Archive for January 2009

Now I haven’t played with model trains since I was a kid, but when I saw these miniature arcade cabinets for model railroaders, I had to give them a mention.

J & C Studios makes these teeny, tiny retro arcade machine models built to O-Scale proportions. Each 1.75″ tall game cabinet…

Whether you’re nearsighted or farsighted, I can pretty much assure you that these “eyeglasses” won’t give you 20/20 vision; but they will help your computer remember things a little bit better.

These whimsical 2GB Four Eyes USB flash memory drives were designed by Willie Tsang for IMM Living. The chunky…

Heads up cooking game fans who also like to cook in real life! This is the apron for you.

Crafterbation, whose name is as awesome as her crafterbating skills, turned an ordinary apron into something most legendary by adorning it with the…uhm…”FAILED!” graphic of Cooking Mama…. Hmm. I’m on

Do you regularly find yourself playing as Bill, Zoey, Louis or Francis? If so,  you might want to check out SEIBEI’s Intramural Zombie Hunter Shirt, complete with logo and gore.

The shirt is somewhat customizable in that the back can either be “Athletic”, like the one you see above, or…

This is too much. I don’t want to think about or see anything related to school or work while taking a bath. I want to sing badly and think of fun things. The atomic weight of Ununquadium is the arch-villain of fun things. Apparently many disagree and would just love…

The LEGO series of video games has popularized a whole new side of the brickish culture by focusing on things that look like they’re made of LEGO but which really aren’t. There’s really only one way to counteract this sort of tomfoolery: actually doing those scenes, settings, and characters over…

This new mobile game lets you get some exercise on your iPhone – at least if you think stretching your fingers is a some kind of a workout.

Produced by Solid Alliance and Appare Japan, Finger Olympics 100m lets you “run” a 100-meter dash using only your fingertips. Just place…

There’s been a lot of fuss over the years about the educational content of games, and more recently, as the definition of “gamer” expands and systems like the Nintendo DS are showing up in schools all over the world. But we don’t often hear about the educational potential of regular…

When I think of Louis Vuitton, I usually think of primping poseurs with puny purse-size pekingese – not potty-mouthed pre-pubescents playing PGR, Portal and Prince of Persia.… But the minute I laid eyes on this Xbox 360 window-dressing I had to give it a second thought.

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Next time you happen to crash land on the sandy surface of  Tatooine with nothing but you, your shiny metal sidekick and a bunch of Jawas to carry your rusty carcass around, why not first quench your desert thirst with one of these?

I’ve never seen these R2D2 water bottles…