Category: Unbelievable

For the off-beat adrenaline junkie, a French business offers a service where they kidnap you for up to 2 days.
(via Springwise)

Extreme sports such as bungee-jumping from the Macau Tower may well be enough to satisfy the adrenaline needs of the majority of premium thrill-seekers. Those still wishing for more, however, have a new alternative: they can pay to be kidnapped, without warning, by French Ultime Réalité.

“Kidnapping”, “Manhunt” and “Go-Fast Adventure” are all among the standard services Ultime Réalité offers, but it’s open to special requests. Through the company’s simulated kidnapping packages, for instance, the participant is abducted without warning—after leaving a restaurant, say, or in the supermarket parking lot. Paying “victims” are then bound, gagged and imprisoned for four or 10 hours (depending on the scenario they choose), allowing them to experience the terror of the real thing. Additional elements such as ransom, escapes and helicopter chases can also be involved. Manhunt packages, meanwhile, can last either one or two days, with the option to play the role of either hunter or prey. Then there’s the Go-Fast Adventure, where participants take the role of a drug dealer smuggling cargo on the high seas. Finally, a recently added “extreme” package allows clients to wake up on an autopsy table in a morgue, surrounded by corpses and body bags. Pricing on a basic kidnap package is EUR 900.

Just a few weeks into its launch, Ultime Réalité was already getting as many as two requests per day, according to Reuters primarily from top-level executives seeking an extreme-sports alternative.

from OK Go, the group who did the treadmill music video which had 55 million views at time of writing.

Awesome vid:

Asylum is an American movie production company.

They have NEVER lost money on a film.
but…
NONE of their films have ever scored higher than 4 out of 10 on IMDB (that I have found).

Here are some of their films, some of which you might recognise…

Check out their IMDB page for a full list.

Cool bike design by Olli Erkkila

Pranav Mistry is a living legend and his ideas are phenomenal.
He has talked at TED before but in the video below, reveals some of his new ideas.
Absolutely Amazing.

Well, kinda, you just recharge it by spinning it on your finger.
Quality stuff.

More info here.