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Play Welcome To The Jungle In Style With The Slash Appetite For Destruction
While I’m not sure that Slash remains relevant in today’s music scene, there’s no question he stands as an easily-recognizable figure among a mass of guitar-toting heroes from the glory days of poodle hair and spandex. There’s something about that image of the guy with a funny-looking top hat, leather jeans, curly hair covering his face and a classic ‘58 Les Paul that managed to entrench itself among the mass consciousness. In honor of the man, Gibson has announced the new Slash Appetite For Destruction Les Paul, a classically-styled six-string that follows all the intricacies of Slash’s favorite instrument.
Scheduled for release to coincide with the 44-year old’s first solo album due this year, the limited-edition guitar is based on the same axe that Slash wielded in the record that introduced him to the world: Guns N’ Roses’ multi-platinum selling “Appetite for Destruction.” No, it can’t endow you [...]
Bakon Vodka Flavors Your Drink With Some Tasty Pig
Flavored vodka has never been my thing, but I’ve always said I’ll make an exception for one that tastes like roasted pig. The Bakon Vodka isn’t exactly luau fare, but I’m tempted to grab a bite. I mean a swig.
Need an excuse to drink in the morning? Uhh, I guess this will do. Dispensing of all that fruity-flavored mixes we usually find for the popular distilled liquor, this one’s laced with the meaty, savory and cholesterol-imbalancing taste of bacon. You can drop some on your salad in place of bacon bits, swig it with your toast or pour some right next to your fried eggs to start you off on the right foot.
The Bakon Vodka is made from fermented potatoes grown in Idaho and bequeathed with a wonderful, peppery bacon flavor. Its distillers take special pains to let you know it’s a “super-quality” [...]
Power Gig Does Rhythm Gaming With Real Guitars
Not a fan of the way Guitar Hero and Rock Band have dumbed down playing music to the level of button mashing? Then you may find Power Gig: Rise of the SixString refreshing, as it delivers a real six-string experience to the music gaming genre.
Announced at the start of the Game Developers Conference earlier today, the novel approach comes courtesy of Seven45 Studio, who develop and publish the game, as well as manufacture their own controller for it. Like other music-based titles in the market, Power Gig allows four player support with voice, guitars, drums and bass. Unlike them, however, the peripheral is a completely playable guitar.
An early version of the game was shown off at the conference, along with the prototype controller. The default mode of the game supposedly plays much like Rock Band and their ilk, where you match notes shown on the screen [...]
Drink Like A Warrior With These Warhammer Beer Steins
Whether you love the PvP action of WAR or absolutely hate the grind the game puts you through, you’re bound to have an affinity for ice cold beer. Yep, that delicious-tasting lager is the one element of civilization that, pretty much, unites us all. And these officially-licensed Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Beer Steins is the most fantastical way to drink it.
Bud from a plastic cup might taste the same as Bud drank from a fancy beer vessel, but the feeling they inspire should be world’s apart. Standing over 10 inches tall and weighing 3 lbs, it makes “beer guzzling while online gaming” look a lot more dignified than a disposable cup ever will.
The Warhammer Beer Steins Epic Collection come in two 32oz designs, one based on Order of the Griffon and another on The Raven Host. Both are made from fine-grain stoneware with a pewter sculpted lid, a sculpted [...]
Assemble Your Own Miniature Dinosaur Museum With Tinysaurs
Building a real dinosaur museum will require serious skills and money, neither of which you probably have in spades. These Tinysaurs, on the other hand, can let you fill an entire desktop with recreation dinosaur skeletons at only a fraction of the effort and the cost. Of course, your co-workers aren’t likely to pay a dollar to see 10 paper dinosaur bones inside your office cubicle, but it’s an awesome feeling, nonetheless.
Created by artist Kelly Farrell who sells them through a NY-based outfit called Everything Tiny, the mini-dino remains are built out of sturdy paper material that you can assemble yourself. Different types of dinosaurs are available, including Mammoths, Stegosauruses and the ever-popular T-Rex, along with other animals.
The Tinysaurs come in three types of kits – Basic, DeLuxe and Under Glass. Basic kit comes with just bone parts (made from perforated, laser-cut oak tag board) and an instruction booklet. The [...]
Smash Guitar Puts Some Sense In Your Rock And Roll Decadence
Want to destroy stuff when you’re onstage, but can’t bear the thought of even scratching your $800 Les Paul? As liberating as breaking guitars probably feel, it’s a terrible idea on so many levels. Surely, there must be a better way to relieve all that pent-up aggression, right?
