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Vagabond Zombie Shelter Keeps the Unwanted Undead Out

Technabob — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:00:53 +0000

Another year, another Zombie Safe House Competition. This entertaining annual contest seeks out the best ideas for protecting you from a zombie attack, and they recently revealed the winners for this year’s outing. This year’s winner: The Vagabond Mobile Safe House Device (or v.MSHD for short.)

Designed by Austin Fleming, the Vagabond is a portable shelter, which one could strap to their back and quickly set up to keep those brain-seeking zombies out of your way. The concept behind the Vagabond is that it would provide a complete safe haven from zombie hordes, thanks to its sturdy coiled dome structure, and its reflective shell.

The exterior of the shell helps the shelter camouflage into any environment, while at the same time, bouncing bright sunlight back into the zombies’ eyes. Sounds like it might help keep vampires out too. Inside the shelter, a ventilation system exhausts CO2, and battery-operated devices can be recharged thanks to the Vagabond’s photovoltaic surface cells. And want to know if the coast is clear or if there are zombies outside? Well, there’s an app for that.

About the only thing missing from the Vagabond is a way to kill zombies from inside the shelter itself. I’d want to have those cutouts they have on armored trucks, which let you fire a gun from inside. Of course, if you happen to have the strain of zombies from The Walking Dead, that’ll just attract more. Guess you could always try and fire a crossbow at the approaching undead.

You can find more entries and runners up from the 2011 Zombie Safe House Competition here. My second favorite is the Zombie Steamhouse, which automatically takes care of approaching zombies by crushing them in giant gears and mashing them into a pulp.

[via bustler]

Zombie-Infested Wedding Cake Shows Couple Sticking Together While Tearing Undead Apart

Lambert Varias — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:39:23 +0000

Flickr member noblerobinette (aka Claudia) and her husband had one of the best cakes I’ve ever seen. The cake itself wasn’t too fancy. It looked like most wedding cakes, complete with figurines of the bride and the groom. But add chainsaws and zombies to the mix, and you get a hilarious wedding cake.

The couple chose a zombie-themed cake because her husband liked zombies. He and his friends even made a zombie-filled short film which he used to propose to Claudia.

Also Claudia says that the zombies in the wedding cake were made to look like their wedding party. They’re not friends anymore. Kidding.

[via Geekologie]

Zombie Mario Must have Run Out of Extra Lives

Alisha K. — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:00:03 +0000

Mario is a popular guy, and he shows up on a lot of t-shirts and other wearables, but I think this is the first time I’ve seen him in zombie form on a shirt. If it wasn’t for the visible bits of brains, I might have just thought he’d had a particularly rough day in the Mushroom Kingdom.

Especially notable (to me, anyway) is the fact that this shirt is all done in Luigi green. It could have been any color. It could have been any other shade of green. But no, it’s Luigi green. The other brother’s ultimate revenge? Perhaps. Apparently, it doesn’t pay to cross Luigi.

The Zombario shirt is available from Single Second for $16. Tattoo probably not included.

[Single Second via albotas]