Steve Humble of HiddenPassageway.com will stick a secret passageway and lair anywhere you want. Under some stairs? Sure! Behind a bookcase? Naturally! Behind a fireplace? Dangerous, but why not? It's the perfect way to keep your masturbatorium hidden away from private eyes, as it should be. [HiddenPassageway.com via Make]

There aren't any clear instructions detailing just how to build your own gun, but you're way too lazy to ever actually build a recreation. Luckily, if you're sitting on a small mountain of cash, you can go to the creator's site for any business inquiries. Apparently, Portal's developer Valve has ordered a model. And if you're willing to stand in line long enough, maybe you could score one, too.

See all of the build photos here: [GameDaily]

It's about $20 from Japan, and comes with one Construction worker, one yellow sign or one white sign, combined with three traffic ones. We would set this up around our mouse and keyboard every night before we went to bed. [Rinkya via Crunchgear]

Packing centimeter and angle measurements along with a few cute grids that we're fairly certain are just for grids' sake, the only flaw with the measurement gloves is that they're fabricated from stretchy knit that will skew your data. Then again, the blood, boogers, hamburger grease aren't doing anything to help readings, either. Seriously, throw your gloves in the wash already. And stop picking at your scabs, nose and that dumpster behind Wendy's already. [Up To You Toronto via Nerd Approved]

Apparently, while most road sign control pads are placed in a lock box, that box is rarely actually locked. And while most road signs are under password protection, that password is most generally just the default code "DOTS"—or you can easily reset the password by holding "shift" and "control" while typing "DIPY" (so that it just defaults to "DOTS" again).

Of course, it makes sense that road signs aren't all that protected. Most of us would hope that you wouldn't be such a jackass as to take swap useful information for some joke about ninjas and/or pirates. [iHacked via Geekologie]

SmartBolts, designed for industrial and medical applications, feature a simple color-coded indicator on their tops: If they're red, the bolt is loose. If they're green, nice job, everything's locked down. And if they're black, you may over-tightened things a bit, Mr. Look How Strong I Am.

Each bolt also promise 20 years of durability (which actually seems a bit low for many applications) as SmartBolts use simple fluid compression to measure and produce the chromatic indication in real time. That means there are no moving parts, and we fucking hate moving parts. [SmartBolts via medgadget]

Fisher was inspired to design the Dynamic Tower during a visit to a friend's top-floor Midtown Manhattan apartment. "I had a view of the Hudson River and East River at the same time, it was beautiful and I wanted to make that feeling accessible to more people." He loves the idea of seeing the sun rise and set in the same room, and considers the building to be four-dimensional. "Time is always changing the shape of the building," he told me.

The rotation takes up to 3 hours (so you're not always spilling your coffee), and gets power from photovoltaic solar cells and 79 wind turbines, one located between each floor. The system is meant to create enough energy to power to the entire tower and still have juice to spare for some surrounding buildings. According to Fisher, two of these $700 million futuristic scrapers are planned so far, one each in Dubai and Moscow. They will be built using a truly radical technique.

Construction on the Dynamic Tower will be unlike anything that preceded it. The only part of the tower built on site will be the skinny center core. It is strong enough to hold the floors in place, and will contain the building's elevators, which transport people and cars right to their door. Each floor will be made piece by piece in a factory in Italy—a throwback to Fisher's previous life in prefabricated bathroom design—and placed onto the core using a lift system. With this method, each story is completed in about six days. By comparison, traditional ground-up methods can take six weeks per floor.

Groundbreaking for Dynamic Towers in Dubai and Moscow is expected to happen in the fall, with construction reaching completion by the end of 2010. If you're game—and very, very loaded—you can sign up now for a villa or office space. The going rate is $3000/sq foot. [Dynamic Architecture]

According to the Daily Mail:

There was speculation the soccer boss may have bought the machine in league with Putin in the hope of gaining approval from America for a plan both men are said to have long savoured—building a tunnel from the frozen wastes of the Russian region of which Abramovich is governor, Chukotka, to Alaska beneath the Bering Strait.

But then he added: "Before building a tunnel between [Chukotka] and Alaska, there should be a road built between Anadyr, the capital of Chutotka, and the rest of Russia."

So, like, once the road is built...what? Presumably the spokesman then only put his pinky in his mouth and began to laugh diabolically. [Daily Mail]

* Approximately 35,000 LEGO bricks were used. This includes almost all the pieces from 32 Blue Tubs (#3033), almost 300 (!) small baseplates (8x16 studs), and 63 blue plate packs from LEGO Shop-at-Home. A few other pieces were also bought from private collectors (226 tiles so the drawers could slide, et cetera). * The desk weighs about 120 pounds, I think. I have not actually weighed it... but I think that is close. * About 7 pounds of glue were used. Brand: Oatey, All-Purpose (PVC, CPVC, ABS) Glue. * The desk has the following dimensions (inches, WxHxD): 60" x 29.5" x 30". * It has 7 working drawers (six small, one large). * It has a folding lid in the top that conceals a hole for computer cables to drop through. * Yes, the top is bumpy—studs up. I offered to make the top smooth, but the client specifically requested otherwise. Whatever. I also offered to build a retractable keyboard tray in the front, but that was not wanted. Nor a mosaic of the company logo on the top or sides. * Yes, I was paid to build the desk. Don't ask how much. It was worth my time.

[EricHarshbarger via MAKE]

Hit the jump to see it in action. But at $89, it's actually much cheaper than LEGOs are now compared with when we were kids. What are they, like $250 a brick? They actually cut babies open when they swallow them now.

Product Page [Thinkgeek via Random Good Stuff]

But hey, I'm sure someone out there is super-psyched that they can wear the same hat to the job site as they can to the rodeo. Only $17, pardners. –Adam Frucci

Product Page [via Uberreview]

It's hard to say what the thing will look like after the gloss is put on, but we're sure it'll make that glass cube look like a glass cube...of lesser quality. Am I right, ladies? – Jason Chen

Inside The MePa Apple Store Site [Racked]