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Do you need a head massage? This golden head massager has 92 brush extensions that poke you in all the right places along the rim of your head, making you feel refreshed and taking away aches and pains. Plus it'll make you look like royalty. Well, kind of.
Yoshio Fukusawa loves women's underwear. He likes to try on stockings, and he probably digs the smell of panties, too. Sick bastard stole over 400 panties and stockings over the last 3 years from a neighborhood laundromat. He was arrested in Yamanashi Prefecture this week.
Someone took Nintendo's old school Family Computer design and made a real working guitar out of it. Check out the "making of" in photos and Japanese captions detailing materials and method here. (via Korokorozaeega)
Cell phone cameras are great for taking spontaneous pictures when the unexpected happens, like when you get snowed in for 4 days in a cabin in Lake Tahoe and you and your friends are trying to dig through 3 feet of snow with a shovel and a snow blower so you can get some food or a cigarette. But if you want to take close-up pictures of their freezing cold faces and frostbitten toes, you might want to use this 12mm cell phone camera zoom lens. It's designed to be a convenient clip-on cell phone strap, so it's always there when you need it.
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Listening to a Cornelius song is kind of like going to a circus and also kind of like having all your auditory senses picked on and toyed with. Watching this video makes me want to have obsessive compulsive disorder just so I can really truly enjoy it even more (like the guy in the combini man short film). Visuals created by designer/video producer Koichiro Tsujikawa.
(via Pink Tentacle)
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