Haven’t you always wished that Mrs. Butterworth would come to life, just so you could catch her and suck the syrupy blood from her veins? That’s almost the reasoning behind MAYA working with two edible forms of robotics: the NanoKrispies, a mobile human-shaped Rice Krispie treat and the more recent work; a poseable hand made from cucumbers.

So far, what we’ve seen is very impressing. For me, the idea that robots could be eaten was, before today, unfathomable. Now, thanks to MAYA, I have this sudden urge to bite into any and all robots. Doughnuts just don’t do it for me anymore.

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Thank Christ for Instructables. Without the DIY-themed site, I wouldn’t be able to to build a pizza oven in my backyard. That’s right. With a free weekend, underpaid laborers from a Home Depot and a few goombas, you and your “crew” can craft the ultimate earth oven. Bake ziti. Bake Rock N’ Roll pizza. Bake lasagna. Just make sure you don’t bake your girlfriend. A garbage disposal works much better.

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At first, I thought these shoes were the product of a hipster who had some cardboard, old sandals and a lot of free time. Upon closer inspection, however, I discovered that these are indeed real fish that are dead and wearable. It’s quite gross but I’m sure they’d work fine outdoors on a beach. And by fine I mean the scales will fuck your feet up.

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When you can’t afford a real breadboard for prototyping, you might as well turn to the next best thing: a piece of toast. Yes. This gentlemen embedded a circuit of LEDs inside a slice of bread and the end result is simply delicious.

The difference between shoving your circuit inside a piece of bread and this project is that the slice of bread actually acts as a circuit board with etchings and all. Unconvinced? Hit the jump:
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What? You think I have a dirty mind? Designer Merry Kawamura Ganjavian is way more of a perv than I ever will be. Aside from having a name that sounds like “Merry Ganja,” she’s created a unique set of utensils that can be worn on your fingers. Dubbed “Eat With Your Fingers,” you’ll soon find yourself fingering your yogurt, salads and possibly even roast beef. I’m going to stop myself here before it gets worse.

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Video game tattoos are rad but sooner or later someone is going to tell you you’re a Nintendo fanboy for having the Triforce tattooed to your chest (you are.) Instead try these catchy temporary food-inspired tattoos. Declare that you love bacon, right on your arm; no one will argue. Are you an omnivore and proud of it?  Slap it to your forehead.

$7.95 for a sheet of temporaries that tell everyone that you eat fresh or a two-hundred dollar real ink job of Mario on your neck complete with pain and all? The answer is clear. The temps rub off and no one is going to argue with the fact that you eat Swiss cheese.
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Ford’s 2009 Flex has a $760 option to equip your car with a fridge and/or freezer in the backseat. This makes those long hauls upstate more luxurious as you’ll be making less pit-stops for food with one of these equipped in your ride. The compartment isn’t large but it is capable of holding seven 12-ounce cans or even four half-liter bottles. That’s more than enough for a car pooling trip to Mexico. Just don’t neglect to declare what you have in your backseat fridge to the Federales, otherwise you’ll be spending the next few decades behind steel bars.

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I’m pretty sure that next to this NES Coffee Table, the FridgeFork is the single greatest invention of the millennium. I’m convinced that everyone who owns a refrigerator (sorry, Beirut!) will feel the same after giving it a try, though I admittedly haven’t gotten to try it hands-on yet.

Basically, it’s a utensil stored on the outside of the jar. It snaps on via a plastic ring and allows you to serve condiments with ease. It’ll prove invaluable when you go to add just a teensy bit of horseradish to that sandwich of yours, trust me. Besides, at $6, you picnic-goers will find it indispensable.

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It was a fine spring day and I remember it well. I saw the last spoonful of yogurt I would ever love, and I let it slip away. My spoon just couldn’t reach to the lower corner of the container! I don’t think I can ever forgive myself for letting it go. If only I had known about the New Yogurt Spoon, which is made for just these sort of situations.

Perfectly contoured to reach even the tightest of corners, you’ll hopefully never have to deal with the same hardships I’ve had to deal with is you can manage to get your hands on this spoon. Do yourself a favor, never mind the Apple-esque advertising scheme. Never let that last bit of yogurt get away. You might regret it for the rest of your life. (more…)

Those clumsy scales your drug dealer uses to measure out your share of the cocaine is not as easy to use as it appears. It’s years of drug dealing experience that have led to his expert use. If you feel the need to get your local drug dealer something they will actually use, and not snort away, but can’t afford a plush-covered Porsche this Spoon with a Built-In Scale is a little something sweet.

No guarantees on whether purchasing this item for them will spare you the trouble of having a few fingers cut off in return of your debt, but he might just let you keep your balls if the scale spoon, which measures accurately within 1?10 gram, happens to be on the back of his mind as he slices. — Andrew Dobrow

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