We’ve heard tons of stories about doctors leaving surgical instruments inside the patients they’ve opened up. These instruments can range from scalpel blades to scissors and even forceps. Amazingly, careless surgeons and nurses don’t have any idea that they’ve left these items inside the patients, which could cause serious health problems. Despite the medical community’s attempts to discredit stories about these, there are several x-rays out there that prove these medical accidents do happen.
These stories of rusted scalpels and scissors left inside patients are no laughing matter but they aren’t exactly new to us, so seeing a couple of x-rays of these aren’t shocking anymore. But what if we tell you there are much much worse things x-rays can show you? Like, a gardening tool impaled through a person’s eye socket? Or, a bottle of gin inserted up one’s, uhm, bottom? Take a look at these 5 outrageous x-rays.
Liquor bottle shoved up Mohammad Yusuf’s rectum by robbers.
Pruning shears impaled through Leroy Luetscher’s eye socket during an accident.
Needles found in 29-year old Luo Cuifen’s body. Her grandparents had attempted to kill her, allowing her parents to have another baby – this time, they hoped it would be a boy.
Magnets and steel balls found inside 8-year-old Haley Lents stomach.
Six nails from a nail gun accident embedded inside Isidro Mejia’s skull.
Touch Bionics, a Scottish prosthetic technology company, has just unveiled its ultra-realistic range of prosthetic limbs with very interesting features. The limbs – whole fingers, hands and arms – will have hairs, freckles and even tattoos. The best part about the new prostheses is that they will also have the same skin tone as the person who uses them.
Using Touch Bionics’ latest technology called Living Image which is a new photographic system, the company can create limbs to match a person’s skin tone. This technology works by scanning the remaining limb of the person to correctly copy the skin tone as well as its shape and features. The scanned information is then sent to its Scotland production facility.
According to the company, clients who have received prostheses that use this technology are very satisfied. Although it has yet to be patented, the Living Image technology system might be sold or rented out to other prosthetic centers.
We’ve all been there: Your math teacher’s explaining the basics of the Pythagorean Theorem, the hypotenuse and all kinds of right triangles – and you’re bored catatonic. To prevent yourself from falling into a coma, you’ve entertained yourself with doodles around your math notebook. If you could only find a way to use your doodles to understand mathematical theories, right? Well, apparently, you can.
The videos below are made by recreational “mathemusician” Vi Hart where she basically explains infinity, factoring, and other mathematical stuff that are normally completely abstract ideas for you. She talks really fast, draws a mean elephant, and you may find yourself enjoying the doodling and math at the same time. Check out the videos below.
What’s more relaxing than boating on a lake on a nice day or chilling on a hammock? Why, relaxing on a hammock boat, of course. The creative invention is basically what it sounds like: hammock + boat = hammock boat. It looks simple enough; from the picture, it looks like somebody took a hammock with a hammock stand, and added some “improvements.” The balancers seem to have been made from hollow tubes. Add the canvass roof, and get yourself a pair of oars stuck together and you’re off a-sailing in your very own hammock boat.
We’re just assuming here of course, since the photo itself doesn’t give any descriptions, only that it was seen at the UC Picnic Day in 2003.
You may have looked the picture above and thought about Master Mantis from KungFu Panda. It’s actually a photographer Scott Cromwell’s pet budwing mantis. Yes, it’s a pet.
The mantis fishing expedition wasn’t as successful as the picture suggests. Cromwell took a fishbowl, placed a makeshift platform for his mantis (in the form of a wooden spatula), and waited. The mantis attempted to catch itself some dinner with its lightning fast strikes, but it is pretty challenging to catch something underwater when you’re not designed to take on underwater prey. To take the picture above, Cromwell had to take nature into his own hands, getting an already dead goldfish and “wriggling” it in front of the mantis. As you can see, the mantis had readily attacked and happily chomped down.
In case you want to watch the mantis’ valiant effort at fishing, check out the video below.
When we said odd, we weren’t solely pertaining to the restaurants’ menus – we were referring to the the location, staff and various other quirks about these them. Some food joints boast of chocolate-covered worms or of goats’ and cows’ unmentionables as part of their special menus, while these 4 oddest restaurants boast of, well, a lot of things most ordinary people wouldn’t normally be proud of.
Dinner in the Sky – This is certainly not for the altophobic (people who suffer from fear of heights). As the name suggests, you’ll be having your meal waaaaaay up in the air. The tables, chairs, waitstaff are hoisted up some 150 feet or so into the air by a crane.
