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Sitting at a traditional sushi restaurant can be awfully quiet, and there’s hardly ever any techno to help get the sushi party started.
Red Bull, with help from hip-hop producer Just Blaze and L.A. DJ TOKiMONSTA, created a fully-functional sequencer from an existing sushi conveyor belt. Using the actual sushi that’s slowly making its way along the track, the plate’s colors trigger its own sick beat. Sushi party, started.
[link, via First We Feast]
Space Sushi is a Twitter account that appears to exist for no other reason, other than to show raw fish and rice dangling in space.
The fictional government agency displays all kinds of makis and hand rolls above the stratosphere. No mention of what the point of all this is… but it does make me want a sushi lunch while watching 2001: A Space Odyssey.
[link, via BoingBoing]
Eating ramen with one hand while navigating our iPhone with the other seems like a lot of work. Now, thanks to Japan, there’s a hyperrealistic-looking bowl of ramen that will conveniently hold your precious phone.
The ramen dock will help free up your hands, allowing you to eat all of the real noodles you’d like. Just don’t mistakenly drop your phone into your lunch.
[link, via Supercompressor]
Looking for the perfect dessert that will show some Halloween spirit? Well, besides the garbage bag full of candy that the kids will be elbow-deep in?
Try this adorably-spooky Ghost S’mores Pizza. Brought to us by The Baker Mama, the S’mores pizza is made possible with a few simple ingredients and just under an hour to bake.
The kids will be back to their candy haul in no time.
[link, via The Kitchn]
Boring 2-D restaurant menus are no way to order. And, none of them provide the nostalgia of those pop-up books you had as a kid.
Paper engineer Helen Friel recently designed and constructed a 3-D pop-up menu for the Art Deco Beaufort Bar at London’s Savoy Hotel. Turning the page reveals an in-your-face example of each cocktail offered at the bar.
They become a great way to feel like a kid again… before you start drinking heavily.
