I guess these are for women who like to scuba dive off of Hugh Hefner’s yacht, ’cause there’s no way you’d be able to walk in heels on the beach. That said, I’m not sure you’d be able to walk in these on any surface, so it’s possible that their only purpose is to help your legs look sexier … underwater.
How great completely pointless.
They might, however, make a cute gift for your favorite ultra-girly diving enthusiast — assuming you can find them. The only mention of High Tide Heels that I’ve come across was the above photo, and my attempts at tracking down the shoes’ manufacturer on the Interwebatron have come up empty-handed. And, if this Yahoo Answers thread is any indication, no one else can find them either.
Maybe they’ll turn up, but, at least for now, it looks like you’ll have to keep scuba diving in flats. Bummer.
This is the one day of the year when — if you’re American — you’re practically required to wear red, white and blue. But for those of you heading out to the fireworks tonight, who really want to get blinged-out, USA-style, check out these heels from Stuart Weitzman, adorned with the American flag.
OK, I’ll admit, they’re incredibly tacky — downright ugly, in fact. But you’ll be able to wear them every 4th of July for the rest of your life, and no one will make fun of you. Plus, they’re sparkly!
Every now and again I’m forced to reveal that I’m a complete and total geek. This is one of those times.
I am incredibly pumped about the new Transformers movie. That cartoon was a Saturday-morning staple throughout my childhood, and trucks that can turn into giant, evil-fighting robots are undeniably cool.
I’m so excited, in fact, that I’m starting to think the new(ish) Nike Air Trainer “Transformers” — inspired by the Autobots’ fearless leader, “Optimus Prime” are stylish.
Sure, Nikes aren’t exactly high fashion, the bold red, yellow and blue color combination makes them look more like a children’s toy than anything intended for adults (not to mention that pointless plastic strap just below the laces), and placing the Transformer logo on the tongue of the shoe was certainly an uninspired choice.
But, all that aside, these are shoes inspired by the coolest cartoon show in the history of television (except for Thundercats and Heman), and that’s gotta count for something.
Ok, so it’s about 1,000 degrees in Texas right now. The kind of nasty, damp heat that makes you sweat just by standing around.
For the most part, I try to brave the conditions by hanging out inside whenever possible, but for those times when I do have to head outdoors, maybe I should get myself some air conditioned clothing. Kuchofuku, a company that specializes in air-con lifestyle products, has an entire range of options from pants, jackets and work shirts for men and women — all complete with dual fan action to keep you feeling cool even when it’s hot, hot, hot!
The only problem is, while Kuchofuku’s clothing may help you feel cool, it makes you look like a total dork. The fit, the colors, the designs — even that little patch for the fan — scream “I am even less sexy than your high school biology teacher.”
But when the temperature is 110, chances are, you aren’t looking all that sexy anyway, so maybe it’s worth a short.
I recently stumbled across another website about Japanese street fashion and, out of my outrageously long list of bookmarks with the same topic, I must say this is my favorite so far. It’s well organized, frequently updated, and there is a refreshingly low number of Gothic lolita outfits.
Although a lot of these ensembles require an absurd amount of boldness and confidence to carry, anyone can take a note or two and learn about experimental layering. Check out the guy in the upper-right photo. He’s wearing a smart black jacket over a thin cardigan over an apron — that’s right, an industrial apron — over a thin t-shirt. It shouldn’t work, but somehow, it does. A lot of the pictures also come with some close-ups of accessories, which range from bizarre wristwatches to home-made bags to creative ear piercings. Seeing sites like this always inspire me to ransack my own wardrobe, mixing and matching in new, exciting ways. It makes me feel like I’ve spent a load of money buying new clothes when, really, all
I’ve done is take what I already own and put it to a different use.
The whole website is in Japanese, but it’s fairly easy to navigate. There are updates every week, so this site will never lose its cool.
One of the few concessions the Paris men’s collections have offered to spring is the cropped trouser. Otherwise the clothes look wintry. Flood pants appeared at John Galliano (low-slung, often over printed leggings), Comme des Garcons and Junya Watanabe. Shades of Thom Browne? Maybe. Does it matter?
The tomb of China’s first emperor, guarded for more than 2,000 years by 8,000 terracotta warriors and horses, has yielded up another archaeological secret.
After five years of research, archaeologists have confirmed that a 30-yard-high building is buried in the vast mausoleum of Emperor Qinshihuang near the former capital, Xian, in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, Xinhua news agency said Sunday.
Duan Qingbo, a researcher with Shaanxi Institute of Archaeology, said the building might have been constructed for the soul of the emperor to depart.
Archaeologists have been using remote sensing technology since 2002 to study the internal structure of the unexcavated mausoleum.
They concluded that the building, buried above the main tomb, had four surrounding stair-like walls with nine steps each, Xinhua said.
“It’s akin to building a municipal treatment center on Earth,” NASA spokeswoman Lynnette Madison said Thursday, explaining the cost of the new toilet system.
Also, astronauts are familiar with how it works since it’s similar to one already in use at the space station. The new system will be able to transfer urine to a device that can produce drinking water.
The new system is scheduled to be delivered to the U.S. side of the space station in 2008. It will offer more privacy than the old toilet system, which will definitely be needed: The space station crew is expected to grow from three to six people by 2009.
The system will be installed on the American side, and the current toilet system on the Russian side will remain in place.
The space station toilet physically resembles those used on Earth, except it has leg restraints and thigh bars to keep astronauts and cosmonauts in place. Fans suck waste into the commode. Crew members also have individual urine funnels which are attached to hoses, and the urine is deposited into a wastewater tank.
Crew members using the current toilet system on the Russian side must transfer tanks of their urine to a cargo ship, which burns up in Earth’s atmosphere once undocked from the station.
The $19 million toilet system was part of a larger contract valued at $46 million that NASA signed this week with RSC Energia, a Russian aerospace company. The extra equipment includes software updates for the station’s inventory management system, a spare air pump and engineering support for a mechanism which allows space shuttles to dock with the space station.
It’s been a week since version 3 of the GPL was released, and the ripple effect is starting to make some pretty big waves: Microsoft — which has been essentially selling Novell’s SUSE Linux since last year — released a terse statement today claiming that neither it nor its customers are parties to any terms of the revised license. Furthermore, “to avoid any doubt or legal debate on this issue,” Microsoft will decline to support any GPL v3 code that might be distributed with SUSE. Microsoft does have a point: since Linux remains under GPL v2 (and probably will for the foreseeable future), there’s very little binding them to the terms of GPL v3 — specifically, the patent protection terms that would essentially undo the major element of the whole MS / Novell agreement. How the inclusion of GPL v3 code with SUSE affects the overall license is another matter entirely — one that will result in a lot of legal chest-pounding until the GPL finally gets tested in an American court.
Just as ASTRO and NextSat get ready for decommissioning, a duo of lightweight leapers are getting geared up to take the proverbial next step from testing to interplanetary exploration. Jollbot and Glumper, crafted by a group of mechanical engineers from the University of Bath, could provide solutions to “traveling across rough terrain, such as climbing stairs and jumping fences, that normally create obstacles for wheeled and walking robots.” The machines utilize biologically inspired mechanisms that enable them to clear heights of up to 1.17-meters and capriole forward about two-meters at a time. Researchers are hoping to equip the devices with solar panels in order to keep them juiced up and ready to pounce at a moment’s notice (you know, in case a stray asteroid comes zipping in), but there’s been no plans made yet to get devices such as these launched into orbit.