Now there is. A Japanese company called K’s Japan has come up with the Smash, an electric guitar made especially with the intent of being destroyed. Cheap and recyclable, it makes the decadence of rendering a perfectly good guitar useless accessible, even to musicians barely scraping by.
The Smash looks like a regular, cheap, electric six-string – the kind you’d probably buy if you were thirteen and giddy after listening to your first rock solo. Available in a black or white body, there’s nothing to really get excited about. That’s until you start wielding its 2.5kg frame around like a sledgehammer, of course. According [...]
Chip Shotz Golfer Puts A Golf Game In Your Office Cubicle
If this were the 80s, the Chip Shotz Golfer is how we’d play golf indoors, not with Tiger Woods on the Xbox 360. Since it’s 2010, this is how we’d play golf inside the office, where video games aren’t allowed.
Yes, it’s a tabletop golf course that looks stupid enough to be entertaining. A perfect fare for cubicle-dwellers who want to kill some time while the supervisor isn’t looking, you can play one hole or 100 holes – just rearrange the course to your liking.
The Chip Shotz Golfer is a complete miniature desktop golf set, complete with a player holding a club, three balls and various course elements (one green, two trees, one pin, one sand trap, one water hazard). You arrange the pieces to roll out your own dream hole, even adding your own obstacles as you see fit. Then, you pull the lever mechanism on your mini-golfer to unleash [...]
Forget Cops And Robbers, Get Your Kids Playing Sellers And Suckers With The Kaufladen
Want your kids to grow up filthy rich? Get them started early with the Kaufladen, a mobile kiosk stand marketed to German kids. That way, they can steal stuff from your fridge and sell it back to you for a profit. Clever.
Anywhere you go in the world, it’s always the business owners raking all the money. Forget having your children play cops and robbers – nobody makes real coin from that deal. If they’re going to roleplay, they might as well do seller and sucker because that’s where all the money is. Five hundred percent markup, baby.
The Kaufladen is a mobile stand, consisting of a kiosk with wheels, storage compartments and a removable cotton cover with awning. It’s made up of three main sections – a wheeled base (with two rows of shelves and pull-out display areas), a tabletop (with the sunshade attached) and a middle section consisting of one [...]
GMax, The Toilet Bowl Transformer
Some Transformer robots got lucky. They can morph into trucks, cars, planes and other sorts of cool stuff. Looking at the GMax, you can’t help but feel that the poor little bastard got a raw deal – he turns into a toilet. Yikes.
While other robots busy themselves dishing out lasers and missiles, this unfortunate robot takes crap. Literally. In fairness, he’s not really a part of the official Transformers. The poor sap is actually a promotional toy figure from Japan-based toilet and bidet maker Toto.
GMax was created to promote the company’s GreenMax 4.8 Liter toilets, which uses up a mere 4.8 liters of water per flush, compared to the usual 13. That’s a lot of water multiplied over time, especially if you pee a lot.
Help conserve resources and get an action figure – who can say no? Well, maybe those who don’t like their robots in the shape of a [...]
Launching Of Crayola Rockets In The Desert Doesn’t Create A Rainbow – Boooo
As it turns out, firing crayons into the air at the same time doesn’t create a rainbow. My first-grade teacher so totally lied. But it does make for one delicious looking spectacle, as evidenced by the photos of John Coker’s Crayola Rocket Pack, which he recently launched in the Nevada desert.
Launching rockets isn’t anything special. Every engineering geek worth the eye mucus in his glasses has probably fired one. When you take the time to make your rockets look like grade school coloring materials, though, we can’t help but pay attention.
According to John, he resumed work for the Crayola Rocket in 2004, after abandoning it shortly after he started in 1998. It took six years of detailed handiwork to turn them into the finished product, which includes eight crayon-shaped rockets and a yellow-and-green Crayola box launch pad.
Each rocket measures 3.5 feet long and have been colored according to the exact [...]
Flexdex Photon Light Board Confirms It – Everything Looks Cooler With LEDs
If you were a kid in the 80s, the Flexdex Photon Light Board is probably how you’d imagined skateboards to look like in 2010 – riddled with plenty of electronic lights. Except they’re supposed to be hovering in the air, instead of just rolling on small wheels like they always did.
Where’s the jet motor, the vertical take off and all that? Well, that will have to stay in your imagined future for now. Instead, you’ll have to console yourself with a gorgeous bevy of UFO-style lights shining under your feet. Slide quickly down the street and, with a lot of imagination, you could look like you’re floating on air anyway.
Like the rest of the Flexdex longboard line, the Photon Light Board boasts the same improved engineering that sees you accelerate through turns (carving transmits 30% more power to the wheels) and absorb road vibrations. It’s made from a clear plastic [...]
