14 Strange Candles Designs | Candles smell like flowers

The don't all have to smell like flowers and come in a jar, or in tube form; some candles can look pretty cool. Here are 14 examples:

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World's Largest Lederhosen Record

If you're a larger gentleman Lederhosen , it can sometimes be hard finding a decent pair of Lederhosen that fit properly. Fortunately, one Austrian lederhosen maker has created a pair that you should be able to fit in comfortably.

Tailor Walter Sinnhofer is claiming a new world record for producing the world's largest pair of the traditional leather shorts.

The lederhosen in question are over 15ft long and four yards wide, and took Sinnhofer two months to cut and stitch from 77 square yards of cow hide. They weigh a hefty 50kg.

Now Sinnhofer of Henndorf, Austria, is hoping that Guinness World Records will officially Recognise his achievement in the field of massive lederhosen manufacture and declare them the world's largest pair.

He already has form in the record-breaking lederhosen game, as five years ago Guinness awarded him the record for producing the smallest pair of lederhosen, which were just 38 millimeters long.

Source :- Metro

Telenoid R1 Robot

World's Creepiest Telenoid R1 Robot Japanese Inventor develops the bald, Legless

Its pale torso is about the size of a small child, it has no legs and just stumps for arms.

For a man who has made his life's work coming up with increasingly creepy robots, Hiroshi Ishiguro has really outdone himself this time.

The Japanese roboticist has just unveiled his latest creation - a strange robotic creature called the Telenoid R1.

Ishiguro has, in the past, tried to exactly replicate living humans and once developed an eerie robot replica of himself that he named Geminoid HI-1.

He also came up with a terrifyingly lifelike female robot called the Gemnoid F.

But the new Telenoid is something of a departure for the eccentric inventor.

Ishiguro designed the Telenoid R1 to be a robot that could appear like many different ages and that is easily transportable.

It is intended to be used as a communication device so that people can 'chat' from long distances: the robot is supposed to be able toe transmit the presence' of a person from a distant place.

To operate, the user must sit at a computer with a webcam that tracks the user's movements and captures their voice.

Actuator's in the robot's body help it to move in a realistic way.

These movements are then mimicked by the Telenoid which is sitting with the message's recipient.

The Telenoid R1 will be demonstrated at this year's Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria.

Ishiguro says: 'The unique appearance may be eerie when we first see it. However, once we communicate with others by using the telenoid, we can adapt to it.

'If a friend speaks from the telenoid, we can imagine the friend’s face on the telenoid’s face.

'If we embrace it, we have the feeling, that we embrace the friend.'

A commercial version of the Telenoid will go on sale later this year for about £5,000.

How to make own hoop earrings -elegant and expensive

Do you recognize these? We discovered them only recently, in the notions department at Mood.


They're boning. No, that's confusing. I mean, they aren't boning anything, that's what they're called. This woven steel version is the modern day equivalent of whalebone, used in corsets and such. Anyway, aren't they intricate? Like tiny, elaborate chain maile.

After a little experimentation we discovered I really enjoyed boning. I made these hoop earrings:


Cool, no? I think they look elegant and expensive, just unadorned like that.

But who could resist adding color and dangles? Not I!


Now look what happens if you flatten the mesh sideways...


Cool again!

The flattened shape also makes a really pretty pendant.



Such an Beautiful hoop earrings!

Go ahead, try boning in the privacy of your own home. I am pretty sure you will enjoy it as much as I did.


And, as a rabid Project Runway fan, I simply cannot resist signing off with this...

(Said in Tim Gunn voice) "Thank you, Mood!"



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27 Sickest Things You've Done To Save Money

27. I'd save the excess milk from my cereal in the morning to be used the next day (and maybe the next).

26. Called Fast Food 800 #'s to complain about their horrible dining experience and got free meals

25. Flipping your underwear inside out instead of doing laundry

24. The sickest thing I've ever done to save money was eat bits of other peoples' lunches that they left behind at one of my old jobs several years ago.

23. I was in school and didn't have health insurance. I got this nasty mole (one of those dangly ones) on my NOSE and couldn't afford to get it taken off. So I iced it and cut it off with an Xacto blade that I had sterilized with alcohol. There was lots of bleeding but it worked. And then it came back (!!) and I had to do it again. This time it didn't come back. It's amazing what a poor girl will do for vanity.

22. Dish soap instead of shampoo

21. Used to dig through the butts in my car's ashtray when I was out of smokes.

20. Turned to eating Mac 'n cheese..... The catch was that there were tiny bugs in it. So I took a strainer and the bugs went though, while the noodles were just fine. Yeah, that was a bad time in my life. I was so poor I couldn't afford to throw away a box of Mac N cheese.

19. I've seen guys who had no cash for laundry take about 20 loads and jump on it to get it into the washer so it'd fit. Dumped in some soap, added their 50 cents, and the machine... caught on fire. Filed up with water, but the belt couldn't move the agitator, so it burned out the belt - smoke and all kinds of stink coming from the machine... their clothes basically got wrecked...

