Image via Sandy Austin's Flickr People always ask me what I like to do in Tokyo. What's fun? What's cool. Well here's my dirty secret. Most nights, I sit in… Read the rest of the article: Taste Test: Persimmon

A Lithuanian designer team has made a series of edible, wearable bread shoes that can be purchased on their site. They seem like they'd be comfy house slippers. Bread Shoes… Read the rest of the article: Shoes made out of bread

Yesterday morning, I had the pleasure of taking the 2010 Tesla Roadster Sport out on the town in Menlo Park, California. It's the latest from the eco-friendly, Silicon Valley-based super-fast… Read the rest of the article: A fast food morning with the Tesla Roadster Sport

Global Voices has an interactive map showing bloggers who have been threatened, arrested, or killed for speaking out online. The United States has one — Elliot Madison was taken by… Read the rest of the article: Map of threatened or arrested bloggers around the world

Disposable cameras have been around for quite some time now. So why not disposable laptops? That's the question designer Je Sung Park is asking with the Recyclable Paper Laptop, which… Read the rest of the article: Disposable laptop design

How do you gauge the magnitude of a series of lion attacks that occurred over a century ago? In 1898, construction on the Ugandan Railroad in East Africa was halted… Read the rest of the article: How scientists determined how many humans two lions ate in 1898

A young Iraqi woman died tonight in Arizona because her father believed she had become too Westernized. Noor Faleh Almaleki, the 20-year old pictured here, moved to the Phoenix area… Read the rest of the article: 20-year old Iraqi woman dies; father ran her over for being too Westernized

When I finished my first half-marathon last month, I experienced what it felt like to run on the ground for two hours. But what is it like to run in… Read the rest of the article: A bouncy, anti-gravity workout with the new AlterG treadmill

I just watched a fascinating and deeply disturbing documentary on CNN that explained how the infamous DC snipers, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, turned a 1990 Chevrolet Caprice… Read the rest of the article: How the DC snipers hacked an ex-police car to make a killing machine

Interactive designer Lauren McCarthy used Arduino to make a wooly torture device hat that she calls the Happiness Hat — it has sensors that detect when you're smiling — when… Read the rest of the article: Knit hat stabs you in the head if you don't smile

Newsweek.com has a gallery of images that shows the evolution of contraception (or what we believed to be contraception at the time), from olive oil — recommended by Aristotle in… Read the rest of the article: The evolution of birth control in pictures

All images by Koichi Mitsui Koichi Mitsui is a professional photographer in Japan. When he's not on the job shooting for magazines and ads, he wanders around Tokyo taking pictures… Read the rest of the article: A Tokyo photographer offers tips on taking pro shots with an iPhone 3GS

A college couple in Nevada miraculously survived with minor injuries when a drunk driver drove a car right through the wall of their house and onto their bed last week.… Read the rest of the article: Couple survives car crash in their house

Cat Ladies is a one-hour long documentary about women who are living examples of the "crazy cat lady" stereotype. It was directed by Christie Callan-Jones, and just showed at the… Read the rest of the article: Documentary about crazy cat ladies

According to the SPGRA Design Blog, a Japanese artist named Kazuma Takahashi made these amazing sculptures out of things like cigarette boxes, gum wrappers, and packaged food containers. Oddly, I… Read the rest of the article: Sculptures made out of food packaging

Meet Koh and Yurie. They're a happily married young Japanese couple who moved from Tokyo to San Francisco a year ago due to a job transfer. In early September, while… Read the rest of the article: Advisor: My husband has a virtual girlfriend

Do you like to block the world out completely when you're working at your desk? Copenhagen-based design team GamFratesi has created a prototype for a sleek, dinosaur egg-like work environment… Read the rest of the article: Futuristic workspace looks like a dinosaur egg

Over on the Facebook blog, head of security Max Kelly has just explained what to do to memorialize the profile of someone who has passed away: We understand how difficult… Read the rest of the article: How to memorialize friends who have passed away on Facebook

A team of artists in Toronto created this giant rendition of The Last Supper using over 4,000 Rubik's Cubes. Cube Works via Popped Cullture

Image by zrim via Flickr When I got a bag of chile peppers in our CSA delivery last week, I had a really hard time trying to figure out how… Read the rest of the article: Taste test: Togarashi