Discovery Channel Valentine’s Special Shows You How Dinos Do It…In Graphical Detail
Got no date on Valentine’s? Might be a good time to watch some dirty television. No, we are not talking about Pay Per View channel on your cable. Instead, we’re referring to the Discovery Channel special on dinosaur mating, called Tyrannosaurus Sex. Hot!
Tyrannosaurus Sex doesn’t just answer the questions, it shows dinosaur sex in all its glory.
That’s a direct quote from the press release, which sounds like one half enticement and one half threat. Shot after shot of giant beasts getting it on in the middle of the jungle? What could be sexier? Get the popcorn ready, load up the fridge with beer and prepare for some saucy CGI. We can worry about the nightmares later.
The one-hour program, produced by the Locomotive Entertainment Group, purports to illuminate any aspect of dinosaur reproduction that you don’t understand. You know, the kind of thing you always wondered about while watching Jurassic Park, [...]
Couch Potato Groom Figurine Shows The Bride How The Fairytale Ends
Can’t believe your little sister is marrying that lazy slacker from down the block? Wedding cake topper turns “wedding stopper” with the Couch Potato Groom Figurine, which realistically depicts what’s actually going to happen after her wedding is through.
Retailer Things Festive thinks this is supposed to make the “forever on his ass” groom laugh at his own folly. Seriously, the dude already knows what’s going down after they move in to that new apartment – he’s going to plop down on the sofa and play Modern Warfare till his fingers bleed. Maybe take a break, too, when they show the Jersey Shore marathon on MTV. Super fist pump, baby!
Made from hand-painted porcelain bisque, the 12 x 14 cm (L x H) “Couch Potato” Groom Figurine portrays the sad life that awaits your baby sis in her domestic bliss. Bride stands cross-armed with her bouquet in one hand, while the groom [...]
Eat Like A Medieval Japanese Warrior With The Samurai Sword Chopsticks
Want to eat like a Samurai warrior? This is how you do it: the Samurai Sword Chopsticks.
Made to “dispatch sushi with honor,” the chopsticks are clad in actual 17th century Samurai sword design. It’s perfect for waging hand-to-mouth battles with soy sauce and wasabi, dunking fish eyeball sushi till you’re sick of swallowing them sliced-up, slimy sea creatures.
The Samurai Sword Chopsticks are available in three designs, namely Date Masamune, Sanada Yukimura and Maeda Keiji. They all use the same 230 mm chopstick frame, varying only on the details clad across their “sword handles.” All three, by the way, are monikered after legendary samurai warriors from years past, who would probably slay whoever bastardized their names for use with chopsticks if they were alive today. Banzai!!!!!
Japanese food is fun but you’ll have to put a gun to my head to make me eat raw fish wrapped in steamed rice. [...]
Paper Jamz Crams Working Electronic Instruments Into Cardboard-Like Frames
When I started playing drums, my home practice was accomplished by laying down a line of notebooks and pounding out beats with plenty of imagination. Your own budding rockstar won’t have to be so downtrodden with Paper Jamz, a set of cardboard-like electronic instruments that let them crank out real music.
So, how are cardboards going to be better than my old drum kit built out of school supplies? Well, for one, it comes with embedded electronics that let it play realistic-sounding tunes. Yes, your cymbals will actually sound like a crashing heap of tin, instead of a stack of paper.
Created by WowWee Toys, the Paper Jamz line will have six guitars and six drums to choose from, along with one similarly flat amplifier (albeit with a thicker base, so it can stand). They’re not really cardboards, although each piece is approximately one inch thick (the guitar’s a little thinner, while [...]
Live Coverage Of Funniest, Coolest, Lamest, Baddest, Most Exciting Commercials Of Super Bowl 44
Well, here is a live coverage of most notable Super Bowl 44 commercials. Rated by a bunch of rowdy individuals (mostly Peyton Manning fans) watching the game, drinking some beer and thankful for Freedom Of Speech.
Doritos Dog Collar Ad – Dog wearing an anti bark collar shows up in a park near man eating bag of Doritos chips.
Man wants the dog to bark if it wants chips. Dog does one better and in a total Ninja Move puts the anti bark collar in the man’s neck.
Now the dog owns both the man and the pack of Doritos. Funny.
Coca Cola / Simpsons Commercial – Simpsons boss seems in financial trouble. Appu shows up with Coca Cola and all is well. Its like saying what can Brown do for you. Nothing funny, just a bit cute.
Snickers Commercial with Betty White. Very Funny.
Doritos Commercial #3 – Guy plays dead to get his last [...]
