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Mark Frauenfelder: Stefan Jones says: “In addition to esoteric brands of soap, shampoo, and other grooming products, Sesto Senso sells chewing gum and bubble bath packed in some very strange novelty packaging. They’re like real-life Wacky Packages. “My favorite: Happy Dead Clown Gum.”

[Via BoingBoing]

The inventor of a sonic flashlight that projects a narrow beam of sound
at a distance is selling it to Japanese soda-machine vendors so that
they can zap passers-by with seductive cola-pouring sounds.

Thousands of soda machines in Tokyo will soon bombard
passersby with the enticing sound of a Coke being poured, and several
U.S. supermarkets will promote products to shoppers as they walk down
corresponding aisles. Eventually HyperSonic Sound might enable a
nightclub to play disco on one side of the dance floor and salsa on the
other. Ambulances equipped with hypersonic sirens could clear the
streets without waking the neighbors. Norris’ company, American
Technology, sells the devices for $600.

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(Thanks, A.V.!)

[Via boingboing]

By David Pescovitz:

Frankie Flood fabricated a series of ultra-designed pizza cutters. From his artist statement:

My work investigates one of a kind objects and their role in a world
based on mechanical reproduction. Industry has removed the aura from
objects and stripped them of their individuality. My pizza cutters seek
to demolish the sterile conformity of mass produced objects and
represent the stylistic and flamboyant embellishment of groups who live
on the fringe of popular culture. The outlaw biker image is a break
from the conformity that has taken over America since
industrialization. My machined pizza cutters draw inspiration from
chopper motorcycles and attempt to reclaim the mythology and economic
usefulness of the American worker as patriarch; translating machine or
functional object into flesh and blood. The outlaw as defiant
nonconformist, as well as social outcast, parallels being an artist who
makes functional objects and being an individual who takes pride in the
power of invention and skill.

Link [via Gizmodo] - [boingboing

Nothing says I love you quite like a box of piglet shaped licorice… Route 29 Napa
makes a variety of tasty licorice, but my favorite are the black and
red licorice pieces shaped like piglets. The bags are a better deal,
but the can (16 oz for $14) is a great gift. The Chewy Peps have a nice balance of texture and flavor and are also quite good.

by Evan Orensten on 20 April 05

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