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DIY Blow-Outable LED Birthday Candles Perfect for Uber-Geeky Kids
Kids nowadays are so showered with electronic goodies that I suspect a traditionally-lit birthday cake just wouldn't cut the mustard for some of them. Luckily, over at Instructables they've got a recipe for DIY electronic "candles" that actually lets you blow them out. Its flickering LEDs are accompanied by a thermistor warmed above room-temp by a nearby resistor, and accompanied by a microcontroller. When you puff hard on the thermistor, the circuit senses the temperature drop and switches off some LEDs. Brilliant, but sadly it seems you can't get extra wishes by blowing them all out at once. The demo video is undeniably funny though: a fake birthday part thrown by the builders. More »
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Internet Dating: The Wedding Cake
Mmmm. The self-promotional social lies of one couple manifested in cream and sugar. The hearted ethernet cord and Starbucks cups are particularly charming touches. But it would have been best if the groom had fessed up to his second family in Guam. [MAKE]
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Microsoft Mistakes Browser War for Browser Party, Sends Firefox a Lovely Cake
Just like they did when Firefox 2 dropped, Microsoft has sent the guys over at Mozilla a congratulatory cake. The nerd food was delivered in person and was graciously accepted by the Firefox crew, who managed to hold back snide remarks about the cake's standard compliance and proprietary recipe long enough to take a few pictures. At least Microsoft has a sense of humor about their eroding market share. [Al Billings]
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Fair Share Cake Plate, Hands Off Kid!
You know what we hate? When people get all up in our cake. You know what we're talking about. You've got a sweet banana cream or a succulent red velvet, and then, you know, someone gets all up in your cake. What's with that? With this plate, you can measure your cake consumption—or more appropriately—the consumption of others. That's right. Put down the cake, kid. That 2mm is ours. And we're gonna eat it. (The cake.) [uptoyourtoronto via bookofjoe]
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R2-D2 Cake Brings Balance to the Force, Dorkiness to Wedding
Perhaps knowing that a Death Star wedding cake was starting marriage asking for trouble, reader and chef Charlene made an R2-D2 one, bringing balance back to the Force, and restoring dorkiness throughout the Galaxy. There have been others, but her nine-layer version of everyone's favorite astromech is far more realistic and complex, thanks to some DIY tech hacks. More »
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Not since the USB Food Hub from Solid Alliance have we seen a peripheral that made us actually want to put it in our mouths and swallow. These Cake Royale series drives range from chocolate, to some yellow looking one, to a white one with strawberries on top, and finally a fruity one. Can you tell we went to culinary academy for three years? No price yet, but the release date is sometime in May. [Vavolo via Nexus404]
Cake Royale USB Drives Are Delicious, But Deadly For Children
Not since the USB Food Hub from Solid Alliance have we seen a peripheral that made us actually want to put it in our mouths and swallow. These Cake Royale series drives range from chocolate, to some yellow looking one, to a white one with strawberries on top, and finally a fruity one. Can you tell we went to culinary academy for three years? No price yet, but the release date is sometime in May. [Vavolo via Nexus404]
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This dad went above and beyond the traditional lazydad Carvel and built his son a cake in the shape of a tank, with a motorized rotating turret. The canon also adjusts elevation as it turns. But due to wife-husband restrictions from the Tank Cake Treaty of 2006, it does not fire whipped cream munitions anywhere near the freshly cleaned kitchen table, thank you very much mister. Vid post jump. [Instructables, thanks Steve H. ]
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Loving Dad Bakes Son a Motorized Tank Cake
This dad went above and beyond the traditional lazydad Carvel and built his son a cake in the shape of a tank, with a motorized rotating turret. The canon also adjusts elevation as it turns. But due to wife-husband restrictions from the Tank Cake Treaty of 2006, it does not fire whipped cream munitions anywhere near the freshly cleaned kitchen table, thank you very much mister. Vid post jump. [Instructables, thanks Steve H. ]
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1:29 PM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Brian Lam
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Latest by Gann: This reminds me of those cool tank fireworks that used to scoot forward a few inches then unleash a sparky hell on whatever was in front of it. Those things were awesome. more »
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Death Star Wedding Cake Wins Fanboy of the Year Award, Sets Grounds for Divorce
I got this picture from our Tips mailbox just after reading Wired's article on Fanboys, Ernie Cline's odyssey of a group of diehard Star Wars fans who break into Skywalker Ranch to steal a copy of Episode I before opening day. Reader Rye Clifton explained what it is, much to Addy's disbelief: More »
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Is Getting a Caked a Good Omen for a Gadget?
