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Independent business owners always have the issue of accepting credit cards. First you have to actually set-up a merchant account, than you have to purchase all of the scanning equipment. It’s almost not worth the trouble, despite the fact that no one uses cash these days. The Square plugs right into the bottom of your iPhone and allows you to ...

Spread the geeky Christmas cheer with this rad Space Invaders Wrapping Paper. If your present is strong enough to fend off an advanced galactic army, it must be the greatest present of the bunch. Hands down. Link [via]

The Phone-O-Scope, by iPhone mod extraordinaire Bhautik Joshi, is an optical coupler which allows you to attach an SLR lens to your iPhone. If you’ve been looking for a way to add some DSLR power to your camera phone, an app probably isn’t the way to go, especially when you can get the real thing with a roll of duct ...

Closer resembling a set of luscious melons (Mmm, cantaloupe,) Bubble Clox add a new dimension to your time keeping.� Being the first spherical clock I’ve ever seen means this is the coolest one of its kind by default. So it has that going for it. If it’s wrong to want to grab a pair of these and hump the air ...

The Pac-Man Ring Set puts Packy right on the digits of your girlfriend hand of choice. Hopefully your fingernails are slightly better kept than the nails of this hand model. If you’re going to show off your hands, you should want them in the finest condition. Clipped and clean. It’s only fair to the Pac. Link [via]

The future is now… almost. Soon enough, we’ll have no need for conventional electronic outlets because everything will be powered via USB. At least until everything is powered by simple kinetic energy or just by the air itself. We already have a ton of gadgets which are powered via USB, most notably the iPhone and iPod. This awesome step-by-step how-to ...

Hand-made to order, these LEGO Wallets are shipped with a bunch of loose bricks and a wallet which integrates a base plate right into its design. The owner of the wallet is encouraged to create their own brick designs with the included LEGO pieces. Simply build your own color scheme upon the clean slate of the base plate.

My favorite tube-shaped starch just got even cooler thanks to this awesome Boba Fett Potato Head expansion piece. Photographed by Flickr user Yodamann, the only way this could look any more tempting would be mashed and covered in butter and chives. Link [via]

Anybody have around $3.8 million laying around? I’m a few bucks short. You know, tax and all. The iPhone 3GS Supreme is encased in 271 grams of 22ct solid gold. Featuring a front bezel brandishing 136 flawless diamonds, a total of 68 cts and the rear apple logo, set in solid gold, has 53 flawless diamonds totaling 1 carat total ...

When geekism meets fine art, the results are usually breath-taking. Such is the case with Brock Davis’s Arcade Expressionism pieces, which reduce the 8-bit arcade images to their basic shapes and smudges. Above is Donkey Kong and after the jump you can spot Dig Dug and Missle Command.