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What would you do if you discovered a pair of earrings bigger than your car lying on the streets of your city? Would you be amazed or scared that a fashionable giant was about to trample you?

Do you have the crocheting skills that pay the bills? Alright, maybe they don’t pay the bills, unless you mass produce on Etsy or something, but can you at least follow some simple instructions? Head over to the Craftster forums so you can learn how to craft your very own Piranha Plant Scarf. These beauties aren’t officially for sale yet, ...

Do I really need to warn you about zombies if you’re wearing this shirt? At this point you’re just asking for a zombie attack. This shirt looks both awesome and delicious. Link

File this under “will never see the light of day.” The Helix cellphone concept takes us back to our younger years, doubling as a slap bracelet and matching perfectly with your Nike Pumps. The Helix’s special flexible circuitry doesn’t hamper the phone’s performance in our little dream land of concepts. The flexible LCD touchscreen shows updates even when you’re wearing ...

It’s hard to keep yourself well-groomed when you’re sitting in front of a computer screen all-day. Sometimes I look in the mirror and jump make in shock. “Who the hell is that grizzly hobo staring back at me?” This $35 USB Comb Drive gives me an excuse to perform the most basic of hygienic acts, no matter how busy I ...

Although it doesn’t do much good to type in your search query, click search and wind up with someone else’s search results, Mystery Google is actually pretty entertaining. Type in a search and press enter. You aren’t whizzed off to your own search results, but the results of the person who searched before you. For example, I typed in a ...

From the same Etsy designer who brought us the Xbox 360 iPhone case. The “screen panel” flips open to reveal a clam shell iPhone case meticulously designed to resemble Sony’s portable PSP console. Now if only we could download PSN content onto the iPhone. Link [via]

Blame it on my decades of eating burger in patty form, but there is just something intrinsically wrong with eating a hamburger in the shape of a hot dog. It just feels so… wrong, no? Link [via]

Have you been looking for that special gross-out prop for Halloween? I think you might have just found it. It’s not a cockroach, but it does have a shitload more legs. $27. Link [via]

…just to hear the resulting racket that ensues. These stairs are actually a working oversized piano, sort of like the one from the movie Big, but in stair form. I’d love to see Tom Hanks attempt “Chopsticks” on this baby. Link