Gizmodo: Poop

Giant Inflatable Turd Terrorizes Swiss Town

Sean Fallon — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:00:00 EDT

Flash! An inflatable catastrophe second only to the Hindenburg disaster has occurred in Bern Switzerland at the Paul Klee Center art museum. A house-sized inflatable turd designed by American artist Paul McCarthy broke free from its moorings in high winds after the security system designed to deflate the installation failed.

Townspeople fled in terror as the work entitled "Complex Shit" cut a swath of destruction that included downed power lines and a broken window at a children's home. At this point we can confirm that there were no poop related injuries, but it is a scene that the townspeople (and this reporter) will not soon forget. They will be forced to relive it every time they drop a deuce. Oh, the humanity! [Guardian Image via Mitchieville]

Indiana Jones 4 Blu-Ray Details Released With Cool Extras, Movie Still Poop

Jesus Diaz — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:20:20 EDT

The Blu-ray edition of the biggest letdown in movie history, also known as Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Whatever Crystal Something will be released on October 14, just in time not to buy it for this holiday season. The two-disc Blu-ray comes in the obligatory 1080p and comes loaded with extras that don't make the movie any less crappy:

The Special Edition Blu-ray is presented in 1080p High Definition with THX Certified English 5.1 Dolby True HD, French 5.1 Dolby Digital and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital and English, English SDH, French, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese subtitles. The two-disc set includes the following special features:

Blu-ray Disc 1:

Indiana Jones Timelines— Explore the movie through interactive timelines that include video featurettes, in-depth information and unique imagery. Your adventure begins with one of these three timelines:
Story Timeline: Showcases the key events of the “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” storyline.
Production Timeline: A Making-of chronology for “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”.
Historical Timeline: Dives into the real-world historical influences that are referenced in the film.
The Return of a Legend—The evolution of the new film and a tribute to the legendary hero and his creators. (HD)

Pre-Production—Follows Steven Spielberg as he creates animatic sequences, Shia LaBeouf as he learns to swordfight and captures the reunion of filmmakers and cast on the soundstage. (HD)

Disc 2:

Production Diary: Making Kingdom of the Crystal Skull—Join filmmakers, cast and crew for a complete look at the making of the film.
Shooting Begins: New Mexico (HD)
Back To School: New Haven, Connecticut (HD)
Welcome to the Jungle: Hilo, Hawaii (HD)
On-Set Action (HD)
Exploring Akator (HD)
Wrapping Up! (HD)
Warrior Makeup (HD)

The Crystal Skulls (HD)

Iconic Props (HD)

The Effects of Indy (HD)

Adventures in Post Production (HD)

Closing: Team Indy (HD)

Galleries

The Art Department
The Adventure Begins
Cemetery and Jungle
Akator
Stan Winston Studio
Corpses, Skeletons & Mummies
Aliens & Crystal Skulls
Production Photographs

Portraits

Behind-the-Scenes Photographs

[Latino Review]

Criminal Voyeur Hides Cellphone Up Butt To Escape From Cops

Jason Chen — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:50:00 EDT

BoingBoing found this story of a cellphone camera voyeur trying to snap pics of a naked gal at a tanning salon before someone called the cops on him. This wouldn't be interesting at all except for the fact that when the cops came, the guy kept denying that he did anything until the cops searched him twice and found a cellphone jammed up his rectum. Did the cops confiscate his phone? Did they force him to delete those pics? How many megapixels was the cameraphone? The Smoking Gun coming up short on this one. [Smoking Gun via Boing Boing]

Energy Generating Turbine Toilet: Poop Saves the Planet

Sean Fallon — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:00:11 EST

If the Benkatine Turbine by Leviathan Energy finds its way into homes, your bowel movements will be able to help generate free electricity. Using the same technology found in other hydroelectric devices, the Benkatine turbine uses the water that passes through the pipes in your home to produce power. According to the company, that means you could make use of the water flowing from any number of sources—including your gutter drains. It is a simple idea, but simple ideas are often the most useful. Plus, you pass off your excessive drinking and overeating as your little way of helping the environment. [Wired via Inhabitat via DVICE]

Thirty-Foot Trebuchet Fires Chicken Poop at Potential Thieves

AddyDugdale — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:15:23 EST

A businessman in the UK has come up with a novel way to deal with potential thieves: firing chickenshit at them from a 30-foot catapult. Joe Watson-Webb, a retired showman, had the iron trebuchet left over from his days as a showman, and gets his avian ammo from the farm next door. Local cops have said that they will prosecute Watson-Webb if he uses the catapult to defend his property against arsonists and robbers—but what would they think about the other weapon he has up his sleeve? Watson-Webb is also the proud owner of a 20-foot-long cannon, out of which he used to fire his wife!

