• Bumblebee And Megatron Transform Into DS Lite Armors

    Bumblebee And Megatron Transform Into DS Lite Armors

    ENTERTAINMENT, GADGETS

    I’ve been waiting for cool Transformers merchandise for handheld gadgets the past couple of months and haven’t really found anything worthwhile. With the “Revenge of the Fallen” movie coming out this week, though, I figured we should be seeing a couple  more interesting ones. I think it’s begun with these new armor casings for the Nintendo DS Lite from PDP. There are only two designs as of the moment, a gray and yellow Bumblebee and a dirty-looking Megatron. Even without [...]

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  • Fake An Alien Invasion, Ride The Extra-Terrestrial Vehicle

    Fake An Alien Invasion, Ride The Extra-Terrestrial Vehicle

    WHEELS

    After seeing countless science fiction movies and television shows, we all have some idea of what an “alien car” would look like. For many of us, this Extra-Terrestrial Vehicle (ETV) will probably fit the bill. Cue the background music, E.T.’s coming out! Instead of managing to fly or hover like any self-respecting futuristic car should, however, the ETV can only drive down the same roads that you do. Yep, it’s a regular car enclosed in an otherworldly frame that makes [...]

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  • Realtime 3D Air Traffic Simulation Makes Being A Traffic Cop Cooler Than It Sounds

    Realtime 3D Air Traffic Simulation Makes Being A Traffic Cop Cooler Than It Sounds

    ENTERTAINMENT, GADGETS, SIMPLY COOL

    Being a traffic cop is by no means cool. Working as an air traffic cop, based on what I’ve seen in movies, is hardly any more glamorous. Lufthansa’s Real-Time 3D Airtraffic Network Simulation, however, makes me want to change my mind. Installed at the flight control tower of the Lufthansa Brand Academy in Frankfurt-Seeheim, the display is a real-time 3D visualization of all 16,000 daily flights taken by Lufthansa and Star Alliance planes. Instead of just watching the whole thing [...]

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  • Super Dream Cabinet: Luxury Storage Doubles As Your Future Coffin

    Super Dream Cabinet: Luxury Storage Doubles As Your Future Coffin

    FURNITURE, HOME

    If you’re in Japan, as it turns out, you can have your luxury cabinet and die in it too. At least, that’s what you’ll get if your buy the Super Dream Cabinet, a large decorated chest that’s supposed to be well-suited for burying dead people in too. While Japan admittedly has weird tastes, this one is likely a marketing stunt from a coffin-maker who has a little too much inventory of expensive units. I mean, if I thought there was [...]

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  • Bandai Micro Water Pets: Creepy Robot Tamagotchis That Swim

    Bandai Micro Water Pets: Creepy Robot Tamagotchis That Swim

    LATEST

    Want a toy that you can drop in the toilet to make whoever looks down there scream in horror? The same guys that brought us classic virtual pets like the Tamagotchi and Digimon just came out with a new set of critters and they swim like creatures of the sea. Released under the Micro Pets line, they bring the perfect dose of cute and creepy, along with some nifty underwater talents. Designed to look cute in a strange-sea-creature sort of [...]

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  • All I Want Is A Treehouse

    All I Want Is A Treehouse

    HOME, SIMPLY COOL

    When I think of tree houses, my mind conjures up images of a makeshift room, sloppily put together with spare wood and a big “NO GIRLS ALLOWED” sign. Yup, you can blame Saturday morning cartoons for that, since I never really experienced a tree house growing up in an apartment building. To my surprise, some folks actually do take erstwhile children’s playrooms seriously fashioning them to look like classic Italian abodes, Loch side retreats and fake Tudor mansions. Hell, some [...]

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  • Don Vito Corleone Action Figure Looks Scary Real

    Don Vito Corleone Action Figure Looks Scary Real

    ENTERTAINMENT, FEATURED

    I must admit, I’m not a big fan of action figures. That’s not about to stop me from dropping my jaw on the floor for the Don Vito Corleone 12-inch figure from the Hot Toys Movie Masterpiece line, which is simply nothing short of glorious. To put it simply, this is one of the finest action figures I’ve ever laid eyes on, with an eerie likeness (they nailed the Marlon Brando head sculpt perfectly), amazing detail (check out the age [...]

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  • Transforming 2Unfold Bag Hugs Your Laptop In Style

    Transforming 2Unfold Bag Hugs Your Laptop In Style

    FASHION

    Need a more versatile laptop bag?  Take a look at 2Unfold,  an innocent-looking laptop bag that hides a unique ability to transform itself into eight different carrying cases, all while looking like it leaped right out of a magazine fashion spread. It’s the bag that offers “more than meets the eye” anytime you see it.  Made in Italy with hand-tanned and hand-finished leather, it can shift from one configuration into another in a matter of seconds, allowing you to rock [...]

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  • Bandai Pedometer Includes A Samurai Adventure To Encourage Gamers To Exercise

    Bandai Pedometer Includes A Samurai Adventure To Encourage Gamers To Exercise

    GADGETS

    If you can only do one of two things today, which one would you rather engage in, a jog around the park or a handheld video game?   Count me in for the video game crowd – all while downing some chips and a soda at that.  For folks like us, Bandai is hoping they have a solution – a pedometer/calorie counter that integrates a game with your calorie burning. Who are we kidding?  A pedometer that uses the distances [...]

