Of Thrones’ Store

Posted by on June 7, 2012 Comments Off

HBO’s Game of Thrones store is big — over 250 items. Most of them are for wearing, drinking out of, or sticking on something: t-shirts, hoodies, hats, pendants, mugs, glasses, shot glasses, iPhone and laptop skins and cases, etc. Below, the best three items in the collection:

Dragon Egg Paperweight, 45$. They probably don't have dragons inside and you're not a Targaryen, so don't walk into a funeral pyre with them.

 

 

Hilarious Hodor t-shirt, 25$. Pro tip: his real name is Walder.

 

 

Life-size replica of the Iron Throne, 30k$. It's made of fiberglass and resin, not the swords of your vanquished foes, but it'll impress your geeky friends nevertheless.

 

From The HBO Store

Salt Made From Different Kinds Of Tears

Posted by on May 29, 2012 Comments Off

A company in London called Hoxton Street Monster Supplies sells a line of a salt supposedly made from a variety of human tears: ones of joy, sorrow, anger, as well as the ones from sneezing and chopping onions.

 

From Hoxton Street Monster Supplies, via Laughing Squid

A Map Of Thrones

Posted by on April 12, 2012 1 comment

This October, we will finally be able to get our hands on professional maps of the world in the A Song Of Fire And Ice book series and Game of Thrones TV series. The map collection, called The Lands Of Ice And Fire, is available for pre-ordering now, is blessed by GRRM, costs 26$, and includes the following maps:

The maps are supposedly excellent quality, but it would be nice to see a sample. But even if they’re as awesome as they sound, it seems like it may be best to wait for some later edition — one released after the book series is finished. But if you don’t want to wait another decade until that comes to pass, this is your chance for some legitimately cool cartography with which to decorate your dorm room or nerd cave. Or that of a nerd you love.

From Amazon, via Westeros

Neat Bookends

Posted by on April 6, 2012 Comments Off

Assuming your book collection doesn’t go fully digital for a few years, Knob Creek Metal Arts sells these very cool bookends, and a lot of others.

 

 

 

From Knob Creek Metal Arts, via Laughing Squid

Dick Clark’s Rockin’ Cavehouse

Posted by on March 2, 2012 Comments Off

One of Dick Clark’s houses is for sale: one bedroom, two bath in Malibu, for 3.5 million$.

 

 

 

 


Via Laughing Squid

The Other Cleavage

Posted by on February 10, 2012 Comments Off

A Greek woman on Etsy sold this “Super Sexy Dress.”

 

Now if she also sold bra-like panties to go with it…

From Etsy, via Laughing Squid

The iPhone Of Toilets

Posted by on February 8, 2012 Comments Off

Kohler is selling a toilet called Numi. Its lid and (heated) seat open automatically, it flushes automatically, has a bidet with adjustable position, water pressure and temperature, a dryer (of course), and a deodorizing charcoal filter.

 

 

 

It also warms your feet by gently blowing hot air at the bottom and plays music — either your own through an input jack in the magnetic docking station where the remote sits (yes, the Numi has a remote), or from FM radio. The remote is touchscreen, controls the bidet, dryer and heating options, and saves preferences per user.

And not to worry, there are auxiliary controls in case you lose the remote. The water tank “delivers unprecedented water savings and power” and has illuminated panels so you can find it at night. All yours for 6400$. And here’s a ridiculously lavish commercial for it, in which the toilet is for some reason in the living room:

 

The opulence guy with the tiny giraffe from the DirecTV commercial probably has like a dozen of these.

From Kohler