He's modded it to shoot rubber-tipped railway sleepers at criminals. And in spite of the police's stance, the 70-year-old is standing firm. "I'm not out to kill anyone or even hurt them," he says. "I just want to keep yobs off my land."
Signs up at the entrance to Watson-Webb's flooring business warn of the fate that will befall anyone who attempts to get onto the Nottinghamshire property. SmartPoo, it seems, is no laughing matter. "This is a serious issue. People all over Britain are sick and tired of feeling like prisoners in their own homes and seeing yobs get away with it."
After trying just about every security product on the market—fencing, motion-sensor lights and CCTV cameras—the 70-year-old is unrepentant, and has pooh-poohed the attitude of the law. "Maybe the police think I'm joking, but the only people laughing are the criminals. That's why I fully intend to take the law into my own hands." [Daily Mail]

MacBook Air Eject Key's Rumored Alternative Actions

Jesus Diaz — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:00:51 EST

In case you haven't noticed yet, there's an eject button at the top right corner of the MacBook Air keyboard. There's no disc drive, but you push it, something pops out. Somewhere. Click. Schwing. Poop. Some people say this key ejects the optional SuperDrive, but after countless—or maybe just three—days of in-deep investigation in cocktail bars and going through the trashcans outside Jonathan Ive's house, we've compiled a list of potential actions:

• Ejects random F-15 Eagle National Guard pilot currently flying over the US.
• Activates road speed bump.
• Launches Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles while playing War Games with demented mainframes.
• Don't make war, make love and launch giant dildos instead. (NSFW)
• Fires up the farter-burner in jet-propelled toilet.
• Ejects Blu-ray and HD DVD players and turn TVs off at boring consumer electronics conventions.
• Launches space fighters in the middle of the desert. Then press again to see them self-destruct mid-flight.
• Kicks bad Imperial fake rock bands off the stage.
• Remotely makes Steve Jobs said "Boom!" at will during keynotes and events.
• Launches squirrels into oblivion.
• Activates self-destruction function in Manila envelope.
• Triggers portable secret RDF unit, making everyone 1.5 miles around you to fall in love and go to the store to buy one.
• Provokes fanboy orgasm. (NSFW)
• Provokes Slut Machine an orgasm. (NSFW)
• Provokes Slut Machine's fanboys an orgasm. (NSFW)
• Forces internal battery to self-destruct, eliminating the need to change it.

The SuperDrive eject thing? It's just a smoke screen I tell you, a smoke screen! So there you go, another rumor debunked. Got any other action? Post it in the comments. [Gizmodo Macbook Air coverage]

Afternoon News: Poop-Sniffing, Pancake-Eating, Vegas-Going Spammers

Benny Goldman — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:00:00 EST

• A Purdue professor is paying students $30 to sniff animal poop and using the research to improve estimations of odor emissions on farms. It's days like this that I am happy I went to Indiana University. [11alive]
• Dealzmodo: All-you-can-eat pancakes at IHOP?! Why am I still sitting here? [Dealnews via BBG]
• Alan Ralsky, a notorious spammer from West Bloomfield, MI (sort of my home town!) was indicted yesterday on 41 charges of swindling millions of dollars by using penny stock scam emails. Good riddance. [Detroit Free Press]
• Did we mention we're going to Vegas? The weather doesn't look great, but just about anything beats another day in frigid New York City. [Weather Underground]

Street Lights in India Powered By Poop

Benny Goldman — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:20:00 EST

Yes, you read it correctly: The street lights in the Indian town of Thiruneermalai are run on digested curry. As National Geographic describes it, the human waste from an area housing complex collects in a sump, where the methane gas produced by the "sludge" is used to operate a generator. This biogas produces 3,000 watts of electricity daily, enough to keep the town bright at night. And you thought ovens running on garbage were gross. A friend who lived there this past spring tells me it never smelled bad, but then again, he's been known to generate a fair share of biogas himself. (Just kidding, Gelf!) [National Geographic]

Canadian Astronaut Reveals What Happens to Space Poop

AddyDugdale — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:52:42 EDT

The question of how astronauts go to the bathroom has been answered before (vacuum, thigh clamps, peen tube, in-bowl camera — sounds like a night out at my favorite after-hours) but do you know what happens to the, ahem waste product? Well, according to Col. Chris Hadfield from the Canadian Space Agency, it gets recycled as a shooting star. Details on how to do your ablutions in space after the jump.

That reporter's kinda sucky. [YouTube] via Wired]

Japanese Turd Flashlight Is Thankfully Not a Medical Gadget

AddyDugdale — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:54:20 EDT

If what's missing from your life is a light-up poop, then fear not, because your happiness is sitting in a Japanese vending machine. Epoch, purveyor of the USB darts board, has come up with the weirdness that is a flashlight shaped like a turd, or Unchi, as they are known over in Japan.

Available in either Pepto-Bismol or jaundice, there are three styles of Unchi to choose from: Futsuu Unchi, or normal turd; Tochuu Unchi, a turd passing through—that's the one above that looks like it's in a hurry; and Omori Unchi, the jumbo-sized one.

