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KSol Solar Cooker:
The sun can be a harsh mistress, stealing our fluids and destroying our livelihood with her evil rays. But she can also make coffee for 10 people in 6 minutes. The KSol solar cooker, which looks like a cool radar dish, costs a little less than $200 and focuses the sun's rays onto foodstuffs for cooking and eventual human consumption.
While this think can't beat a shank steak cooker over a burning trash can, the KSol seems like a nice way to keep the park, alley, or living room from smoking up during the family BBQ.
KSol & Sun Cook: Cook With The Sun [Treehugger]

CATPRIN - Tailor for Cats

Pray as you go:
Praystation, by Glasgow art student Douglas Maitland, is a project that addresses declining church attendance in the year 2018. It offers "Fast Faith" in the shape of a booth, where an e-priest plays the part of a conscience.

The high-street Praystation is a sound proof cubicle located in shopping malls, train stations, airports, strip clubs, offices... You can enter it with your iCross, which stores your soul, recording your life and sins, emotions, problems, health, etc. These are uploaded to the e-priest, who advises and downloads absolution and forgiveness.
It also functions as a "soul meter", its colour reflecting the state of a soul from pure white to a sinful black. The e-priest is a cognitive artificial intelligence that will learn and evolve the more you visit it, building up a profile.
Picture BBC News.
Related: Mobile Confessional and the remote confession kit for catholic priests.
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Squirrel Flask:
Made from a Real Squirrel(TM), this delightful little flask offers the heavy tippler a number of exciting opportunities to sneak drinks out of the corpse of a dead rodent. While some would question the value of such a delightful beverage container, I assure you that anyone who sees you sucking on the desiccated neck of an ex-squirrel will know you are a man of class and style. Perhaps the enterprising drinker can add a nice chain and wear the dead fellow around his or her neck?
Sneaky Alcoholic [Random Good Stuff]

Hannspree makes 'artful' TVs that look like sheep.

We know it must be hard for a company to differentiate itself from all the rest of the manufacturers out there flooding the market with LCD and plasma sets, and apparently it’s gotten so difficult they’ve resorted to designing TVs in the shape of totally random things like apples, Cinderella’s carriage, and, um, sheep. Four design firms helped them craft their line of sets that’ll roll out for between $449 and $1,399 from the chic retail stores Hannspree plans to open in Beverly Hills and San Francisco.

Sprayonmud Products

UKTV 'crack house' poster ad campaign condemned - Media Bulletin - Media news by Email - Brand Republic:
UKTV 'crack house' poster ad campaign condemned
by Lisa Burn Brand Republic 8 Jun 2005

LONDON - A poster ad for a TV makeover show has been accused of 'glorifying crack houses' by local councillors who have called for the offending posters to be taken down.
The billboard, for UK TV Style's 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', propgramme bears the strapline "Bless this Crack House" in a framed floral cross-stitch picture.

Frontgate Outdoor Entertainment Island:

We thought the Frontgate SuperScreen Outdoor Theater System was pretty awesome but that was before we saw their new entertainment island. The island has a steel frame and a stucco and ceramic tile finish which covers up a 42” plasma TV that pops up at the touch of a button.
The system includes four surround-sound speakers and a DVD/CD player with an AM/FM tuner.  It’s also compatible with Sirius satellite and has an input for hooking up to your satellite or cable TV.  It’s designed to spend serious time outdoors and the whole thing can be cleaned with a garden hose.  Screening your movies outside isn’t cheap, the system sells for $16,995

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