This life-size replica of the official Aperture Science Handheld Portal gun comes from Japanese replica manufacturer Neca. The official price in Japan is ¥16,000 and you can pre-order it right now for shipment this April. If you convert the price to US dollars, your very own replica of the Portal gun would cost you just a bit more than $200 – plus shipping and any extra costs for importing it.

Being a replica, it won’t open a portal for you to hop through, but it will change colors between blue or orange depending on the portal you want to pretend to open.

I don’t know if they will ship one of these to the US, so you might want to start being extra nice to any friends you have that might live in Japan, or get in touch with White Rabbit Express to see if they can order one for you. I want one of these really bad, any of you Japanese folks want to volunteer to ship me one?

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Made by Kawaiideco, each glue-on fingernail sports an icon from those Portal test chamber instruction posters, to serve as a constant reminder of the daunting tasks before you. There’s even an icon for the cake, though unlike the posters in the game, the fingernail is quick to point out that the cake is a lie.

Now, as a guy, the whole idea of gluing things onto your body for fashion seems weird to me, but if you’re the type to cover up their natural fingernails with something like this, you can grab this set over on Etsy now for $15 (USD). If GLaDOS weren’t a potato, I’m pretty sure she’d wear them.

The screenshot above is from the shakey-cam video below, which was uploaded by co-Redditor animatedintro, who tried out the module and (seemingly) lived to tell the tale.

Fire up a portal to Reddit or Megaupload to download the unofficial file. It’s been confirmed to work with Nuvi 40, 200, 200W, 250, 250W, 350, Garmin Mobile XT and StreetPilot c550 units. TomTom users can also endanger their lives with a similar mod.

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For now, you can imagine what that might look like, courtesy of this Death Portal mashup t-shirt from designer Zerobriant. I can only imagine that between Wheatley’s massive ego and tiny brain, his eyeball is probably the weak spot of Death Star #3, and Chell could blow the whole thing up with a single blast from her trusty handheld portal device. And instead of being powered by hypermatter, this Death Star runs on potato energy.

About the only thing wrong with this great geek mashup is the price. I have a hard time paying $30 bucks for any t-shirt, even if it does combine two of my favorite pastimes. Fortunately, you can also grab it as a postcard or a print for a bit less. I’m betting that Cave Johnson is responsible for the pricing.

I wonder why it’s upside down though. And there’s no cake in sight. Once GLaDOS sees this she’ll be so pissed, she’ll find out who’s at fault and she’ll kill that person. Uhm, Happy Holidays everyone!

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Or you could actually put two copies of the game inside the box. Now that would be a pleasant surprise. I wonder what a properly wrapped Skyrim game would look like. Oh I know: just cover it with a bucket.

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Yep. That’s Potato GLaDOS. You know the one who’s a potato? The PotatOS Science Kit comes with everything you need to make your own wisecracking potato, complete with nails, wires, and a blinking GLaDOS core. It even lights up and sasses you with 17 audio clips from the game when you press the button.

The $29.99(USD) PotatOS kit also comes with a science-y backdrop written by the guys at Valve to proudly display behind your potato. Keep in mind that despite it’s looks, they couldn’t figure out a way to generate sufficient power from the potato, so PotatOS is powered by an internal watch battery of its own. So it won’t actually teach you or your kids anything about real science. Only fake video game science. Oh yeah, and you need to provide the potato too, so you could get fancy and use a sweet potato or some other root vegetable if you’re feeling especially creative.

Now back to that Christmas thing. We’re actually just slightly past the holiday ordering deadline at ThinkGeek for standard shipping, so chances are this won’t arrive until after Christmas unless you pay extra for rush shipping. Still, it’s pretty awesome, and any Portal geek would be happy to have one, even if it arrives a few days late. After all, GLaDOS will still be a potato.

They were designed by Ammnra Props, and they do a great job capturing the look of each of the personality cores. Even though the game’s cores are spheres, these still work nicely since they’re sort of like you just chopped the top and bottom off of the core so you can stick your finger into it. In addition to Wheatley, you can slip some of the lesser-known cores onto your fingers, including Space Core, Fact Core and Rick the Adventure Core. What, no Anger Cores?

