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• What Would Happen if All Movie Characters Had Access to the Internet

  In Internet, Videos

  

  This College Humor video is humorous, but it does point out just how mundane searching for and sharing information has become. The sharing of secrets no longer involves dead drops and sinister guys in trench coats – it is all Internet cafes, email and WikiLeaks. The human-human contact that makes for much of the filler of most of the movies becomes totally unnecessary in a world where all movie characters have Internet access. See more [...]

   

• Philip K. Dick Robotic Head

  In Robots

  

  If you don’t know who Philip K. Dick is then you may actually be in the wrong place – I’ll give you a hint, he was a prolific writer of pulpy science fiction, and one of his short stories was turned into a classic piece of science fiction starring Harrison Ford and involving androids… set on Earth as opposed to a galaxy far, far away. In addition to Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, and [...]

   

• Stay Puft Snow Man

  In Geeky

  

  We’ve seen more than one person get creative with a bit of amateur snow sculpture this year, but this Stay Puft Marshmallow Man has got to be one of my favorites. Those dead eyes, the eerily happy face, the two thumbs up – they all combine to give the big guy the right amount of creepiness. [Reddit via Geekosystem]

   

• A Throne For the Octopus Lover

  In Furniture

  

  After looking at Maximo Riera’s unusual creation I don’t think the question should by, “why would you want an octopus chair?” – it should be, “why wouldn’t you want an octopus chair?”. Okay, I know it is practical and the tentacles will get in the way, but this thing practically makes you Cthulu and that counts for something doesn’t it? [NotCot via Steampunk Home]

   

• Hamster Lover Turns Ikea Bookshelf Into Luxurious Hamster Cage

  In DIY

  

  Martina of Austria did some work on this Ikea 5×5 Expedit and now her hamsters live better than me. Well done Martina, but as cute as they look, I have always found hamsters to be kinda gross – on account of their fondness for neonaticide…. and there is that whole cannibalism issue – yeah, I don’t like hamsters. I used a set of white Dioder strip lights for the cage illumination plus a red LED [...]

   

• The Trashmaster: a Movie Shot Entirely in GTAIV

  In Gaming, Geeky, Videos

  

  While I’ve seen a couple of short films shot in games before but never anything quite as elaborate as Mathieu Weschler’s The Trashmaster, it runs for almost an hour and a half and seems to have all of the necessary plot elements of an okay story – and with everything put together it is more entertaining than a lot of the straight to DVD trash that passes for entertainment these days; so if you can [...]

   

• Tetris Theme Played on the Ocarina

  In Geeky, Videos

  

  While you might not think that you remember the Tetris theme, one view of this video will bring it all back. Oliver Taylor did a pretty amazing job of playing it on Link’s Ocarina in Ocarina of Time. Granted, it would have been way cooler if he had managed to get rid of the button mashing sounds, but keeping them in there definitely added to the authenticity. By the way, if you have enough time [...]

   

• World of Warcraft Mouse, For Fanboys With Too Much Money

  In Gaming

  

  This Steel Series World of Warcraft Cataclysm MMO gaming mouse is a sweet-looking input device to be sure, but you have to wonder whether it is really worth the asking price. Still, there are plenty of fanboys who will disagree with me – it looks awesome and it is made by Steel Series so it will be good quality, so $103 may not be too high a price for everyone. Price: $103 [7 Gadgets]

   

• NZXT USB Bunker Protects Your Peripherals From Light-fingered Companions

  In Computers

  

  Personally, I am not the sort of person to attend LAN parties or to leave my rig somewhere that someone might try to make off with my peripherals – but if I was I would probably be interested in this interesting-looking security device from NZXT. Press release: NZXT, a company built on realizing the dreams of gamers worldwide, is proud to announce Bunker, an advanced USB locking device designed for USB expansion and protection of [...]

   

• Soap Grater Saves Soap By Cutting It Into Tiny Little Pieces

  In Concept

  

  The humble bar of soap doesn’t have a whole lot going for it – all too often it becomes a magnet for hairs of questionable origin – not to mention the little problem of what to do when the bar shrinks to unmanageable size. The soap grater solves both of these problems by using a hand-powered grating mechanism to grate your soap. At the moment it is just a concept, but it is one that [...]

   

• Let the Most Powerful Weapon in The Universe Guard Your Cookies [Death Star Cookie Jar]

  In Housewares

  

  Unfortunately, this Death Star cookie jar doesn’t have a planet-exploding laser beam to protect its delicious contents – so any references to “what happened to Alderaan” are more likely to provoke cookie thefts than prevent them. Price: $49.99 [Geek alerts

   

• Jabba in Snow

  In DIY

  

  When the weather throws you a curve ball, you could hole up inside your house and stay out of the elements or you could put on some warm clothes, enter the great outdoors and get creative. This Jabba the Hutt snowman comes by way of someone who did just that. [Make]