Archive for January 2010

21-year old YouTube user smartkid82504 made this awesome stop motion film as his final project in his “Art and Alternative Media” class. Here’s what we might get if we mashed two Mario games together:

Before you get overly excited, let me tell you now that barely anything happens in this…

I now suspect that a real-life Dr. Wily exists, and that he resides in Turkey: veterinarian Erhan Elibol performed a cesarean operation on a pregnant sheep. The lamb was stillborn, but perhaps it was all for the best, because the lamb had a human-like face. Vets think that the lamb’s…

Graffiti artists of the future might not need to run their own late-night missions to tag their target locations thanks to this new technology. GML (Graffiti Markup Language) provides a method to store and describe graffiti as digital information which can then be played back and reproduced later.…

Do you have a childhood friend who you always used to play Nintendo games with? Then you might want to get a pair of these ridiculously cute Mario and Luigi “best friends” rings.

Each pair is lovingly hand-sculpted from polymer clay by Patricia of Charlie Carter Creations. They feature the…

After Europe got the PlayTV for their PS3s, Japan is getting the Torne, a TV tuner and DVR combo for the PS3 that unfortunately won’t be available in the US any time soon.

The Torne connects to your PS3 via a USB cable. It’s got an easy to use interface…

These outrageous Space Invaders tights are great for gamer girls who don’t mind wearing skin-tight clothing covered with retro pixel game art.

These tights from Australia’s Black Milk Clothing come bedecked with lots of little Space Invaders, perfect for anyone with a penchant for retro games, namely us geeks and…

It is widely believed (by the writer of the Wikipedia article on cross-stitch) that cross-stitch was traditionally used merely to embellish household cloths like tablecloths or dishcloths. Cloths cloths cloths. What a weird word. Anyway the structure of the aida cloth used in cross-stitching made it easy to form floral…

Die-hard Final Fantasy VII fans may be clamoring for a current gen version of the classic RPG, but apparently in China, people are buying the remaining units of NESes in the world, and so de-makes are all the rage. Speaking of de-makes, the 8-bit Left 4 Dead…‘s got nothing

I actually forgot about this game until I saw this trailer, and now that I’ve seen it I know why I had forgotten about the game.

Why do they always have to redesign the look of the Transformers? Can’t we just stick with the classic one? And maybe the Armada…

Ah, can you believe it’s been 30 years since Pac-Man… came out? What better way to celebrate the little yellow dot-gobbler’s big birthday than with a delicious artificially-colored yellow treat?

Yep, that’s right. For  limited time  only, Circle K stores in Japan have started to sell these Pac-Man shaped buns.