Alarm clock from Kickstarter requires daily pin to turn it off. (Or you can smash it)

This guy has already had over 500 backers for his game changing ‘Ramos Alarm Clock’ on crowdsourcing website Kickstarter.

It can only be turned off from a remote keypad.

The defuse code works as follows: “You’ll be able to either use the date, or a 4 digit number that gets flashed on the clock that you’ll have to memorize before your trip to Defuse Panel. A defuse code option asking you to punch in the number Pi to the 16th digit might also be in there.”

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The Famous Magical Unicorn

We’re all familiar with the Famous Magical Unicorn - pictured above in one of its many guises.

But why was it there? A Magical Unicorn’s mere presence is considered strong protection from evil so perhaps JFK smelt a rat and took the creature into his employ?

Or was it a double agent, working for Lee Harvey Oswald / the CIA / the Mafia / Fidel Castro / The Israeli Government / the KGB / J Edgar Hoover / Lyndon B Johnson / the Federal Reserve / etc.?

The truth is out there - somewhere. In the meantime, we can only marvel at it’s beauty.

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Firebox Love

“Firebox has to be the most comprehensive collection of shiny web based awesomeness in the world ever……EVER!!!”

Rob - April ‘12

Meet our future VP Marketing, EMEA. Seriously we’re giving this man a job. Not only can he belt out a great song whilst (just possibly) under the influence of a little alcohol, he has the right aptitude for life at Firebox. “It has to do with brotherhood of man on this Earth…..physical violence is the least of my priorities.”

If you can sing Bohemian Rhapsody better than this, send us your video and we’ll give you a job. (probably)

And if you know this guy, tell him to get in touch. He doesn’t need to send in a CV. We know everything we need to know.

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Ron Burgundy announces Anchorman: the Sequel live on American TV.

I’m kind of a big deal….take me to pleasure town….I’m not a baby, I’m a man…my apartment smells of rich mahogany….you know I don’t speak Spanish: Just some of the great quotes our Facebook fans loved from the first movie.

Lets get the Sex Panther back out: 60% of the time, it works every time.

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Eat Popcorn. Live Longer. Be Happier

It is official - Popcorn is really, really good for you: way healthier than fruit, vegetables, chocolate, chips and even bacon.

We knew it all along of course and have been pushing amazing popcorn like this to the cool kids for ages now.

Exercise? Pah. We’d rather spend an evening eating shedloads of popcorn and watching Eastenders / Corrie / Hollyoaks. Good luck to those misguided gym freaks.

[via Science Daily via Gizmodo]

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Swiss Geek Army Knife doesn’t cut it

This outlandish pocket tool (and let’s face it - fictional) device might well include a lightsabre, some sort of ‘Hammer of Thor’ and (we think) He Man’s Power Sword [via Fashionably Geek].

But it still doesn’t ‘cut it’ (sorry) when put up against our own Giant Swiss Army Knife. In the words of the great Dundee himself; That’s not a knife, THAT’S a knife.

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