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What better way to start your day, than the same way you’ll probably be finishing it… in front of a keyboard.
The Nexon Computer Museum in South Korea is here to help. Their café offers what appears to be a Keyboard Waffle.
The best part, besides the tabs of deliciousness, is that the keyboard is served with a mouse-shaped bun. So, you should be carb-crashing right around lunch… at your desk.
Because Japan insists on outdoing everyone else, when it comes to fast food-related technology and crazy — fast food chain, Lotteria, has created a giant cheeseburger computer mouse.
The impressive, yet somewhat impractical, mouse stands five patties high. It was designed to celebrate the seventh anniversary of Lotteria’s line of “zeppin” (superior) line of burgers.
Although the cheeseburger mouse is one of a kind… one lucky winner on Twitter will receive the mouse and one wicked case of carpal tunnel syndrome.
Pizza boxes are an under-appreciated marvel of engineering, but an empty one takes up so much space in your recycling bin. Unless of course you find a more creative way to repurpose the now useless vessel.
Brought to us by Russian artist Ilya Andreev, The Pizza Box Laptop Stand is the perfect way to get the former pie holder back in action. And, think of all the space you’ll save on recycling day… Unless you’re throwing out a few less cool laptop stands.
See more about the project here.
[link, via Design You Can Trust]
Even in 1974, our laziness and yearning for pizza knew no bounds. So, for the first “high-tech sociolinguistic experiment” of its kind, computer scientists Jerome (J.J.) Jackson and John Eulenberg of Michigan State University’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory developed a system for ordering a pizza with a computer.
Using type-to-speech conversion, a phone hooked up to an old-school modem attempted its first order with Domino’s. Lucky for our scientists, Domino’s lost patience for the robot voice and long awkward pauses, and hung up. Eventually, Mr. Mike’s Pizza took the order for a 16″ pie with mushrooms, pepperoni, ham, and sausage. Success!!
[via BoingBoing]