Levelling the lingerie playing field
An online shop in Japan has seen an extraordinary demand for its newest product: Bras for men. More than 300 have been snapped up in two weeks

And it is real. It is a newly opened high-security data center run by one of Sweden’s largest ISPs, located in an old nuclear bunker deep below the bedrock of Stockholm city, sealed off from the world by entrance doors 40 cm thick (almost 16 inches).

When you hear the words “man coaster” you probably think of a ride at a gay theme park. If so, you’re really strange, but there’s also another kind of man coaster - one that involves homicide. Just pound those drinks back and take out all your rage on the poor yellow rubber guy.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Scotch-Brite™, 5.5 designers designed the ’sponge house’.

This man can’t read or write but he can carve out the Statue of Liberty inside the eye of a needle. His sculptures are so small that he even thought he may have accidently inhaled his Alice in Wonderland piece.  His life’s work was sold to a collector for $20 million.  Especially impressive was the Charlie Chaplin sculpture that was balanced on the tip of an eyelash.

This lightweight concept is powered by a 200bhp rotary spherical engine which transmits power to the rear wheels through a Continuous Variable Transmission (CVT). Fuel savings come from the light weight and good dynamics, while the three-wheel structure makes up for reduced use of space on the road compared to conventional vehicles.

Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain. The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes regarded as the “Celtic New Year”.

What you wanna store in your casette tape closet?

For the last few weeks aficionados of street art have been atwitter with sightings of work by this pseudonymous, secretive British artist. Several of his murals, all featuring giant rats, have popped up on walls and billboards in Lower Manhattan, and on Wednesday a Banksy piece was unveiled at 89 Seventh Avenue South (near Bleecker Street) in Greenwich Village.

This one is not a mural but an installation: a mock pet supply shop, filled with animatronic creatures like a rhesus monkey and would-be creatures like fish sticks swimming in a tank. The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill, as the green awning reads, is Banksy’s first official exhibition in New York, his representatives say, and it will be open to the public daily through Oct. 31.

The backpack has evolved like never before. Now we have backpacks that double up as jets, bicycles, personal masseurs and even refrigerators. Take a look at 11 Bizarre examples of all that a backpack can be: