Hilarious Scam Products

5.  HD Vision Wrap-Around Sunglasses

This is the perfect product for when reality just isn’t realistic enough.  These sunglasses supposedly offer up better clarity and color in your everyday life, just like an HD TV.  To be specific, they promise to “make the world come alive in brilliant, defined colour like never before!  Crystal clear images so rich and vivid, you won’t believe your eyes!”
Wait one second, a product which “enhances colours” and makes us question what we see with our very eyes? This whole pitch is starting to sound suspiciously like a drug deal.  We think we’ll just wait for the Blu-ray glasses.
4.  BioDisc

Introducing the BioDisc, a glass disk which, at $560, had better produce some astonishing claims.  Don’t worry though, it delivers: this device supposedly generates a “catalytic conversion of energy” which extends shelf life of meat and vegetables, improves taste, maximises body energy, enhances the immune system, calms and balances, assists in pain relief, rejuvenates cells, cures autism and increases the “drinking water energy level” (your guess is as good as ours) of any liquid poured over the disc.  Man, who needs stinky ol’ medicine when you have a solid glass disc?
3.  Water Activation Filter

This website claims that, “as we age, our body’s ability to convert water into the necessary single-file alignment dramatically decreases.  Our body’s hydration becomes increasingly compromised.”
The website helps clarify what they mean with a useful diagram, and fortunately for this list it is exactly as ridiculous as it sounds: according to the makers, water molecules need to be lined up in a damned conga line in order to properly hydrate our bodies.  Perhaps making the molecules dance helps with that whole “drinking water energy level” thing?
2.  Wattgate 381 Audio Grade Duplex Receptacle Outlet

A receptacle outlet which supposedly improves the quality of sound of devices powered by it.  To be clear, the receptacle outlet is the thing electrical cords plug into.  Boasting 24k gold plating and “cryogenic heat-treated hardened contacts”, this device is perfect for facilitating the unhindered flow of electrons, thus achieving…better sound?  More constant electricity?  Happier electrons?  Damned if we know.
1.  Magnet Slimming Patch

This tiny magnetic patch sits in the user’s bellybutton (apparently the location of the body’s thinnest “belly-wall”) and “produces magnetic waves, which can pass through the skin 8-12cm in depth and do the meridian massage“.  What precisely a meridian message consists of remains a rather ominous mystery to us, but supposedly the product is “applicable to simple obesity, puffiness or caused obesity by obesity and other irregular people.”  Never mind the god-awful grammar there for a second; what the Hell are other irregular people?

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Most Expensive Homes in the World

5.  Franchuk Villa — $161 Million

This five-story, freestanding 10-bedroom Victorian Villa also features an underground indoor swimming pool, panic room, and private movie theatre.  It’s also the world’s most expensive home (yeah, sure it is), at $161 million.
How fancy is this place?  Allegedly, during some remodeling, the noise made the Mayor of Moscow angry.  The house is located in London.  That’s right: the house is so fancy it doesn’t make sense.
4.  The Hearst Mansion — $165 Million

Top Three Facts about the Fourth Most Expensive House in the World: it was used in The Godfather, JFK spent his honeymoon there, and (holy crap, get this): it’s the most expensive home in the US!
It features three swimming pools, 29 bedrooms (you have to supply your own horse heads har har har), movie theatre and, for some reason, a disco.
3.  Fairfield Pond — $198 Million

Currently valued that way due to its property taxes, this 66,000 square-foot main house has a basketball court, bowling alley, and a $150,000 hot tub. The most valuable home in the US (again, according to Wikipedia).
2.  Villa Leopolda — $736 Million

Wow, that’s a big jump in price.  Built by King Leopold II of Belgium in 1902 and located on the French Riviera, this home was purchased by Russian billionaire Prokhorov, who is so rich he lost billions to the latest economic collapse and still had enough fun money to buy himself a three-quarter-billion-dollar summer home.  It has 27 stories, 19 bedrooms, and a rumored 50 full-time gardeners.
1.  Antilla – $1,000,000,000