18. Rummaged through the garbage next to the mailboxes of our apartment complex to find discarded coupons.

17. Had a roomate that ate a 5 day old McDonalds Quarter Pounder that he forgot he left on his bookshelf. It didn't look any different!

16. Dated a horrible person because she was rich and would pay for dinner out 6 nights a week

15. Rice with cinnamon for breakfast, rice with soy sauce for lunch, rice with ketchup for dinner. If I was feeling very saucy (!) I would mix the soy sauce and ketchup.

14. One winter we ate rabbit about 6 times per week and I was sucky at cooking it.

13. Saltines for a dime a box from the day-old store was the only thing I ate for six weeks. Haven't been able to stand any kind of crackers since then.

12. I once ate a whole blueberry pie while sitting in a toilet stall in a grocery store. I was extremely broke at the time. I took a night job at the grocery store to make some extra money and because I though I would be able to sneak some food home. Getting food out of the store ended up being very difficult because they were careful to watch you while leaving. It was pretty easy to eat stuff while in the store though. You just needed a decent hiding spot.

11. I drove from WA to Alaska one summer. I bought a sleeping bag in Canada, used it every night for nearly a month, then returned it on the way home.

10. My uncle lived on unsweetened kool-aid and homemade biscuits for two years. The biscuits were flour and water - that's it.

9. My ex boyfriend would take ketchup packets from fast food restaurants and make ketchup soup out of them- basically, ketchup and water.

8. Using coffee filters instead of toilet paper.

7. Grossest thing I've ever done to save money was pick popcorn buckets/drinks out of the trash at the movie theater to get refills for $.25 or free depending on the movie theater my friends and I used to sneak into. That was when I was 13 though.

6. Had no insurance in college... needed to get rid of a skin tag. Dental floss and canned air. Floss around the base and spraying the can upside down provided the freezing effect. Pull each side of the floss and voila... you're done! It bled pretty well but toilet paper and some borrowed neosporin did the trick.

5. On a snowboard trip, not wanting to pay the exorbitant prices for lodge food, I made Chili out of condiments... - -Nab a paper or styrofoam cup from the actual food line, fill it with hot water for tea (they'll only charge you for a tea bag, not hot water). Then hit the condiment bar for ketchup, stir this in the hot water until its dissolved, crush up a couple crackers to thicken it, pickle relish and onions for veggies, salt and pepper to taste (adding in some brown mustard will give it some spice as well).

4. Went without health insurance. For 12 years. Turned out to be a money saving decision, but I don't necessarily recommend it.

3. When we were living out of a motel last year with no money and still waiting for food stamps to kick in, we ate nothing but oatmeal cooked in a crock pot for a week straight. No salt, no sugar, no cinnamon. Just water and oats.

2. Once for about a week I used an old t-shirt I found in my shed as toilet paper.

1. My friend did some drug trial - and actually had a spinal tap as part of it.

A Toe Crippling

Ballet dancers Hundreds of ballerinas stand on pointe together Group to set Guinness Record Pictures from all over the country join together at the Bandshell in New York's Central Park on August 2, 2010 and stand en pointe for one minute in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of Records for "Most Ballerinas En Pointe". Some 230 dancers set a record of 1 minute and 7 seconds and will be entered in the book.

















Source:- Vancouver Sun Via Xinhuanet

Paper Sculptures

how to make paper sculptures artists Jeff Nishinaka These astonishingly detailed Masters of Paper Art and Paper Sculptures are a far cry from basic origami... they can take months to create and sell for thousands of pounds.

And Incredible most amazing paper sculptures the intricate work of Jeff Nishinaka is created using just paper, glue and a sharp knife origami paper cutting art.

In one of his works, Mr Nishinaka has painstakingly created a bustling city complete with a family eating at a bar and a couple cycling through the streets.

In another, famous landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, Sydney Opera House, Egyptian Pyramids and the Great Wall of China all appear, modelled in stunning detail.

Many of Mr Nishinaka's pieces, which usually measure from 2ft in height, are snapped up for around £5,000. But one tree sculpture, which measures an incredible 20ft high, was sold to the five-star ANA Hotel in Tokyo for nine million yen - or £66,000.

The piece, which was commissioned to celebrate the hotel's fifth anniversary, took four months to complete.

Mr Nishinaka, who lives in Los Angeles, California, began experimenting with paper as part of a project during his student days at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

The 52-year-old said: 'We could choose any type of medium, like matchsticks, nails and clay. I chose paper and made a fish sculpture - it was an 'ah-ha!' moment for me.

'After that I quickly developed a feel for working with paper. I began experimenting with different papers, finding ways to shape, bend, and round edges on it. I knew I was destined to make paper sculptures.'

