Beans, beans, the musical fruit, the more you eat, the more you toot
Or do you? Research study results released this month suggest that eating beans may not increase flatulence like people think. Donna Winham and Andrea Hutchins carried out a study entitled ‘Perceptions of flatulence from bean consumption among adults’, the results of which were published in the Nutritional Journal recently. When the data was collected only [...]
Boffins at a laboratory in North Carolina, US, have built fully functioning anal bum sphincters using muscle and nerve cells. The lab-built bungholes were successfully transplanted onto mice, and eggheads believe the gristly rings will one day be used to cure anal and urinary incontinence. “This is the first bio-engineered sphincter made with both muscle [...]
Continue reading …A couple of egg-headed boffins in America have invented a revolutionary new product which lets you take a piss wherever you are. “When there’s nowhere to go, go where you are with Go Guy, the pocket urinal” That’s the tagline being used by U-R-IN Control, the brainchild of two inventors, Ron Wierks and Thom Perlmutter. [...]
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A Yorkshire vicar set a new world record today for the fastest motorcycle hearse carrying a coffin. Such a bizarre and unique record surely hadn’t been set previously, but Rev Ray Biddis from Bradford needed to get to at least 80mph to set the record, which he actually smashed by hitting 114mph. The 57-year-old holy [...]
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A British inventor has received recognition from Guinness World of Records after building the world’s smallest road legal motorcar. Perry Watkins built the tiny car from a Postman Pat kiddy’s ride, he placed the novelty body on the chassis of a quad bike. The street legal motor had to be fitted with a seatbelt, most [...]
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Promising to be the next big thing, designer toilet paper lets you wipe your arse like the stars. 42-year-old Natasha Meredith was just a Sussex housewife, and like most housewives she was a fan of God awful reality TV show the X Factor, which is where she heard that high-trousered pop mogul Simon Cowell cleaned [...]
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Boffins in Bristol have developed the world’s first poop-powered car which is fuelled using human excrement. The Bio-Bug is a Volkswagen Beetle that runs off the methane gas which is produced during sewage treatment. The gas is captured and bottled up so it can be used as fuel and not simply dispersed into the atmosphere, [...]
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Scientists in Iran have unveiled a bipedal android that they intend to use for “sensitive jobs”. The Iranian government would not expand on what they meant by sensitive jobs, but a tell tale sign could be the fact the machine, called Surena-2 is named after an ancient Persian warrior. The robot, which is 1.45m tall [...]
Continue reading …A couple in Tokyo had their wedding ceremony carried out by a robot this morning, a world first. Tomohiro Shibata and Satoko Inoue both work in the Japanese robotics industry so they decided to make history by having the world’s first ever robot officiated wedding. The robot which carried out the ceremony is a Kokoro [...]
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Scientists in Germany have improved on the developments made by a group of scientists in California in 2008 by making a three dimensional object invisible. A group of scientists headed by Xiang Zhang at the University of California, Berkeley developed a new material which could make objects appear invisible. The “metamaterial” that they developed was [...]
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