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JWoww Turned Down a $400,000 Playboy Offer

Jersey Shore star JWoww was offered $400,000 to strip for Playboy, but she has decided not to collect that paycheck. “I am not going to do Playboy in the near future,” she told Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS-FM radio show Wednesday. “There is a better opportunity out there, which everybody will probably see soon.” JWoww then went on to say she and Snooki were planning on moving in together, so obviously the two must be getting a TV spin-off which raises an interesting question: What in the hell could posing for Playboy possibly hurt?

Daredevil Adventurers Venture Into A Crater Of Molten Lava

A real life journey to the centre of the Earth saw a group of adventurers abseiling into the lava-spewing crater of a huge volcano - and tourists could soon have the chance to do the same. Just metres away from a fiery death, Geoff Mackley and his team are believed have ventured further into Marum Volcano - in Vanuatu in the South Pacific - than anyone ever before .

Victoria Silvstedt is flexible

Former Miss Sweden and Playmate of The Year Victoria Silvstedt did some stretching in Central Park yesterday. Silvstedt is a Swedish celebrity model, actress, singer and television personality. Silvstedt was then signed up by a modelling agency in Paris, and she started working for various prestigious fashion houses, including Chanel, Christian Dior, Giorgio Armani, Givenchy, Loris Azzaro and Valentino, appearing in advertisements and fashion shows in the mid-1990s.

MAXXI Perspectives

We decided to spend some time to the recently opened MAXXI Museum in Rome. MAXXI, the National Museum of XXI Century Arts, is the first Italian national institution devoted to contemporary creativity and conceived as a broad cultural campus. This is a set of some pictures we took of the amazing MAXXI building. If you want to know more about MAXXI, here is the official site.

Tokyo Motor Show: The Mitsuoka Orochi Is Still The Ugliest "Super Car" Ever

As we get ready for next week's LA Auto Show, we're working on cleaning our SEMA and Tokyo Motor Show pictures off our camera. The first ones from Tokyo we need to get rid of — for fear we'll break our shiny black DSLR due to accidentally dropping it while retching — are our newest shots of the Orochi, a mid-engined "super car" from the folks at Mitsuoka. While it's certainly exotic-looking (and by exotic, we mean "fugly") Mitsuoka's contention of "super car" status is probably more wishful thinking than reality, as the Orochi's powered by a 3MZ-FE V6 mated to a five-speed auto tranny. If it sounds familiar, it should — it's the same six-cylinder found in Toyota's 5th gen Camry, Solara and Highlander. The Orochi weighs just under 3,500 lbs, so that not-so-huge powerplant gives Mitsuoka's "new hotness" a mere 230 HP — about 10 horses less than a 2000 Dodge Intrepid R/T. It's hard to call something a "super car" when it's got less horses under the hood than an LH-platformed Mopar.

Boeing SolarEagle solar-powered UAV to fly in 2014

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Vulture program, which aims to develop and demonstrate technology to enable a single high-altitude unmanned airplane (UAV) to operate continuously for a period of five years, has entered phase II. Under the terms of an US$89 million contract, Boeing will develop a full-scale demonstrator called the SolarEagle that will make its first demonstration flight in 2014. The aircraft will have highly efficient electric motors and propellers and a high-aspect-ratio, 400-foot wing for increased solar power and aerodynamic performance. "SolarEagle is a uniquely configured, large unmanned aircraft designed to eventually remain on station at stratospheric altitudes for at least five years," said Pat O'Neil, Boeing Phantom Works program manager for Vulture II. "That's a daunting task, but Boeing has a highly reliable solar-electric design that will meet the challenge in order to perform persistent communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions from altitudes above 60,000 feet."

Jaw-Dropping Concepts from Alfa-Romeo, 1953-1955

Jaw-Dropping. That's the best way to describe these four-wheeled winged wonders. "Startling", "futuristic" and "mind-blowing" would work, too. This visually arresting trio of Berlinetta Aerodinamica Tecnicas - B.A.T. for short - were as radical in their day as the original Lamborghini Countach. Judging from these photographs, B.A.T.5 looked remarkably like the Batmobile, but it was never intended to be one. It did, however, become a symbol of the dynamism and daring in postwar Italian design - a beauty to behold.

Spanish Eco-lighting Shines

We know that Spain falls on the more fortunate side of Mother Nature, but many of us have to wait for the days of summer to laze around outdoors. Here are some stunning designs that are sure to impress your part guests or simply provide ambient light for a quiet night outside. A shooting star? A comet? No, it’s the Halley Lamp by Vibia! We’re certainly charmed by this lighting system that has been inspired by the celebrated comet. Easy to assemble, portable and lightweight, Halley features a diffuser profile containing an energy efficient LED strip able to turn any dull setting into a magical environment.

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