The bedbugs are attracted to carbon dioxide, so you'll want to use something like dry ice to lure them out of your bed and into somewhere where you can confirm the infestation. All you need is an insulated 1/3 gallon jug, 2.5 pounds of dry ice pellets and a piece of paper. That's about $15 worth of equipment in total. And dry ice can be easily had at many supermarkets, ice cream stores, and the like. Wan-Tien Tsai of Rutgers University explains the setup, which uses the dry ice and a type of rigging to trap the bedbugs inside:

She stood the jug in a plastic cat food dish with a piece of paper taped on the outside of the dish as a ramp up to the rim. The bowl's steep, slippery inside, with an added dusting of talcum powder, kept bugs from crawling out again.

In tests in real apartments, the homemade setup detected bedbugs as well, or better, than did two brands of professional exterminating equipment

I'll tell you what, even if you don't suspect bedbugs at home, I wouldn't hesitate to use something like this at that seedy hotel you might find yourself staying at for the holidays. [Wired Image via WestchesterGov]

The Wheelie Bin Urinal concept, which I shouldn't have to tell you came from England, came from England, the only country where public micturation is subject to stylistic regulation. It looks like a normal trash can you'd see on any street in the UK, except for a curious, and curiously labeled, little portal. This is for your junk.

As you can see in the video below, given that they were probably planning on peeing in public anyway, people don't seem to reluctant to mount the Wheelie Bin Urinal. But it isn't magic: at da end of da day, you're still stuck with a trash can full of piss. Or, if this is any better, piss and straw. [DesignBoom]

Why rabbits? The fuzzy critters have actually become a bit of a pest in Sweden; wild and stray pet rabbits alike have ravaged city parks in Stockholm, forcing hunters to think out the population. With all those bunny bodies piling up, it makes sense to put them to good use. So the bodies are shipped to Konvex, a company that turns animal and vegetable oils into automotive and heating oils. But even the reproductively prolific rabbits don't provide sufficient power, so Stockholm supplements their bunny-based power with other animal corpses, including cats and horses.

Holy shit. Macabre? Yes. But also strangely sensible? Yes. I don't know what to think anymore. [Scientific American via io9]

Who the hell wants to clean their gutters? Thanks to iRobot you don't have to deal with the gross sludge that's so hard to clean out. The Looj dislodges dirt and brushes your gutters squeaky clean via remote control. [iRobot via Link]
After scrubbing the toilet, even a Lysol bath won't make you feel clean again. Toto's Neorest robo-toilets do the dirty work for you by summoning up a water cyclone that breaks up anything that might stick to the inside of the bowl. [Toto via Link]
Gas station handles are a breeding ground for bacteria. Thankfully, the Dutch have come up with a robot that pumps gas for you. [Link]
Cleaning bathrooms is bad enough, but imagine what it would be like at a highway rest area (or a Walmart for that matter)? The Japanese have come up with a robot that goes where humans fear to tread. Dubbed "Ladybird", this autonomous robot happily scrubs down the area and even engages in awkward and surreal conversations with patrons. Indeed, if you ever travel to Japan you could find yourself holding your junk and asking a giant ladybug for the latest weather conditions. [Pink Tentacle]
We all love our pets, but washing them is a different story. That's why automatic pet washing machines are becoming more popular for hosing down and traumatizing your pooch. [Hacked Gadgets]
Babies in diapers are bad enough, but adults in diapers are a whole other headache. That's why engineers are hard at work developing robots that can take over some of the traditional responsibilities of a nurse. uBOT-5 can check vitals, dial 911 and help patients interact directly with their doctors via webcam. Other robots have been developed to deliver medication and even carry you around in exceedingly creepy ways.
Like a Roomba for the great outdoors, the Dustbot vacuums the street and collects garbage on in areas where trucks can't reach. It even makes housecalls via text message. [Dustbot]
Robot sex dolls. Seriously, what real woman would have you? In the not so distant future, having sex with robots might be more common than you would expect. Progress is already being made in the form of Andy here—she takes one for the team with features a lifelike exterior, internal heating element, a beating heart that responds to increased "activity" and remote controlled hip wiggling. Just keep your fingers cross that real AI doesn't happen in your lifetime. It will be a sad day when you are rejected by humans and robots. [The Register]

Mmmm...a whole chicken in a can. God, it looks like it was just birthed out of an aluminum womb. [Link]
Somehow, the idea of canned bread dough seems palatable while cooked and canned bread seems weird. This is especially true if the can is covered in anime characters and dispensed out of a vending machine. [Tokyo Times]
Hot dogs are scary enough without stewing in their own gross juices for years on end. [Food Network Humor]
There is something unsettling about bacon being stuffed inside a can for 10 years. [Link]
I'm not a big fan of canned meat in general—and the marketing department at Heinz isn't helping matters. [Food Network Humor]
Ahh, the infamous canburger. If you were ever curious about what this might taste like, wonder no more.
Ugh, anyone for some soggy hot wings? [Food Network Humor]
Okay, I understand that there is a stigma associated with putting wine in containers other than a corked bottle—but canning it like a soda is just weird. [Wine In a Can]
Bonus: Who doesn't love a good Manhattan Style Fish Asshole? A joke obviously, but it sounds about as appetizing as the other stuff on this list. [Gunaxin]

The crew at DeepSeaNews.com sent the video over to Dr. Timothy S. Wood, an expert on freshwater bryozoa and an officer with the International Bryozoology Association (what fun parties they must have, eh?), and he had this to say about it:

Thanks for the video – I had not see it before. No, these are not bryozoans! They are clumps of annelid worms, almost certainly tubificids (Naididae, probably genus Tubifex). Normally these occur in soil and sediment, especially at the bottom and edges of polluted streams. In the photo they have apparently entered a pipeline somehow, and in the absence of soil they are coiling around each other. The contractions you see are the result of a single worm contracting and then stimulating all the others to do the same almost simultaneously, so it looks like a single big muscle contracting. Interesting video.

