Gizmodo: ants

This Cup Is Not Covered With Ants

Mark Wilson — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:50:00 EST

It may look gross, but this cup and saucer set is not covered with ants.

Available now on Etsy (there's supposedly one in stock, but these things can generally be back ordered), this coffee/tea set is a nasty way to welcome a guest, or a warm greeting to the occasional ant eater who may live next door. I know that sounded ridiculous, but how great would it be to have an ant eater next door? It's like the next best thing to living next door to a champion body builder who will reluctantly help you move in exchange for you not mocking his deeply guarded self image issues. [Etsy via nerdapproved]

Tokyo Street Watches Graph the Time, Shoot It, or Turn It Into Some Bugs

John Herrman — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:17:13 EST

These watches from Tokyo Street take three novel approaches to telling time: one draws a target, the other makes a graph, and the last displays ants. Glowing, inscrutable little ants.

The Ever-Increasing watch slowly draws a graph of the time which, though it displays what some might call a rather predictable function, gets the point across just fine. The SCOPE II is more direct: a small targeting reticle locks onto the current time, which is arranged among a bunch of incorrect ones. Then there's the ANT.

It's not clear what each of the the ANT watch's ants symbolize, but if you take for granted that they probably correlate somehow to the current time, then you can accept that it's at least a useful icebreaker. The SCOPE II and Ever Increasing watches are priced at $180 and the ANT at $120 from Japanese überimporter and Gizmodo Gallery suppoter Gizmine. [Tokyo Street at Gizmine]

Video: Ants Turn Guy's Scanner Into Giant Ant Farm

Matt Hickey — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:00:22 EDT

The video is pretty self explanatory, but here it is for those who can't see it: A man and his wife had been noticing lots of ants on their computer desk but couldn't figure out where they were coming from. It wasn't from outside or anywhere else in the house. Later, the wife tells the husband that the printer wasn't working correctly. He checked out the printer/scanner combo only to find that the ants had turned it into a home. The video's pretty good, but what's he going to do next? Throw out the printer/scanner? Evict the bugs? What would you do?

High-Tech Neon Blue Ant Farm

Travis Hudson — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 10:58:21 EDT

One childhood toy that one would expect to never receive the high-tech treatment is the ant-farm. But with a little help from NASA, AntWorks was born. This ant farm has ditched the traditional sand for crazy neon blue goo that serves as both food and housing for the ants. It is a non-toxic gel, so there are no worries if you happen to ingest the entire farm after a long night of binge drinking.

Just like traditional ant farms, this one lets you sit and watch the ants do their business—like when they mack on the queen like she is some kind of floozy—day-in and day-out while they are stuck inside the ant concentration camp filled with blue goo. This NASA-ized ant farm is available for the $30 over at ThinkGeek. Ants are not included, either. – Travis Hudson

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