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Man Commits Suicide and Streams it On Webcam

A man in Utah shot himself in the chest with a hunting rifle and died while his ex-girlfriend watched over a webcamera. Watching a loved one hurt themselves has to be terrible, but watching over the internet, helpless to stop it, has to be a lot worse. Terrible. [KSL]

8:05 PM on Wed Aug 20 2008
By Brian Lam
23,586 views, 114 comments

Latest by DeusExMach: @lynMp: Right on. Stay strong. more »

smoking

Hands-On with the Indoor-Approved Super Smoker


Zara from Shiny Shiny got her hands on the Super Smoker, an electronic fake cigarette that allows you to smoke your filthy cancer sticks indoors due to the fact that it emits a harmless vapor. It uses replacable cartridges that come in a variety of nicotine levels, and while I'm sure it'll keep you from getting the shakes if you're a serious smoker, I doubt that it provides the smooth, satisfying flavor of a real cigarette. And for $140 plus more for the cartridges, maybe it'd be cheaper to just go outside with a real cigarette. Or, you know, quit. If only smoking didn't make you look so cool! Remember that, kids. [Product Page via ShinyShiny]

2:30 PM on Fri May 23 2008
By Adam Frucci
5,337 views, 201 comments

Latest by Step666: @GadgetPlay: actually, just ignore me. American football's not my cup of tea but that's not to say it's not a decent sport. Sorry about that, I'm not sure why I said what I said. more »

robots

'Killer Robot Shoots Man Dead on Driveway' Is the Worst Headline Ever

Luckily for us humans, robots aren't quite taking over by shooting us in our streets and in our driveways. They're just being built by 81-year-old men as an "intricate suicide machine" in order to remotely shoot himself. Here's where the story gets sad: the man downloaded the plans from the internet, built the machine on his driveway, then positioned himself in front of the robot in order to shoot himself. He did this in response to "demands by interstate relatives that he move out his home and into care." Our heart goes out to you, sir. [Gold Coast via News.com.au]

12:30 PM on Wed Mar 19 2008
By Jason Chen
16,316 views, 52 comments

Latest by privatereport: THE FACTS.... The first newspaper article [www.goldcoast.com.au] got many facts wrong, hence the need for the second article [www.goldcoast.com.au] the following day (at the prompting of the police). He was not under any pressure at all from relatives to go anywhere, and had their total agreement and more »

robots

GM Watches As Robot Commits Suicide, Does Nothing

You'd you think that since we love robots so much, we'd be moved at this GM car-manufacturing robot killing himself. Nope. Nothing but laughs here. – Jason Chen More »

7:45 PM on Fri Feb 2 2007
By Jason Chen
731 views, 17 comments

Latest by Justin D: Genoma: One word: Router. As long as the filter your daddy has on the laptop is a software one, a router will get you the pr0n hookup on the desktop. =) more »

gadgets

One-Time Use Electric Rubber Ducky

Unlike the rubber ducky mentioned earlier, this one provides a little less pleasure and a lot more pain. This electric ducky, meant for one-time use suicides, isn't an actual product—it is another twisted art project by emo artist, Nicolas Gaudron. –Travis Hudson More »

6:20 PM on Mon Jan 22 2007
By Travis Hudson
867 views, 8 comments

Latest by ntgxtreme: I wish it would have the power of cognitive situation, or at least pleasant elevator music with subliminal messages. Then I'd love to buy 10 and send them to various people that really ought to have been removed by Darwinism long time ago. more »