Hasta La Gadget!

The tower of Pringles cans you’re looking at here isn’t the remnants of a week-long gaming marathon (though it could be). Instead, it’s a fully-functional musical instrument – assuming that you like slightly off-key, strange sounding tunes.

The functional sculpture was made by Brooklyn music production company Fall on Your Sword. It’s made of almost 250 green, red and yellow Pringles cans – and was rigged to play sounds when the containers are pressed on. It’s not clear how it works, but it sounds like it uses recorded sound samples, not steam. Here, check it out:

Okay, it’s not exactly the most ear-pleasing sound, but imagine what it would have sounded like if the cans still had potato chips in them.

[via designboom]

This officially-licensed Star Trek beer is called Warnog. It is not nearly as strong as Klingon bloodwine, but then again, humans can’t handle that. Still, it does go good with a nice moving plate full of Gagh.

This drink fit for warriors comes from the Tin Man Brewing Company in Evansville, Indiana. It has been described as a blend of “rye malt with a traditional clove character.” Drink enough and you will see Kahless, the first warrior king of the Klingon people. Drink too much and you may enter Sto’Vo’Kor.

The beer will be officially unveiled today apparently at the Nightclub & Bar Show in Las Vegas. Remember, never drink and drive a Klingon bird of prey.

[via Neatorama]

Zombies crave brains not beer. However, if they did drink beer, they wouldn’t drink just any beer. They would want a beer with some brains. Real brains. They would want Dock Street Brewing Company’s Walker.

This beer is brewed with real brains. Cranberries too. Presumably to hide that brain taste when humans try to drink it. They use smoked goat brains in what is otherwise a fairly standard American pale stout. I always knew it took brains to brew a good beer.

And since zombies have different tolerances than mere humans, this pale stout is 7.2% ABV, or about 50% more potent than most American beers. So after a few drinks you will be walking like a zombie yourself.

If you want one of the first bottles of Walker, you’ll need to head to Dock Street Brewing for their The Walking Dead season finale party on March 30th in Philly.

[via Thrillist via Geek]

Eating a slice of pizza on the go isn’t the neatest option on the menu. But it’s technically a quick meal on the go, and if you’ve gotta eat, you gotta eat.

Aiming to make eating pizza less of a mess is KonoPizza.

With over 130 locations worldwide, KonoPizza serves up pizza in a cone in all sorts of outrageous flavors, including the likes of Tiramisu pizza that’s filled with cream, biscuit and coffee syrup. There’s also the breakfast-in-a-cone pizza called Pancetta Prima that’s filled with eggs, bacon, and cheese. If you’re not as adventurous, you can go for the usual pizza toppings as your cone fillings, like cheese, sausage, and ham. Plus, each KonoPizza is portion-controlled, so they’re actually pretty low in calories and fat.

So far, there are only a couple of U.S. locations of Kono Pizza, including one in Edison, New Jersey, and another opening very soon in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Mmm-hmm!

[via Food Beast]

A lot of people out there really enjoy brewing their own beer. There are plenty of kits out there that make it easy to make your own brew and get drunk without having to trek down to the convenience store. If your preferred drink is wine, the process of making your own drink is a bit more challenging.

A company has turned up with a device they call The Miracle Machine that promises to turn your water into wine at home. This device isn’t performing a real miracle; rather it is using technology and some raw ingredients to speed up the creation of wine. In addition to water, you’ll need grape concentrate, yeast, and a sachet of other ingredients – all of which its maker is happy to sell you for about $10 a month.

The hardware has an array of sensors along with heaters, pumps, and transducers inside a large carafe device. You put in the water and other raw ingredients to make your preferred type of wine. Inside the device is an Arduino controller which syncs with a mobile app to tell you all you need to know about making the wine and keeping an eye on your wine as it ferments.

Its makers say that you can buy kits to make a full bottle of wine with about $2 worth of ingredients, though it’ll take a while for the $499 Miracle Machine to pay for itself. The Miracle Machine will go on sale via a Kickstarter project. If you’re interested in learning when it’s available for pre-order, you can sign up here.