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Super Mario Candy Powers Up the Glycemic Index

Technabob — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:29:29 +0000

Super Mario fans – looking for a sugar fix? These delicious sweet and sour candies are the perfect treat for anyone who spends at least a few hours a week bouncing around the Mushroom Kingdom.

There are 5 different candy designs, including green apple sour 1-up mushrooms, blue raspberry mini mushrooms, cherry red cherry power-up mushrooms, sugary yellow star candies, and strawberry-flavored coin candies.

The guys at BigBadToyStore are taking pre-orders for the Question Mark Block candies now. You can get the Mushroom Sours and the Super Star candies over at Birthday Express . All of the candies sell for $3.99 (USD) a tin.

I always figured the gold coins were filled with chocolate, not strawberry.

[via The Design Town]

Gears of War Imulsion Energy Drink: Mmmmm. Imulsion.

Technabob — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:36:58 +0000

The Gears of War geeks over at Gearspedia describe Imulsion as “a phosphorescent, highly volatile, low-viscosity fluid originally discovered by an oil exploration drill on the planet Sera.” They go on to say “direct exposure to Imulsion for any length of time will cause Locust subjects to transform into Lambent forms, making them, amongst other things, highly explosive when killed. In extreme cases, Imulsion exposure will cause the subject to mutate uncontrollably…”

So why not turn Imulsion into an energy drink? Sounds yummy to me.

That’s what the guys over at Boston America have done with this sticky sweet yellow concoction being sold under the GOW brand name. I bet if Marcus and the Gears had been drinking this stuff all day long, they would have been much more efficient at curb-stomping the Locust Horde. But the Gears’ loss is your gain, and you can buy a case or two for yourself.

Imulsion Energy Drink is available over on Amazon for $2.99 (USD) a can. Drink up.

Pac-Man Sour Candies: Power Pellets for People

Technabob — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:00:51 +0000

He might enjoy the occasional cherry, strawberry or pretzel, but there’s one food that Pac-Man loves above all – the power pellet. Now you can enjoy the same tasty treats that Pac-Man chomps as he moves around the maze.

In addition to tasty round power pellets, there’s sour blue raspberry blue ghosts, and tart cherry Blinky ghosts, which I imagine turn into raspberry blue ghosts after you eat a couple of power pills. But I could be wrong on that. And while I’m thinking about it, have you ever seen an actual blue raspberry? And no, that Icee that turned your tongue all shades of ultramarine doesn’t count.

I think I know what I’m gonna keep in my desk drawer for between-meal snacks from now on. Pac-Man candies are available from FredFlare for $12 for the set of three tins.

Sony Psp Candies Definitely Don’T Play Umd Discs

Technabob — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:01:33 +0000

After 4 years of playing second-fiddle to the Nintendo DS, the Sony PSP finally has something that the DS doesn’t. A candy version. And no, this thing doesn’t count.

Check out these officially-licensed PlayStation Portable candies, loaded up inside a metal tin that looks just like a PSP. Made from such goodies as sugar, glucose, gum arabic, maltodextrin, magnesium stearate, artificial flavor, malic acid, FD&C blue #1/FD&C red #40, PSP Sours won’t play Loco Roco or GOW: Chains of Olympus, but at least they’ll make your mouth happy (or at least tinge your tongue with an unnatural color).

Choose one with a blue screen for sour blue raspberry or the red screen for sour cherry. Coming this Spring, you can pre-order a dozen for $31.99 (USD) over at Urban Collectibles. I plan on buying one so I can have a nice place to keep all my DS games.

[via Nerd Approved]