Electric Feedback: Use Too Much Energy and This Light Switch May Shock You

Oh, how I wish this were true. From Gizmodo:

The Consumption Feedback Switch is a device that monitors your electricity usage. If it feels you’re within your light quota when you flip on the lights, you’ll see a small, harmless spark. But if you’ve been one of those dolphin-unsafe villains from Captain Planet, reading a few minutes too long at night, a gigantic stream of deadly electricity will mend your ways pending you not die.

Alright, we’re actually not sure that you feel a shock at all since the word “spark” may have been the choice of a liberal Google translation denoting “small glow.”

Damn, I would LOVE to do a product review on a light switch that actually gave you a shock if you were using too much energy. Eco-evil. I with there was an Etsy Alchemy for green tech products.

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Animals vs. Humans: Humanity Gets Pwned

It’s no stretch to say that in the ongoing war of Animals vs. Humans, we’re in the firm hold of the lead. Humanity and all our endeavors have killed gazillions of animals, both endangered and tasty (sometimes both!) over the past couple hundred thousand years or so.

Here’s a crazy video showing Animals getting a little payback and attacking the shit out of people. It’s hard to feel too bad for some of the folks getting smacked down in the video, especially the guy branding the horse. There is no blood or guts shown, but some of the folks here are getting MESSED UP by bears, horses, elephants, and rabbits. Viewers with sensitive constitutions should pass this one by.

The Friday Crazy: The Can Man Suit is 35lbs. of Aluminum Can Awesome

Maybe because it’s my birthday tomorrow and I’m spending my last day as a twenty something (turning the big 30 tomorrow), but I’m feeling silly. The Can Man is rad. Check this out:

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Question: How Many Bullets to Cut Down a Tree? Answer: 2,250 From a M-134 Minigun

Mythbusters wins the Un-Green Lumberjack Award for their test of how long it would take a M-134 Minigun to cut down a tree. To their credit they did choose a long dead tree with no branches. Not so Green but oh so very awesome.