April 2009 ↓

Star Wars/Dallas Opening

“If Star Wars used the same intro as Dallas, It’d look like this.”

Chewbacca Recreated On Guitar

“The Situation and Bastian Stache discover how to recreate Chewbacca’s voice using a stratocaster.”

Squeez Bacon

“Vilhelm Lillefläsk’s Squeez Bacon® is fully cooked 100% bacon. Due to the patented electro-mechanical process by which Squeez Bacon® is rendered, it requires no preservatives or other additives. Each serving is as healthy as real bacon, and equivalent to 4 premium slices of bacon! You can put it on sandwiches, pizza, pastas, bacon, soups, pies, eat it hot or cold (warm Squeez Bacon® on toasted rye is to die for), substitute it for bacon in your recipes, or even eat it right out of the tube like we do! If it’s edible, it’s better with Squeez Bacon®. In the immortal words of Vilhelm Lillefläsk, “Aldrig kommer att ge dig upp!” Once you get a taste of Squeez Bacon®, you’ll know exactly what he meant.” w/ photos + video

Tauntaun Sleeping Bag

“This high-quality sleeping bag looks just like a Tauntaun, complete with saddle, internal intestines and glowing lightsaber zipper pull. Now when your kids tell you their favorite Star Wars movie is “Attack of the Clones” you can nestle the wee-ones snug in simulated Tauntaun fur while regaling them with the amazing tale of Empire Strikes Back. Use the glowing lightsaber zipper pull on the Tauntaun sleeping bag to illustrate how Han Solo saved Luke Skywalker from certain death in the freezing climate of Hoth by slitting open the belly of a dead Tauntaun and placing Luke inside the stinking (but warm) carcass. If your kids don’t change their tune on which Star Wars film is the greatest ever, you can do your best Jar Jar impression until they repent.” w/ photos

Corporation Breeds Hybrid Animals

“Qualcomm opens the doors behind their top secret R&D facilities to show you the future of cell phone technology.”

Snowmobile Waterskipping

“Oh man, I’ve seen guys riding water on their snowmachines before, but this has to be the most bada$$ display of it I have EVER seen before.”

Money Is Wallpaper

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Extreme Trampoline

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The Thinnest Loudspeaker

“A groundbreaking new loudspeaker that can be printed on and used as a wall poster has been developed by British engineers. The lightweight and flexible speakers are less than 0.25mm thick and could also be concealed in car interiors or ceiling tiles. They were developed by the University of Warwick spin-out company, Warwick Audio Technologies, who plan to start selling them later this year.” w/ photos

6 Historical Villains Who Were Actually OK Guys

“Hitler. Stalin. Ivan the Terrible. We all love these guys. Which is to say, we hate them and everything they stand for, but we’re secretly glad they existed. Otherwise we’d have to learn about the cultural and political tensions behind world history, as opposed to boiling it down to “there was a bad guy who made crap happen because he was evil.” But sometimes in our haste to find a villain in every situation, we wind up painting some people as cackling cartoon villains when they were really just random guys, or even pretty awesome. Here are a few names you might want to give a second chance…” w/ photos