Offbeat and Lifestyle

Huge Homemade Kit Kat Bar

March 26, 2013 by IHaveCoolName Leave a Comment

Kit Kat is a chocolate-covered wafer biscuit bar confection that was created by Rowntree’s of York, England, and is now produced worldwide by Nestlé, which acquired Rowntree in 1988, except in the United States where it is made under licence by the Hershey Company. Each bar consists of fingers composed of three layers of wafer, covered in an outer layer of chocolate. Each finger can be snapped from the bar separately. Bars typically have 2 or 4 fingers. Larger Kit Kat Chunky bars are also popular.

Kit Kat bars are produced in 13 countries by Nestlé: UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Germany, Russia, Japan, China, Malaysia, India, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Bulgaria. Kit Kat bars in the United States are produced under licence by the Hershey Company, a Nestlé competitor, due to a prior licensing agreement with Rowntree.

The year 2003 was a turning point for the Kit Kat bar as well as the confectionery industry in general. The popularity of low carb diets and the push to healthier eating stifled sales growth in many parts of the world. In addition, fierce competition from Cadbury’s newly formed Dairy Milk super brand also contributed to sales of the Kit Kat decreasing considerably in its home market of the UK, and threatened to depose it from its #1 position.

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Table That Allows You To Sleep During Work

March 24, 2013 by IHaveCoolName Leave a Comment

A table is a form of furniture with a flat and satisfactory horizontal upper surface used to support objects of interest, for storage, show, and/or manipulation. The surface must be held stable; for reasons of simplicity, this is done by support from below by either a column, a “base” or at least three columnar “stands”.

A table is also known as a Mesa, a bench, a board, a bureau, a desk, a lectern and a pulpit.

Common design elements include:

rectangular, rounded, or semi-circular top surfaces

legs arranged in two or more similar pairs

several geometries of folding table that can be emptied and then collapsed into a smaller volume

heights ranging up and down from the most common 18-to-30-inch range, often reflecting the height of chairs or bar stools used as seating for people making use of a table, as for eating or performing various manipulations of objects resting on a table

presence or absence of drawers

expansion of the surface by insertion of leaves or locking hinged drop leaf sections into horizontal position.

Desks are tables specifically intended for information-manipulation tasks, including writing and use of interactive electronics.

The term “table” is derived from a merger of French table and Old English tabele, ultimately from the Latin word tabula, “a board, plank, flat top piece”. In Late Latin, tabula took over the meaning previously reserved to mensa (preserved in Spanish and Portuguese mesa “table”). In Old English, the word was bord, replaced by “table” for this meaning.

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Is the UK obsessed with ghosts?

March 21, 2013 by admin Leave a Comment

Is the UK a nation obsessed with ghosts and ghouls? Judging by the amount of ghost-hunting documentaries in our TV schedules and the enduring popularity of horror movies, you might think so. And it’s no wonder. With so much great history and tradition to look back into, there’s plenty of scope for spooky stories and tales of the unexpected. But is any of it actually real or is it all just make-believe?

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There are those who believe that simply saying we cease to exist when we pass away is too simplistic and who insist they have had very real spiritual experiences, proving to themselves at least that the spirit world really does exist. Others will always remain sceptics, believing such experiences to be the products of overactive imaginations. But how sceptical do they remain after watching a truly terrifying horror movie and hearing things go bump in the night?

For some, believing in the existence of ghosts is a way to retain a link with loved ones who have passed on. After all, if we believe a loved one is still with us in some form, it can be comforting rather than scary. But is there more to it than simply wishful thinking?

Perhaps no one will ever really know the answer, but there are plenty of people who claim they can help you find out. If you search for a clairvoyant or a psychic in UK areas, you’ll be spoilt for choice. Expert psychics and mediums claim to be able to help people communicate with the spirit world, using their practised techniques and innate skills. Whether you think you’ve got a ghost in your garage, a poltergeist in your pantry or a spirit in your cellar, there are experts out there who are only too willing to help track down the spooky presences for you.

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Star Wars Characters Drawn As 80s Highschool Kids

March 19, 2013 by IHaveCoolName Leave a Comment

The 1980s decade was the period of time between January 1, 1980, and December 31, 1989. The time period saw great social, economic, and general change as wealth and production migrated to newly industrializing economies. As economic liberalization increased in the developed world, multiple multinational corporations associated with the manufacturing industry relocated into Thailand, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan, and China.

Japan and West Germany are the most notable developed countries that continued to enjoy rapid economic growth during the decade while other developed nations, particularly the United Kingdom and the United States, re-adopted laissez-faire economic policies.

