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Nov 5 2009
Filed under: Gadgets, News The good people of Toshiba are providing a new way for you to be constantly plugged in with fresh and ready gadgets for your busy, always-forgetting-your-charger lifestyle. It’s a fuel cell, which works by combining...
Nov 1 2009
Filed under: Entertainment, Sports, Video It’s late October and it’s time to get ready for the culmination of the most American of American sports. No, not baseball — anvil shooting. The rules: Your anvil must be at least 100 lbs.,...
Oct 20 2009
Filed under: Gadgets, Games, News, Weird, Geek Out The problem with game consoles is they’re too hefty. You can’t just throw your Xbox 360 into your rucksack and leap on the bus. Or can you? In what might be the best game hack ever modified,...
Oct 18 2009
Filed under: Booze, Ultimate Boy’s Toys Have you noticed how brands of single-malt scotch insist on using the article The in the name? The Macallan? Perhaps we should try that with our ubiquitous plastic jug of The Bottom Shelf Piss. Well now,...
Oct 12 2009
Filed under: Entertainment, Games In the beginning, there was only Mario, an ape named Donkey and Pauline, the damsel in distress. But 28 years and over 200 titles later, the Mushroom Kingdom is now chock full of all sorts of bizarre creatures. How...
Oct 11 2009
Filed under: Gadgets, Geek Out, Ultimate Boy’s Toys You might have seen the cool Acer notebooks (or netbook as these little suckers are sometimes called), because if you’ve been at a laptop-filled coffee shop, it’s the laptop that...
Oct 8 2009
Filed under: Gadgets The time has come. You can finally live the dream of starting your own Vangelis cover band. Actually, any electronic musician, Vangelis-inspired or not, can launch a ton of clips during live gigs with Novation’s Simon...
Sep 17 2009
Filed under: Booze, Style Bong Spirits imports their posh vodka from Holland, a country often associated with leafy greens. To hammer that association home, they’ve shaped their hooch bottles in a giant glass dildo. Or is it supposed to be a...
Sep 16 2009
Filed under: Gadgets, Geek Out Rock Band and Guitar Hero have spawned dozens of controllers, and the latest is based on Kiss member and reality-show dad Gene Simmons’ axe bass. The controller is a three-quarter replica of the famous bass guitar...
Sep 15 2009
Filed under: Gadgets Say you want to smuggle something really thin and important, like small amounts of “prescription” drugs or an exploding Tic Tac. All you need is to think like a spy and use your hollow spy coin. This is how the pros did...