Hasta La Gadget!

Ok, so it’s officially being called a “tin tote,” but I’d totally bring my lunch to school or work in this Dexter lunchbox if I didn’t work from home.

Bif Bang Pow! will be releasing this Dexter tote just in time for San Diego Comic-Con – and for the final season of the show. It’s modeled after Dexter’s window air conditioner and even comes with a wooden slide tray and “blood” slides. It also comes with a posable 3-3/4″ tall Dexter action figure, complete with blood spattered shirt (he’d never be so sloppy), an ID badge and a camera. As a bonus, it includes a talking keychain which repeats phrases from the show.

You can pre-order the Dexter tin tote/lunchbox over at Entertainment Earth for $49.99(USD).

While I’d personally love to have a full-size Aliens Power Loader exoskeleton suit, I don’t think I have enough room to store it in my garage. This little LEGO model is the next best thing, and you can win one, thanks to our friends at Ichiban Toys, and our new website, MightyMega.

This 146 piece LEGO model is based on the Caterpillar P-5000 Powered Work Loader, and features posable arms and claws, along with many other details which help make it an accurate representation of the one seen piloted by Ripley in Aliens. While all of the components are official LEGO parts, many of them are rare and difficult to find. The completed model measures about 4.5 inches-tall, and will look great sitting on your shelf alongside an Alien Queen action figure. It even comes with the little Ripley action figure shown in the image.

You can find more pictures of the Aliens Power Loader model over on MightyMega, and you can enter the contest below:

Contest ends 5/19/2013 at 11:59 PM CDT. Approximate Retail Value of prize is $59.99(USD)

Many thanks to Ichiban Toys for the awesome prize. Be sure to check out their site for all sorts of other cool custom LEGO models.

A die-hard Legend of Zelda fan saw the wisdom in using the power of 3D printing to bring the game’s items to life. He also has the courage to sell the items despite the looming threat of Nintendo’s octorok lawyers. He calls his endeavor the Hyrule Foundry. I like to call it the Nintendo 3DP.

The potions are still being finalized and the arrows are in the wrong color, but otherwise the Hyrule Foundry features all 32 items from the classic adventure game, from the Wooden Sword to the Ladder to the Book of Magic. A bonus consequence of the Hyrule Foundry is that we now have an exchange rate for Rupees. One Rupee is $12 (USD). But for some reason two Rupees are worth $18. Hmmm. Hylian math is weird.

You can read more about the Hyrule Foundry on its official blog. If you can’t go alone without these items any longer, you can buy them at the Hyrule Foundry shop on Shapeways. They’re quite expensive though – the cheapest one is $4 for two arrows; the entire set sells for $320(USD).

[via Kotaku]

I’ve seen some offbeat projects turn up on Kickstarter over the years, but a project that’s there now called Glowing Plants is one of the strangest. You can probably figure out what the project is about simply from the name. The people behind the project want to create plants that glow to provide natural lighting with no electricity.

That sounds like something right out of Avatar. Exactly how the people are genetically creating glowing plants is rather difficult to describe. All you really need to know is that if you choose to back the project over on Kickstarter, you can get seeds to grow your own glowing plants.

The project was initially seeking to raise only $65,000(USD). With 28 days left to go, the project has blown through its goal, raising over $295,000 to date.

A pledge of $40 or more will get you your own package of glowing plant seeds. The specific plant is an Arabidopsis. A $150 pledge will land you an already growing plant. If at least $400,000 is raised, people who pledge $150 or more will get you a glowing rose as well. If you pledge $250 or more, you can get your own DIY kit allowing you to make any of your plants at home glow.

Watching this video of this guy making his own model of the Starship Enterprise D – then making it fly – is truly inspirational. It is a fully functional R/C model. It’s even illuminated by super bright LEDs and fiber optics. Honestly, I was in geek heaven watching this.

YouTuber TheMiro59 built this functional model of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D last year. It doesn’t fly perfectly, but it does fly. The video takes you through the build process and all of the test flights. The first flight is kind of funny as it nose dives into a net like it had been caught in a Tholian web – though after a while, he does get the hang of flying the decidedly less than aerodynamic starship.

Still, all I can say is this guy did an awesome job. The man believed it and lived the dream. Now somebody needs to start mass-producing these so we can all own one.

[via GeekTyrant]