This is a small (but growing) series of Nintendo game characters (games for Nintendo, not all made by Nintendo) as traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock prints by Geekologie reader Ezra's illustrator friend Jed Henry. This is Samus here, but there's a Link and Mega Man after the jump. Will he eventually do a Mario? Only time will tell. Kidding, there's no way there won't be a Mario one. Unless Jed hates Mario and never draws one, in which case I'll come back to this post and replace all this text with something about somebody's peenor. Probably mine. Will it be big? Will it be small? Will it be on fire? SPOILER: Crooked and shooting laser beams.
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Why it took so long for somebody to finally combine cupcakes and sausages is beyond me, but I suspect it has something to do with a lot of people calling themselves foodies but not really being foodies. People always like to lie about themselves to sound more interesting. Me? I'm the hardest-core kind of foodie. "The kind that invents new foods?" I was gonna say the kind that eats food off the floor with zero regard for the 5-second rule, but one time I DID eat a hotdog on a hamburger bun, so I guess yours works too. These are cupcakewursts: sausage casings filled with cupcake batter and grilled. The Cupcake Project has complete instructions if you want to make your own, which, let's not kid ourselves, you do. *poking gut* "Stop." *pokes again* "I SAID STOP." Not until you tehehe like the Pillsbury Doughboy.
Hit the jump for several more shots, including some of the cupcakes on long john donut buns with raspberry jelly ketchup.
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This is a LEGO Star Wars toy display with some holographic video effects. Do they have them at Toys R Us? No clue, I got banned from the nearest one for bicycle jousting in the store. Dammit, I was gonna buy something! No I wasn't. I was gonna peg my friend with a dodgeball then run and hide in a big pile of stuffed animals. I love how at the end of the holographic battle it includes the warning, "THE ANIMATION IN THIS VIDEO IS FOR ILLUSTRATIVE PURPOSES ONLY. THE MODELS DO NOT ACTUALLY POSSESS ANY OF THE ANIMATED FUNCTIONALITIES." Because it would suck finishing your new LEGO Star Wars set if you hadn't read that. *smashes AT-AT* WHY WEREN'T YOU SHOOTING LASERS?
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Seen here shooting straight for the nuts, a robot designed to create and climb creases in fabric crawls up a man's pant leg. Don't worry though, I'm sure the robot's inventors created the thing out of necessity and not just for no reason.
Its creators say that Clothbot could be a tiny pet that climbs around your body, or even a moving phone that sits on your shoulder, leaving your hands free.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand I was wrong. *slamming head on desk* Stupid stupid stupid!
Hit the jump for a brief video of the climber in action.
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This is a video of an old man opening a beer bottle with a chainsaw. I swear I've seen a video of this trick before, but whatever, this guy revs his chainsaw way more earning him +5 showmanship. You know what else chainsaws are great at opening? Legs. Haha, there's a bone in there!
Hit the jump for the Mother Nature unfriendliest way to open a beer you'll see all day.
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I lied in the title. It's not actually a t-rex, it's a Tyrannosaurus bataar, a slightly smaller relative of the t-rex (read: Geekologie Writer size *wink*). And now it's up for auction with a minimum bid of $875,000. You and I: we're going to buy it. No, no we're not. We're gonna STEAL it -- in my pants. "What do you need me for then?" Distracting the guards and driving the getaway car!
The quality of preservation is superb, with wonderful bone texture and delightfully mottled grayish bone color. In striking contrast are those deadly teeth, long and frightfully robust, in a warm woody brown color, the fearsome, bristling mouth and monstrous jaws leaving one in no doubt as to how the creature came to rule its food chain. Equally deadly and impressive are the large curving claws, with pronounced blood grooves. The body is 75% complete and the skull 80%, and it is mounted on a discreet gray-painted armature. Measuring 24 feet in length and standing 8 feet high, it is a stupendous, museum-quality specimen of one of the most emblematic dinosaurs ever to have stalked this Earth.
Man, that thing would look great in my grand foyer, greeting all the visitors to Geekologie Writer manor. "You don't have a manor." I live in a 200-square foot basement apartment with no windows. I can open the fridge from the toilet.
Hit the jump for a couple more shots of the it will be mine, oh yes, it will be mine. MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!
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Seen here about to find out the hard way he's not an alligator wisperer, some idiot in North Carolina prepares to get his arm bitten by an alligator on the side of a road. "The most exciting thing to happen all year" the local headlines read.
Hit the jump for a news report including the arm-biting footage.
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Seen here making the researcher in the background jealous he didn't get a beverage, a paralyzed woman uses a mind-controlled robotic arm to drink her morning coffee. If I were her? I would have made the arm punch itself in the elbow until it broke. I DON'T NEED YOUR HELP, TERMINATOR.
Because the pathways between the brain and the limbs are cut off in paralysis cases, the Brown team decided to skip those pathways altogether and send signals directly from a brain-implanted sensor to the robot limb.
The technology still has a ways to go -- researchers want to miniaturize it and create a wireless version -- but it could be a major breakthrough in allowing people with paralysis to accomplish more tasks on their own.
Yeah, a wireless version would definitely be better. I'm not a big fan of having things attached to my head -- I get nervous enough wearing a hat. Also, I think all mind-controlled robotic arm users should undergo psychiatric analysis before being allowed to operate one because all it takes is that one guy thinking, "KILL KILL KILL, CHOKE CHOKE CHOKE" to ruin everybody else's fun.
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