The rings are produced using 3D printing technology over at Shapeways, and can be ordered up in a variety of materials. Keep in mind that while you can order them in stainless steel or silver, you won’t be able to get the colorful eyeball effect if you do that. Though I do think a shiny sterling silver Wheatley ring would look pretty awesome. If you buy one of the white or grey plastic versions, you’ll still need to paint in the details yourself. Here’s what the plastic rings look like once printed and painted:

The personality core rings can be ordered in ring sizes from 6 to 12, and prices range from $15 to $105 (USD) – depending on material – over at Ammnra’s Shapeways shop.

The blue and orange colors of portals also dominate the bedroom, and there are prints of the graffiti and signs from the game. I gotta say though, Vector is one brave kid. Watch the video to find out who’s watching over him every night:

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He also has a Portal-potty:

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I’d count myself the luckiest guy in the world if I had my room had its own bathroom, let alone a Portal-themed one. And seriously, Vector freakin’ Farr. That’s a name worthy of its own video game.

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This time, the bookends are officially-licensed Portal merch, so you don’t have to worry about Cave Johnson coming over to your house and throwing some combustible lemons your way for violating his intellectual property rights.

You can grab a pair of Portal bookends over at ThinkGeek now for $25 (USD).

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The set includes 8 cookie cutters – a running test subject, a falling test subject, a turret, a portal and four cutters for making a multi-layered companion cube. You’ll just have to make your own Cave Johnson mold.

You can order the Portal Cookie Cutters from ThinkGeek for just $20 (USD). I just want the Companion Cube tin.

You can’t see GLaDOS in the picture because she’s inside the computer, with ears provided by Kinect. Actually Corey just used her soundbites to give a voice to the program he’s working with, but he did name the program GLaDOS. The demo should explain everything, so without further ado:

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I couldn’t help but laugh when GLaDOS muttered, “I hate you so much.” But beyond the laughs and the geek factor, Corey does have serious goals for his program. Once he finalizes the code, he plans on releasing it to the public in hopes that other people can build on it. He thinks that one day it would possible for voice-activated interfaces to be much more common, so that elderly and disabled people could use it to interact not just with computers but with other objects as well. I think Siri is ahead of GLaDOS in that department. You can check out the earlier videos of GLaDOS on Corey’s Vimeo page and keep an eye out for updates on his blog.

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As much as we wish it did, the Portal Companion Cube Clock does not get its energy from a GLaDOS potato. Created by Amanda Stuart, a.k.a Minniethemink, this geeky clock is great for any Portal lover’s home. The Companion Cube clock is wall mountable, and comes with a stand if you decide to opt out of the “nailing pixel clocks to your wall” mantra. Additionally, if you decide to opt out of the TSA scanning at an airport, you get a free package of loud “opt out!” screaming and a bonus awkward pat-down from a 55 year old man.

Amanda handmade each of these Companion Cube clocks with Perler beads, and might have even sprinkled a little love on top just for you. (But probably not, since the price of love has really skyrocketed these past few years. *Silent weeping* ) Keep in mind that by “each of these,” I mean one, since there’s only one clock left on her Etsy page. You can buy it for $23 (USD), or you can try to make your own and end up with a mess of melted plastic and a clock with a bunch of hot glue on it. *Discretely shoves a heap of failed attempts into the trash*

Portal has been a huge hit among geeks like me, and fans have created thousands of tributes to the series. If you thought the Companion Cube clock was appealing, you might want to head on over to the Portal Bookends or the Portal Earrings for more Portal fun. Alternately, you could lock yourself in your basement and play the games until your eyes fall out, but I don’t think your eyes would appreciate that set of actions very much. But, if your eyes ever did fall out after an extreme Portal 2 session, don’t worry! The eye massager would make them feel like a pair of newborn ocular balls of jelly.

As you’ll see in the video below, some of the rings have multiple parts, either detachable or movable, like the GLaDOS ring or the Assassin’s Creed ring with a hidden dagger print.

