WORLD’S FIRST EDIBLE DRAIN CLEANER

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‘Every day children are being put at risk,’ says Arthur Freemantle, leader of the eight-man biomolecular chemistry team at Harvard University ‘we’re just trying to make the world a little safer.’ Together with his team, they’re working to develop the world’s first edible drain cleaners, to prevent the many poison hazards that such chemicals present in the home and in the workplace. ‘The idea came to me really suddenly actually, one night in my kitchen, washing dishes. I’d just opened a new bottle of lemon-scented dishwashing liquid and I think to myself “well, why can’t it be lemon-FLAVOURED’ too?”

While the team hasn’t yet managed to make Freemantle’s epiphany a reality, they did manage to adapt the idea to similar products like drain cleaners and other ‘basic’ substances. The team claims to have adapted elements from many existing food products in order to produce the cleaner’s non-toxic powerful cleaning properties. ‘I mean, Everyone has heard the story of how if you leave a coin in a glass of coke overnight it’ll be clean the next morning, right? Our product is just the next step up’, he chuckles.

Freemantle acknowledges there may be some complications in releasing their product on to the market. “We realise that there’s a potential for even more confusion with both edible and non-edible products on the market, it’s probably the main challenge we’ve had to face. But we’re already engaged in talks with several major companies, and we’re hoping for a simultaneous release across the country some time in the next four years.'

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Really, this has to be the dumbest research project I’ve heard about for years. You’re thoughts...

...about April Fool's Day?

crwth

i am thoughts

Maximum

I feel cheated after going through all those server errors just to read that spoiler.

Damn you.

mcp

Last year at my office, we put a sign on the printers that we installed a new voice recognition feature on it.

So, people stood around and talked to the printers trying to make copies and shit.

It was pretty great.

DarkPrimus

You're a day early.

godmode

mcp wrote: »

Last year at my office, we put a sign on the printers that we installed a new voice recognition feature on it.

So, people stood around and talked to the printers trying to make copies and shit.

It was pretty great.

This...

This is genius!

Kuribo's Shoe

look man, if you're in Australia, just assume whatever day it is there is wrong. No offense, you're just not as important as America.

Bedigunz

I wrote a quick script that, when people double clicked on the file I embedded it in, it would change their screen saver to a picture of the blue screen of death and it would change their screensaver activation time to 1 minute.

Then I realized that it's technically a virus and IT wouldn't be too thrilled with my antics.

Bogey

DarkPrimus wrote: »

You're a day early.

edit - Ok now!

redfenix

Hey, It's April Fool's Day, and the internet is playing pranks on you.

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html

http://www.minecraft.net/store/loot.jsp

http://www.zdnet.com.au/rim-debuts-screenless-blackberry-339312385.htm?ocid=nl_TNB_01042011_fea_1

http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/looflirpa/e8be/

I'll be interested to see what Blizzard does, personally

So um... what pranks have you pulled?

Aneurhythmia

I used up your PhotoBucket bandwidth.

redfenix

yeah, you and everyone else : /

redhead

r.i.p. some celebrity... u were truely an Angel on this earth...

Blake T

Google doesn't really play April fool's jokes.

They have some executive think up something silly they make an announcement page and everyone has a good laugh.

Then some young engineer says, actually, that might be possible. And then the big wigs give him a bunch of resources and they go and do it.

It's not so much of an April fool's prank as a think of crazy technology day.

YaYa

Blake T wrote: »

Google doesn't really play April fool's jokes.

They have some executive think up something silly they make an announcement page and everyone has a good laugh.

Then some young engineer says, actually, that might be possible. And then the big wigs give him a bunch of resources and they go and do it.

It's not so much of an April fool's prank as a think of crazy technology day.

didn't they basically launch Skynet last year

redfenix

http://xkcd.com/

edit: o god it's all their comics

SabreMau

Blah. I had an April 1st thread planned, too. But I couldn't make it from an iPod running low on battery.

