Hasta La Gadget!

We recently saw the High Roller, which is a Big Wheel for adults. It was big, but not this big. This Big Wheel is truly enormous. Like “Get the hell out of my way!” big.

This massive custom built Big Wheel is being sat upon by commercial and music video director Keith Schofield. Imagine the drifting he could do on this beast. The horns are a nice touch. You would need them for sure, to make sure that others get out of your way as you barrel down a hill, gaining speed. He built this crazy thing for a commercial he directed recently for car maker Škoda. You can see it in the clip at about 15 seconds in:

Great job, Keith. You are the kind of man who makes dreams come true for all of us big kids.

[via Nerdcore via Obvious Winner]

Is this custom Sega Genesis controller with a sweet NES design awesome or sacrilege? I can’t decide. In my mind, the NES was so much more awesome than the Genesis. I do love them both though. So I guess I love this controller.

It just looks slick. Amazingly slick. It’s a controller from an alternate dimension. Can you imagine what the matching console would look like? This is the work of Zoki64 and if you are reading this, Please make a custom Genesis to go with this.

Awesome work my friend. Clearly he forced both consoles to make love and then snatched one of their offspring. I see no other explanation for such an amazing controller.

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We’ve already seen an intricate cake that replicates Jupiter, but here’s a space-inspired cake that lands a little closer to home. This lunar landing cake needs to fly off of its orbit around Earth and crash land on my dinner table.

This Moon cake was made a couple of years ago by Deborah over at It’s a piece of cake for her son’s 10th birthday. Lucky kid. The cake does a great job simulating the cratered surface of the natural satellite, and has a couple of little astronauts there ready to plant the American flag and to collect some buttercream frosting samples. Unlike our actual moon, this one is filled with chocolate fudge cake with white chocolate chips. I consider that a major improvement over rock.

So much for my low carb diet. I’m running out to buy a cake tonight.

[via It’s a piece of cake]

The scenes of Pandora in Avatar are still some of the most impressive naturalistic CGI worlds to ever grace the screen. Between the floating islands, the greenery, the waterfalls, and the exotic flora and fauna, it was really a visual spectacle. So when I saw that somebody had attempted to create the lush world of Pandora in their aquarium, I didn’t know if it could be done.

What you’re looking at here is an incredible recreation of the world of Pandora – inside a fish tank. It was created by a DIYer in China, and it replicates the lush green feel of the planet, albeit underwater.

Yeah, the plants look a little like floating broccoli, but the most impressive part of the tiny world is the waterfall effect – which I had no idea you could do underwater. Basically, it’s done with very fine sand being pumped into a trough and recirculated back to the top after it falls. Neat. Here’s a diagram which gives you an idea of how it works:

You can see more info on how to build underwater waterfalls here, but the site is in Chinese, so you’ll want to enable translation. Personally, I’d like it translated into Na’vi.

[via Reddit via The Grue]

Mona – an artist type human – makes what she calls Pokémayans: drawings of Pokémon that are supposedly done in the style of ancient Mayan art. The name fooled me into thinking that I’d see Pokémon crossed with the Wayans brothers, but I guess this one’s aight too.  If you browse Mona’s blog you’ll see that she significantly improved her Pokémayan style, culminating in her wonderful take on Gyarados.

Mona accepts commissions for Pokémayans and other Mayan-style art. She also put up her Gyarados illustration as a T-shirt design on Threadless, so vote for it if you want one.

[via Nerd Approved]