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How to Solve the Rubik Cube in Six-Seconds Flat
We are very big fans of Rubik's Magic Cube, even while
humor
Indian Firefox Bus Probably Doesn't Have Wi-Fi
In what appears to be the endless spread of Firefox, a new addition to the unofficial Firefox catalog has been spotted—in India. On the back of a bus. We're guessing the bus doesn't have on board Wi-Fi to make use of its web browser of choice, but we admire the support. Also, if that text in yellow above the artwork doesn't read "Safari and IE blow", well, then we'll eat our cats...I'm seriously mixing up my modern proverbs this weekend. Dammit. [Neatorama]
fun
Since the Tahoe snowboarding meetup was such a success, we're gonna do something similar over on the east coast. Specifically, in NYC. Right now, I'm thinking it would be a blast to go to a Brooklyn Cyclones game at Coney Island, either preceded or followed by some good beer drinking/hot dog eating/roller coaster riding. Anyone interested? Have better ideas for a NYC meetup?
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Who's Up for a NYC Gizmodo Meetup at Coney Island This Summer?
Since the Tahoe snowboarding meetup was such a success, we're gonna do something similar over on the east coast. Specifically, in NYC. Right now, I'm thinking it would be a blast to go to a Brooklyn Cyclones game at Coney Island, either preceded or followed by some good beer drinking/hot dog eating/roller coaster riding. Anyone interested? Have better ideas for a NYC meetup?
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Ever looked around your office and thought "surely there's a better way than this soulless cubicle hell?" Well, there probably isn't. Unless you happen to work for Google in their Swiss HQ, that is. Because, frankly, their new office is awe-inspiringly amazing: it's an exercise in lateral-thinking, creativity-run-wild interior design. Slides to the canteen, cable-car meeting rooms, beanbags, fake snow, a multitude of colors. Check it out... you'll be as filled with envy as an envious person with a degree in enviousness.
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Google's Zurich HQ: Office Fun For Everyone... Who Works There, Anyway
Ever looked around your office and thought "surely there's a better way than this soulless cubicle hell?" Well, there probably isn't. Unless you happen to work for Google in their Swiss HQ, that is. Because, frankly, their new office is awe-inspiringly amazing: it's an exercise in lateral-thinking, creativity-run-wild interior design. Slides to the canteen, cable-car meeting rooms, beanbags, fake snow, a multitude of colors. Check it out... you'll be as filled with envy as an envious person with a degree in enviousness.
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Visit the Apple Store, Get Laid
Holy crap! Cosmopolitan Magazine—never mind why I was reading it—has just published an article saying the Apple Store is the hottest haunt to pick up dashing young chaps. That means hordes of the Cosmopolitan Magazine reading public are off to their local Apple Store to search for trendy geeks like you. It makes no sense to us either, but don't look a gift horse in the mouth, lad. This may well blow your mind, but here's the situation; you may get to talk to a hot girl. Shocking, we know. Checkout Cosmopolitan's reasoning about the Apple Store after the jump. More »
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Oh man, do I like this table. Sure, it provides a flat surface for eating or working on like most tables, but it also has marble tracks carved into it. That means that when you get bored of your meal/job, you can put marbles in the top and watch them follow an elaborate path around the legs and down to the ground. Call me a simpleton, but this thing would keep me entertained for an embarrassing amount of time. [Product Page via NotCot]
Marbelous Table Provides Fun and Distraction in Marble Form
Oh man, do I like this table. Sure, it provides a flat surface for eating or working on like most tables, but it also has marble tracks carved into it. That means that when you get bored of your meal/job, you can put marbles in the top and watch them follow an elaborate path around the legs and down to the ground. Call me a simpleton, but this thing would keep me entertained for an embarrassing amount of time. [Product Page via NotCot]
hacks
Give WiFi Leechers Computer Rage With Executable Command Fun
WiFi leechers can be a real pain in the ass; they'd happily eat up your bandwidth even if you told them your life depended on it, which given our social existence, it pretty much does. The guys over at Ex Parrot have come up with a great plan to serve up some ice cold revenge to the culprits, which will have their browser displaying characters back-to-front, upside down or in an annoyingly blurred out fashion. You'll have to run some commands to get your pay back, but the how to makes it a cinch. Let us know if you hear any sounds of outrage from the sponging neighbors. Heh, serves them right. [Ex Parrot via Hack n Mod]
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Oral Sex Light Illuminates Your Dongle
The product is called the Oral Sex Light. We're not too sure much of an explanation is needed, but if you still don't get it, there's a completely NSFW explanation image after the jump. More »