Uriel

I wonder what blizzard is going to "announce" for april fools.

Sometimes they have good ones.

also http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/

is in 3D

tardcore

YouTube is looking rather dapper today, chaps.

YaYa

redfenix wrote: »

http://xkcd.com/

edit: o god it's all their comics

holy shit! well done, Randall

well done

SLyM

http://www.hulu.com/index.htm

L|ama

minecraft one owns really hard

redfenix wrote: »

http://xkcd.com/

edit: o god it's all their comics

but what about goatkcd....

redfenix

SLyM wrote: »

http://www.hulu.com/index.htm

o god modem sounds haha

redfenix

also vgcats is in 3d

Swill

SLyM wrote: »

http://www.hulu.com/index.htm

so good

Uriel

Swill wrote: »

SLyM wrote: »

http://www.hulu.com/index.htm

so good

That's pretty funny, and I logged into hulu for the first time in a long while and found out they have big guy and rusty.

Fuck yes!

cj iwakura

So far Taito's had my favorite.

Taito is taking the Darius Burst Another Chronicle concept to the extreme Darius Burst Another Chronicle 48. The original Another Chronicle featured a super wide screen -- basically the width of two 16x9 screens together. Another Chronicle 48 features 48 screens, making its dimensions 384x9.




The cabinet measures 19,290 x 1575 x 1885 mm and weights 4,080kg. Taito says that it's currently seeking a Guiness World Record for the screen width.

Forty-eight players can play Darius Burst Another Chronicle 48 together. Taito notes that, regardless of player, when your ship is destroyed, it will regenerate at the far left. The player in the far right seat will have to wait about a minute for his ship to arrive in his area of play.

The original cabinet is 1/48 of that.

Lost Salient

Uriel wrote: »

Swill wrote: »

SLyM wrote: »

http://www.hulu.com/index.htm

so good

That's pretty funny, and I logged into hulu for the first time in a long while and found out they have big guy and rusty.

Fuck yes!

Aww, man. Something funny that reminded me of how I can never watch videos on hulu.

Buttssss

Lord Dave

Adult Swim is playing The Room. That's pretty messed up.

Nirya

Lord Dave wrote: »

Adult Swim is playing The Room. That's pretty messed up.

They do it every year. At least this year they just came out and said they were gonna do it, which made me think they were gonna bait and switch.

Lost Salient

I can't watch adult swim either

As an April Fool's (Fools'?) joke they should for one day just allow me to watch whatever from wherever.

Lord Dave

Nirya wrote: »

Lord Dave wrote: »

Adult Swim is playing The Room. That's pretty messed up.

They do it every year. At least this year they just came out and said they were gonna do it, which made me think they were gonna bait and switch.

I guess it's been years since I watched Adult Swim, then
They used to do different stuff!

Orikaeshigitae

i remember when they drew mustaches on everything

Nirya

They did farting noises a few years ago as well, but it's basically a tradition now for them to show The Room.

Lord Dave

Fart noises and mustaches were awesome and vaguely creative
Doing the same thing as last year is just lame

SLyM

At least they had fun with the censor bars during the movie, like having it cover the entire screen but a tiny corner showing someone's hair. And having the censor bar walk out the door with him.

Also flashing "Do NOT copy this copyrighted materiel"

Under the screen every 5 minutes or so.

The Otaku Suppository

kurt cobain

The Otaku Suppository

damn

Bogey

The Otaku Suppository wrote: »

kurt cobain

Clever girl

BlueDestiny

Lord Dave wrote: »

Fart noises and mustaches were awesome and vaguely creative
Doing the same thing as last year is just lame

The fart-dubbed episodes of ghost in the shell and fullmetal alchemist made me laugh so hard I almost choked.

Bucketman

yeah the Fart Ghost in the Shell was amazing because of how serious that show tries to be. With its half naked robots.

So far Hulu is winning for the best one