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Voice-Changing Iron Man Motorcycle Helmet is Awesome, Unsafe

Can I ride in your sidecar with my War Machine helmet? You're already riding a motorcycle, so feeble concerns like safety aren't yours to have. Leave it for the moped owners. In lieu of a properly constructed helmet, why not try and cop one of Youtube user Tigerpause444's (I see what you did there, mreowr) custom creations? The coolest one is the helmet based on the Iron Man Mark VI suit, which has a retractable visor, blue LED lights in the eye-hole spots, and voice changing capability (spoiler: it's one of those kiddie voice-chaing helmets mounted on a regular bike helmet). Other helmets this dude's made include War Machine from Iron Man, a humongous furry Cookie Monster helmet, Hello Kitty, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee from Transformers, Master Chief from the Halo video game series, and Star Wars' Darth Vader. Tigerpause warns that they might not be entirely safe for road wear, but I'd rather be made into street pizza looking like Tony Stark than a big ol...

Extreme, Beautiful Ads as a Work of Art

Extreme, Beautiful Ads as a Work of Art (with some lovely kitsch thrown in) Spectacular wide-format thrills, monsters and disasters This series seems a bit too optimistic: A super-suction range and hood: Garbage Pen Fighters: "All We Throw Away Turns Against us" - Another way for garbage to fight back: Windex: a clean glass effect - Epic pile-ups: Landrover Phone, "Incredibly Tough" - Household Surrealism & Unexpected Weirdness Overweight washing machine? Sure, "think about what it consumes..." - Disturbingly fat fridge - is it eating your food? Happy Fried Chickens: Drinking straws creativity: from small to big ones - "Say Cheeese!" ad for SONY Cybershot (left) and Sydney International Food Festival campaign (right): Eat a bar code, darling: Some great ads for the Gold's Gym: Improved Chewing Skills! - fragment of a campaign for the Mintz gum Walt Disney Princess Crystal Slipper campaign: "Otherwise it would be too easy to install...