The purpose? I think it's a cellphone charm meant to bring you luck, but at two inches in length, it seems a bit big to have dangling from your mobile. Perhaps the makers believe it should go somewhere else? [Digital World Tokyo]

Kodak 10 Cents-a-Pop Printers Tested [Verdict: the Pops are Poop]

www.gizmodo.com — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 05:51:27 EDT

Remember Kodak's latest multifunction printers? The ones Kodak was all cocky about, claiming that they crushed the competition with amazing photos at 10 cents? Well, according to Popular Photography, it's all a big pile of steaming bull dung.

After testing the Kodak EasyShare 5300 against its HP, Canon and Epson counterparts, it seems that not only does the Kodak comes last in every single aspect, but it has no price advantage whatsoever, not even reaching the 10 cents per print mark. The final price per copy was 11.5 cents and the quality "was so low in color saturation that they could be deemed no better than 'draft' quality by professional or lab-print standards." If you use better-quality paper to get results comparable to the competition, the price soars to 37 cents.

Popular Photography has not tested the 100 years life of each copy, but after reading their article, I won't be waiting around to see if it's true or not. –Jesus Diaz

All-in-One Printer Shootout [Popular Photography & Imaging]

Can Japan's Cans Can Your Can Bran?

Jason Chen — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:30:24 EST

If Sir Mix-A-Lot was an ass connoisseur, the entire Japanese toilet manufacturing industry must be ass artistes, masters, professionals, virtuosos, and wizards. If you're at all interested in how your rear is treated before, during, and after doing your business (this is how they justified the article), check out BusinessWeek's feature gallery on Japanese toilet.

Among the notable is a revolving toilet for a stroke patient, a $5000 toilet that lets users analyze their health using urine samples, a beauty toilet that minimizes splash-back, and a toilet that has LEDs and a quiet 55db flush. We can't decide which is #1 and which is #2. – Jason Chen

Gallery [Businessweek]

Barbie Scoops Poop, Dog Desperately Hungry

Charlie White — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:47:26 EST

This one has us scratching our heads: there's Barbie with the pooper scooper, dutifully disposing of little turds, but what's that in her dog Tanner's bowl, and, uh, in his mouth? That must be one hungry dog. Do I detect a shit-eating grin on his face? – Charlie White

Oopsy Poopy Barbie Doggie [Consumerist]

Target Needs To Fire Their Website Copyrighter [Consumerist]

Barbie Doll and Tanner Scooper Dog Set [Entertainment Earth, via Random Good Stuff]

Babykeeper Holds Baby As You Poop

Jason Chen — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:45:49 EST

Not a gadget in terms of being powered by electricity, this Babykeeper harness keeps your baby safe while you use the facilities at ball games, strip clubs, and crack houses. Hold on Tommy, daddy's gotta drop a deuce! Who's a good little boy, who's a good *uuuuuughn* little boy!

Presumably the baby faces inside the stall and not out, which would make for quite a strange greeting as fellow dump-ateers enter the facilities. Of course you could save a few bucks and just hang your baby from that coat-rack thing like John Biggs does, but his wife banned him from ever leaving the house again.

Bonus caption contest: tell us what each of those babies are thinking. Winner gets an autographed photo of Biggs on the toilet. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Mommysentials via Baby Gadget via Gearlog via Boing Boing]

Poop Soap

Jason Chen — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:00:33 EST

Fun for both kids and the demented, this soap may be shaped like poo, but unlike real poo, it cleans your hands instead of dirtying them. It took me eight years of my life to learn this concept. And it wasn't even the first eight years!

"Nope It's Soap" is coffee scented and can even be used as a exfoliator. Each dookie is hand-made and unique, giving it that extra bit of realness. Great for your kids, or husband, who never seem to want to wash their hands. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Nope Its Soap via Strange New Products]

Japanese Golden Poop Cellphone Charm

Brian Lam — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:00:37 EDT

Did you know that Japan's favorite and best selling cellphone strap is a golden poop? Tokyo Mango reports that over 2.7 million of the little shiny turds, said to be good luck charms, have been sold. There's even a version in a baseball mitt, for "catching money". Mitt, and info on purchasing, post jump.

–Brian Lam

This is what Koizumi REALLY went to Yasukuni Shrine for [Tokyo Mango]

Sony Ericsson K800i Available Soon In Brown

Jason Chen — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:19:10 EDT

If the basic black and grey color of the standard K800i isn't to your liking, perhaps you'll enjoy the 3.2 megapixel cameraphone in something a bit more...poopy? The Sony Ericsson k800i is going to be available in brown starting September, exclusively in the Hong Kong and Taiwan region. After that, it'll flow all over Asia, into Europe, spreading its caramel goodness into hands of eager consumers everywhere.

If we're good little boys and girls here in the US, we may even get one of our own! Wouldn't that be spectacular? – Jason Chen

K800i Da Bian Yan Se [Phone Daily via Slashphone]

Dog Turd Cellphone Cover

johnb — Fri, 26 May 2006 11:42:50 EDT

Ummm... some Chinese students... erm... did these designs for cellphone covers or something and they, uhhhh, put some fake grass and a dog turd on a NEC N355i. And, erm... well, you see it there... see the grass? And the turd? Yeah. They're both there... ummmm... John Biggs

Chinese Page [PhoneDaily via MobileMentalism]