Teacup That Improves With Age

Stain is a set of a teacups designed to improve through use. This project examines the assumption that use is damaging to a product (For example, scratches on an iPod).

The interior surface of the cup is treated so as to stain more in predetermined places. The more the cups are used, the more the pattern is revealed. Over time they will build up an individual pattern dependent on the users personal way of drinking tea.

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CD players blast ‘pornographic messages’ at Ash Wednesday Mass in N.M. – Bomb squad called in

SANTA FE, N.M. – Three CD players hidden under a cathedral’s pews blared sexually explicit language in the middle of an Ash Wednesday Mass, leading a bomb squad to detonate two of the devices. Authorities determined the music players were not dangerous and kept the third one to check it for clues, said police Capt. Gary Johnson.

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Surgeons’ ‘lame’ excuse

Surgeons trying to correct the limp of a five-year-old boy in China have apologised after lengthening the wrong leg.

They say the mistake was down to the boy being anaesthetised on his back but then operated on while lying on his stomach.

Now Mingming has to undergo two more operations, one to extend the right leg, the other to shorten the extended left leg.

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