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Only so many men are manly enough to put in this much time into a baked good. The Optimus Prime Transformers cake was painstakingly detailed over a period of 26 hours, 4 for the planning, and 22 for the baking and icing. With a total cost of supplies equaling about $85, if you don’t include the mental anguish, the Optimus ...

Just wait until the boys over at Jackass get their hands on this. TASER has developed a new weapon to add to their arsenal of non-lethal defense. The new Extended Range Electronic Projectile (XREP) is made to launch through a 12-gauge shotgun, and is the first TASER device to be completely wireless. The XREP is a electrically-charged shell that can ...

You and your chicken shit sky diving just got a new competitor as most extreme of the extreme sports. By 2009, we might see Space Diving added to the X-Games line of competitive extremities. It is currently in the works for a huge 120,000 ft free fall from the outer limits of the Earth’s atmosphere. Eventually researchers hope to reach ...

Apple has gone ahead and released a video detailing the use of the iPhone keyboard, and many of you might be disappointed by the previews the video offers. The preview vid is more of a demonstration of the iPhone’s rarely seen magnification feature, which will aid in the cursor position and editing of already input type. Many people might be ...

We really hate worrying about parking meters when we go to urban areas. 45 minutes has a way of speeding through time when you actually aren’t paying attention. Some parking meters being tested for use in Canada will actually call your phone when you need to add some more money to your meter. If you want, you can even send ...

Baseball fans are going to flip over this. Liveboard is a mini-score board which connects to the internet via your connection and updates with the latest baseball scores for your favorite MLB teams. Using a simple LED display, that requires no tech knowledge to read, the Liveboard displays the current status of any MLB game, including base position, score, and ...

So, you just got your very own V8-themed PC case, but what in the world to add to it now? SolidAlliance presents its USB 2.0 Hub Toy, which includes 3 ports, is based on the design of a motorbike engine and even makes realistic engine sounds. Something like this is great for people who love modding their comp out to ...

A proposal this past Sunday that would have made gaming addiction an actual disorder was shut down at the American Medical Associations annual meeting. “There is nothing here to suggest that this is a complex physiological disease state akin to alcoholism or other substance abuse disorders, and it doesn’t get to have the word addiction attached to it,” said Dr. ...

As of late, Japan has been looking at how robots can solve some social problems, in addition to the labor that they are currently being developed for. “Life/Machine – Scenes From A Roboted Life” is a project to explore the interaction between humans and robots in a domestic living space, and how they might coexist in an efficient symbiosis. The ...

When was the last time you played with one hole that could be used in so many ways? OK, on second thought don’t answer that. These interesting images show unique ways to use the center hole of a CD as a design helper. Featured here are a few of our favorites, but you should check out the rest. They are ...