Famed YouTube magician Rahat Hussein and Philadelphia-based comedian Ed Bassmaster teamed up to prank several fast food restaurants as a headless driver and zombie respectively. That's right, Rahat (headless driver) and Ed (zombie) "cruise up to various drive-thru windows, they both frighten and make the fast food employees laugh." Continue reading to see the hilarity that ensued.
Frenchman Francois Gissy set a new world record last week by hitting 163mph on a rocket-powered bicycle. He developed the bike with help from Swiss company Exotic Thermo Engineering - they made the hydrogen peroxide powered propulsion unit. The record-setting speed was measured with a GPS unit on the hydrogen peroxide powered mountain bike. Continue reading for a video.
Arcades catering to video games began to gain momentum in the late 1970s with games such as Space Invaders (1978) and Galaxian (1979) and became widespread in 1980 with Pac-Man, Centipede and others. The golden age of video arcade games in the 1980s was a peak era of video arcade game popularity, innovation, and earnings. Color arcade games became more prevalent and video arcades themselves started appearing outside of their traditional bowling alley and bar locales. Continue reading to see how two gamers decided to relive the golden age of arcade gaming in their basement.
Believe it or not, Sky City in China is set to be the world's tallest building, and it'll be completed in just 90-days, thanks to pre-fabrication. According to the plan, the building, across 220 stories, will have: a hotel accommodating 1000 guests, a hospital, 5 schools and offices. Of the total space available, nearly 83% will be for residential purposes, housing up to 17,000 people. 5% will be for the hotel housing 1000, while 3% each will be dedicated to schools, hospitals, offices and shops. Continue reading for a video and more information.
Tracking Point's new sniper rifle can auto-aim up to 1,200 yards away, thanks to a laser range finder, wind speed sensors, ballistics computer, unit to measure inertia, a compass, and a networked tracking engine. Unlike standard guns, this one doesn't allow you to fire unless you are pointing the right way - you'll never miss. Continue reading for a video and more information.
Aesthetically, churches are not designed to be places where people live, so their interior / exterior furnishings usually leave a lot to be desired. Some people decided to transform them into stunning modern homes. Did you know that the word church derives from the Greek ekklesia, meaning the called-out ones? Continue reading for more.
An internet user who goes by the handle "bacon moose" claims that he was "victimized" by a red light camera at an intersection. He claims that the "town where the cops (and absurd red-light cameras) are pretty much a money trap and that's it." To show his disgust, he spent 6 hours making 137 mini origami pigs with $1 bills packaged in two doughnut boxes. Click here to view the first image in this week's funny autocorrect texts gallery. Continue reading for a video of the incident.
Whle experimental, 12 burn victims have already been successfully treated with the "skin gun", a device that takes adult stem cells from a burn victim's only healthy skin and sprays it on to the damaged area. According to Dr. Jorg C. Gerlach and the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, the process involves "isolating stem cells from a healthy patch of the patient's skin, putting those cells in a water solution, and then spraying the mixture back on. After being sprayed, the patient's wound is covered with a special dressing that provides glucose, sugar, amino acids, antibiotics and electroytes to the treated area, to provide nutrition and clean the wound until the stem cells get established. The whole process takes 90 minutes and burns have been reportedly achieved in as few as four days." Continue reading for a video and more information.
Call of Duty: Ghosts will make the entire game world a character, according to Infinity Wars executive producer Mark Rubin. Unlike its predecessors, Ghosts aims to give players an emotional attachment to the city in which they're fighting, starting with a "massive event [that's] going to change the face of the world as you know it." More information. Continue reading for the reveal trailer and more information.
Did you know that there's a flower that looks just like a pair of red lips? That's right, the plant Psychotria Elata attracts pollinators, like hummingbirds and butterflies, by seducing them with flowers look like large, florid, puckering human lips. That is just one of the many unbelievable facts that you won't believe are true. Continue reading to see them all.