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It being Christmas Eve, it's pretty cold and even snowy in many parts of the country. That's why I'd like to present to you a video that'll make you pine for the warm sun of summer. A bunch of people created giant slip-and-slides that ended with big jumps pointed towards a lake. What resulted looks like so much fun I can't adequately put it into words. Sure, a few people in this video undoubtedly ended up with seriously red bellies after their jumps, but it looks so worth it. As to the folks who organized it, according to the video it was some equity group. The website doesn't even mention any crazy events like this. I'm confused. [YouTube]
Giant Slip-n-Slides Turn Into Huge Jumps, Make Me Miss the Summer
It being Christmas Eve, it's pretty cold and even snowy in many parts of the country. That's why I'd like to present to you a video that'll make you pine for the warm sun of summer. A bunch of people created giant slip-and-slides that ended with big jumps pointed towards a lake. What resulted looks like so much fun I can't adequately put it into words. Sure, a few people in this video undoubtedly ended up with seriously red bellies after their jumps, but it looks so worth it. As to the folks who organized it, according to the video it was some equity group. The website doesn't even mention any crazy events like this. I'm confused. [YouTube]
master blaster
Deluxe Laser Challenge Pro Set Lets You Pew Pew Pew Till You Can Pew No More
If you're going to wage war on your fellow cubicle jockeys, then there are worse ways to do it than using the Deluxe Laser Challenge Pro Set—take it from me, stapling my boss's ear to the office notice board didn't win me any influential new friends when I worked the phones at the Acme Sex Chat Co. One pack consists of two blasters, to each of which you can add on a barrel extender and a scope. You can play it as a lone wolf in Deathmatch mode, and Team Play allows for two lots of gladiators to blast hell out each other. There's a how-to (zap your colleagues) video after the jump, plus price and a bit more info. More »
gadgets
Alu Sled Shock-Absorbs Your Butt on Bumpy Downhill Slopes
In the world of snow fun, there are sleds, there are tea-trays and there are even plastic bin bags (if you are a suicidal sledger, as I was in my teenage years). And then there is this, the Alu sled. Built from aluminum, the shock-absorbent silver slider has plastic runners, a handbrake, and packs up into a sexy little carry case when you're done tobogganing (see below).
weapons
Nerf Sniper Rifle is Three Feet of Fun
The Nerf N-Strike Longshot CS-6, to give it its full name, is the kind of blaster gun that your kid would kill for. It's also the kind of thing that would be a gift in name only, because, any child will have problems prying it out of a parent's hands once unwrapped. And it works just as well at close range as it does on long targets: More »
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Bored Construction Workers Turn a Digger Into a Dangerous Carnival Ride
This is what happens when you mix boredom with heavy machinery: the digger swing. Sure, it's terribly dangerous, but it does look fun. At least it looks safer than the industrial robot arm ride. [Spulch]
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Holy crap, this is the coolest umbrella I've ever seen. It's got a little funnel at the top that sends rain water down the handle into the water pistol grip at the bottom. It'll keep you dry and give you the opportunity to get others wet at the same time. It appears to be just a concept at the moment, but someone needs to make some phone calls and get it into production right now. I'm not kidding, go. Now. Check a picture of it in action after the jump.
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Water Pistol Umbrella Makes the Rain a Hell of a Lot More Fun
Holy crap, this is the coolest umbrella I've ever seen. It's got a little funnel at the top that sends rain water down the handle into the water pistol grip at the bottom. It'll keep you dry and give you the opportunity to get others wet at the same time. It appears to be just a concept at the moment, but someone needs to make some phone calls and get it into production right now. I'm not kidding, go. Now. Check a picture of it in action after the jump.
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slip and slide
First up, you have to wait for them to go on holiday. The rest is easy. It's not quite as long as this one, but it looks a lot scarier. [YouTube via Spluch]
How to Mod your Parents' House into a 60-Foot Slip 'n' Slide
First up, you have to wait for them to go on holiday. The rest is easy. It's not quite as long as this one, but it looks a lot scarier. [YouTube via Spluch]
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Towering Luckey Climbers Playgrounds Make Me Wish I Was a Kid Again
Luckey and Luckey make some of the sweetest "playgrounds" I've ever seen, multi-story contraptions with tons of netting and platforms that jut out, allowing the tykes to climb up and around all over the place. They look like some fancy architecture or a sculpture as much as they look like objects for kids to climb on, which is probably why so many of them are built in children's museums. They should make some adult-sized versions; I'm not too old to enjoy a good climb.
[Product Page via NotCot]
ye olde pinneballe wizard
Medieval Pinball Machine Made out of Lego
And fie, a-surffing on ye internette, a pinneballe machyne of Leggoe did I espye. Set yorre eyyes pon yonder gallerye. Morre picture lykkeness will ye finde on TechEBlog. [TechEBlog]