This bookake looks as disgusting as the real Amazon Kindle. Not because it's a bad cake. I'm sure it tastes great and the details are accurate. The problem is that, unfortunately, the chef didn't have a lot to start with. Brian says that all this baking is good for Kindle. It's all about what he calls "The Cake Factor":
Brian Lam's Cake Factor: no one makes a gadget cake unless they love the gadget, so this is a good sign for Kindle
A "good sign"? I completely disagree with him, and I have definitive proof:
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R2-D2 Cake Looks Too Delicious to Eat
If I were to get married, I would be honored if pastry chef Mark Randazzo of Mark Joseph Cakes would whip me up one of these awesome looking R2-D2 cakes for the reception. Unfortunately, that would also probably mean that my marriage would be over before it began. I would be left all alone, weeping in a corner cramming fistfuls of R2's delicious body into my mouth. [Mark Joseph Cakes via B-Side Blog via Boing Boing via Technabob]
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Christmas Cake USB Hub from Solid Alliance Heralds the Arrival of Festive Tat
When Solid Alliance and Christmas meet, there can only be one winner: fans of all things USB. What collector of dumb peripheral stuff could refuse this Christmas cake, complete with 1GB memory key strawberries? And then you see what else they use to decorate the cake. More »
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Morgan Valentine, better known as best wife ever, ordered a custom-made Optimus Prime cake for her husband's 30th birthday. The cake was made by Nashville's The French Connection, and has dirt, rocks, grass, plants and an Optimus Prime the size of a toddler. I bet the guy even got sex afterwards. [Flickr via Boing Boing]
Gigantic Optimus Prime Birthday Cake Forcefully Removes Socks From Feet
Morgan Valentine, better known as best wife ever, ordered a custom-made Optimus Prime cake for her husband's 30th birthday. The cake was made by Nashville's The French Connection, and has dirt, rocks, grass, plants and an Optimus Prime the size of a toddler. I bet the guy even got sex afterwards. [Flickr via Boing Boing]
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The Best iPhone Wannabe Yet, from Sugarcat Cakes
This is an iPhone Cake.For the Steve that is Fake.
Did it take a long time to Make?
I dunno, I'm not very good in the kitchen. [PhotoBucket via The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs]
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Helio Ocean: The Cake
Our female-fearing cousins over at Kotaku are familiar with cakes made in the shape of their favorite things (games), but we don't often get the pleasure of eating our own gadgets. That's why this Helio Ocean cake made by a geeksugar reader is so sweet (heh). More »
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Sea-Monkeygate: Triops Calls Out Sea-Monkeys, War Declared
Ladies and gentlemen, I present Sea-Monkeygate. While at the Toy Fair here in New York, I stumbled upon two products that essentially do the same thing (let you grow small animals in a small water tank): Sea-Monkeys and Triops. You've probably heard of Sea-Monekys, those weird things that come in packets and grow in water. Triops are similar, but according to the guy who was promoting them, they're so much better. He ranted for several minutes (just ask Noah) on why Sea-Monkeys are really a scam because they don't grow instantly as promised, among other things. Then he went off on a tangent and Noah and I hurried away. Luckily, I ran into the Sea-Monkeys people a few minutes later. And boy were they hot under the collar when I told them about Triops stylin' on them. More »
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Gallery: 10 Yummy Techie Cakes
Why does man choose to remake his favorite gadget in flour, sugar, eggs and butter? There are many theories, but current academic consensus seems to be that by ingesting an object, the ingestee can be imbued with the "powers" of said object. More »
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iPhone Cake: A Bad Gift?
"Happy birthday honey!""What the fuck is this?"
"It's an iPhone, cake."
"Is this some kind of joke?"
"Umm...not funny haha, but..."
"You know how hard this has been for me."
"I know, that why I made-"
"To be teased with the ultimate phone and then have to wait until summer."
"...it's chocolate."
"I hate my life and I hate you!" More »