This is it. The one you’ve been waiting for. The grand finale. The one billion dollar home. We give you…Antilla.
Located in Mumbai, Antilla challenges pretty much everything you’d expect about “what is possible in a home” and “what is possible for architecture.”  The 27-story house features six floors of parking, a health level with a jacuzzi, gym, and “ice room,” a ballroom level (for dancing?) several floors of bedrooms and bathrooms and even a four-story garden — because, yeah, we guess that’s possible.
The architecture is based on an Indian tradition called Vastu Shastra, which is supposed to be conducive to the movement of positive energy.  In keeping with this, each floor has not only a unique design, but an entirely unique set of materials and aesthetic design — meaning each room is meant to look like it’s from a different house.
Basically, this house has everything — things you can imagine, things you can’t imagine, and things you never thought to imagine but are now imagining because they sound like the greatest thing you’ve ever heard of.

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Rarest Flowers In The World

5.  Kadupul Flower (Epiphyllum oxypetalum)

This flower is easily cultivated, but is rare for the sole reason that it blooms so rarely.  They are found in Sri Lanka in the wild and have spiritual significance to Buddhists.  When they do bloom, they bloom only at night and then mysteriously wither before dawn.  According to Buddhists, it is believed that when the flower blooms, the Nagas (semi-mythical Sri Lankan tribes) descend from their heavenly abodes to present the flower as a gift to Buddha.  The flowers are oddly scented and produce delicate, white flowers.  The flower also has a rich history in Japan where its name can be translated as “Beauty under the Moon.”  For a flower so shy about blooming and so highly thought of, they take notice on the list at number 5.
4.  Ghost Orchid (Epipogium aphyllum/Dendrophylax lindenii)

Not only rare but fascinating, the Ghost Orchid is a plant that was presumed to be extinct for almost 20 years and only recently materialized again. The plant is so rare because it is near-impossible to propagate. It has no leaves and does not use photosynthesis to manufacture its own food.  It, like the Lady Slipper mentioned below, needs a specific fungus in close contact with its root system to feed it.  The Ghost Orchid can live underground for years and is only found in forests in Cuba, and another variety, in Florida.  The flowers emit fragrant odors and bloom between the months of June and August.  In Cuba they grow on cypress trees in which they appear to float like ghosts, thus the name.  They can only be pollinated here by the giant sphinx moth and if their seeds land on a specific moss.  For being so selective as to their growing conditions, the Ghost Orchid drifts in at number 4.
3.  Yellow and Purple Lady Slippers (Cypripedium calceolus)

A rare wild orchid once found across Europe, Yellow and Purple Lady Slippers are now growing in Britain, but in only one odd location: a golf course.  It has been under strict police protection since 1917 in order to preserve it from people (and golf balls of course).  A single cutting can be sold for $5,000 US, which is unheard of considering how the plant is very difficult to propagate.
Another rare Lady Slipper flower (Cypripedium reginae) is just as difficult to propagate; even Charles Darwin failed to successfully cultivate it.  The seeds of the flower provide no nourishment for the growing plant and so it lives in a symbiotic relationship with a specific type of fungus that nourishes it.  Once the plant has reached maturity, the fungus lives off the adult plant.  The flower has dark purple to almost red-brown tendrils and bright-yellow “slipper or moccasin” shaped flowers. For being so rare, so temperamental, and so fungus-friendly, the Yellow and Purple Lady Slippers dance in at number 3.
2.  Youtan Poluo (no scientific name)

Discovered by a Chinese farmer named Mr. Ding when he found it growing in his steel pipes, and then later by a Chinese nun named Lushan who found it growing under her washing machine, the mysterious Youtan Poluo has no scientific name and is made up of 28 pieces of minuscule, white sweet-smelling flowers measuring a mere 1mm.  It is a flower that has been mentioned in Indian myth and was believed to only bloom when the Sage King of the future visits the present world.  In Sanskrit the name means “an auspicious flower from heaven”.  The flower is also mentioned in Buddhist scriptures and botanical experts say that the flower only blooms once every 3000 years (now how would they know that?).  For blooming but every 3 millenniums, the Youtan Poluo flower is quite a wonder at number 2.
1.  The Corpse Flower (Amorphophallus titanum)

