Here’s another flash animation that’s fascinating, but also a little creepy. It’s a physics-obeying interactive female mannequin falling through an infinite sky of spheres. If the mannequin gets stuck, you can help her along with your cursor.

This guy has created an entrancing mouse-controlled flash animation.

How postmodern.

No, it’s not the jarred squeegeeings of a highly productive single-handed typing session. That would be “monitor pudding”. This is a super-reflective acrylic paint that you apply to a wall to use as a projection screen. Here’s a site that hawks it for $200 for one screen’s worth. Versus how much for a roll-up screen? Or a bedsheet?

Finding that people eventually become immune to their own alarm clocks, this guy invented clock that wakes you with the smell of sizzling bacon. Hallelujah!

A Russian aerospace design firm has a new idea for escaping a burning building. From the Economist article:

The idea is to create a cheap, inflatable structure that can be compressed into a backpack, like a parachute. The pod is designed with an inflatable tube around its edges, which should cause it to bounce off the walls of a building. And the final version will be made from some, as yet unspecified, fire-retardant material. As a bonus, and unlike a parachute, it will operate safely from altitudes of five metres and above—which would make it suitable even for the top floors of houses.
In an emergency, someone wishing to leave in a hurry would strap on the backpack and jump, pulling a ring as he did so. The pod would inflate, surround him instantly and bear him gently to the ground.

Future news story:
Man’s goes on fire alarm pulling binge around the city.
Man: “I’ve always wanted to live in a world where it would rain 30-foot bouncing boobs.”

From here:

“City Hideout,” from Dutch design studio OOOMS, is a portable temporary dwelling made to fit one seated adult. The collapsable metal box resembles the kind of streetside sheds that commonly house electrical devices such as streetlight controls, new-age parking meters, and small generators. The hideout can be easily assembled on any corner or rooftop as the ultimate urban camouflage.

…by this. Just check it out, and give it a second.