The process, which can take between one week and four months depending on the complexity of the piece, involves making a rough thumbnail sketch of an idea before refining and enlarging it.

Mr Nishinaka then cuts the design with craft knives and uses simple paper glue to stick it all together.

He said: 'I enjoy the part when I can start gluing it together. That's where it begins coming together and starts looking like a paper sculpture.'

Although the final pieces appear three dimensional, Mr Nishinaka explained this isn't actually the case. The effect is actually achieved by the careful layering of the paper and lighting.

Made out of 100 per cent cotton, acid free paper, the pieces will not deteriorate or yellow with age.

Mr Nishinaka admitted showing people his finished sculptures was 'nerve wracking' but they were generally well received. He said: 'Most people say "I've never seen anything like this before!." For the most part the reaction is very positive.'































Source :- Daily Mail Via Telegraph

Giant Hailstones

A Giant hailstone in South Dakota smashes US record, ahem, hailed as the biggest ever.

What’s more, the man who found the ginormous icy object said that it had melted a bit while it was evaluated.

America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration committee declared that the hailstone, found in the town of Vivian on July 23, measures a whopping eight inches in diameter and weighs a hefty one pound, 15 ounces.

The committee says the South Dakota ice chunk breaks records set by hailstones discovered in Nebraska and Kansas.

Ranch hand Leslie Scott says the hailstone was about three inches bigger when he found it. Scott says he put it in the freezer but that he couldn't prevent some melting because of an hours-long power outage that followed the storm.



Source :- Metro

Flylashes

The Flylashes are actually quite an odd alternative to fake eyelashes. Artist Jessica Harrison takes dead flys legs and attaches them onto the eye for what are aptly called ‘flylashes.’

The inventive looking false eyelashes are sort of on the grosser side of beauty. The crooked and bent lashes are glued onto the eye and are meant to look like luscious eyelashes. They’re definitely interesting.

Source :- Trend Hunter

The Oldest Species on Earth

The oldest species on earth - Cephalocarida is a Horseshoe shrimp, ironic given the connotations of its name in the English language.

Rather than being the runt, the squirt and the general nobody its name implies, this little guy, (the Horseshoe shrimp to friends but Triops cancriformis rather more formally) has staying power. It is almost the same now as it was two hundred million years ago.

Cephalocarida is a class inside the subphylum Crustacea that comprises only about nine shrimp-like benthic species. and are commonly referred to as horseshoe shrimps. Although a second family, Lightiellidae, is sometimes used, all cephalocaridans are generally considered to belong in just one family: Hutchinsoniellidae. Even though there is no fossil record of cephalocaridans, most specialists believe them to be primitive among crustaceans.

These crustaceans are from 2 to 4 millimetres (0.079 to 0.16 in) in length, with an elongate body. They have a large head, the hind edge of which covers the first thoracic segment. They have no eyes, presumably because of their muddy natural habitat. The second pair of antennae is located behind the mouth; in all other crustaceans the antennae are in front of the mouth at the adult stage, and only their larvae have antennae that have the same location as adult cephalocaridans.

The mouth is located behind the large upper lip, flanked by mandibles. The first pair of maxillae is very small, and the second pair has the same structure as the following thoracic legs: a large basal part, equipped with outgrowths on the inner side, used in locomotion, a forked inner branch and two outer lobes - referred to as the "pseudoepipod" and the "exopod". The structural and functional similarity between the maxillae and the legs may be a sign of primitive organization; the maxillae are not specialized, as they are in other crustaceans.

The thorax consists of 10 segments, and the abdomen bears a telson but no other appendages.

Cephalocaridans are found from the intertidal zone down to a depth of 1500 m, in all kinds of sediments. Cephalocaridans feed on marine detritus. To bring in food particles, they generate currents with the thoracic appendages like the branchiopods and the malacostracans. Food particles are then passed anteriorly along a ventral groove, leading to the mouthparts.

Source :- The Ark In Space Via The Presurfer

Crab Robot

The Crab Robot (Cybernetic Autonomous Remote Barricade) Droid, is a revolutionary robotic sentry system designed by Jamie Martin.
"Robot design, modelling and animation by Jamie Martin. Modelled and animated in Maxon Cinema 4D. Edited in Final Cut Pro."
"Policing has been revolutionised with the introduction of the C.R.A.B. robotic sentry system, due to soon be trialled live on the streets of London, England.
The advanced robotics technology behind the C.R.A.B.’s artificial intelligence have been secretly developed over the past 12 years as a joint venture between weapons manufacturer Dalton/Stanley and megacorporation Omni Consumer Products.
The results of their historical collaboration has been to produce the most advanced robotic defence system ever constructed, featuring next-generation weaponry and armour protection. The C.R.A.B. is set to pave the way for all future Police and Military automaton technology from here onwards, and will be found on patrol in the public domain very soon.







Source :- Jamie Martin Design