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In 2012, nearly 19 million texts were sent through text applications while 17.6 text messages were sent using the phone's telecom company's SMS infrastructure. So people like to talk. Clearly. But why are we leaning towards third-party chat applications?

Game achievements aren't what they used to be. Shouldn't the caller be the one that gets the achievement? They're the only one that actually did anything.

For those of you who don't have to "Han Solo," if you know what I mean *wink, wink*, these geeky bondage toys are the perfect accessory to spice up the bedroom activities of any geeky couple. Bring out the gimp in your little environmental engineer.

College kids need recreation. They need a way to release their inner beast. Countless nights of homework, studying and getting stoned until your convinced your eyeballs are going to fall out takes its toll. Sometimes you need to think outside of the box, and drink everything inside the can.

Take a 20 minute dip in the pool and your fingers transform from normal human digits to wrinkled alien prune tentacles. Spend 10 days under water like South-African Aquaman and overachiever Tim Yarrow, and your hands quickly transform into blistered piles of skin mush.

Created by Stoyn, this Mark Zuckerberg Ice Cream Pop features an exact likeness of the Facebook creator's head. Zuck's head on a stick: something that Tom from MySpace has been dreaming about for years.

Commissioned as a gift for the blogger at Badger and Owl, this "Mechano-Perambulator" probably wouldn't fare to well in active battle, but the Jawa scavengers would have a field day.

Its chevrons really glow and its parts really move. But there's one thing missing. This model could surely use a Daniel Jackson minifig.

I never would have thought of this. Thank god there are people out there that use their brains for constructive purposes rather than simply using them to rant and rave on a geek blog.

Never thought you'd see humans colonize Mars in your lifetime? You still might not if you're in your 60s or older. But for us young breeds who still have a chance at a life worth living, we might actually see the colonization of Mars by our own homosapien brethren. And by see, I mean watch on TV.