Developing countries across the world faced economic and social difficulties as they suffered from multiple debt crises in the 1980s, requiring many of these countries to apply for financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.

Ethiopia witnessed widespread famine in the mid-1980s during the corrupt rule of Mengistu Haile Mariam, resulting in the country having to depend on foreign aid to provide food to its population and worldwide efforts to address and raise money to help Ethiopians, such as the famous Live Aid concert in 1985.

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Very Awesome Monkey Orchids

March 13, 2013 by IHaveCoolName Leave a Comment

The Orchidaceae are a diverse and widespread family of flowering plants with colorful and fragrant blooms, commonly known as the orchid family. Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering plants, with between 21,950 and 26,049 currently accepted species, found in 880 genera. Selecting which of the two families is larger is still under debate, as concrete numbers on such enormous families are constantly in flux. Regardless, the number of orchid species equals more than twice the number of bird species, and about four times the number of mammal species. The family also encompasses about 6–11% of all seed plants. The largest genera are Bulbophyllum (2,000 species), Epidendrum (1,500 species), Dendrobium (1,400 species) and Pleurothallis (1,000 species).

The family also includes Vanilla (the genus of the vanilla plant), Orchis (type genus), and many commonly cultivated plants such as Phalaenopsis and Cattleya. Moreover, since the introduction of tropical species in the 19th century, horticulturists have produced more than 100,000 hybrids and cultivars.

The name comes from the Greek ὄρχις (órkhis), literally meaning “testicle”, because of the shape of the root. Linnaeus categorized the family as Orchidaceae. Orchid was introduced in 1845 by John Lindley in School Botany, due to an incorrect attempt to extract the Latin stem (orchis) from Orchidaceae.

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Modern Pop Stars As Furbys

March 13, 2013 by IHaveCoolName Leave a Comment

A Furby (plural Furbys or Furbies) is an electronic robotic toy resembling a hamster or owl-like creature which went through a period of being a “must-have” toy following its launch in the holiday season of 1998, with continual sales until 2000. Over 40 million Furbies were sold during the three years of its original production, with 1.8 million sold in 1998, and 14 million in 1999. Its speaking capabilities were translated into 24 languages.

Furbies were the first successful attempt to produce and sell a domestically-aimed robot. A newly purchased Furby starts out speaking entirely Furbish, the unique language that all Furbies use, but is programmed to start using English words and phrases in place of Furbish over time. This process is intended to resemble the process of learning English.

In 2005, new Furbies were released, with voice-recognition and more complex facial movements, and many other changes and improvements. The Emoto-Tronic Furbies (Furby, Furby Baby, and Funky Furby) continued to be sold until late 2007, when these toys became extremely rare. An updated Furby is being sold as of September 2012 for the holiday season.

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15 Pounds Homemade Snickers Bar

March 3, 2013 by IHaveCoolName Leave a Comment

Snickers is a brand name candy bar made by Mars, Incorporated. It consists of nougat topped with caramel and peanuts, enrobed in milk chocolate. Snickers has annual global sales of $2 billion.

In the United Kingdom and Ireland, Snickers was sold under the brand name Marathon until 1990. More recently, Snickers Marathon branded energy bars have been sold in some markets.

In 1930, Mars introduced Snickers, named after the favorite horse of the Mars family. The Snickers candy bar consists of nougat, peanuts and caramel with a chocolate coating. The bar was marketed under the name “Marathon” in the UK and Ireland until July 19, 1990, when Mars decided to align the UK product with the global Snickers name. There are also several other Snickers products such as Snickers mini, dark chocolate, white chocolate, ice cream bars, Snickers with almonds and Snickers peanut butter bars.

Containing approximately 450 calories (1,900 J) per bar., deep fried chocolate bars (including Snickers and Mars bars) became a specialty in fish and chips shops in Scotland and England in 1995 , and in the early 2000s, became popular at US state fairs. A normal Snickers bar used to contain 280 calories (1,200 J). Sometime in late 2012 or early 2013 the weight of a Snickers went down from 2.07 ounces (58.7 grams) to 1.86 ounces (52.7 grams) and calorie content is now listed as 250 .

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Incredible Concept Cars We Might Be Driving In The Future

February 26, 2013 by admin Leave a Comment

Concept cars very rarely make it off the drawing board, some go as far as being made into a prototype, but very few are ever marketed yet alone driven. Yet there are some that are simply so fabulous either through sheer design, eco friendliness or sheer implausibility that they deserve to be made so that we can all try our hands at driving them, that’s if the designers actually made them so they could be driven.

