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Monday, June 23, 2008
Peripherals

Greenhouse’s New Headphones, For the ‘Pig Crashed Through Your Brain’ Look

6:41PM Gizmodo US Edition | This strange product from Greenhouse is worth talking about, if only so I could share that headline with you. In case you’re wondering, the pig is in soft silicon… to reproduce the texture of a real pig. After that news, you won’t care these weird ‘phones have a 20Hz to 20kHz frequency range, multi-sized silicon earbuds and 89cm cable with a gold-plated plug. The GC-ERC-PIG’s are available soon in pink black or white for just US$11, but that’s in Japan, pigheadphone fans. [AV Watch] More »
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Pig Urine Plasticware Could Add Some Flavour To Your Meals, Cigarettes

8:00AM Sean Fallon | Denmark has a disgusting problem. The waste produced by the country’s 20 million pigs is slowly choking the environment—which has prompted a local company named Agroplast to devise a unique solution. Specifically, they have developed a means of processing animal waste (pig urine most notably) and transforming it into plastics that could be used in just about everything—including plastic dinnerware. More »
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