Hasta La Gadget!

We’ve seen a website dedicated to videogame logos and another one obsessed with start screens. Redditor RudeBottie has another similarly niche collection of videogame assets: its devoted to the background scene in fighting games. While it’s nowhere near complete you can still lose hours just staring at the collection, because they’re presented as animated .gifs:

According to Redditor horse_you_rode_in_on, RudeBootie’s collection includes backgrounds from 16- and 32-bit fighting games, namely Street Fighter 2: Super Turbo, Street Fighter: Alpha 3, Street Fighter: Third Strike, The Art of Fighting, Last Blade, Garou: Mark of the Wolves, King of Fighters, Samurai Showdown and Vampire Savior.

Check out more of these awesome animations in the gallery below:

Dat shark. Quarter circle forward forward left click to Imgur to see all of RudeBootie’s images.

[via Reddit via The Fox is Black]

So I have to admit I’m a bit of a gambler. Not that I play all the time, but when I’m in Vegas, all bets are on. And even know I know the odds are dramatically stacked against me, I occasionally still play the slots. Now here’s a slot machine that I’d definitely pump some quarters into (if you still pumped quarters into slot machines.)

This rare “Limited Heisenberg Edition Breaking Bad Slot Machine” turned up recently over on Etsy, and according to its seller, it’s one of just five ever made.

It offers special reels which portray characters from the show (as well as the winnebago meth lab), and has sound samples from the show when you win. Yes, it says things like “I am the one who knocks” and “Say my name.” Though it doesn’t say anything about taking a trip to Belize. And if you get three Saul Goodmans, he’ll bail you out with free spins.

Check it out in action in the short video clip below:

My favorite part is how it plays the theme music when you open the front of the machine. I’m going to guess this isn’t officially licensed Breaking Bad merch, so if you want it, you might want to move quick. Besides the fact, there’s only five of them in existence. It’s available up on HeisenbergLabs’ Etsy shop for $1299 (USD), plus another $199 for shipping in the U.S.

A couple of years ago we looked at a couple of film cameras that you had to assemble before you could use them. The Bigshot camera is just like those cameras, except it’s digital and has a companion website that includes a lot of related information. The idea is to introduce people of all ages not just to photography but to technology in general.

The Bigshot digital camera kit comes with all of the parts and tools you need to build and process your photos, including a screwdriver, a micro-USB to USB cable and a pair of 3D glasses. That’s right, once you’ve put it together you can use the camera to take 3D images as well as panoramic shots to go with the normal mode. The camera has an internal battery that you recharge using the cable, but it also has a dynamo and a hand crank so you can power it yourself. It also has a free software for processing and sharing images.

But as I said earlier, the kit is only half of the Bigshot’s appeal. Its website has dozens of pages of helpful and easy to understand articles related to the camera. There are pages explaining the science behind the parts, an assembly guide and more. The articles make it a lot easier and fun to learn while you assemble and use the camera.

You can order the Bigshot camera from its official website for $89 (USD). I wish Ben Heck or some other modder would release a similar kit for a gaming device.

[via NOTCOT]

Nintendo remade The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker in high definition for their sinking ship the Wii U. Nerdache Cakes on the other hand remade the game’s characters in edible 3D. Her lucky customer had cel shading and ate it.

Nerdache Cakes said that “the whole ship is cake, while the King of Red Lions is carved foam and chocolate.” Mmmm, foam.

Sail to Nerdache Cakes’ blog or Facebook page to see large versions of the images. You can also check out work in progress shots of the cake on the shop’s Instagram page.

[via Endless Geyser of Awesome]

Humans are slowly turning into walking billboards. Beards and thighs have already been turned into prime advertising spaces. The next body part to become a billboard might just be your earlobes. Or rather, what’s hanging off of your lobes, that is, if you happen to be wearing the Video Earrings.

Its creators have skipped the fancy naming for now, because you get exactly what the name implies. Each earring will have a dangling 2″x1″ screen with a built-in rechargeable battery. It can apparently display slideshows and stream videos for 4-8 hours on a full charge, while recharging only requires an hour.

The Video Earrings can be charged up and loaded with files via USB. Its creators plan to release three capacities for the earrings, 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB for $200, $249, and $300, respectively. However, it’s still up for funding right on Indiegogo, where you can get your very own pair by pledging at least $150. The project still has a way to go to hit its modest $10,000 fundraising goal, so for now you might just have to clip some iPod nanos to your ears instead.

[via C|NET]