Wanna keep ants as your pet? You can build an ant colony in your house with Ant Works. It requires minimal maintenance. (via What the Pets!?)

Fascinating creatures ants. Sure you hate to see them in your socks or making a B-line for that pizza crust crumb you forgot to sweep up at the local LAN party. But let's give credit where credit is due. Ants are amazing. Ants can lift up to 20x their body weight! They have two stomachs and three eyes! They also have uncanny communication skills and amazing abilities to work together to achieve a common goal.

This miraculous gel, derived from a NASA Space experiment, serves as both habitat and nutrition for your ants

* Easy to care for - Ants need NO food or water.
* AntWorks Includes:
o Case and gel
o Magnifying glass
o Four blue LEDs embedded in base (with A/C adaptor)
o Ant catching/tunnel starting tool
o Instruction booklet with interesting facts about ants.
o ANTS ARE NOT INCLUDED! However, there is a form included where you can order some ants for delivery via mail. But why bother? Just set out some potato chips in the kitchen and voila! Instant ant colony!

it was always my chilhood dream to have one of these blue gel ant farms. maybe one day humans with be able to build with and live off of blue gel too.

Fascinating creatures ants. Sure you hate to see them in your socks or making a B-line for that pizza crust crumb you forgot to sweep up at the local LAN party. But let's give credit where credit is due. Ants are amazing. Ants can lift up to 20x their body weight! They have two stomachs and three eyes! They also have uncanny communication skills and amazing abilities to work together to achieve a common goal.

This miraculous gel, derived from a NASA Space experiment, serves as both habitat and nutrition for your ants - allowing you to watch in awe as they turn a brick of aqua-blue gel into a fascinating colony of tunnels. Never before have you been so capable of watching these awesome creatures at work.

Consider Ants a pest? Think again. As Sun Tzu stated, 'Know Thy Enemy'. And what better way to know them then in this totally enclosed space age aquarium. Ants are perhaps the most populous creatures on the face of planet earth, with at least ten thousand species and countless trillions of individual ants. Bring them indoors today with Antworks!

i am such a neard and this is so cool and bright

Very weird but cool. I saw even more of these at Ubibay. (via Ubibay)

interesting..

Fascinating to watch and a cool toy to try out - the ants do all the work for you!

The medium is a special gel that provides the ants with all the food and water they need. They also tunnel through it.

It's amazing to see these big ants, large jaws chomping away, digging these intricate tunnels. They seem to pile the rubble up on top.

You have to order the ants separately, which is a $5 adventure. Let's just say, for me, getting them in there involved several spoons, a large plastic bucket, various pieces of cardboard and paper and tremendous amounts of patience. Watch out though - these things can sting!