In case you have grown tired of the endless things available on the web to distract you, I offer you two more: Gizmodo.com and Engadget.com (thank you again, Jeff). Now I can sleep even less because I’m up all night browsing these sites and watching Mythbuster’s Kari Byron snipe a tree in half with a wicked Gatling gun.
That’s the kind of stuff that sells Starbucks because you’ll need three cups after staying up all night on these sites.
Gizmodo’s tagline lures surfers with this compelling bait: “So much in love with shiny new toys, it’s unnatural.” They back up that promise by burying you in astounding gadgetry. Wait, that’s Engadget (who apparently has no tagline but a lot of interesting paraphernalia meant to grab your attention as well. Both will waste more time than a new Wii..
Maybe you’re looking for solar “shingles” that not only generate energy captured by the sun, but harness wind energy as they shimmy in the breeze. Need some of those?
Tired of now? Try yesterday, or better yet, tomorrow. It’s possible at The Echo Park Time Travel Mart where you can buy time in a bottle, barbarian repellant, or anti-robot fluid and shade in a bag, to name just a few items.
Ever wondered where you could buy molds to make anatomically correct chocolate treats from, well, certain body parts? Now you can sample Whitman’s and Smith’s and anyone else willing to test the old line, “Melts in your mouth, not in your hand.” Check out “Clone-a Willy.” Yup, that’s here too.
Why stop with the 12 foot-tall Skywalker Tall Bike when you can go straight for the Mobius Climber and rip off that body part mentioned above as you fall into a twisted mass of knobbed sheet metal?
It’s strange (robotic hunting trophies) and wonderful (heated sleep suit for insomniacs) to just plain odd (the Shoe Chandelier). You will keep clicking, I promise. Every page has something worth the time you should be doing homework, timesheets, or checking your MySpace page.
So whether you want to know why NASA is going to intentionally smash two spacecrafts into the moon or why that new 521-foot-high hotel being built in Baku, Azerbaija looks like a moon-like-death-star-donut, these two sites are the places to go.
Just remember, melted chocolate is very hot. Ask Jeff.
