Robots Riding Camels At The 12th Annual International Camel Race

Did you know this existed?

Robot jockeys, controlled by their owners by remote, take on a 6 kilometer, 5 day tournament race held annually in Kebd (Kuwait). This past race was on Valentine's day. According to reports, robots took the place of human jockeys in 2005 "because camel owners were found to be involved in human trafficking, buying children from countries like Pakistan and India for their smaller frame and lighter weight to ride on the camels." I guess robots solves that problem!

Prizes this year include cash and 65, yes sixty-five,  2012 Toyota Land Cruisers. There were about 500 racers in the tournament. 

Photograph by: REUTERS/Stephanie McGehee, [PNG Merlin Archive]

For more information, Calgary Herald. Or google it! It's amazing! 

Glowing Man: LED Lit Snowboarder in the Alps

If you haven't already seen this...it's too cool and too beautiful not to share it! Artec pro snowboarder William Hughes  was covered in LED lights and shot by Fashion photographer and filmmaker Jacob Sutton.

Glowing Man HD from Jacob Sutton on Vimeo.

Gen-Y Takes Toilet Talk To A New Level

90% of Gen Y Uses Phone on Toilet!

Giant Tornado of Piggybacked Men!

At Toniq, we are fans of all things orange (and citron, of course). Do Ho Suh has fed our daily need with this installation of little guys adding up to a whopping vortex.

More pictures and full story over at This Is Colossal

Note to Self: Remind Often

Glamour Apothecary: Pop-Up 2-D Beauty Wall In NY

Thanks Glamour mag for this cool 2-D shopping experience! Finally in NY, we have what the Asians and Europeans are experiencing! And this one is very cool...shop beauty products via 2-D barcodes that are scanned with your phone and then the product is shipped to you. The Glamour Apothecary is located near The Standard Hotel and carries products from C.O. Bigelow, Elizabeth Arden, Unilever, Versace, John Frieda, Clearasil and Johnson & Johnson. It has a nice old-school apothecary feel, like the few drugstores that remain in NY uptown. It's a simple and easy to shop process - that's what makes this user friendly. I hope people are enjoying it and using it! 

via PSFK for more. 

Windows Gets A New Logo...With Windows!

We are all Mac Monkeys here, but had to share...

Goodbye flag and hello to windows! Makes sense!

For more, check out BrandChannel and Windows.

Mind Lamp - Change The Color Of The Lamp With Your Mind

Really? This is an ambient mind-matter interaction LED lamp that changes color with a little help from your mind. The Mind Lamp is created by Psyleron, an organization founded by of Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) scientists and associates for the purpose of making technology related to mind-matter exploration more accessible to the public. So if I think blue, chances are the lamp will turn blue. Crazy! 

Mind Lamp: Mind-Matter Interaction Technology from Psyleron on Vimeo.