Hasta La Gadget!

Artists, it’s time to transmute your skills into fame, treasure and a trip to Blizzard’s headquarters. The game developer has teamed up with the online community deviantART to set up the Diablo III: Reaper of Souls fan art contest. To enter, you have to make “a portrait or illustration showing a central figure from one of the six classes of Heroes of Sanctuary or of Malthael preparing for the coming conflict.”

The first place winner gets a two night trip to Blizzard’s office in California, $5,000 (USD), a signed copy of Diablo III: Reaper of Souls Collector’s Edition, 1-year Premium membership to DeviantART, 8,000 DeviantART points and will have his or her winning entry printed and signed by the Diablo III Creative Team.

The contest is open to all deviantART members who are at least 17 years-old. Open a portal to deviantART to find out more about the contest.

Gremlins was one of my all-time favorite childhood movies. It featured just the right proportion of slapstick humor, gore and action for a teenage boy. In tribute to this classic popcorn flick, one talented artist has created a fully-functional puppet version of Stripe, one of the eponymous gremlins.

RPF contributor Batgremlin built this DIY gremlin using cast flexible foam, and built mechanical moving arms with articulating fingers, and even moving eyeballs for the little green dude. Check him out in action in the video below – my favorite part is when the puppeteers are revealed against the greenscreen.

Batgremlin doesn’t share too many details on how he built it, but I’m betting he made a Gizmo puppet first, then fed it after midnight.

[via The RPF]

You’ve probably seen iPhone cases shaped like chocolate bars. These on the other hand, are chocolate bars shaped like an iPhone case.

They are made by two Portland-based companies. Woodblock Chocolate supplied the bars of dark chocolate and iPhone and iPad accessory maker Grove machined the bars into cases. I know the Internet wants to get its hands on anything absurd, but the two companies have more sense than that and won’t be selling the tasty, but highly impractical cases.

[via Craziest Gadgets]

It’s bedtime, so get in your medieval pajamas, lower the drawbridge and open the gate. This castle-style Murphy bed is from Etsy seller Tiny Town Studios and comes with hand carved fake stones, chain beams, and even faux moss and vines. 

It looks awesome and I envy the kid who gets to sleep in this fold-out bed. Though I’m wondering if this means that you are sleeping over the moat. Don’t roll out of bed or you might get a surprise.

The castle Murphy bed sells for $3,500(USD). The shop can also make a pirate ship bed or a spaceship bed, or just about anything else you can dream up if this isn’t your thing.

[via Geekologie via Nerd Approved]

Show off your love for retro gaming with this animated pixel art frame. Similar to the Pixel and Pixel V2, Game Frame is a digital canvas that can be loaded up with hundreds of your favorite 8-bit video game characters and symbols. Time to show off some 8-bit art in your home.

Basically the frame is a grid of 256 ultra-bright LED pixels, for showing off all kinds of geek art. In fact, Game Frame comes with over 40 brand new animations from eBoy. The hardware is Arduino-based, and the complete source code will be released once they ship. Thousands of images & animations can be stored on SD and played back the way you want, configured by two buttons on top.

While it’s not as high resolution as the Pixel, there’s something to be said for the chunky square LED pixels on the Game Frame.

A pledge of at least $230(USD) will get you a completely assembled Game Frame, while you can pick up a kit version with all components but the frame for $150, or without the LEDs for $60.

[via This is Why I’m Broke]