This is a cool looking lamp, yes? What’s even cooler is that the girl who put this together made that Duck Hunt cartridge out of cardboard because a standard Nintendo cartridge didn’t provide enough stability. "A regular cartridge was too small a base, so I measured one and made a 1.5 scale replica out of […]

This is a cool looking lamp, yes? What’s even cooler is that the girl who put this together made that Duck Hunt cartridge out of cardboard because a standard Nintendo cartridge didn’t provide enough stability.

“A regular cartridge was too small a base, so I measured one and made a 1.5 scale replica out of cardboard, and screwed the gun to it.  I weighted it with stones, and then tackled the shade.

I picked up a $2 shade at the re-store, a pack of fun foam, and voila!  After hours and hours of slicing pixellated shapes, I was done!  A tiny dab of glue to secure the shade, and… ta dah!”

That shade’s pretty phenomenal. Nice work, young lady. Nice work indeed.

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After a night of “hard living” back in my days as a bachelor in the exciting city of Minneapolis (circa 2002), my buddy and I were picking up our cars from the parking lot of the bar we’d been drinking at the night before. The bar was inside a quasi-mall-type-thing (Calhoun Square, for those […]

After a night of “hard living” back in my days as a bachelor in the exciting city of Minneapolis (circa 2002), my buddy and I were picking up our cars from the parking lot of the bar we’d been drinking at the night before.

The bar was inside a quasi-mall-type-thing (Calhoun Square, for those of you familiar with Minneapolis) and we’d caught wind of a new oxygen kiosk gone up in the middle of the thoroughfare a few days prior.

We stopped to chat with the lady running the thing and she’d (correctly) noticed that we both looked a tiny worse for wear. After some hemming and hawing, I found myself wearing a plastic tube around my face with two little nozzles shoved up my nose, inhaling deeply. After about ten minutes, I felt like a million bucks.

Seems that our friends in Japan have taken the oxygen bar idea a bit further with the introduction of supplemental IV drips.

As of about a month ago, a service called Tenteki10 became available in Tokyo’s Ebisu Garden Place Tower. The IV bar is operated in conjunction with a medical office there, so the drips are administered by medical professionals, even though none of it is covered by health insurance. According to Japan This day…

“Many people daily suffer from exhaustion, insomnia and backaches on a daily basis because they don’t take proper care of themselves,” states a doctor at Tenteki10. “They try supplements, home remedies or cheap energy injections. Some of these ailments can’t be healed that way and could possibly develop into more serious illnesses, including depression.”

But the service at Tenteki10 isn’t “cosmetic,” the doctor adds. “It’s ‘preventive medicine.’ Also, we don’t publicize this service like a business, nor do we recommend it to anyone. We just leave leaflets at the clinic. We think of it as an option for people to raise their awareness of daily health management on their own.”

Drips start at around $20 and last about ten minutes.

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Hungry for more slo-mo action after the Mentos and Coke and Tomato Carnage tributes to the Casio EX-F1 camera’s very special feature set? Fear not Gizmodo reader, for your compatriot Robert Woodhead has delivered once again! This time around: eggs getting obliterated by a potato gun. Genius! [Robert Woodhead]

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