Inventions

You know the drill. You get to the bottom of a bowl of soup or the milk remnants of your morning cereal, and you’re left with two choices: spoon up the rest in tiny increments, or tip the bowl to your face like a four-year-old. Now you have a third option.

For the low, low price of $100,000, you don’t have to worry about replacing a dull razor blades for 10 whole years! The Zafirro Iridium razor features solid white sapphire blades, which are hypoallergenic and almost completely resistant to oxidation and corrosion.  But it’s actually  the razor’s handle, made from the rare metal iridium, that makes the Zafirro so absurdly expensive.

If you weren’t vegetarian before, perhaps it’s time to make the switch. Scientists in Japan have now created a way to synthesize “beef steaks” from human feces. The discovery was made after a Tokyo sewage plant approached scientists, asking them if they could figure out a way to utilize all the sewage sludge lying around.