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There Is No Escape From Cows

This is a message to all vegetarians and vegans out there. From rubber to adhesives to anti-aging creams to medicines to shampoo to instrument strings to plastic to charcoal to wallpaper to air filters: You can’t run from beef! [Streakr]


May 20, 2010
Science

Cow Manure Will Power Data Centres In Coming Years

Spare a thought for the cows when you’re surfing the net in the coming years, won’t you? Their manure will be shovelled and turned into fuel, so companies such as HP can power their data centres and save the world.


May 7, 2010

Trippy Lamps Capture Martians Going At Their Favourite Pastime

These UFO Abduction Lamps made by Jason Dietz sport some nifty tractor beam effects. Using a mix of glass, 38 litres of water and an air pump, cows float up along the base. See the video after the jump.


April 17, 2010
Science

Milking Cows For Electricity

The livestock power mill makes cows even more productive turning farms into virtual power plants.


March 24, 2010

Russian Cows Watch Samsung LED TV

I’ve heard the one about vegetables growing bigger if you play classical music at them, but cows that watch TV (of the Swiss Alps, no less) makes them “more happy and productive”?


November 5, 2009
Geek Out

Calf Gets Prosthetic Limbs And More Time To Get More Delicious

Nancy Dickenson and her stepdaughter Martha found a calf with severe frostbite on its hind legs. So of course, they spent thousands of dollars getting it outfitted with prosthetic legs.


April 23, 2009

Trendwatch: Cow-Shaped MP3 Players Are the Next Big Thing

We never would’ve guessed it, but bovine audio players are apparently a genuine trend. Brando’s newest piece of gadget fluff, a cow-shaped, 4GB, screenless mp3 player, continues the fad.


April 12, 2009

Vintage Gateway Desktop Wallpaper Is Now My Current Desktop Wallpaper

Ah, the heady days of 1994. Back then, computers were beige and sold with surfing cow wallpaper, and we liked it that way, dammit.


March 26, 2009

Cows That Get Massaged With a Big Robo-Brush Are Happier, Make Better Milk

If you watch just one video online today, let it be this strangely hypnotising video of cows getting super excited about a gigantic, robotic cow brush.


March 6, 2009

Somebody, Please Shoot This Poor USB Cow

Is this a USB cow, or yet another victim in the underground ring of S&M gadget slavery? If only we could speak cow to interpret the vocalised “moo” whenever a USB stick is inserted. [Gadget4All]