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Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon has been tweeting away about rare nuggets from the Mortal Kombat archives. We thought this admission was particularly interesting. Did you know that at one point there was a proposed Mortal Kombat-themed basketball court for one of Acclaim’s NBA Jam or NBA Hangtime games? As it turns out, the court was denied because Acclaim didn’t ...

So, you’ve been looking for a way to test your hand-eye coordination and space travel skills that doesn’t require staring at a screen or actually traveling into space. The ATMEL AVR microcontroller and Arduino-based Lunar Landing Game allows for an entertaining experience that doesn’t require any digital visuals. The concept of the game appears to be something along the lines ...

Christopher Conte, steampunk and insect aficionado, has created some pretty neat creations throughout the years. We haven’t featured any of his work, until now that is. Because, for real, how can you not share a steampunk arachnid? Spiders are one of the most feared creatures in the world. Even the non-venomous variety are creepy. Those legs. *shudder* The six-legged Steam ...

Not having much luck with the “ladies-with-actual-organs” circuit quite yet? She might not be a Lucy Liu bot, but she’s about as close as we’re going to get for now. This HRP-4C unit got the royal treatment, dressing up in a Yumi Katsura wedding dress and strutting her synthetic stuff all over the runway. If you’re attracted to open-mouthed soulless ...

Many of life’s major moments transpire through text messages these days. If you don’t have a phone with a high-storage capacity, you probably have to frequently clean out your text messages, which means you don’t get to keep all of those memorable messages. Ginger Anyhow figured out how to save those moments forever and even advertise them around her home. ...

Some Transformers are better at disguising themselves than others. Some like to add a little sophistication to their disguise. And a few just don’t understand the concept of deception. This Robots In Bad Disguises t-shirt shows what happens when a Transformer is under-educated in the art of deception. Master of disguise, he is not. Though I am digging the facial ...

A few days ago I posted about a set of Playstation controller-themed paper clip bookmarks. The same Etsy artist has, or at least had, an equally awesome iPhone Paper Clip Bookmark set as well. For the moment the clips are listed as “sold out.” Included in the set are the iPhone app icons for messaging, the camera, iPod, weather and ...

Call it what you will. A chipmunk, a prairie dog, a walrus. The point is that the damn thing is dramatic. And the drama has now been captured in a hand-painted work of fine art. The 11″ x 13″ print immortalizes the most famous rodent on the web. For around $39, you can add the Dramatic Chipmunk oil painting into ...

With a paper clip this massive, I doubt you’ll be misplacing your important papers. In fact, I don’t think it’s possible to misplace something this massive. It would be sort of like losing an elephant in a abandoned airplane hanger. It just doesn’t happen. This 12-inch tall Giant Paper Clip is versatile. You can use it as a weapon, a ...

If I didn’t live in a cardboard box I might consider installing some sort of monorail system which could easily transport me around my vast estate. Since I’m such an awesomely eco-friendly guy, my monorail system would be totally pedal-powered. No motor needed. The Shweeb is exactly that. An awkwardly named pedal-powered monorail system which simultaneously saves the Earth and ...