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Entries for August, 2006

Tetris on your fridge

It’s offical, Tetris has offically become the most widely avaliable game in the world.
Not only can you have some shelves with them,  or play it on the side of a building, or have a kitchen timer that looks like it.
Now, to complent the kitchen timer, comes the Tetrius magnet set:

The set contains one of each [...]

pretty in pink

Sony is releasing a pink version of its massively popular Playstation 2 consol, and, its massively less popular Playstation Portable.
The PS2 will hit sores on November 08, 2006, and the PSP will be in stores earlier on October 27, 2006. One slight hitch, they’re currently only avaliable in Europe…dang…
Sony Press Release

the Stephen Colbert bridge

Ok, so its not quite that far yet, but in a week, Stephen Colbert has mananged to pass Chuck Norris on votes.
Norris has 360772 votes, and 2%
Colbert has 438039 votes and 3%
Last week Stephen Colbert wasnt even on the list!
I have to say, as much as i would have loved the bridge being named after [...]

more war against the robots

That roach is controling a robot.
woe is the day when men creates robots that can be controlled by roaches.  The animal capable of surviging nuclear holocost, is now capable of starting up the robot resistance after we scorch the skies trying to save ourselves.
video of it in action
source (MAKE)
We humans are getting ever closer to [...]

Voltron: The poor man’s optimus prime

That just so happens to take PICTURES!
Ok, so its not so great quality photos, but come on, a camera that transformes?!?!
source (MAKE)

watch tv, fatass

That  “bike thing” actually powers the tv.  I can see this as the next big thing for gyms around the country.  What better way to get fat people to excersise, then to shove a tv in front of them, and then make them work to watch it.
It even has settings:
Setting 1. The local news
Setting 2.  [...]

draw!

That (man made) lake looks like a German Luger from WWII, next to it someone needs to make a Glock, and of course, an Ak-47.
source (Google Sightseeing)

Google wiFi

Google has officaly blanketed the Mountain View area with FREE wi-fi.
Some think that this will be Google’s testing area to eventually blanket the whole nation with free wi-fi, finally bringing them one more step closer to complete global domination.
Google blog

Optimus Prime, on your hand

I just have one question: Does it Transform into a truck?
source (MAKE)
instructions (flickr)

1 million pennies

That’s $10,000, in pennies.  Oh man, i so want that, cause i love pennies, and i love copper!
source (MAKE)
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