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If you’re unfamiliar with Worlds.com, you’ll have to read up on the company’s asinine history sometime. The company created some shitty 3-D environment back in the dot-com boom days and because of this, it feels it owns all the patents pertaining to 3-D gaming. Now CEO Thom Kidrin is pulling a real douche move and is looking to sue the ...

So, you think that chinchilla coat your snobby neighbor wears around is an outrage? What about the poor Muppets who’ve sacrificed their life for the sake of fashion? Are you willing to slaughter dozens of defenseless puppets in the name of style? Disgusting.

If you’ve been looking for that perfect gadget to give your little bratty 12-year-old daughter who just happens to find My Chemical Romance “mucho suave,” as the kids say these days, the bulletproof heart, designed by J�rg H�ltje, might be just the ticket to insure she is the coolest little hipster bitch in her middle school. Strategically designed to ward ...

Dynamically Augmenting Wheel System, or DAWS, might sound like some sort of high-tech mumbo jumbo, and for the most part, it is pretty complex. The conceptually designed wheels are�divided into eight separate parts which adjust to the car’s center of gravity without losing traction. You know how motorcycle wheels sort of shift under the driver’s weight as they turn? It’s ...

This could be the worst idea ever, if it’s done the wrong way. While in principle, Activison recently filing for a trademark on the title “Sing Hero” is the logical step forward, this could spell some bad news for us. Of course, Sing Hero will be some sort of faux-music themed game, like Guitar Hero. So, not only will we ...

Universal Music Group demands we pay a royalty for each headline written. Yeah, they wish. Lewis Hamilton controlling an F1 car with a Blackberry Storm The Fuzebox 8-bit Console Some lovely new Nokias It’s no vest, but it’ll do Your daily steampunk mod of the day You know it’d be sweet to work for Huffy The Chinese are hacking iTunes ...

Wow. What happened? Is everyone OK? Let’s take a minute and figure out what went down this morning: Apple takes webstore down Apple puts webstore back up with new iPod Shuffle New device features minimalist design, no controls on device You must use Apple headphones with the Shuffle in order to control the music 4GB capacity, $79 price tag VoiceOver ...

The Smapler is quite the instrument. First off, you’ll have to build it using your trusty Arduino since it’s a shield that works in tandem with the microcontroller. It’ll allow you to build some unique and interesting instruments as well. This new snap-on panel really gives it more of an instrument-like feel though, don’t you think? It features 4 knobs, ...

While swimming is almost always a blast (save for when your boat capsizes), having a soaking wet swimsuit riding up your crack has never been a pleasure. A new company from Brooklyn called Sun Dry Swim is looking to change ass cracks around the world with a new nanotechnology that repels water from the swimsuit. The result is a self-drying ...

Developing for the iPhone can make you rich, but it can also come with unseen difficulties, including rejection from the App Store. This can be a bummer after investing time and money into developing your app, which is why developer Loren Brichter probably felt like shit when Apple rejected his Twitter app, Tweetie. Apple cited “foul language” as the reason ...