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Before you get too excited, know that Myles pulled off a Warhammer move here – the actual rings are unpainted, so how good (or bad) it ends up is still up to you.

You can order the rings at Myles’ Shapeways store. He either has a precise calculation for the value of his products or he pulled the numbers out of a hat because they all have odd prices, from $4.92 to $16.58 (USD).

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Aside from Portal, Arthur Lee’s unnamed concept was inspired by another game, an indie game that’s not even out yet. Freakin’ hipster concept. Anyway, the indie game that inspired Arthur is called Snapshot, and in it you take pictures of objects to transport them anywhere else in the game’s world. Basically, if you can see the object, you can generate a copy of it. You really should see it in action. Lee combined this gameplay dynamic and Portal‘s equally clever mechanic to create a mind-blowing demo:

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After watching that clip my first thought was that Lee’s concept is too awesome for it’s own good, that this unseen camera is too powerful and would lead to an unchallenging game. But then I realized one could say the same about the Portal gun, but its developers still managed to make a fun and fairly mind-taxing game out of it.

So now I’m hopeful that a wonderful game can be made out of this, although I hesitate to imagine the possibilities for fear that my brain would OD on ideas. Even the thought of imagining the possibilities is too hard. Merely writing about the thought of imagining – okay I’ll stop now. Check out Arthur Lee’s website for more of his projects.

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Chris used old Rubik’s cubes, super glue, paint, the CAD program SolidWorks, a 3D printer and Dremel tools to create the fully functional puzzle toys. Here’s the original cube in action:

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Depending on how you look at it, that cube is either too hard or too easy to solve because all six faces look the same, a mistake that Chris rectified in the succeeding versions by using different color combinations for each side as well as by using different symbols.

Check out Chris’ Flickr page for more pictures of the Companion Cubes and other Portal toys. What’s next Chris? A GLaDOS Speak & Spell?

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A guy named Gary Hudston wanted to do something very special to ask his girlfriend, Stephanie, for her hand in marriage. Instead of doing the “on bended knee” thing, he got creative. He sought out a game level designer to help him put together a wedding proposal, buried deep inside a set of custom Portal 2 puzzles.

What he got was much more than he could have imagined. Thanks to the talents of Douglas “TopHATTwaffle” Hoogland and Rachel “Miss Stabby” van der Meer, he ended up not only with an awesome proposal for his soon-to-be fiance, but some equivalently awesome and dastardly Portal 2 gameplay. The entire thing is captured in this video clip:

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Wasn’t that amazing? I can’t believe they even got Ellen McClain to do the voice of GLaDoS. Although, now I want to marry GLaDoS. If you want to try the levels out for yourself, you can download them here.

Stephanie, you have to marry Gary. You’d be a fool not to. That is, assuming you managed to get through all of the levels to the proposal stage.

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To make a glass of Cave Johnson’s Combustible Lemonade, you’ll need 10 oz. lemonade, 2 oz. limoncello, 1 splash Everclear (or other grain alcohol) and a grain alcohol-soaked lemon wheel. Then prepare it like so: “Cut a lemon wheel and soak it in grain alcohol while you make the drink. Mix the lemonade and limoncello into a tall glass, then float a splash of grain alcohol on top of the drink. Place the lemon wheel on the rim of the glass and ignite the top. Admire your delicious weapon, then extinguish and drink.” Finish it one go, slam the glass down and say, “We’re done here.” Then walk away. Even if you’re at home. Just walk away. It’s more bad-ass that way.

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The cake was made by Mike’s Amazing Cakes, who definitely lived up to its name. It was commissioned by Flickr member sharkhats for his and his spouse’s 3rd wedding anniversary. I wonder what the eye was made of, but it doesn’t look edible. I wish Mike’s had made a making-of video of the cake.

This Space Core may not have been launched into the skies, but at least it made it to sharkhats’ inner space.

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The piece is of course a mash up of Valve’s hit game and M.C. Escher’s lithograph Relativity. Even if you didn’t know what it was called chances are you’ve seen it somewhere before:

Filipsen talks more about the piece on his website, where you’ll also find a high res version of the image.

[via Gamefreaks]