Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
Curved-Crease Sculptures: Self-Folding Origami
These beautiful curved-crease sculptures are by father-son duo Martin Demaine and Erik Demaine. The sculptures are self-folding origami—creases in the paper cause the sculptures to…
Inflatable Wonder Sauna Hot Pants (1970s)
Wonder Sauna Long Hot Pants An alert for the “Health-Watchers of America”: No matter whether you choose to don a long or short one-piece pair…
World Map Made of Coins
Swedish design studio Bedow created this wonderful world map out of 3,000 coins from around the world. Each continent is made up of coins from…
The Culinary Adventures of Baron Ambrosia on the Cooking Channel
The Culinary Adventures of Baron Ambrosia is a new and wonderfully eclectic Cooking Channel show hosted by Chef Baron Ambrosia ( Justin Fornal) that…
Unmixing a Mixed Fluid
Corn syrup and food dye are mixed and then unmixed by this apparatus in a demonstration of laminar flow on New Scientist. The apparatus was…
Shark Pet Beds
ThinkGeek has introduced Japanese Nanotechnology Pet Beds, silver-y shark-shaped pet beds for big and small pets. Animals enter and exit through the shark’s large toothy…
Pictographic Rock Band Posters by Viktor Hertz
Swedish designer Viktor Hertz created this series of pictographic rock band posters. He is pre-selling the posters on FundedByMe. We’ve written previously about Hertz’s clever…
Beatles Yellow Submarine Prints by Tom Whalen
Artist Tom Whalen created these wonderful illustrations inspired by the 1968 animated Beatles film, Yellow Submarine. The officially licensed prints mark the recent release of…
Wi-Fi Combo Kit for GoPro Cameras
GoPro recently released a combo kit that provides Wi-Fi connectivity and a host of new features to the GoPro video camera. The kit includes Wi-Fi…
LEGO Giant Squid Attack
This fearsome LEGO depiction of a giant squid attacking a ship is by Sam Malmberg. via The Brothers Brick