Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
Deep Fried Kool-Aid Balls
San Diego County Fair vendor “Chicken” Charlie Boghosian, the man behind the deep fried Twinkie and other unique fried fair fare, has a new creation:…
Lytro Light Field Camera Allows Focusing After Photo is Taken
Lytro is a Mountain View start-up that is developing the word’s first consumer light field camera. A light field camera captures additional information about the…
Craft Coffee, Highlighting Artisan Roasters With a Monthly Tasting Box
Craft Coffee is a coffee-by-mail service that assembles a monthly tasting box of several coffees by artisan roasters from around the United States. The selection…
EDWARD, an Electric Dicycle by University of Adelaide Students
EDWARD is an electric dicycle–a vehicle consisting of two giant side-by-side wheels–designed and built by students at the University of Adelaide. The students developed a…
ScottBeale.org Relaunched as a Photoblog
I’ve just relaunched my personal website scottbeale.org as photoblog on Tumblr running the awesome new High Res Theme designed by Justin Ouellette.
Jazari, a Robotic Percussion Band
Jazari is a percussion band consisting of a menagerie of robotic instruments and their conductor and designer, Patrick Flanagan. He controls his robotic instruments with…
Lomography La Sardina, An Analog Camera Styled After a Sardine Can
The La Sardina by Lomography is a new plastic 35mm camera with a design inspired by vintage sardine cans.
Tympani Lambada, New Epic Scale Fire Art by Flaming Lotus Girls
“Tympani Lambada” is the next big flaming thing from San Francisco fire arts group Flaming Lotus Girls. The 64 foot long sculpture, which will debut…
Grassroots Organization AFAJP Demands Pulitzer Prize for The Onion
The Onion has revolutionized fake news, confused and enraged readers, and in the late 1990s, included amongst its print subscribers a certain EDW Lynch. So…
MakerBot Has Scanned The Heads of Several New York Notables
MakerBot Industries recently scanned the head Stephen Colbert when Bre Pettis was a guest on his show. While they were at it, they also created…