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Developed in Germany at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, this hand sanitizer uses plasma to zap your hands free of germs. And it’s cheap! With only a $100 production cost. It uses plasma�heated gas, essentially�to clean your hands all over, including underneath your nails. It�s quick: your hands will be clean as a whistle (?) in only four ...

Don’t worry ladies. This gator wasn’t killed for the sake of fashion. This gator was slaughtered in the name of wildlife preservation, and then was magically chosen to appear as the star character of the GatorBike. The custom-made bike, crafted from the skin and skull of a real alligator that was culled by authorities to keep their numbers down, has ...

Ok, so it might not be an actual dragon as it doesn’t blow fire, but it’s a lizard… with wings… which is pretty damn close. Hide your treasure and lock up your princesses! Wait a second, what are we scared of, it’s like two inches long. Oh wait, they have parents don’t they? Link [via]

While the Robot iPhone Case certainly isn’t the most practical way to protect your iPhone, it’s perfect for the device with a mean streak. The iPhone and robots have several things in common, not the least being that they both have their eyes set on world domination. If they joined forces, who knows what the world might look like in ...

Nature is beautiful when you don’t live around it all of your life, but coming from someone who lived among the mountains and the trees and the grass for the better part of his short life, I can attest to the fact that the beauty of nature becomes sort of boring after you’ve seen it everyday for 10 years. You ...

When you take 2000 recycled keys off of defunct keyboards and paste them onto a bench made of baltic birch wood, you’re just asking for furniture snobs to turn up their noses in disgust. “But how could you destroy such beautiful wood?” Ahh, shove it up your key-impressed asses. Designed by Nolan Herbut (lol, Her Butt), the Wolfang Keyboard Bench ...

I always suspected something was amiss. R2 was pretty chubby. Now if all of that space was filled with super technological circuitry, you’d think he’d at least be able to talk. Now we know exactly why he couldn’t do more. Most of his body was filled with friggen’ birds! Those poor little birds must have developed some sort of ailments ...

The Less Lamp is one of those gadgets that would appear to be great for anger management. Take that… and that! And…. AHHHH, I’M BLINDED! SCREW YOU LESS LAMP! OH, GOD, MY EYES! An innovative design concept, the Less Lamp is a sealed lamp shade made of plaster. When you get it and unbox the Less Lamp, you�ll find that ...

I’m just a beautiful piece of man. The Romance Novel Yourself service through MediaBoom just enhances my ridiculously manly physique. It’s nice looking at a photo of myself without breasts. Romance Novel Yourself allows you to add your photo to the cover of several different romance novel templates. I chose Desert of Dreams, though you can even change the title ...

“It’s our way of saying thanks.” So says Apple of their newest competitive ruse, the $10,000 10 Billionth Song contest. If you happen to be the lucky fellow who purchases the 10 billionth download from the iTunes store, and you just happen to be over the age of 13 and live in country where iTunes is offered, you’ll be gifted ...