Modern Toilet Restaurant – Based in Taiwan, this unusual restaurant has a full-on toilet theme. Instead of traditional wooden chairs, it uses toilet seats, and its tables are usually made from sinks or tubs covered with clear glass. The dinnerware is also very unique – miniature versions of toilet bowls, urinals, drinking fountains and tubs are used to hold food.
Ithaa Underwater Restaurant – This underwater restaurant is located in the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island, and sits five meters below sea level. The restaurant has a transparent acrylic roof which gives diners a 180 degree view of the Indian Ocean, allowing them to observe different fishes and sting rays while they eat. The place is quite small as it can only seat up to 14 persons at a time.
Izakaya Kayabuki – The Kayabuki Tavern in Japan is a sake-house. It’s nothing fancy, but what makes it unusual is its staff. The owner’s two pet macaque monkeys work at the restaurant – one brings hot towels to customers to clean up before each meal, while the other serves the patrons’ orders.
There are some things that cause discomfort even when you’re only imagining it. A good example of such discomfiting news is when an eel swims up a guy’s unmentionables. The unfortunate man in question was sitting in what was basically a tub full of small eels to cleanse his skin – something quite like the fish spa (where you basically dip your feet into a pool and let them eat layers of your skin).
Zhang Nan stepped into the bath and was chilling with the eels when he suddenly felt severe pain: an eel had swum up his penis. Fortunately, he was rushed to the hospital where they surgically removed the offending eel.
Now, if you’re thinking this was some sort of freak accident, you should take into account the Candiru catfish. They’re a species of vicious bloodsucking fish that usually drinks off bigger fish’s gills. The clip below (Jeremy Wade’s River Monsters) shows exactly what happens when said fish swims upstream in a stream of somebody’s pee.
Why, you ask? Maybe because it’s made from solid gold. As mentioned in another wantnana article, the value of Gold (Au) has gone up over the past years. A cell phone made from gold is likely to be priced according to the current rate of gold which is $2,000 per ounce.
Created by Danish luxury designer Aesir, the limited edition AE+Y phone is an 18-carat solid gold handset that sells for $60,000. It has a 2-inch LCD screen, advanced LED backlighting, edge-to-edge key design with a keypad that’s laser-engraved, and Sapphire crystal lens with ARdur coating.
Now, here’s the catch: Compared to other lesser-priced smartphones, the AE+Y phone cannot use email, mobile internet or advanced applications. Its only features include voice calls, call forwarding, speed dial, conference calls, call screening, text functions, Bluetooth headset profile, and simple apps like notes, alarm, converter and calculator. Its battery life is absolutely mediocre: 5 hours.
Now, let’s remember it’s made almost entirely from gold, so maybe its price is justified. For those who can’t spare $60,000, they can just get its stainless steel version which sells for a much much lower price of $10,000. Unfortunately, Aeries didn’t mention if this version has apps.
When you read that title, you were probably thinking of stargazing in some exotic destination (or while wearing exotic fashion, we won’t judge). Well, it’s close enough to the subject of this article, as this stargazing spot will lead you to an expedition in Prata Sannita in Italy. The sleepy small town, 180 kilometers away from Rome, features an interesting stargazing spot for those who like observing celestial objects: a hotel bed overhanging the side of a building.
You read that right. For a certain amount of tourist cash, you can try out the Million Donkey Hotel’s special room. In the said room, you can roll out the bed onto an overhang enclosed with steel grates. You can take in the view of the sloping medieval town and of course, stargaze. Did we mention that the hotel’s theme is positively medieval? Also, needless to say, this is not for the fainthearted or the acrophobic.
Admittedly, we write a lot about zombies here (as evidenced the Zombie-Proof House and the recent release of Dead Island) and today we’re writing about a different kind of zombie. Zombie caterpillars, to be exact.
What the evil mega corporation has conspired to turn innocent leaf munchers to mindless zombies? It’s a naturally occurring virus actually. Once the caterpillar virus gets a hold of a gypsy moth caterpillar, it pilots the poor thing to climb to the top of the tree of its residence where it is vulnerable to birds or lays out to die. According to the creepy description of events, the zombie caterpillars die, melts in a few hours, and then drip virus filled ooze down the tree’s leaves to infect other caterpillars. The ones that get eaten get digested and the virus hitches a ride on the bird poo, ultimately ending up on leaves.
Scientists have studied the caterpillars’ strange behavior – they only climb to the treetops at night instead of in broad daylight – and found that one gene in the baculovirus causes this zombie hike to certain death.
Apparently, the said baculovirus is being studied to help forestry researches with controlling gypsy moth caterpillar infestation.
