Every year, farmers around the world carefully harvest their crops in hopes of coming up with record breaking sizes. Of course with Halloween here now, farmers had their goals set on cultivating the world’s largest pumpkin. This year, farmer Jim Bryson of Quebec won with his massive pumpkin weighing it at a whopping 1,818 pounds. Since its creation, the monstrous pumpkin has made its way to New York to be viewed in the Botanical Gardens in the Bronx.
Last week at the New York Botanical Garden, pumpkin carving master Ray Villafane transformed the monstrously large pumpkin into an equally monstrous sculpture. Inhabitat was on the scene to snap photos of the viciously intricate three-dimensional sculpture filled with zombies and demons bursting out of the gigantic pumpkin. Head on over to their article to see more photos from the carving.
You! You’re full of body heat. Your blood is boiling. Maybe just figuratively. But you’re not just a pile of molecules, you’re throbbing with vitality. This bench by Australian designerJay Watson shows it to the world. Thermochromatic assprint.
It’s a handsome modern bench set, sure, but the thermochromatic coating is why we care. Any body part that touches the surface will change its color, leaving a mark behind. From the photos, this looks cool and frankly kind of gross, but I’m pretty sure it’s arousing to some.
Created by photographer and designer Tyler Card, this DIY Halloween costume is sure to be the life of the party. From a distance it may appear to just be a gigantic camera suit. That is, until it snaps a photo of you and displays it on the backside. We’ve seen several camera costumes throughout the years, but none of them have gone as far as Card’s masterpiece.
Tyler Card’s DIY costume features a functional LCD, built-in camera flash, and even a shutter release. No word on how long the process took, but Card’s creation craftily combined the use of a Dell laptop screen, camera parts and a lot of cardboard to turn himself into a human DSLR. For more photos and to see the making-of video, head on over to Tyler Card’s tumblr blog here.
It’s no Ford F-150, but this toy tank earns our respect for its towing prowess nonetheless. That second-generation Toyota Land Cruiser Prado Model 90 weighs over two tons, but the not-so-little remote control tank seems to have no problem pulling it through a parking lot to the amusement of quite a few onlookers.
Like any YouTube video, we wonder what – if anything – we are not seeing. In the first shot, it does appear that the passenger door is open. Could someone be pushing to help the SUV overcome inertia? Click through the jump to see the tank towing video, plus a little bonus footage of that late-90′s Land Cruiser Prado.
Remember The Gadget Show’s FPS simulator that we showed you last week? Armed with naught but a pre-release level of Battlefield 3 and £500,000 ($650,000), it transformed a Birmingham studio into the sort of game room only multi-billionaires can dream of (as long as the dreams involved getting shot back, the sim comes packing paintball markers). The episode, which shows how this slice of gaming greatness came to be, has just finished airing here in the UK, where streaming and catch-up services aren’t available to those outside the country. Fortunately for you lot, our friends at the show have uploaded the feature for you to watch in all its glory after the break.
I can’t think of a single thing I’d rather F1 engineers doing with their downtime than building grills designed with F1 dynamics in mind. They only thing that could make Brennwagen grills more desirable would be guns to shoot your meat while you cook it.
Former F1 engineers Florian Wagner and Daniel Ernst got together to create these wonderful meat-burning machines. They’ve got “low profile tires, drop-center rims, center nuts [and] safety brakes,” and the top-of-the-line GTX 1500 looks a smidge roomier than my first car. The smallest grill, the GTC 500, is diminutive enough to pass as a piece of carry-on luggage, and would probably be enough to give your local TSA agent a mild stroke.
Brennwagen’s site isn’t super-clear about the prices, but they do offer this lovely illustration of how they think trucks deliver will the grills.
I love shoes. I love dogs. So how much do I love these art sculptures of dogs made from shoes? More than dogs love to eat shoes. Dogs. Shoes. Love. YES. They’re made by Vinti Andrews, who repurposed classic Nikes like the Air Max 1, Air Force 180 and Dunks to create this sorta vibrant and fiery pet art. They cost a cool $4,500 but I think I’d get one of these before I buy my next dog. The color combinations are beautiful.
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