Tacky washrooms seem to be popping up everywhere around the world. Some bizarre bathrooms are outdoors while many are in hotels. Would you, however, feel compelled to go out to eat mostly to visit the restroom? Strangely themed restaurants have been appealing to clientele for years, but some restaurant owners are applying a new mind-blowing marketing technique to bring curious customers in their door. From plush powder rooms to voyeuristic lavatories, visitors come not to dine but to check out the restrooms. Here are 14 tasteful or tacky toilet themed restaurants. … Read More

Originally posted 2009-09-03 22:40:58.

“Imagine a car whose body also serves as a rechargeable battery.”
One of the main challenges with electric cars is that batteries are bulky and heavy. Volvo is trying to solve that problem by turning a car’s body panels into an energy storage device, an idea that, if feasible, would kill two birds with one stone by freeing up space inside the car and making it relatively lighter…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

Originally from TreeHugger on September 27, 2010, 12:32pm

Originally posted 2010-10-07 08:19:45.

“That’s one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind.” – Neil Armstrong, July 20, 1969

Originally by David Pescovitz from Boing Boing on July 20, 2009, 7:08am

Originally posted 2009-07-20 07:58:37.

Filed under: Retrocomputing

Do you ever think about the family lineage of your hard drive? Heck, do you ever think about the history of your hard drive at all? Of course you don’t. Hard disk storage has become so ubiquitous, so reliable, and so inexpensive that most of us never give it a second thought. But where would Download Squad be if you didn’t have all that cheap, seemingly endless space to download your prize finds to? … Read More

Originally posted 2009-08-11 08:16:58.