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One gag gift. So many uses. Trying to figure out if he’s the one? Just want to freak out one of your friends? The Fake Home Pregnancy Test is positive every time. The box proclaims it’s great for marriage, extortion and laughs. Personally I don’t see why you can’t use it for all three at once. Link [via]

Yes, tacos. The breakfast of champions. Taco Bell has decided to give 1 million free Fresco Tacos away and you can get your very own if you can print out your coupon quick enough. But of course, alas, there is a disclaimer. The local manager can deny any customer a free taco. So if there’s a mad dash for a ...

Straight from the depths of hell, otherwise known as the Machine Perception Laboratory at UCSD, comes Diego-San, the freakishly big-headed one-year-old simulated robot. …Aside from joy, he’s bundled with a high resolution camera and 6-axis accelerometer. And while his coordination is limited to standing from a chair and holding a bottle, Diego-San’s face has 20 moving parts to convey emotion ...

If you’re more into super villains then robotic sidekicks, you might prefer the Jabba the Snowhutt over the R2-D2 Snowdroid from earlier this week. Just make sure your My Little Pony in Carbonite is far beyond reach. I wouldn’t put it past the Snowhutt to bounty that thing off to the highest bidder.

What sort of extreme measures would you be willing to go through in order to resemble Iron Man? Would you go as far as branding yourself with a tattoo? This Arc Reactor tattoo proves that there’s more to you then just muscle and bones. Is there a superhero in the house? Link [via]

Adding to the awesomeness of his 2008 LEGO computer, Luke Anderson created this DIY project which helps you create your very own internet router built from LEGO bricks. Based around the Linksys WRT54GL router model, the LEGO Router works just like its Linksys counterpart except for its brick-tastic style. Basically Anderson took the innards of a perfectly usable Linksys router ...

If your the kind of man that works with his hands, you might want to make sure everyone knows that the creations that come from your hands are all yours. But first off, you might want to mark those paws of yours as a little more than simple personal body parts. The Copyright/Copyleft Gloves mark your hands as pieces of ...

We know usually you set your brain’s power button to off when playing your Wii, and that’s fine that Wii playing is meant to be your downtime, but if you even plan on using the WiiThink concept peripheral, there’s just no way in hell you’ll be able to maintain that mindless mentality. Using EEG technology to read your brainwaves, the ...

You know how Yoshi loves his apples. So it’s no surprise that he couldn’t resist such a shiny fruit as the Apple logo itself. This Yoshi Macbook decal is available from LapTatt, and it’s a great way to build-up even more geek cred, if you care about that sort of thing. Link [via]

Sure, perhaps they’re a little too green for your taste. Perhaps the thought of wearing a hat that resembles a scalped turtle hero is too much for you too bear. But if you can put those thoughts aside, these Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Baseball Caps are a seemingly awesome fashion statement. Link [via]