Awesome Street Advertising

Next time you’re out walking, take a second to look down – you just might be surprised at the creative street ads right underneath your feet.

Google Street View Car

If you needed proof that big brother is watching every single move you make, this camera covered car should remove any doubt.

Yummy Chocolate Kitchen

Using 2,000 pounds of chocolate and sugar, Alain Roby built a replica of his home kitchen. The chocolate kitchen comes complete with cabinets, a stove, a sink, a tiled backsplash, teapots and dishes. The master pastry chef began work on the project last year when he received a chocolate donation from Belgian chocolaterie Callebaut. He started off by melting the chocolate into molds he designed himself and then connected the parts using more chocolate. He then made the dishes using sugar, glazed the tiles and sculptured them into the desired shapes. Roby is also famous for building a 20-foot chocolate skyscraper and a 22-foot-tall Christmas tree made of chocolate.

Campbell-Stokes Pattern Sunshine Recorder

This beautiful device is called a sunshine recorder and true to its name, it records the amount of sunshine at a given location. The sunshine recorder uses either the sun itself as a time scale or a clock. The brilliance of the recorder lies in the fact that a glass sphere focuses the sun’s rays on a card inside the ball which in turn measures the sunshine. The original sunshine recorder was invented in 1853 by John Francis Campbell and was adapted and improved a few years later by George Gabriel Stokes. Campbell’s idea involved placing a glass sphere in a wooden bowl and the sun would burn a trace on the bowl as the earth circled it. The invention has undergone some improvements since then.