Here's a more clear video of these Tubiflex worms in the wild. Not quite as horrifying, but still pretty gross.
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Yes, the Ped Mouse does just what it claims to do: lets you control your cursor while scraping away at your heel. Practical? No? Gross? Yes. But hey, if the goal was just to prove they could do it while also making something completely ludicrous, mission accomplished. [Stupid Inventions via Craziest Gadgets]

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We especially feel awful for the actors in this infomercial. That poor fat guy has to implicitly say that wiping himself is a struggle without a candy-colored plastic stick, and then justify it by saying that being a fat guy has certain advantages, which is only true in the winter. Although after having used a bidet, I can say that we might be in need of some new butt-wiping technology: Three-ply just can't compare to a Super Soaker up the butt. [via Boing Boing Gadgets]

There are more detailed shots below, in the gallery, but do not blame me if you vomit.

From Wikipedia:

A meat grinder or meat mincer is a kitchen appliance for grinding, fine mincing or mixing raw or cooked meat, fish, vegetables or similar food. It replaces tools like the mincing knife, for example, which has been used to produce minced meat, filling etc. The producer puts the minced food into a funnel, which is placed on the top of the grinder. From there the material goes on a horizontal screw conveyor. This screw conveyor, that can be powered by a hand wheel or an electric motor, squashes and partially mixes the food. At the end of the screw conveyor there is a knife installed directly in front of the fixed hole plate. At this opening the minced meat comes out of the machine. The fineness of the meat depends on the size of the holes of the plate.

Four out of Five Gizmodo editors didn't have the stomach to post this. I can't say I blame them.

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Everything associated with this is so deeply stupid I want to cry. From this:

Our Home of the Year sits among the Hollywood Hills, where the stars shine as brightly inside the homes as they do in the night sky.

...to the two flatscreen TVs in the bedroom facing the same direction...

...to the giant plasma screen in the bathroom so the soaking rich fucks within can watch TV instead of looking at the amazing view of the aforementioned gilt Hollywood Hills. It is all controlled by a Crestron automation system, which in turn is controlled by Satan.

But hey, look, one of those three-screened racing simulator things:

And is it a surprise that custom-installer geeks have horrible taste in actual homes? I guess some people like living in a rendered Sharper Image catalog.

But as Silvio Dante once said: "Disgusting" [Electronic House]

You're going to want to avoid everything below if you're eating right now. You've been warned.

First Place — Cobra Commander
Second Place — Ann Dougherty
Third Place — Donald Hanson

For this week's Photoshop Contest, I want you to create the most revolting, stomach-turning food products possible. Send your masterpieces to me at contests@gizmodo.com with Horrifying Food in the subject line. Save your entries as JPGs, PNGs or GIFs and use a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming convention. Send your entries in by next Tuesday morning, and I'll choose the top 3 winners and show off the best of the rest in our Gallery of Champions. Get to it!

From the listing:

This is a like new Powerbook G4
there's only one light scratch on the bottom part of the case, but it's hard to see from the pictures. The LCD still works, no dead pixels, no heavy darkness etc.

So far, so normal. But then, you see this special note at the bottom:

*******SPECIAL********
Includes over 50 full length porn movies (100 hours)
From such producers as Digital Playground, Brazzers, Vivid, etc.

Given that 50% of used laptops are probably shipping with some level of pornography unintentionally, I guess you might as well advertise it. But even still, that $700 starting bid price seems a tad high for the machine...and free keyboard sterilization really should be bundled in with the offer. [eBay Thanks Ragan!]

You can set the tissue box to record when scheduled, to be motion-triggered or to be controlled by remote control. The timestamped video is recorded onto a 2GB SD card (which is upgradable to 16GB) at a resolution of up to 720×480 pixels, even in low-light situations. So if you have a whopping $600, head on over to possibly catch your maid stealing or, most likely, just to find somebody playing around with their nose cooties. [Brickhouse via Boing Boing]

Emma Schweiger found the Nokia in a bag of Clancy's Ripple Potato Chips from her local Aldi store. That night, while she was being a fatass reading the paper (its okay, I've done it too) she felt something hard in the open bag. The greasy phone wouldn't turn on, but it had a T-Mobile chip and a black discolored circle on it (could that be part of a belt clip?). Yup, I'm going to have a used iPhone for breakfast tomorrow. But only after I puke profusely that is not in any way related to last Friday night. [GazetteExtra via Consumerist via CrunchGear]

The so-called Paradox Mouse has everything a good steampunk mod needs: brass, bolts, gears, woods, and a distinct neo-Victorian flair. It also has a few extras, which the modder refers to as "ironic": a mouse skull, shoulder blades and spine. The skull sits as a sort of ornament on the front of the mouse, the shoulder blades as miniature cattle catchers, and the vertebrae as the palmrest.
I'm not sure what to say about this, especially considering that it sounds like the modder might have some, uh, experience when it comes to repurposing mouse parts:

I had to soak the bone in warm water for 5 minutes to soften the tendons which allowed me to bend it to its final shape.

Neat! Daniel, who just had a mouse skeleton just "sitting in a box" (!!!) says the entire mod only cost him about $40-$50. Check his site for build details. [TheTentacleParadox]