Fonhandle is an accessory by Yonatan Assouline that essentially adds a handle to the iPhone. The accessory allows users to hold the phone at previously impossible angles, and it can also provide a way to continue using and moving the phone without touching it when things like sticky hands are an issue. Assouline is currently raising funds to produce the accessory via a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign.
images via Fonhandle
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Mrdesplainesshitty...
A sign indicating the “rules of conduct” for attendance greets you upon entry at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. “Please be reminded that the 9/11 Memorial is a place of remembrance and quiet reflection,” it says. “Visitors should exercise proper decorum, personal behavior, and conduct at all times.”
While decorum may not be a word in the average American’s vocabulary, it goes without saying that the Memorial pools that now exist on the hallowed ground where nearly 3,000 people lost their lives on September 11th, 2001 aren’t exactly the ideal environment to exercise one’s tastelessness. To most, the mere idea of acting in a less-than reverent manner when standing on such consecrated land would be impossible.
Said pools, located where the Twin Towers once stood, are enormous holes in the Earth surrounded by the names of those who perished—visiting them is a solemn, overwhelming experience.
The sheer magnitude of the one-acre pools, the largest manmade waterfalls in the United States, is intended to impart the enormity of the loss of life that took place in the buildings they have replaced. The intense sound of water flowing, constantly flowing, down the infinitely deep pools drowns out the sound of the city surrounding it, thus facilitating the aforementioned quiet reflection.
It is a place to reflect on the fragility of human life and the impermanence of being. It is a place to honor the brave men and women of the New York City Police and Fire Departments who made the ultimate sacrifice, giving their lives to assist their city’s residents in their time of need.
It is also a place to honor the average folks who lent a hand to their fellow man, and in doing so either risked or lost their lives as well. It is a place to think about the ineffable strength of the human spirit, and our ability as a people to rally together when presented with senseless tragedy.
While the names of the thousands of soldiers who perished fighting the “War on Terror” that ensued post-9/11 are not listed, knowledge of their sacrifice, as well as the deaths of thousands of innocent Iraqi and Afghanistan civilians, adds further grimness to the Memorial.
Realization that the events of that fateful day, and the fear they induced, set the wheel in motion for America to allow the Patriot Act to be instated, and to reelect George W. Bush, and all that those events entailed, adds further grimness still. We did not merely lose life that day. We lost liberty as well.
It is a place, indeed, of remembrance and quiet reflection. A sacred place, where one may, and should, ruminate on matters of life and death.
Which I’m totally gonna do in, like, one second. Um… but first? Lemme take a selfie.
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I wonder what they charge for a sus-sus-studio?
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The Big Wheel Drift Trike by SFD Industries is an adult-size motorized Big Wheel-style tricycle designed for the increasingly popular world of stunt trike drifting. The model features a 26-inch front wheel that adds stability to the motorized vehicle.
images via SFD Industries
via Gizmag, Mikeshouts, The Awesomer
“Forest Man” is a short documentary directed by Canadian filmmaker William D McMaster that follows Jadav Payeng, a man living in Jorhat, India, who has been planting his own forest on Majuli Island in India’s Brahmaputra River since the late 1970s. The forest, which now covers more ground than New York’s Central Park, is home to a diverse array of wildlife, including rhinos, deer, tigers and 115 elephants.
My dream is to fill up Majuli Iland and Jorhat with forest again. I will continue to plant until my last breath.
via Gizmodo
This young driving ace is the Elwood Blues, the Ken Block, of parking a go-kart. Or, if you're a Top Gear fan, he's like The Stig —an anonymous stud whose identity is concealed by his racing suit.
Good news: Scotland not under attack by flying boats.
“Marvels of Nature” is a series of beautiful animal-themed body paintings by artist Emma Fay featuring contortionists as models.
photos by Jonathan Macauley
It could be said that model plane builders are the geekiest of aviation geeks, and they'd probably receive that as a compliment. But when things go wrong their realistic scale planes crash in extremely real, strange ways.
Mrdesplainesreal or fake?
“When I think drugs, I think Butt Drugs.”
In 2010, comedy duo Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal of Rhett & Link created a funny pharmaceutical commercial for Butt Drugs, a real drugstore located in Corydon, Indiana. It shows Corydon townsfolk expressing how much they truly love Butt Drugs and “recommend Butt Drugs for everybody.” Butt Drugs shirts are available to purchase online at their official store. We previously wrote about Rhett & Link’s “Shift It” and “Kung POW” commercials.
via Theremina, Boing Boing
At yet another public appearance on his tour of Colorado and Texas, President Obama fist bumped a BBQ cashier in response to the cashier's quip about gay rights. "It was just a lucky day to be the register girl," cashier Rugg Webb told The Austin Chronicle later.
