Admittedly, it's probably not what you had in mind when your friends invited you to try out a new rollercoaster. Lithuanian engineer Julijonas Urbonas has created a coaster that is designed to thrill and then kill all of its riders.
Dubbed the 'Euthanasia Coaster,' this theoretical creation will, in the words of its creator, 'humanely, with elegance and euphoria, take the life of a human being.' Charming.
We admit, we have a bit of a thing for unusual pieces of art here at Fizz and Tattle. Take the work of Malaysian artist Hong Yi, for example, who has lately taken to creating art from coffee cup stains.
The 26 year old's portrait of Taiwanese musician Jay Chou consists of hundreds of individual coffee stain rings. Yi has said, 'Coffee is quite a challenging medium to use,” she said. “Too much water and the rings wouldn't form easily, too little water and the rings will be too light. I had to be precise with where to place the cup because the rings would be permanent.'
French photographer Thomas Czarnecki's has reimagined classic fairytales in a series of photographs collectively called 'From Enchantment to Down.' His work is a far cry from the Disney favourites, with his photos depicting the heroines as part of a modern crime scene.
Well, this is a refreshingly different approach to dealing with your rubbish. These unique pieces of shadow art have been created by British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster. The pair project light against rubbish heaps (made up of ordinary household waste) to make an entirely different kind of image. They divide their work into 'Light Works' and 'Shadow Works' pieces.
Webster commented, 'When we make a piece of work we're constantly looking for something that will take our breath away because if it does that to us we've pushed it as far as it will go.'
Scientists believe they have taken a vital step towards hearing imagined speech, using a form of 'electronic telepathy.'
The US researchers found that they were able to reconstruct heard words from brain wave patterns. A special computer programme was then able to 'predict' the words volunteers had heard - based purely on analysing their brain activity.
This could offer a breakthrough for brain-damaged patients who are unable to communicate verbally.
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