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  • Halo 3 HUD Desktop Puts The Action On Your Windows Background

    Halo 3 HUD Desktop Puts The Action On Your Windows Background

    ENTERTAINMENT, GADGETS

    Here’s a simple criteria to slot into: likes Halo and uses Windows. If those two things are true for you, you may want to customize your PC background the same way Ryan Kennedy did, combining a Halo 3 screenshot with a bevy of stats and controls. Looking nothing more than a grabbed screen from an online multiplayer session using the Valhalla map (complete with HUD indicators), it’s actually a functional Windows desktop, with the various objects either displaying information or [...]

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  • Ninja Gaiden Diorama: The Classic Game On Papercraft

    Ninja Gaiden Diorama: The Classic Game On Papercraft

    ART, ENTERTAINMENT

    If building a papercraft New York City isn’t the kind of low-tech thrill you’re looking for, maybe this videogame-based diorama will spur you into action. Based on a scene from the classic Ninja Gaiden series on the NES, it’s one of the coolest 3D (okay, 2.5D) visual feasts I’ve seen in a while. While we’re not sure where it’s from (a certain MisterManolo is credited on the actual PDF sheet), there’s no denying how interesting of a project it will [...]

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  • Zero Gravity Wedding: When Sci-Fi Fans Get Married

    Zero Gravity Wedding: When Sci-Fi Fans Get Married

    SIMPLY COOL, TO DO

    While we’re still waiting for the inaugural space wedding, here’s news to tide us over.  A New York couple just finished exchanging vows in zero gravity and are, officially, the first pair to do so. Lovebirds Noah Fullmore and Erin Finnegan earned the honor after getting hitched inside a Zero Gravity Flight, which simulates the weightlessness experienced by astronauts in space without actually leaving the earth’s atmosphere.  The ceremony occurred inside a converted Boeing 727 jet, which achieves the zero-gravity [...]

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  • Solar Cap: LED-Toting, Solar-Charging And Not That Bad-Looking

    Solar Cap: LED-Toting, Solar-Charging And Not That Bad-Looking

    FASHION, GADGETS

    What talents does your baseball cap have?  We’ve previously featured one that knocked your opponents out and another that took on purse-like abilities.  This time, we’ve got an otherwise regular headpiece that offers accessory lighting, powered by sun-sipping panels on the cap’s flap.  Called the Solar Cap, it should prove a valuable outdoor accessory for those who like to hit the nature trail. During daylight, the Solar Cap charges directly from the flap-mounted solar cells, storing and converting energy for [...]

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  • Build Your Own New York

    Build Your Own New York

    ENTERTAINMENT, FEATURED

    Want to play overlord to an entire metropolitan city?  Construct a miniature version of the Big Apple with Build Your Own New York, fantastic-looking papercraft models of some of the city’s most popular landmarks. The pieces each come as postcards, measuring  4-5/8 x 6-3/4 inches.  Every sheet comes inclusive of all the elements needed for one model, along with a description and instructions on how to put them together.  Landmarks available in printed form consist of the Empire State Building, [...]

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  • Ignite Your Home With Bomb And Dynamite Candles

    Ignite Your Home With Bomb And Dynamite Candles

    ENTERTAINMENT, HOME

    If you like war games and action movies, I doubt you’ll be the type of guy who likes fancy candles too.  Perhaps, you’ll change your mind for just one purchase, though, when you see this pair of bomb and dynamite wax pieces. Branded as Notmy, as in “Not my dynamites you see in the backseat, officer,” the duo should serve as the perfect backdrop to a romantic evening between two subscribers to Guns & Ammo.  Can you imagine a quiet [...]

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  • Life-Size, First-Generation Bumblebee Stands At A Front Yard In California

    Life-Size, First-Generation Bumblebee Stands At A Front Yard In California

    ENTERTAINMENT, SIMPLY COOL

    If you build it, they will come.  While that’s not always true (especially nowadays when everyone seems to be building something), it couldn’t be more fitting for life-size replicas of Transformers in your backyard.   That’s exactly what Tom Rhoads of Lemoore, California is doing and the first one to rise looks smashing – a first-generation Bumblebee from the original Transformers cartoons. While Hollywood has fashioned the affable character into a Camaro (with a special edition model, no less), Bumblebee used [...]

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  • Howtie, The Wearable How-To-Tie-A-Necktie Cheatsheet

    Howtie, The Wearable How-To-Tie-A-Necktie Cheatsheet

    FASHION

    Don’t know how to put on a necktie?  We’ve all been there.  It took me quite a while, in fact, before I got the hang of it.  If you keep forgetting which end goes where every time you put one on, a cheatsheet always helps.  Of course, you’ll look rather silly standing in the office bathroom with a how-to guide, but who cares, right?  Alternatively, you can sport the Howtie, a spiffy-looking black necktie with tying instructions right on the [...]

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  • iArtist: Make Your Own Masterpiece

    iArtist: Make Your Own Masterpiece

    ART, ENTERTAINMENT

    Want to try your hand at making art, but never had the chops for it?  Work your creative muscles with the iArtist, a DIY kit that lets you recreate contemporary pieces directly out of the box. Created by IARTISTLONDON, each box comes with all the raw materials you need in order to build a replica of one popular art piece.  Simply crack the box open, have a look at the instructions and put those creative juices to work. Six different [...]

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  • Coffin Couch: Because A Coffin Is Too Small To Be A Functional Bed

    Coffin Couch: Because A Coffin Is Too Small To Be A Functional Bed

    FURNITURE, HOME

    Ever wanted a coffin as a home fixture but couldn’t find a way to make it useful?  While movie vampires have always employed one as a bed, it’s too cramped to warrant use by daywalking undeads like you and me.  Etsy seller VonErickson came up with a creative solution: deck the thing as a couch instead. The Coffin Couch, as the furniture is called, allows you to indulge your vampire fascinations, all while remaining a functional piece for your living [...]

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