Native to Sumatra, this rare and striking plant has flowers that reach up to 6 feet in height and 3 feet in diameter.  The Corpse Flower is found on low-lying rainforest floors in Indonesia and looks like something out of the prehistoric age (or perhaps a Star Trek episode).  It is considered the world’s rarest, largest, and most endangered flower.  Also known as Rafflesia, its survival is interdependent with the Tetrastigma vine.  Bodiless, stemless, leafless and rootless, it requires the vine for its nourishment and support.  It emits a pungent rotten flesh smell (hence the name, “Corpse Flower”) which attracts flies and beetles to pollinate it.  The flower blooms for about a week before dying.  For breaking the stereotype of all that a flower is or should be, the Corpse Flower comes in at number 1 for the world’s most rare flower.

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Weirdest Hotels From Around The World

5.  Jumbo Stay

Now sleeping on an airplane can be its singular function.  In Sweden, a hotel in the form of a converted jumbo jet exists, where passengers (as it were) can sleep in private chambers and dine in a swanky-looking lounge, all while parked at an airport with the spectacle of constant arrivals and departures a calming (or perhaps unnerving) atmospheric backdrop.  Luxury class lodgers can even sleep in the cockpit albeit sans (we hope) the ability to make inane, monotonous announcements at regular intervals via the intercom.
4.  Osaka Capsule Inn

In Japan, space is famously limited.  Let these ideas of lofty luxury be one more instance of that fact.  The rooms resemble industry ovens, wherein the roasts, err…residents can sleep peacefully, with an interior control panel, which allows the resident to choose the temperature he wishes to be cooked at.  The image of these things evokes something incredibly bleak and sci-fi, like this hotel is the very source of the city’s power, harvested from “organic” energy sources, sources that never check out on their own volition.  Neat concept though (better one for a movie).
3.  Hotel de Glace

This hotel in Canada is literally a giant igloo; constructed of thick layers of ice, the only things heated are isolated bathrooms (and there are fireplaces in the bedrooms).  If you’re wondering how something like this could endure the seasons, it can’t.  It only lasts from the first week in January to the last in March.  The rooms are kept at subzero temperatures, you sleep on a bed of ice, and if you don’t take advantage of the arctic-strength sleeping bags, hypothermia is a very real possibility.  Sounds like fun!  Pretty as it is, even with the number of weddings that take place there, it really sounds more spectacular than practical.
2.  Hobbit Motel

This is a real thing.  No, your neighbors won’t be unusually short and hairy-footed, but no one’s to stop you from eating six meals a day in the Woodlyn Park main room.  Otherwise, this so-called Hobbit Motel is completely modeled with the Shire, hobbit hometown of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings book series, in mind.  The doors and windows are round, and the actual motel rooms are burrowed in the bosoms of a bucolic hillside, but the fact that this particular motel is located in New Zealand, where the movie franchise was filmed, has “gimmick” written all over it.  Also written: “tourists are suckers”.
1.  Poseidon Undersea Resort

Underwater worlds like that of Atlantis, or the video game Bioshock, or even Star Wars Episode 1 are conjured by the notion of being able to walk, reside, and dwell beneath the ocean.  It seems like a utopian idea–or perhaps dystopian, should the water provide the only remaining refuge in a world ruled by hydrophobic robots/zombies/parasites/etc.  But that escape can be a much milder one should you want to occupy a stationary submarine recreationally.
The Poseidon Undersea Resort offers this possibility.  Located on a private island in Fiji, stayers can see godly beings both terrifying and gorgeous sweep across virtually every part of the hotel, as each toe-shaped room features giant transparent fingernails.  This sounds like the perfect place for surface-resistant scuba-divers, but a little scary for those who remember that scene in one of the Jaws sequels where the shark crashes through that underwater corridor.  But that probably won’t happen; actually, the website lists the various ways in which the Poseidon is “redundantly fail-safe,” although shark resistance isn’t explicitly mentioned.

