Habit of a Lifetime

Lap-juicer - “You can’t touch - but you can drink my juice…”

“Redesign a food processor…” was the brief by the Royal College of Art in the UK.

The Lap-juicer is intended to be used by a lap-dancer in a club. The performer uses their body with the object, in order to extract fruit juices that can be drunk by one or more spectators.  Imagine someone making your favourite cocktail with a Lap-juicer… it’s for girls and boys - who do you want to see using it?  The Lap-juicer embodies a step beyond the strict ‘look but don’t touch’ policies enforced in many clubs.

The Lap-juicer was demonstrated at the Royal College of Art Postgraduate Degree Show, June 2005.  The prototype has now been superseded by finished versions, one of which is on exhibit in The Victoria & Albert Museum (London) between June 16th and August 29th 2005. It will be part of an exhibition entitled ‘Touch Me’.

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Darth Vader fetish chick

Perhaps someone can tell me what the Sith is going on here!?!?

Looks like a model decided to do her own homage to the release of Revenge of the Sith by wearing thigh-high boots, a Darth Vader mask and little else. A surprisingly disturbing combination of geek iconography and sexuality which twists the brain just to look at. Almost “Safe for Work” (that is to say no visible nipples). The photography is fairly boring and kind of flat, but the subject matter is enough to brighten things up... :P

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Antarctic concept vehicle unveiled

With any luck a few more years of global warming will leave Antarctica fit for beach volleyball and we won’t need this sort of thing anymore, but a team at the Royal College of Art in London, in collaboration with the British Antarctic Survey, have developed a new two-person vehicle dubbed Ninety Degrees South that’s designed for exploring the one continent that doesn’t yet have a McDonalds.

The Ninety Degrees South can operate on ice and snow without a problem and also comes with a smaller GPS-controlled companion unit that’s supposed to scout out the terrain up ahead.

Antarctic concept vehicle unveiled

Supermodel bounty hunter found dead

Hollywood adored her – Domino Harvey was the beautiful lesbian daughter of a famous English actor who became a Ford supermodel in New York and then a socialite in Beverly Hills. Somehow, along the way, she also became a bounty hunter - a mercenary who hunted outlaws for the price on their heads - and even inspired a Hollywood movie (starring Keira Knightly, due out in August).

For British-born Domino, however, beauty, wealth and stardom went horribly wrong.  When she was pulled out of a bath in West Hollywood on Monday night, presumed drowned, she was facing life in jail on charges of drug dealing, crossing state lines for unlawful activity and having property that was used in or obtained through criminal activity.

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Roberto Cavalli: Fashion Playboy!

Roberto Cavalli has been picked to update the Playboy Bunny Costume for the first time in 25 years. The sexy new uniform, which will be granted a trademark registration by the US Patent Office, will be launched to celebrate the new Playboy tower at the Palms Casino Resort & Spa in Las Vegas.

Press Release: Roberto Cavalli to Reinterpret the Legendary Playboy Bunny Costume

Woman doesn't clean up her dog's mess — blog infamy ensues

In Korea, a woman's dog crapped on the train. When people on the train asked her to clean up the mess, she became belligerent.

Within hours, she was labeled gae-ttong-nyue (dog-shit-girl) and her pictures and parodies were everywhere. Within days, her identity and her past were revealed. Request for information about her parents and relatives started popping up and people started to recognize her by the dog and the bag she was carrying as well as her watch, clearly visible in the original picture.

Melon Squared

It’s summer in Tokyo and the square watermelon season is upon us. Farmers in Kanagawa Prefecture initially grew the oddly-shaped melons as a convenient solution for "space-cramped Japanese refrigerators", but they quickly became even better known for their novelty value —as The Simpsons attests.

Square watermelons will be available from supermarkets and produce vendors across Tokyo starting this week, but be warned; the delicious and cuboid fruits cost a mean JPY10,000 (approx US$91).

Japan corners square food market (CNN.com)

Scientology's E-Meters reviewed

Gizmodo has an hilarious, in-depth story on the history of the E-Meter, the "religious artifact" used by the "Church" of Scientology to detect and clear "engrams" -- negative energy left behind by unhappy events in this life or lives gone past.

The Cadillac of current official offerings, the Quantum Super VII is the ultimate in e-meter artifacts, priced at over $4,500 new. From e-meter.org.uk's Quantum Super VII page, which may or may not be an official outlet of the Church: "Using the meter, the auditor ensures the process covers the correct area in order to discharge the harmful energy connected with that portion of the preclear's reactive mind. When charge lessens, the person heightens his ability to think clearly in the area being addressed and his survival potential increases proportionately. As a result, the preclear discovers things about himself and his life – new realizations about existence, the milestones that mark his gains."

Sony products are too much trouble - The Queen

iPod user HRH Queen Elizabeth II has admitted she finds Sony products too difficult to use.

Sony's new CEO Howard Stringer recounted a luncheon with the Queen to Sony shareholders. He told them that the Queen had struggled with certain Sony products. According to Stringer the Queen told him: "I have a lot of trouble with your remote controls. Too many arrows."

Hopefully Her Majesty finds the iPod with its scroll wheel and human friendly interface somewhat easier to use.