How about a remote with a button for each channel? Or an eraser shaped like the DELETE key on your keyboard? Or a door chain lock in a maze design?

Stimulating industrial design solutions to everyday problems. picked by suebe 2 years ago

A 27-year-old woman is accused of shoplifting cologne and trying to touch an officer with a "well-used and bloody female sanitary napkin." picked by arsphidius 1 year ago

It's time to ratchet back our wild and crazy grasshopper side and get in touch with our inner ant, to be more artisan-enterpriser and less prospector-speculator, more heroic Greatest Generation and less self-indulgent baby boomer, to return from Oz to Kansas, to become fully reality-based again.... picked by Bornbad 4 months ago

If that's true, then the US must be like 80%. picked by deepcleanfun 2 years ago

zackshackleton's desktop takes a comic book panel and blends system stats into text bubbles, adding a useful touch to a really fun desktop. picked by suebe 8 months ago

crazy experiment turning a liquid to a solid with just a touch picked by sholom22 2 years ago

Painted onto elegant swan quills, these beautiful examples of feather-art really are fit for a Queen.

Painstakingly created by English artist Ian Davie, each individual piece painted over the royally protected bird's feathers can take up to one week to complete. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

If unintentionally, what they had achieved was the first, and so far only, successful exploitation of methane clathrate. Made of molecules of methane trapped within ice crystals, this stuff looks like dirty ice and has the consistency of sorbet. Touch it with a lit match, though, and it bursts into flames. picked by bornbad 5 months ago

I was getting a touch of vertigo watching it, but the photography is incredible. picked by suebe 7 months ago

A LEGO Mindstorm NXT kit can be bought, by you, at a LEGO store. In it are a bunch of funky looking LEGOs, three motors, and four sensors (one each for touch, light, ultrasonic, and sound). So if you had all that, could you build a robot that solves Rubik’s Cubes? The answer is, "Yes, you can." picked by muppet 12 months ago

Orthorexics commonly have rigid rules around eating. Refusing to touch sugar, salt, caffeine, alcohol, wheat, gluten, yeast, soya, corn and dairy foods is just the start of their diet restrictions. Any foods that have come into contact with pesticides, herbicides or contain artificial additives are also out. picked by Bingo 3 months ago

Maybe it could be bend far enough for the wingtips to touch above the fuselage. picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

"Grab some tools from the curb and pick some colors to begin your masterpiece. When you run out of paint, pass it on or declare it finished and ready to be hung in the public online gallery." picked by gnikgnok 3 years ago

So hot no one could touch it for 30 minutes.

FAA has determined the object was not from a plane. picked by Moe 9 months ago

Websites such as CNN.Money, TechCrunch, and VentureBeat have reported that iFart - the most popular of the new and gaseous gang of iPhone and iPod Touch "entertainment" apps - is pulling in around $10,000 per day. picked by Bornbad 11 months ago

This one doesn’t have a name. It’s just referred to as the “Tactile MP3″ player because the 5 basic controls to master your music are raised bumps, something like braille. You can control your music all by the sense of touch. Design wise, it’s pretty slick, like a dollop of shiny mercury backed by some creamy marshmallow puff. Mmm mmm! picked by leopoldogolba 2 years ago

A couple of top designers have teamed up to launch Recycle Now Week. They designed dresses out of trash, recycling old packaging, cans, newspapers and more, proving waste can be made in to striking fashion with the right touch. Even a tiered ball gown of recycled denim looks good. picked by fogowar 2 years ago

Pastels are a wonderful medium to work with. If you are used to painting in wet mediums like oils and acrylics then you should give pastels a try. They are a very refreshing and enjoyable approach to creating art. This article will introduce you to the various pastel mediums that are available as well as touch on a few pastel panting and drawing techniques that you can incorporate into your next w... read full post picked by rserpe 2 years ago

Patrick Abbazia attends his class bound in blue duct tape. He’s not doing it just to be weird - instead, he’s protesting a strange policy of the East Shore Middle School in Milford Connecticut: a "no-touching’ policy that bans physical contact between students!
"Going down the halls it is so cramped that it is hard not to touch anyone,"

UPDATE TO THIS STORY picked by bingo 8 months ago

Seventy years after losing touch, two elderly half-sisters have found each other in a Pennsylvania nursing home.

*Image not related picked by dollyllama 2 years ago