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Bizarre Foods They Most Likely Serve in Hell

5.  Casu Marzu

Cheese is a wonderful invention when you think about it.  Basically, it’s milk fermented to a degree that causes it to become delicious (more so when sliced and placed on a hamburger), but not enough to make it unfit for human consumption.  The Casu Marzu cheese, on the other hand, laughs at such limitations even though it really, really shouldn’t.
Casu Marzu is a soft, putrid, totally-decomposed-from-where-I-am-standing cheese that is the final product of cheese fly larvae activity.  Yes, the cheese is made by letting a bunch of flies have sex and birth their disgusting babies inside it.  And then people want to eat it.
Unsurprisingly, the cheese is banned almost everywhere in the world, but you have to wonder.  What place on Earth values their and other people’s lives so little to produce a thing like Casu Marzu?  What nation would be this hardcore?  Is it some small village in Siberia populated only be ex-Spetsnaz soldiers, or maybe an entirely new breed of humans which emerged from the volcanic bellows of Hawaii?
What?  It’s from Sardinia?  No, that can’t be right.  Huh…mental note: never, EVER piss off a Sardinian.
4.  Century Egg

Since we are already on the topic of cheese, it’s good to mention that many other foods acquire a richer taste as they age.  Wine would be a good example.  But very rarely on a list of such foods would you ever find eggs…unless you’re in China.
Say hello to the Chinese century egg, made by preserving it in a husk of clay, ash or lime for several weeks or even months.  This process breaks down some of the compounds of the egg and pickles it from the inside out in a very unique way, also turning it greenish-black.  The process is actually quite sophisticated, as it ferments the eggs but does not spoil it, which is of course akin to praising someone for skillfully learning to drive a car using only their chest hair.
According to some account, the century egg is so pungent that the smell alone could knock out an 18th century dung farmer.
3.  Balut

If you want to see pictures of this abomination (which are sad beyond belief), you’ll have to click the source below.  For the sake of this article’s sanity, however, we’ll stick with fluffy bunny rabbits.
Now then.  We’re still in the domain of weird eggs, this one coming from the Philippines.
The recipe for Balut is as simple as it is cruel and insane.  First, you take a standard fertilized duck egg, then you let the little baby duck inside grow safely in the shell, all tra-la-la-dee without a care in the world.  Then, when the fetus is sorta formed but not completely, you boil the “egg” alive and eat it because to Hell with ducks, that’s why!  What’s this feeling when you want to both cry and throw up in your mouth at the same time?  Someone should really invent a name for it, like “cromit” (cry + vomit) or weerl (weep + hurl).
2.  Raw Blood Soup

Did I say that the recipe for Balut was simple?  Well it has nothing on the traditional Vietnamese dish of Tiet Canh.  Check it out: take duck blood, add duck meat plus spices, then eat.  Alright, alright, the actual process is sometimes more complicated than that but, once your main ingredient is raw blood, all the other stuff about the dish kinda stops being important.  On the other hand, forcing your significant other to sit down to a plateful of Tiet Canh might finally get them a) off that whole Twilight craze, and b) to give you that divorce you wanted.
1.  Bats

As with Balut, TopTenz wishes to save you thousands of dollars on therapy bills by not showing any actual pictures. Instead, you get Batman.
So, apparently some people in Asia, especially in one village in Thailand, like to eat bats.  Guys, really; if you want to commit suicide this much, there are easier ways than trying to make Ol’ Bats up here break his no-killing cardinal rule for you.
The Thai Bat is prepared thusly: first you kill the bats by plunging them into boiling water while alive.  Then the bats are skinned, grilled and chopped up into a fine paste with herbs, though they can very well be eaten whole.  For a more visual and way more traumatizing look at eating bats, check out the video in the source.  Then go find a fun new hobby to fill those late-night hours which you used to pass with wonderful, blissful sleep.

