This Japanese kitchen appliance lets you make toast, fried eggs and coffee all in one go. Called the "Wake Up Morning Set", the machine will cook your breakfast in 10 minutes.
This cute animation about a flightless bird following his dream is Dony Permedi's Master's Thesis Animation. Extremely beautiful and poignant, this short is well worth the 3 minutes -- 9 minutes if you watch it three times like I did. Very touching!
"The Joby Gorillapod firmly secures your camera to just about anything, anywhere and everywhere! Unlike traditional tripods, the gorillapod doesn't require an elevated surface for you to take the perfect shot. "
Anshe Chung, a virtual real-estate tycoon in the digitally simulated world known as Second Life, has become the first virtual millionaire. Her holdings in the make-believe world are legally convertible into genuine U.S. currency worth more than $1 million.
"'Songs To Make Dogs Happy!' is the first qualitatively and quantitatively researched musical CD, based upon 200 canine participants' responses to what THEY would like to hear in songs!" This is according to their website. I decided to do my own research and played sample clips to our dog Gracie. She covered her ears...
If you're horrible at making home movies (like me), here's an excellent post by Lifehacker's new associate editor Rick Broida called 8 Ways to Shoot Video Like a Pro.
Go to geoGreeting, type in your name (or any word or phrase), and you'll instantly see it spelled with "building letters". Also, if you mouse over any of the letters (on the interactive version), you'll see the location of the building on a global map. See thepinkbelly here! [via]
Jeeves' recent retirement from Ask Jeeves means he won't be in this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Bummer... Here's a picture of Jeeves in 2002. Happy Thanksgiving!
Photos of North Carolina State University now and then. The idea is to revisit the location of old photographs and take identical photographs, as if the camera never moved and the world changed around it. There's a nice "slider" feature that makes the effect really neat.