Gadgets

Do you have the crocheting skills that pay the bills? Alright, maybe they don’t pay the bills, unless you mass produce on Etsy or something, but can you at least follow some simple instructions? Head over to the Craftster forums so you can learn how to craft your very own Piranha Plant Scarf. These beauties aren’t officially for sale yet, ...

Do I really need to warn you about zombies if you’re wearing this shirt? At this point you’re just asking for a zombie attack. This shirt looks both awesome and delicious. Link

File this under “will never see the light of day.” The Helix cellphone concept takes us back to our younger years, doubling as a slap bracelet and matching perfectly with your Nike Pumps. The Helix’s special flexible circuitry doesn’t hamper the phone’s performance in our little dream land of concepts. The flexible LCD touchscreen shows updates even when you’re wearing ...

From the same Etsy designer who brought us the Xbox 360 iPhone case. The “screen panel” flips open to reveal a clam shell iPhone case meticulously designed to resemble Sony’s portable PSP console. Now if only we could download PSN content onto the iPhone. Link [via]

Blame it on my decades of eating burger in patty form, but there is just something intrinsically wrong with eating a hamburger in the shape of a hot dog. It just feels so… wrong, no? Link [via]

Have you been looking for that special gross-out prop for Halloween? I think you might have just found it. It’s not a cockroach, but it does have a shitload more legs. $27. Link [via]

…just to hear the resulting racket that ensues. These stairs are actually a working oversized piano, sort of like the one from the movie Big, but in stair form. I’d love to see Tom Hanks attempt “Chopsticks” on this baby. Link

Believe it or not, the metallic gears, doors, rivets, and panels were all made of fondant and were entirely edible. Through our long history of steampunk fanboy-ism we’ve never come across an edible steampunk creation, so this is pretty incredible.

According to the twice yearly CTIA survey about text messages and mobile usage, America sends an average of 4.1 billion, yes BILLION, text messages a day. Our grand total for the half-year so far is 740 BILLION text messages. What are we? A bunch of 12-year-old girls? How many of these conversations do you think took place with users right ...

Upskirts are sort of a phenomenon in the porn industry, especially the among the Japanese population. Creepy men with hidden cameras scout the streets for unsuspecting ladies and broadcast their unbelievably sexy findings on the web. Watching these videos is sort of a blurry area of the law. Avoid the legal system by producing your own upskirt shots right on ...