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It’s the greatest thing I’ve ever seen, and I’m not just saying that because he signs my cheques.
Loading Circle Machine for Escape from Zoom is a communications solution for our weird new normal.
Could anything be hotter, or scarier, than this wall-pound apparatus?
Japanese Twitter user’s crazily extreme device is perfect for when you need multiple tissues, stat.
It’s like a soft, silky dance club.
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Aisa Mijeno, a young Filipino engineer and environmental advocate, has conceptualized a product that is not only environmentally friendly, but will provide basic lighting to the less-privileged: a lamp that runs on salt water!
The somewhat euphemistically named process of “denailing” has remained a popular torture method since medieval times and, according to the sort of creepily detailed Wikipedia page for the method, it remains in use today.
There are a few good reasons for that. It apparently leaves no permanent marks or injury – after the nail grows back, of course – and requires only the most basic of tools to pull off. It also objectively hurts like hell and there’s something about the tips of the toes and fingers being manipulated that leaves a person feeling unbearably vulnerable.
All of which has us wondering why anyone would voluntarily use this tool, which is clearly just a re-purposed torture device, to fix their ingrown toenails, regardless of how amazingly well it supposedly works.
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