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Strangest Hobbies In The World

.  Faking Your Death

Chuck Lamb is better known as the Dead Body Guy.  He wanted to be an actor but, unlike most aspiring actors, he was able to admit to himself that he wasn’t that very good at speaking roles.  So he went for non-speaking roles, namely the role of Corpse #3.
4.  Trainspotting

It’s not just the name of a movie about heroin!  It’s an actual hobby!  Trainspotting is exactly what it sounds like: people watch for trains and, when they see them, they write down the numbers of the train.  Trainspotters basically “collect” seeing certain types, tracking trains in certain regions, or seeing all the rolling stock from a certain company.
Yes, that’s all there is to it.  Yes, this is a real hobby.  Yes, more than one person does this.
3.  Navel Fluff Collecting

Graham Barker collects his own navel fluff.  He has a Guinness World Record recognizing his collecting of the stuff for more than twenty years.  He started in 1984, keeps it all in carefully labeled jars, and has greeted every single question about why he collects navel fluff with, “why not?”  No word on whether he’s ever gotten a reply like, “because it’s disgusting?”
All we can say is that it must be a great icebreaker at parties.  Or something.
2.  Extreme Ironing

Yes, as in “removing the wrinkles from your clothes”.  That kind of ironing.  People find weird or unusual ways to set up their ironing board, do so and…iron their clothes.
Granted, extreme ironers are not entirely serious about their hobby: it’s as much about exploration, hiking, climbing, and other physical activities normal people get a hobby to avoid, as it is about actually pressing a shirt.  Even so, they had a world championship, which makes us wonder how long it’ll be before they get endorsement deals involved.
1.  Hikaru Dorodango

Or, polishing dirt.
If it sounds weird, well, it is, but believe it or not, it’s possible.  Essentially, you make a ball of mud and draw the moisture out of it, while coating it with finer and finer grains of soil.  Then you work the dirt, by hand, polishing it into a high-gloss sphere.  You’re making art with your hands…literally!

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Awesomely Pimped Out iPads

5.  Mmmmm…Apples…

Being that Apple products are owned by nerds, and nerds are required by law to be massive fans of “The Simpsons“, a decal like this was all but inevitable.  In fact, you’ll find dozens of them online, ranging from the clever to the, uh, gross (we didn’t need a naked Homer on our iPad, even if it is just his butt).  But we like this one because, realistically, we’re pretty sure than when confronted with an iPad, Homer will think it’s an interactive plate.  And possibly an edible one.
4.  The Joke’s On You

So, uh…the Joker.  He has control of your iPad.  He’s just hangin’ out on there, touching your logo, enjoying himself, big old smile on his face.  Have you checked your house for Smilex bombs recently, or just bombs in general?  Maybe some chattering teeth?  Large gifts wrapped in garish paper?  Joy buzzers that somehow give off way more electricity than they should?  Things like that.
3.  Has He Lost His Mind?

You might be thinking “Yeah, OK, Iron Man.  This is pretty neat.  Nerdy.  Looks cool.  Don’t really see what the big deal is, though.”
Remember what happens when you turn on an iPad?  The Apple logo on the back glows.  Now you see why this is so awesome.  Sadly, Marvel will never agree to installing iOS into a suit of armor made by a crazy billionaire.  But we can dream.
2.  But Will It Work With Our Other Bricks?

There’s only one thing stronger than Apple products with nerds: Legos.  So by combining the two, this will pretty much completely take over the world.  We’re pretty sure this is what Apple’s secret robot soldiers will look li-
1.  HI-YA!

We really like the image of Apple using glowing ninja stars with their logo in the center.  Somehow it dovetails perfectly with how we imagine Microsoft and Apple duking it out for supremacy, and possibly during job interviews.

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