Weirdest Inventions
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Computer Sings Interpretations of Human Ballads – Will Probably Sing Robot Overlords Into Battle
Created by artist Martin Backes, this installation of a lone “robot” singing 90s power ballads is almost hypnotizing in a quietly terrifying way. Fittingly created with SuperCollider, a freeware audio program that synthesizes audio using...
Record Made with Conductive Paint to Create “Music” – Sounds More Like Angry, Drunk R2D2
Two researchers at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design recently decided to make a record utilizing conductive paint. Conductive paint is awesome…just think of it as paintable wiring. Sounds great, right? It is…unless you decided...
Edison’s Talking Dolls Speak Again After 125 Years – Continue Terrifying Everyone Who Hears Them
Thomas Edison once took a break from electrocuting animals to turn his attention to making dolls for little girls. Because he was the go-to guy at the time for recording voices, he thought it might be cool to make those dolls speak. And...
Scientists Create Material That Absorbs All the Light
Using nanotubes, British scientists have created a material called VantaBlack that acts like a bunch of very, very tiny blackhole when it comes to light. The material is so black that our eyes can’t discern any type of edges or features an...
Dog Poop Transmitter Used By Millitary in Vietnam!
You’re walking with your buddy in the woods and one of you steps in what you thought was a dog mine only it cracks instead of squishes. During the Vietnam War, what looked like dog dookie could possibly be an Air Force homing beacon in...
Helicopter Drags 12-Bladed Chainsaw Through Sky to Trim Trees – Everyone Else is Secretly Jealous
It’s tree-trimming…with a 12-bladed chainsaw…being flown from a helicopter. Not really a whole lot else to talk about…except how we all want to have a helicopter and a 12-bladed chainsaw to tidy up the yard. [Neatorama]
Sperm-Extracting Machine Comes to Chinese Hospitals!
Because some people just can’t get the job done while locked in a room by themselves with some fun magazines or just some mental photography, some genius in China has developed something to help those people out… The lonely Chinese...
Latest Chinese Beach Fashion – The Facekini!
The bikini debuted in 1946. It’s gone through a lot of variations. There’s been a monokini, microkini, tankini, trikini, pubikini (yes…it’s a real thing) and the mankini. But only occasionally has the phrase ‘nightmare fuel’ ever been...
Keep Your Loved One’s Ashes – In The Most Disturbing Way Ever!
Because death and urns with your loved one’s ashes aren’t surrounded by enough creepy stories, a fun company called Cremation Solutions has decided to knock the creep factor over the wall. How? By using a 3D printer to create an amazingly...
Lonely? These Creepy Robotic Lips Won’t Help That – Ever!
Prepare for a new level of weird, people. A while back we reported on a kind of pillow ‘roboty’ thing that would cuddle with you and that your siginificant other could be channeled through. Creepy and a little awkward, right? That’s like a...
This Ugly Blob is the Future of New Materials
That thing pictured over there to the right? That thing that looks like hair from your shower drain or a Giger-inspired coffee mug? It’s a living organism that just might be the future of how we harvest material for all of our tech needs....