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  • SketchNation: DIY iPad gaming plus a giveaway

    SketchNation: DIY iPad gaming plus a giveaway

    Posted on April 13, 2010 | No Comments
    If you've dreamt all your life of blowing up your third-grade teacher with spitball guns, your prayers have been answered. SketchNation is a surprisingly odd game that allows you to select all of the sprites in gameplay. You can set your own character sprite (a spitball gun, for example), the sprites for the bullets or spitballs, and even set up a boss image (your third-grade teacher). You then fly through a hail of bullets until you beat the game. Apparently you can also blow up Walt Mossberg and David Pogue, for whatever reason. Those men are saints. Anyway, if you'd like to try it out, comment below. I'll send codes to five lucky, random readers. Viel Glück!

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  • There will be a collector’s edition of StarCraft II

    There will be a collector’s edition of StarCraft II

    Posted on April 8, 2010 | No Comments
    Blizzard just announced, via fancy e-mail, that there will, indeed, be a collector's edition of StarCraft II, whenever it comes out. (No, Blizzard has not announced a release date yet, but says it will "soon.") Anyhow, the collector's edition will come with a 176-page art book, a USB thumb drive loaded with the original StarCraft and its expansion pack Brood War, a behind-the-scenes DVD, a CD soundtrack, a comic book, and a World of Warcraft in-game pet, plus other bonus downloadable content (aesthetic stuff, not like mega-powerful guns or anything). Total cost: $99.

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  • The Back-Up: Access your shotgun while in the lying position

    The Back-Up: Access your shotgun while in the lying position

    Posted on February 26, 2010 | No Comments
    $39.95. That’s all you have to spend to protect your home from the comfort of your bed. Buy two! One for each side of the bed! Buy three for the bottom of your bed when you and the missus are doing the “strangle dangle thing.” Buy one for the couch! Buy one for the pool-side [...]

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  • Travel bandolier does NOT hold bullets (unless you put bullets in it)

    Travel bandolier does NOT hold bullets (unless you put bullets in it)

    Posted on January 25, 2010 | No Comments
    Free advice: Although the traditional definition of a bandolier is that of a bullet holding apparatus, do NOT try to get through airport security with this travel bandolier if you decide to stash bullets in one of the pockets.

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  • Don’t show your parents: HTC Tattoo spotted on video

    Don’t show your parents: HTC Tattoo spotted on video

    Posted on September 25, 2009 | No Comments
    HTC’s first foray into a cheap budget-friendly Android smartphone comes in the form of the previously revealed Tattoo (what are you trying to say, HTC, all us poor folks have tattoos?). And just like a real tattoo, HTC wants your Tat to be personal and unique, so the phone comes with removable/swappable front and back [...]

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  • Do all your phreaking before you turn 18, kids

    Do all your phreaking before you turn 18, kids

    Posted on August 25, 2009 | No Comments
    Please turn your attention to Rolling Stone, where an article about a blind, lonely phreaker is currently tearing up the charts. That is to say, it's an article worth your time, certainly better than refreshing drudgereport.com for the thousandth time in a day.

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  • Nasty Clamp: DIY Flash-Stand Goes Commercial

    Nasty Clamp: DIY Flash-Stand Goes Commercial

    Posted on July 15, 2009 | No Comments
    Here at the Lab, its certainly no secret that we like DIY solutions to gadget puzzles. Which is why we’re so pleased about the Nasty Clamp. The flash stand was originally a home-made project, but the maker, Matthew G. Monroe, was so inundated with requests from other photographers that he decided to go ahead and [...]

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  • Tilt-Controlled Doom Resurrection for iPhone

    Tilt-Controlled Doom Resurrection for iPhone

    Posted on June 30, 2009 | No Comments
    Doom, a game that has been ported to every device that contains a microchip, has finally come to the iPhone. And because the usual button-mashing, mouse-thrashing controls would translate terribly to the iPhone’s touch interface, the folks at Id software have redesigned the game. Doom Resurrection is based on Doom 3, and departs from other Dooms [...]

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  • The ‘anti-stab’ knife that works just fine in the kitchen but can’t kill a man

    The ‘anti-stab’ knife that works just fine in the kitchen but can’t kill a man

    Posted on June 15, 2009 | No Comments
    The average American probably doesn't know this, but there's a huge problem with knife-crime in the UK. (That's what happens when guns are so hard to get a hold of, knives everywhere.) Sports stars try to tell people to knocks it off; so does the prime minister but no one cares what he says anymore. Which brings us to today's news: the very first “anti-stab” knife. That is, a knife that'll do the job in the kitchen, but can't really be used to stab someone.

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