This horrific-looking, chicken-devouring contraption is the E-Z Catch chicken harvester. It swallows up live chickens like feathered Reese’s Pieces. Fair warning: Watching the video might ruin your lunch. But that’s not the whole story. More »
Because it’s not a chicken vending machine but an egg vending machine! Live! Fresh! Good! Um, not exactly. The egg vending machine was an installation made by NOAH (think PETA but German) to show the dark side of how farms treat their chickens. More »
It turns out that chickens aren’t just a delicious and comical nugget source. They’re also one of the best Steadicams around—assuming you can keep it focused. Here’s how one precocious poultry stacks up against a real human man. More »
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Lockheed Martin designed the F-35 canopy to withstand the impact of of a 1.8kg bird at 480 knots on the “reinforced windscreen and 350 knots on the canopy crown” without breaking. In other words: Chicken squadron vs F-35, fight! More »
“It had long been suspected that the egg came first, but now we have the scientific proof that shows that in fact the chicken came first,” says Dr Colin Freeman, from Sheffield University. Here’s the explanation: More »
Yes, that’s right. Your old phones – the ones that are sitting around your home doing nothing but gathering dust – can be exchanged for live chickens thanks to MobileMuster and Oxfam. The catch is that you don’t get to keep the chicken – it’s instead donated to a family in Laos. More »
Don’t have an anti-shake camera stabiliser in your camera? Have a chicken handy? Great! Just strap your cam to its head and watch as nature’s image stabilisation service does all the work work. According to the video, motion processors use an inertial measurement unit, which senses motion (rate, type and direction) and compensates for it. Chickens have a pretty advanced version. There you go: easy image stabilisation. [Thanks Graham!]
Looking for a stress ball that’s sure to anger the hordes of PETA? Here’s one shaped like a chicken that crows in pain when you squeeze, hit or shake it. Let the chicken have it whenever work’s got you down and it’ll be sure to make you feel all plucky again. This fun little toy even comes in three sizes, priced $US13.90 for a large, $US9.90 for a medium and $US6.90 for a small, so that you can choke different sizes of chicken depending on where you are and how much stress you need to release. [Brando]
