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Tag Archives: Unusual

Morbid And Cool: Bird Skull Jewelry

By David Ponce on 12/18/12 • 1 Comment

Fashion accessories can be as much about making a statement as they are about personalizing your look. We’re not sure what the statement would be if you chose to wear the above Bird Skull jewelry, from Calvert County resident Marisa Rand, but you’ll definitely give people the impression you feel strongly about something. Even if you don’t. Which is why we’re digging the pieces. No, they’re not actual bird skulls, they’re shrunken down reproductions. Marisa makes a silicon mold from a fallen bird, then casts the pieces in resin. There are miniature sparrow skull rings, black magpie skull necklaces, and even a parakeet skull necklace. The pieces are very reasonably prices in the $13 to $19 range.

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This Ain’t Your Childhood’s PB&J: Face-Melting Instant Regret Peanut Butter

By David Ponce on 12/11/12 • 2 Comments

The Instant Regret peanut butter is aptly named: it’s infused with so much capsaicin (the active ingredient that makes something spicy) that we’re having trouble believing there isn’t a typo somewhere, and if there isn’t, you’re guaranteed to regret its ingestion! See, Instant Regret peanut butter is rated at 12 million SHU on the Scoville Scale. That… is troubling. Police grade pepper spray is somewhere in the vicinity of 2 million SHU. The last time we reported on some spicy thing, it was Timmy’s Great Balls of Fire which rated at a tame 1 million SHU. To further the perspective, a Habanero pepper is around 200,000 SHU, and Taco Bell’s Fire Sauce 500. So, 12 million SHU is quite a few orders of magnitude higher. The ingredients are as follows:

Peanuts, Sunflower Oil, Habanero, King Naga, 12m [SHU] Chilli Extract, Sugar Syrup, Salt

Yeah, so there you have it. Seriously spicy peanut butter. We still think there may be some typo, as some of our readers will undoubtedly express skepticism. We would suggest one of you try it out and report back to us, but we worry about encouraging any activity that might result is injury.

It’s £7 or about $12 a jar.

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Would You Like Some Eau De Pizza?

By David Ponce on 12/06/12 • Leave a comment!

Nothing reinvigorates your love for your significant other than getting a good whiff of their fragrance, but only when that smell is something as delicious as the above Pizza Hut Perfume. Yeah, that’s right, Pizza Hut Canada is releasing a very limited run of a fragrance that smells like “a box of Pizza Hut pizza being opened.” Created to celebrate reaching 100,000 fans on Facebook, the idea for the product came as a result of feedback from one of the posts on the social networking site. Seizing on the enthusiasm, the company’s marketing team proposed the perfume, and the execs went for it. 110 bottles were made, and then given to some of the very first fans that expressed their interest for it on the social networking site. So yeah, this means it’s not for sale, although we wouldn’t be surprised to see it pop up on eBay at some point in the future.

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Toasted Scorpions, Anyone?

By David Ponce on 11/22/12 • 1 Comment

Who says snacks have to be made of sugar or oily potatoes? No one, actually, but we couldn’t think of a better way of introducing the Toasted Scorpion snack you see above. We’re not saying it’s a good intro: we’re saying we’re creatively stunted. The Toasted Scorpions on the other hand are about as creative a snack as you’re going to find. These are sustainably farmed and delicately detoxified, bona fide scorpions that have been salted and toasted and packed for your snacking delight. So, no, they’re not poisonous. They are reportedly high in protein and low in fat and are sure to get the whole office talking if you find the courage to bring a pack of these tasty arachnids in, and eat it in front of your co-workers.

It’s £12 or about $20 for a box that contains roughly 5 scorpions. No one said exotic snack were cheap.

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Your Underwear, Now With More Deodorizing

By David Ponce on 11/15/12 • Leave a comment!

Popular among Japanese businessmen, the Deoest undergarment line features a special fabric that, well, deodorizes you as you wear it. Or rather, it apparently masks whatever smells might be coming off your body so that you may not be “that guy” in the office without actually going to the trouble of, you know, washing. It’s really kind of gross if you think about it that way, but you could also position it as simple precaution for anyone with a tendency to generate body door.

The fabric is coated with ceramic nanoparticules, which is what does the deodorizing, though we’re not clear on the chemistry of it. Still, if it works as advertised, we expect it to do well outside of the Japanese market, even if there are no clear plans for expansion. Prices are in line with that of regular underwear so there’s really no reason not to get this, as long of course as you don’t see this as a reason to start a bad hygiene habit.

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These Jeans Sandals Boots Are Apparently A Real Product

By David Ponce on 11/13/12 • Leave a comment!

Where to start?… First off, jeans sandals boots just sounds confused, doesn’t it? But then again, it’s a confused looking product. It really is like an unholy marriage of all those three things, but the end result winds up looking like: 1) a gangbanger’s really, really low pants or 2) an amorous lady in the middle of some hasty action or 3) jeans freaking sandals boots. It really boggles the mind, and yet the attention to detail with which they were made leads one to believe that perhaps there’s a healthy market for these. And healthy it better be because each pair will set you back $125 or $145.

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So… This Happened

By David Ponce on 11/12/12 • 1 Comment

Oh, Geekologie, how you amuse us. GW has unearthed the above: a taxidermied squirrel riding cowboy on a taxidermied snake. Cowboys say “Yee haw”, but we say hell yeah!

Oh, it’s in poor taste?

We don’t really care, that thing is awesome.

It was up on eBay for a while, and now it’s gone. We’re sad. At least there’s a few pictures, after the jump.

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Fashionista Christmas Tree Lets You Do Christmas a la Carrie Bradshaw

By Hazel Chua on 11/02/12 • Leave a comment!

Fashionista Christmas Tree

Do Christmas a little differently this year. Instead of getting a regular tree, why not channel the Carrie Bradshaw within you and get one of these Fashionista Christmas Trees instead? It departs from tradition with its irregular shape because instead of a tree, what you get is a faux fir ‘tree’ in the form of a classic couturier’s dress.

Let your creative juices flow and dress up this year’s tree like you’ve never dressed up a tree before. The tree itself stands at five feet tall and is already pre-strung with 150 warm white LEDs. It’s also aptly topped with a matte-finish metal star because, let’s face it, if you get this tree, then it’s obviously going to be the star of the night for every night leading to the twenty-fifth.

If you’re up for a fashionable Christmas this year, then this tree is yours for $249.95.

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Apex Predator Shoes Made Of 1,050 Teeth

By David Ponce on 10/12/12 • 2 Comments

There’s not a whole bunch of information on the above shoes. They were made in 2010 by artists Mariana Fantich and Dominic Young of fantich&young and each shoe features a sole made from 1,050 denture teeth. No, they’re not actual teeth, thank goodness. We particularly like the gold teeth towards the front. So why, exactly, do they exist? Well, they’re art, right? And the explanation goes something like this:

Apex predators are predators with no predators of their own, residing at the top of their food chain.

We imagine it’s a statement about mankind’s position atop the food chain and how we can metaphorically eat anything below us. Or something like that. Art interpretation was never our strong suit. We can tell you that they are UK size 15 suits, and that there’s a matching suit somewhere called the Apex Predator Suit. And like most art, it’s a one of a kind piece that’s not exactly for sale.

Hit the jump for a few more shots, and links.

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