How about a truck that can be transformed into a two-story home at the push of a button? Look no further than this custom vehicle, created by Japanese engineers. It comes complete with kitchen, hot tub, and more. Video after the break. (Thanks, Madison)
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Japanese Engineers Build Truck That Transforms into Two-Story Home
Squeez Bacon from ThinkGeek “requires no preservatives or other additives; each serving is as healthy as real bacon, and equivalent to 4 premium slices of bacon.” Video after the break. You can put it on sandwiches, pizza, pastas, bacon, soups, pies, eat it hot or cold, substitute it for bacon in your recipes, or even eat it right out of the tube like we do! If it’s edible, it’s better with Squeez Bacon. [via ThinkGeek ]
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Squeez Bacon
Google has unveiled a new GMail Autopilot feature that basically takes care of all those “you’ve won something” messages. Simply let Autopilot “read a sampling of your conversations (more than 100 is ideal), then adjust a few simple settings and it will do the rest.” Project page . Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve been meaning to update my resume, I remember hearing something about Google opening a moonbase a little while back. [via OhGizmo ]
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GMail Autopilot Reads, Analyzes, and Responds to Your Junk Mail
Brick master Ricardo Oliviera used a countless number of LEGO pieces to build “a mini-theater that can actually project film on its minuscule screen.” Continue reading to see it in-action. While its three-frame-per-second frame rate isn’t quite the traditional 24fps of film, it’s way-cool nonetheless. [via Dvice ]
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Mini Theater has Fully-Functional LEGO Movie Projector
Yes, the mechanical heart shown in this commercial was made “entirely from Sony gear, including parts from BRAVIA TVs, Blu-ray players, VAIO laptops, Cybershot cameras, PS3s, and even the odd Walkman.” Continue reading to watch. As much as we’d like this to be a still from a new, secretly-in-development Cronenberg movie, it’s actually an image of the nightmare-inducing mechanical heart that stars in a new series of Sony ads. [via Engadget ]
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Creepy Sony Commercial Shows Mechanical Heart Made From Company’s Gadgets
Currently at $30,000 on eBay , this Lamborghini Gallardo is “is laid out for some well-heeled Alistair to put back together again — the only thing is you’ll need to find a new engine, driveline, suspension, interior, and electronics.” Auction page . Click here for first picture in gallery. Or, you could just pick up the innards of a Mustang and make the inverse of the Tractorri — the Mustardo, perhaps? [via Autoblog - eBay ]
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eBay Watch: DIY Lamborghini Gallardo
According to the ScrewAttack team, “one of the best things about gaming, the power up has had it’s hits and misses.” They include: Mega Man 2’s Metal Blade, Contra’s Spread Gun, and Metroid’s Screw Attack. Video after the break.
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Top 10 Best and Worst Video Game Power Ups
Before GMail, Google Docs, and even the first version of Google, there was Google Classic. Unsurprisingly, these hand-delivered search results take approximately 30-days to reach you. This has a decidedly ’40s-’50s aesthetic, but still it would have been considered an incredible service to fill out a post card with a research query and in a month or so, receive a packet of sourced information from around the world on your topic, for free. [via Gizmodo ]
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Google Classic
Amazon is selling the Visual Land V-Touch for just $64.99 shipped, originally priced at $249.99. Featuring a “2.8-inch color TFT touchscreen, 2-megapixel camera, FM radio, voice recorder, and e-book reader.” Product page . It also works as a webcam when connected to a computer through the USB port. The V-Touch has a miniSD card slot (up to 4 GB) should you wish to expand your storage space. [via Amazon ]
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Deal of the Day: $249.99 Visual Land V-Touch 8GB Player with Camera for $64.99 Shipped
In this clip, you’ll see a demo of an Arduino-linked web server, connected to a Mazda RX-8 that’s controlled by the iPod Touch — “it can be started, stopped, locked/unlocked [and] current location shown on Google Maps, [with] engine parameters displayed.” Video after the break. With this setup the user can now open doors, start the engine, monitor all of the car stats such as RPM and if that isnt enough you can even see where the car is on a Google map. [via Hackedgadgets ]
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iPod Touch-Controlled Mazda RX8
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