Currently available from Coyote Peyote’s shop on Etsy, the dress features neon gumball beads all over the bottom, while a number of them are sewn into a clear plastic material near the middle of the dress.

It’s a fun dress, although I don’t think I’m daring enough to wear it out myself. What would make it even cooler than it is right now is if the gumball machine could actually dispense real gumballs somehow to anyone who wants one (well, anyone you know.) Now wouldn’t that be something?

The Bubblegum Machine Dress is available in sizes XS to XL for $135(USD).

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To play Gumball Pinball, you simply turn the crank to release three 1-inch gumballs into the field of play. Woo-hoo! Multi-ball on the first try! As the gumballs start to head South, you bat away at them using a pair of flippers. The field has a total of seven holes on it, four which will win you the gumball, and three which result in no prize at all. Gumballs you get in the right holes drop into the candy collection area, while those you miss are returned to a storage bin for later reloading.

Ok, so it doesn’t sound like it will have much replay value after you collect your gumballs, but it still looks like fun for at least a few seconds. And kids will should a blast with this thing. All told, the Gumball Pinball Machine can hold up to 1,700 gumballs (it comes with 850), and the whole machine only weighs 97 lbs, so it shouldn’t be that difficult to transport and set up. It’s available over at Hamamcher Schlemmer for $1,000 (USD).

I would bet we have all been at a restaurant where you look or feel under the table and it is covered with gum. The reason gum stays under there and gets hard like concrete is that normal gum is hydrophobic, meaning it won’t absorb water. A new high-tech gum is now available to alleviate all those gum-chewing fears for the current generation of 8-year-olds. The new gum is called Rev7 and is apparently the only biodegradable gum around. This gum is amphiphilic, so you can chew it but it will absorb water and degrade over time.

This gum is made to absorb water so you can clean it off the table or furniture if you need to. If someone spits it out on the sidewalk, the gum will turn into a fine powder in a few months. That is an interesting answer to a problem that I really never thought about.

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The 7-foot tall machine has an acrylic globe with a diameter of 42 ft. I think the globe itself could hold more than 14,450 pieces of gumball, because as it is there’s a spherical insert inside that pushes the contents to the wall to make them more visible and give the illusion that the container is packed.

The mechanism and the dispenser are 49″ from the base and as you can see is at just the right height to allow even kids to get a gumball or two (thousand) without assistance. You don’t need to insert a coin to get a gumball, but you will need to pay Hammacher Schlemmer $3,900 (USD) to get the machine. I’m not sure if it comes with 14,450 gumballs, but at that price it should, and not a gumball less.

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And you have to pop-open the Sith Lord’s dark helmet to pluck the shiny black chiclets of minty gum out. Unfortunately, once you chew up all the gum stored in his cranium, there’s no burned and disfigured Anakin head left behind, and all you’re left with is an empty skull cavity.

[via Japan Star Wars]

There’s not much more to say, other than the fact that I need one of these. It’s probably not practical to whip this thing out of your pocket, what with that erect joystick poking it’s way out of the face of the controller. But I’d like to leave a couple of these sitting around the game room and hand them out to my buddies when we’re ready to have a retro gaming session and see how long it takes them to figure out that they’re not real controllers.

Want one? You’ll have to wait until late October to get one. For now, you can pre-order singles sticks over at NCSX for $3.89 (USD) each, or you can get a case of 12 over at Westfield Comics for$28.05.

Japan’s LOTTE candy company recently partnered up with Taito to create a commemorative Space Invaders gum as part of the game’s 30th anniversary celebration. Other than the grainy product and assembly line photos above, I haven’t been able to find out anything else about this chewy treat.

What flavor is a Space Invader anyhow? I’m thinking maybe some sort of lime, since they’re probably filled with green space goo. What do you guys think?

[BTW - I'll give $10 bucks to the first person who can get me a pack of this rare gum.]

[via Taito Japan]

Perfect for satisfying your oral fixation, the little peppermint chiclets of the chewy stuff come packaged inside a life-sized Wii-mote shell (non-functional, of course). Four-out-of-five dentists recommend these for patients who can chew gum and play video games at the same time.

The official Nintendo Wii chewing gum is available from GK World or FractalSpin for under $4 a package.

[Sweet tooth not satisfied yet? Check out these Nintendo Power Mints and SMB Mushroom Candies for a quick fix].

Designed by Hannes Hesse, Andrew McDiarmid and Rosie Han – students at UC Berkeley’s School of Information, the Bubblegum Sequencer identifies the locations of strategically-placed gumballs to create rhythm tracks.

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Simply place the appropriate color-coded gumball into the position in the sequence you want, and a computer takes care of generating sounds to match their placement. A camera underneath the table detects the position and color of each gumball, then automatically maps the colors to notes and the appropriate audio samples in the computer.

The best part – when you’re done jamming out, you can chew on your creation and blow some bubbles.

While the camera’s 176 x 144 capture resolution isn’t sharp enough for than grabbing more than rudimentary moving images, it’s enough to get the general idea of what’s going on. A built-in SD memory card slot provides up to 2GB of digital storage, and at that low resolution, I’d imagine you can store quite a bit of content on a single card.

Gadget importer Chinavasion offers the mini spy cameras for about $100 each (or less in wholesale lots). Expect to spring another 75 cents for a pack of Juicy Fruit or DoubleMint.

[via 7Gadgets]