The Bentley SenseS

The concept behind the car is that driver and machine are blended, with the help of genetic engineering and advances in biotechnology of course, so that they work together as one. Designed by Arturo Peralta the car is supposed to be as connected to the driver as a rider is to his horse. The artificial intelligence would continue to develop and learn through use so that when ready it will anticipate the needs of the driver and recognise the emotions that the driver is displaying. If you have always admired Bentley this model might see you changing your mind as what it has in concept it loses in overall look and would appear more at home on the page of a comic book.

The Pivo 2

It may look more like an automated submersible designed to be thrown overboard a scientific research vessel, but the Pivo 2 was designed to combat some of the difficulties that today’s drivers face. Designed by Nissan the Pivo 2 is an electric car which offers an incredible 360’ rotating cabin. The wheels have been designed to rotate a full 90’ to aid with difficult parking situations in the city. While the wheels are turning on one direction the cabin can turn in another, they say it is innovative but it could be a nightmare for those suffering from motion sickness.

The Peugeot VERSatile Feline

A lunar rover comes to mind when you look at this car. It’s electric and while some would consider it to be stunning, others may make comments about how ugly it is. The designer is David Vega and well, who knows what he was thinking of when he came up with this. Rather than just one this vehicle has four motors, all electric, each of which is mounted in one of the wheels, with the wheel rims acting as ventilation for the engine. This is a two seater with the option of being able to move the seats so that not only space is created but the shape of the car is changed.

The Volkswagen T-6

Created by designer Alexander Zhukovsky this is a true futuristic car. This car is not just a simple vehicle it also works as a mobile office with a business class interior. The wheels as we recognise them have gone, moved onto cylinders which revolve around the body of the car. It looks like something out of a science fiction film which is what you want from a concept car. So it looks good, but no one has said anything about the driveability of the thing!

Whilst you may be happy with your fuel efficient Suzuki Kizashi right now we bet that you are already looking forward to the future now you have heard what is in store.

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Badass Blow dryer Shaped Like A Magnum Revolver

February 18, 2013 by IHaveCoolName Leave a Comment

A blow dryer or hair dryer is an electromechanical device designed to blow cool or hot air over wet or damp hair, in order to accelerate the evaporation of water particles and dry the hair. Blow dryers allow to better control the shape and style of hair, by accelerating and controlling the formation of temporary hydrogen bonds inside each strand.

These hydrogen bonds are very powerful (allowing for stronger hair shaping than even the sulfur bonds formed by permanent waving products), but are temporary and extremely vulnerable to humidity. They disappear with a single washing of the hair.

Hairstyles using blow dryers usually have volume and discipline, which can be further improved by the use of styling products and hairbrushes during drying to add tension, hold and lift.

Blow dryers were invented around the end of the 19th century. The first model was created by Alexander F. “Beau” Godefroy in his salon in France in 1890. The handheld, household hair-dryer first appeared in 1920. Blow dryers are used both in the beauty salon by professional stylists, and in the average household by consumers.

Most models use coils of wire that have a high electric resistivity and heat rapidly with an electric current. A fan usually blows ambient air past the hot coils resulting in heated air effective for drying. The heating element in most hairdryers is a bare, coiled nichrome wire that is wrapped around insulating mica heating boards. Nichrome wire is used in heating elements, because of two important properties: it is a poor conductor of electricity and it does not oxidize when heated.

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Full Sized Replica Of ED-209 From Robocop

February 18, 2013 by IHaveCoolName Leave a Comment

RoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. The film stars Peter Weller, Dan O’Herlihy, Kurtwood Smith, Nancy Allen, Miguel Ferrer, and Ronny Cox. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan in the near future, RoboCopcenters on police officer Alex Murphy (Weller) who is brutally murdered and subsequently revived by the malevolent mega-corporation OCP as a superhuman cyborg law enforcer known as “RoboCop”.

RoboCop includes themes regarding the media, resurrection, gentrification, corruption, privatization, capitalism, masculinity, identity and human nature. It received positive reviews and was cited as one of the best films of 1987, spawning a large franchise, including merchandise, two sequels, a television series, two animated TV series, and a television mini-series, video games and a number of comic book adaptations/crossovers. The film was produced for a relatively modest $13 million.

RoboCop was written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. Edward Neumeier stated that he first got the idea of Robocop when he walked past a poster for Blade Runner. He asked his friend what the film was about and he replied saying, “It’s about a cop hunting robots”. This then sparked the idea for him about a robot cop.

Allegedly, while the two were attempting to pitch the screenplay to Hollywood executives, they were stranded accidentally at an airplane terminal with a high-ranking movie executive for several hours. Here they were able to speak to him about the project and thus begin the series of events which eventually became RoboCop the movie.

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