Hasta La Gadget!

If the Alien films taught us anything it was never to look into the top of an open alien egg. You know a facehugger will hop out and puke itself down your throat. ThinkGeek now has a perfect gift idea for fans of the Alien franchise.

The inside of this replica alien egg glows with an eerie green light and has a little facehugger sitting there inside. The egg itself has open flaps and is designed to look like the one Ripley discovers in the films. The coolest part of this egg is that once you trick your friends into checking out the shiny lights, you can press a button on the front of the egg and a facehugger shoots out at them.

The egg is 4.5 inches-tall and the facehugger is 8 inches-long. The Alien egg is available now for $29.99(USD) over at ThinkGeek. It’s too bad you can’t launch the facehugger with a motion sensor or remote control of some sort. Time to start hacking…

Xenomorph eggs are an exotic treat. Normally you can only find them on the menus of restaurants on far flung planets, but now they have come to Earth. Chris-Rachael from Kitchen Overlord has a how-to on making them if you are craving an alien treat.

These little pretzel rolls make very authentic looking Alien xenomorph eggs, with a hints of green inside. We’ve only posted a pic of the finished product, but you can find full instructions and the recipe right here.

It’s a tasty pretzel treat for sure, and deadly too. Make sure that you eat them all. You wouldn’t want them to hatch and turn into facehuggers.

[via The Mary Sue]

Fans of Game of Thrones who love Daenerys Targaryen can put some really cool looking eggs in their Easter basket thanks to Jacquie LongLegs. She made her Easter eggs to look just like the dragon eggs in the HBO series.

This only makes more sense as the Game of Thrones Season 3 premiere is coming this Easter Sunday. Hopefully they don’t really hatch baby dragons, because they would eat your Easter candy for one and make a mess of your house.

You can make these super cool eggs too. She shows you how it’s done in this short video. All you need are some styrofoam eggs, thumb tacks and acrylic or spray paint.

You will have the geekiest (and pokiest) Easter basket ever. You’d better get busy.

[via Neatorama]

As we already know LEGO robots can do all sorts of things, both useful and useless. This particular build falls into that latter category – unless you consider solving the completing the silly Tamago Egg app to be a good expense of time and energy.

For those of you unfamiliar with Tamago, it’s a smartphone app that simply involves tapping on the screen in order to crack open a virtual egg and see what’s inside. Oh, did I happen to mention you need to tap it 1 million times? This sounds like a job for a robot!

That’s exactly what LEGO NXT builder Jan Gerritsen created with his motorized Mindstorms NXT contraption, designed with a single purpose – to endlessly tap on the screen of his smartphone so he can finally see what’s inside the egg. Here, check it out:

If that Britney/will.i.am jam has to be stuck in my head, you have to deal with it too. I like how there’s a second iPhone sitting there whose sole purpose is to time the other one.

Anyhow, according to Jan’s math, the generally useless ‘bot will need 37 hours to tap 1 million times, and crack open the Tamago Egg once and for all. It’s not quite done yet, but while we wait, Jan recommends that we drink beer and eat some M&Ms. I couldn’t agree with him more.

It’s really embarrassing how many sleepless nights I’ve had due to my brain synapsing and wondering whether the chicken or the egg came first. I flip, I flop, I twist, I turn—it’s definitely a good brain exercise. But after watching ASAP Science definitively answer the question of which came first—the chicken or the egg—I can now sleep in peace. More »