These are Super Cool Bras, underwear full of a special gel engineered to remain "soft and supple even when frozen." It's been designed to fight the Fukushima atomic catastrophe, which has made Japan to shut down all of its reactors. Read More >

One second the toy rolls up as a car, the next it's automatically transformed itself into an upright fighting machine that can move around, tip toe and deliver uppercuts. It's unbelievably awesome and it's what every kid (and adult) should want for Christmas or their Birthday or any day, really. Read More >

Squawk! Birdie's lost! Squawk! Take me home! In an amazing story of animal ingenuity, a lost pet parakeet found its way back to its owner by telling the police its full home address. The owner had trained the parakeet to squawk her address just in case the parakeet ever got lost. Read More >

Fancy shoving a bit of gamification into your bathroom breaks? Sega’s crazy urinal-based console, the Toylet, is finally available to Joe Bloggs on the street, meaning you can now fit one of these pee-powered puppies into your bachelor pad. Read More >

About a week ago, a soccer ball that belonged to a 16-year-old survivor of the Japanese tsunami was returned to him, after it was discovered on the Alaskan coast. But a beachcomber in Canada has since stumbled across an even more fantastic find: A Harley, with all its parts still in place. Read More >

We thought Sharp's eye-skewering, 85-inch 8k TV ad CES was an act of Zeus. It literally made us nauseous, it looked so good. But that's nothing, as of right now: Panasonic just dropped a 145-inch 7,680 x 4,320 mega-set. Read More >

For some, the novelty of Instagram might eventually wear off. There are only so many ways to improve your mostly mediocre pictures. But Pick builds on the idea of altering your photos with filters and adds some extra features with an awesome twist. Read More >

If you've ever dreamt of flying a jet into war — I see you, joystick jockeys — this incredible GoPro footage is your best new alternative. Watch it in fullscreen if you actually want to feel nauseous. Read More >

Last year, 16-year-old Misaki Murakami's life was turned upside down when Japan's tsunami claimed his home and its contents. But now a beachcomber from Alaska has found one of his most treasured possessions—an autographed football—washed up on the US coast, and is sending it back to him. Read More >

You don't have to be a doctor to know that eating hundreds of strips of bacon at a time can't possibly be good for your health. A reporter for Japan's Rocket News 24 obviously didn't get that memo. Because he ordered a burger from Burger King with 1,050 slices on top. Read More >

Making an iPhone bulletproof is all very well, but what’s the point when you won’t be around to use it once you get shot at? Apparently the Japanese love their iPhones so much that they’ll cover them with 2.5cm thick steel armour plating, no matter how much it weighs. Read More >

Want some cash in Gifu Prefecture, Japan? Come September, you'll be able to just press some flesh with one of Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank's biometric ATMs to access your accounts. Read More >

The Tokyo Institute of Technology, largely considered Japan's most prestigious university, has unveiled on its campus an impressive new building that is almost self-sustaining in its power use. The Environment and Energy Innovation Building in Meguro Ward features solar panels all along its exterior facade and on its roof –– 4,500 panels in all, with a total capacity of 650 kilowatts, plus another 100 kilowatts of fuel cells! Read More >

The "ultrabook" doesn't exactly have people going nuts at the moment. They're great, skinny, fast laptops—but they're not cultural smash. The solution? Create a batshit crazy Japanese acid binge TV commercial? Maybe? And then add more acid. Read More >

Japanese problem: an abandoned shrimping boat is found adrift near Canada, displaced by last year's tsunami disaster. American solution: let's sink that motherfucker. Read More >