Twice a year the @LasVegasMarket allows the public into the Las Vegas World Market Center to shop unique, one of a kind and limited furniture and home goods pieces from some of the best designers in the world. May 19-21 is the Spring Sample Sale for 2026 and you don’t want to miss it.
Police have issued a strong warning against the illegal handling and reckless misuse of firearms after a video surfaced on social media showing women handling and cocking firearms inside a house.
The @SAPoliceService said it was deeply concerned by the incident, noting that the women seen in the video appeared not to be properly trained or authorised to handle firearms.
Police warned that reckless firearm handling poses a serious threat not only to those involved, but also to members of the public.
SAPS emphasised that firearms are dangerous weapons and should never be used irresponsibly, displayed carelessly, or handled for entertainment or social media content.
In terms of the Firearms Control Act 60 of 2000, any person handling or using a firearm must be legally authorised to do so and, where applicable, must possess a valid firearm licence or permit.
SAPS also reminded firearm owners that they carry a legal responsibility to ensure their firearms are not accessed or used by people who do not have the required competency certificates or firearm licences.
The registered owner of a firearm could face criminal charges if it is found that they allowed unauthorised individuals access to the weapon.
Police further noted that even toy guns, imitation firearms, or blank guns can result in serious legal consequences if they are used in a manner that causes fear, intimidation, or creates the reasonable perception that the object is a real firearm.
SAPS has urged members of the public to act responsibly and to report any illegal possession, misuse, or reckless handling of firearms to the nearest police station or anonymously through the Crime Stop hotline on 08600 10111.
@SAPoliceService
These two giant turtles have been fighting each other for more than 120 years.
According to the zoo, one turtle stole the other’s food 120 years ago, and since that day they became enemies.
There hasn’t been a single day where they don’t fight for 2–3 minutes😂
Chinese Giant Salamander.
It’s the largest amphibian in the world and can grow over 6 feet long. Despite its strange appearance, it’s a real amphibian that lives in freshwater rivers and streams in China. The species is now critically endangered due to habitat loss and hunting.
A standard Rolex has about 200 moving parts. The Patek Philippe on Jay-Z's wrist at the Met Gala has 1,580. Patek spent 8 years designing it. Then over 100,000 hours building the first one. About 11 straight years of someone working 24 hours a day, no breaks.
It's called the Grandmaster Chime, the most complicated wristwatch Patek has ever made. The inner mechanism alone has 1,366 parts. It fits in a circle smaller than an Oreo cookie. The outer case adds another 214 parts, and the case alone took four years to design.
In watchmaking, a "complication" is just any function beyond telling you the time. Most watches in the "grand complication" category have 5 to 7. This one has 20. When it launched, no wristwatch in history had combined that many. It tracks the phase of the moon, accurate to one day's drift over 122 years. It also has five different ways to chime: one that automatically rings the hours and quarters, one that rings only the quarters, one you press a button to hear the current time, one that rings whatever alarm time you set, and one that chimes today's date on demand. The last two had never existed in any watch before. Both were invented by Patek's own president, Thierry Stern, a trained watchmaker himself.
The chiming makes this watch nearly impossible to copy. Inside each one are tiny coiled steel wires called gongs. A single watchmaker shapes and tunes each gong by hand, testing every note with their own ears. Just putting one chime mechanism together takes 200 to 300 hours. Then the watch goes into a soundproof chamber where the chime gets recorded and compared against decades of past Patek chimes. Only then is it brought to Thierry Stern. He listens. If he doesn't like the sound, the watch goes back. Sometimes more than once. A rejected watch can take 500 hours of rebuilding before he approves it.
This watch holds four power springs in total. One is dedicated to the chimes alone, separate from the spring driving the time. Inside the mechanism is a ball bearing 7.2mm wide. It holds seven steel balls, each 0.3mm across, smaller than grains of fine sand. They handle 1,700 gram-millimetres of twisting force from the chime springs without slipping. The case has 11 holes drilled through it for buttons and pushers, and somehow none of them ruin the chamber that lets the chimes ring out clearly. The case itself flips around to show either of its two different dials.
Fewer than five workshops on the planet can build something at this level. Patek Philippe is the one all the others measure themselves against.
Jay-Z's version lists at $6.5 million. The unique steel version sold for $31 million at Christie's in 2019. It still holds the record for the most expensive watch ever sold at auction.
The "i" in Utopai? It's not random.
U-T-O-P-A-I
That "i" stands for YOU. The individual. The innovator. The one who makes the story real.
Because the future isn't built by everyone. It's built by every "i" ✨
Nature can surprise you at any time. I came across this beautiful animal the other day. You don't see him easily, and during the day you don't see it at all. It's really rare. The Cyclopes didactylus looks like a toy animal 😍