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Need to demonstrate the cleanliness of a hotel room?
Forget scientific tests, black lights and Petri dishes.
All it takes is a girl, her tongue, and a complete lack of oral hygiene.
OCDers and germaphobes, turn away now…
(Be sure to check out extstay.com for more tongue-tastic taste tests.
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The creepy commercial resurgence has begun!
First, there was The King:
Then, Piñata Man:
The Tongue:
And now, even Chester the Cheetos cat has gone creepy:
When will it end?
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Why would a hot sauce need a disclaimer?
Because when it’s Blair’s 16 Million Reserve, a pharmaceutical grade vial filled with pure capsaicin crystal, even a little bit is enough to kill.
Literally.
When Blair sells it, he specifically states: “Blair’s 16 Million is not a sauce or an ingredient. This product is made available for experimental/display purposes only”.
So why all the fuss?
Because Blair’s 16 Million gets its name from its Scoville rating of 16 Million on the Scoville scale. (A measure of hotness.)
How hot is 16 Million?
Well, typical Tabasco sauces have a rating of 2,500-5,000; typical cayenne peppers have a rating of 30,000; and the famed habanero peppers have a rating of 100,000-350,000. Even US pepper spray only manages to reach a rating of 2,000,000-5,300,000.
As you can imagine, a sauce with a rating three times as high as pepper spray is going to pack quite a punch.
Wonder what it does to food?
The brave reviewers over at the Hot Sauce Blog put a single spec into a pot of tomato soup, and had to throw the entire thing away. And these guys review hot sauce for a living!
Ready to try some?
Too bad, because all 999 bottles have already been spoken for.
Don’t worry through, I’m sure some poor soul with a burned tongue and a light wallet will put one up on eBay soon enough, and then it will be time for your famous chili to kick it up a few notches.
Just be sure to bring plenty of milk.
And a release form.
[Extreme Food - Blair's 16 Million]
[Hot Sauce Blog - Blair's 16 Million]
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The New York Times wrote a great article about the changes that tea is going through lately in response to its surging popularity.
[New York Times - Tea's Got A Brand New Bag]
Designers Laura and Paulina make these Bibi iPod covers that turn your little guy into a little monster.
[E-Mail For Information: laurenandpaulina@hotmail.fr]
[Via: Gizmodiva]
Netdisaster lets you unleash some fury on the web. Try it out on DYH.
[Via: Mobile Whack]
ParkAtMyHouse.com lets users let and rent parking spaces that would otherwise go unused.
[Via: Autoblog]
A few brave and lucky hackers made a homemade flamethrower out of a toy water gun and some wiper fluid (and some stupidity).
[Via: Clip A Day]
Urban Monarch and Modern Drunkard put together two great guides about how to score free drinks when you go out. Put down the credit card, and slowly step away.
[Urban Monarch - Drink For Free]
[Modern Drunkard - The Fine Art Of The Free Drink]
[Photo Via: marc_l'esperance's]
Gawker put together a great map that documents the smells of the New York City subway system. Care for a tour?
[Gawker - New York City Subway Smell Map]
The ThrustPac straps to your back and “converts horsepower to thrust to push you on any of your favorite devices”.
[Via: Sci Fi Tech]
Funny Cool Stuff created 10 different finger themes that you can use when you want to decorate your digits.
[Funny Cool Stuff - Finger Artwork]
Popular Science has a ‘hands on’ with the Dyson Airblade, a 400 mph hand dryer.
[Popular Science - Dyson Airblade]
Alang, India is famous for one thing: Recycling cruise ships. Peter Knego got a chance to visit the ship graveyard, and the pictures are breathtaking.
[Peter Knego - On The Road To Alang]
[Via: Neatorama]
MapOfSpringfield.com has created a huge map of the town where The Simpsons live. Google Maps, eat your heart out.
PingPongPixel is an interactive art experiment that uses colored ping pong balls to create giant images.
[Via: Josh Spear]
WhirlyBall “combines lacrosse, hockey and basketball with bumper cars”. Can sports get any better than that?
[Via: Dethroner]
Lifehacker put together a great guide on “How To Beat A Speeding Ticket (Or At Least Better Your Chances)”.
[Lifehacker - How To Beat A Speading Ticket]
Meet People Drink Identifiers from ATYPYK make the task of keeping an eye on your drink a clever conversation starter.
[Meet People Drink Identifiers]
[Via: Better Living Through Design]
Toyota wants to know how personal your car is with their Human Touch ad. It’s kind of creepy though.
[Via: Autoblog]
Tampon Crafts turn that time of the month into an excuse to craft.
[Via: Dethroner]
Artist Felix Beck created a non-visual graffiti project called Soundbombs, “innocuous-looking 6-inch plastic shells that broadcast short clips (lines from Shakespeare, flatulence, or anything else you record) to unwitting passersby”. He doesn’t sell them, but instead takes applications, and prospective users must tell him where they will use it and how much they’re willing to pay. Get loud.
[Via: bookofjoe]
Pepsi created an ad for the new Black Cherry French Vanilla flavor that included three senses: “sight, sound and scent”.
[Via: MIT Advertising Lab]
Sodium Laurel Sulfate, and ingredient in toothpaste, blocks sweet sensors on your tongue, which explains why orange juice tastes so bad after you brush.
[ABC - Why Does Orange Juice Taste So Bad After Brushing Your Teeth?]
[Photo Via: Strelitzia]
Information Architects put together a great read about interface, with a focus on the McDonald’s Cheesburger, the iPod, the Nintendo DS, and Google.
[Information Architects - The Interface Of A Cheeseburger]
Stuart Haygarth created the Tide Chandelier out of man made debris that washed up along a stretch of the Kent coastline. “The sphere is an analogy for the moon which effects the tides which in turn wash up the debris”.
[Stuart Haygarth - Tide Chandelier]
[Via: MoCo Loco]
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