One woman at the beach is heard screaming, “If we die, I love you.”
Siberian Times / Via youtube.com
Siberian Times / Via youtube.com
America laughed when Professor Isao Echizen unveiled his goofy-looking "privacy goggles" last year. But Isao did not get discouraged — and now allies within Japan's top eyewear firms have joined forces with Isao to develop glamorous frames that can beat facial recognition software. Google Glass, a challenger appears!
Is this a classic case of Photoshop gone wrong?
It's a new Diet Coke ad, which you can find in magazines and on billboards across the UK.
Scott Bryan / BuzzFeed
That's right.
Scott Bryan / BuzzFeed
Scott Bryan / BuzzFeed
Whoops.
A mechanical malfunction with a coroner van's rear door likely was the cause of a bit of a macabre sight when a corpse strapped to a gurney fell from the car and onto a road in Feasterville, Penn. on Friday.
The coroner's office employee realized fairly quickly that the door had opened and the corpse had fallen out of the car outside of a busy shopping center around noon.
Witness Jerry Bradley, who helped push the body out of traffic, snapped a photo of the sheet-wrapped corpse.
"I thought someone was playing a prank. Someone is pranking people," Bradley told the Courier Times. "It was the most bizarre thing I'd ever seen."
The Bucks County Coroner's Office said it "deeply regrets" the incident.
Mrdesplaineshe still got it
Watch Aisha Tyler, Jack Black, Margaret Cho, Eric Stonestreet, and Kristen Schaal get “Tacky.”
Via nerdist.com
RCA
RCA
The Coolest cooler project has raised almost $4 million on Kickstarter in six days. And we can see why.
Behold: The Coolest cooler, a Kickstarter project that was already in the 20 most funded projects the site's ever had by the fifth day. The page calls it "a portable party disguised as a cooler," which seems hyperbolic until you read what this cooler can do.
Oh, to be this easily entertained.
The little boy has NO idea what he’s in for.
Ry Guy / Via youtube.com
Ry Guy / Via youtube.com
To achieve the state of Nirvana might be as simple as getting a donut… at least for Homer…
In the celebration of The Simpsons’ 25th anniversary this year, specialty toy brand Kidrobot just re-introduced its 7-inch Homer Buddha figurine, now dressed in metallic silver. The vinyl statuette shows Homer Simpsons “levitating” off the ground on a giant doughnut ring, consuming another donut while in a state of bliss. Packaged in a Chinese food take-out box, the limited figure retails for $39.99 USD and is available now through Kidrobot online store. It is also available for purchase at Kidrobot’s store locations in San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Boulder, CO.
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Paleo Ultra is a line of shoes by German footwear maker Gost-Barefoots designed to embrace the natural running trend. The shoes are built from a thin layer of stainless steel chainmail. The “virtually indestructible” shoes are designed to embrace the movement that has led to the popularity of shoes like the Vibram FiveFingers while keeping harmful elements away from the bottom of the foot. The Paleo Ultras are built for natural surfaces like soil and grass, not asphalt and concrete.
images via Gost-Barefoots
via The Awesomer
Mangoes are objectively one of the best fruits in the world (see you in the comments), but they can be notoriously difficult to peel, due to how slippery they are inside. Here's how to skip the mess and get rid of those pesky skins in seconds.
Mike Boyer, the national treasure and inspiration to us all who lost his job after becoming Spokane, Wa.'s first legal weed buyer, is going back to work.
Tested has created a video providing an in-depth tour of MythBuster Adam Savage’s San Francisco workshop, a location affectionately referred to as “the Cave.” Savage’s workshop is also available to explore via Google Maps Street View.
Somewhere in San Francisco is a hidden workshop of wonder. A place where iconic characters, creatures, and props from cult favorite movies are pulled from the screen into reality. Adam Savage’s Cave is the Mythbusters host’s personal sanctum, the place he goes not only to build his painstaking creations but where he displays a lifetime’s collection of oddities, eclectic memorabilia, and film props. It’s the well that’s at once the source of Adam’s inspiration and a reflection of his obsessions.
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YouTube user Shrek Sanic has uploaded a video of a young woman quickly reciting the names of all 50 states in the United States of America without taking a breath.
A skilled chef impresses his audience by cooking and flipping a large batch of miniature pancakes with extreme speed and precision in this video uploaded by JapanTotal.
