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Is there such thing as too much bling? Naaaaah. Featuring over 1200 baguette cut, brilliant cut and emerald cut stones, this $3.5 million monstrosity from luxury watch makers Piaget is pretty much the epitome of lavish living. This isn’t the sort of watch you wear. This is the sort of watch you use to feed a small country. Link [via]

LEGO designer Ronald McCrae created this amazing functional ATM made entirely out of LEGOs. How functional is it? Just check it out for yourself: This Lego NXT Automatic Teller Machine includes HiTechnic IRLink and a Codatex RFID Sensor, and just like any other ATM, it demands the PIN number. �Along with a functional keypad, a display screen, it flaunts 9�13 ...

YouTube user Freestuff9er and the world of Pokemon take on The Lonely Planet and T-Pain’s much-beloved parody rap “I’m On A Boat” and Poke-fy it. “I’m Gary Oak” is the hip-hop odyssey of the arch-nemesis of Ash Ketchum and grandson of Professor Oak, Gary muthafuckin’ Oak. By the way, I totally knew Misty got around. Her, with that come hither ...

Once your car has a mustache it’ll never want to return to its hairless ways. Just look what happened to Alex Trebek once he ditched his mustache. Rumor has it that he was mauled by zebras and his current replacement is a scientifically-created genetic clone. Luckily the government knows better now then to leave our nations game show hosts unduplicated. ...

Equipped with some circuitry, a webcam, a NXT LEGO Mindstorm set and plenty of time on his hands, Branislov Kisacanin created Tetris-Bot, the first (to our knowledge at least) LEGO bot to be made specifically to play Tetris. Sure, Tetris-Bot has only made it to level 1 so far, but I think it might just be biding its time. First, ...

Man, I tell ya, if this were my bird I’d bring it with me where ever I went. It can just lounge on my shoulder all day. I only ask of it one thing. Every time I accomplish something… anything… it must sing this song. Did I successfully cross the street? Sing. Did my credit card get accepted at the ...

What can we learn from this image of the surface of the Sun taken in 2007 by the Swedish Solar Telescope. Well, for one, it was a surprise to me that the Sun’s surface is composed of pomegranate seeds. Very very large pomegranate seeds (the white line in the left corner measures 5000 kilometers). And no, those little white dots ...

Those of you who have followed Gearfuse long enough know that I’m in the process of designing myself a geeky tattoo sleeve. I’ve already got Jedi Mario and a set of Mario Stars running up my arm, but I’ve been looking for the perfect addition. This Stormtrooper Sugar Skull tat might just be my next tattoo. I know, I know, ...

Much like an enlarged prostate, this LEGO Rube Goldberg machine, left to its own devices, would just keep going and going and going. Some Goldberg machines have a goal, such as creating the perfect cocktail, others are made simply for their geeky aesthetic but this particular device simply is. And it continues to be. With the assistance of various building ...

In January 2009, a phenomenon began with the posting of David After Dentist onto YouTube by the DeVore family. Since then the original has gathered over 57 million views, making it one of the most popular videos ever published on the internet. Not until today did we get to see a little bit more of what was going on behind ...