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smash bros. characters given d&d-style alignments: fanboys & fangirls debate!

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Nintendo’s wildly popular Smash Bros. franchise is a dimension-shattering, world-colliding crossover in itself, but deviantART member Nakabeast added another delicious layer of nerdity by assigning Dungeons & Dragons alignments to some of the series’ most popular characters, like series newcomer Solid Snake:

If you think about it, Solid Snake can’t really be anything but Chaotic Good.…

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November 12th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: geek art + craft just plain fun video games

stickable sound pads turn any surface into a speaker

SoundPads by Sonic Impact are stickable little pads that “convert any thin-walled high-transmission surface into permanent stereo speakers.” That means you can stick these guys on a door, cabinet, table, box, desk, or even a poster- and have insta-speakers.

The site gives you fair warning that once these are stuck, they aren’t coming unstuck. Where you stick them…

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July 30th, 2008 comments stumble it! digg it! author: karen m.

filed under: home entertainment technology

everyday objects get flattened

Finn Magee’s Flat Life

Irish Artist Finn Magee created this series of works which take common electrical household items and turn them into 2-dimensional posters. The innovative part of his Flat Life series is that the objects remain fully functional in their flat states.

While they may just be flat posters, the pieces still plug into a wall socket.…

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October 12th, 2007 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design timepieces

q*bert qollects quarters quite quickly

Q*Bert Qollects Quarters

I saw this poster over on eBay earlier today, and I thought it was really funny.

Designed as a promotional piece to encourage arcades to carry the classic game Q*Bert, somebody in the marketing department at Gottlieb got the bright idea to replace pretty much every letter they could with the letter “Q”. Isn’t that…

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September 15th, 2007 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: retro video games