Hasta La Gadget!

Artist and writer Josh Adams caused a mathemagical wave of retweets when he posted his fiancé’s Jake the Dog engagement ring. I hope it’s actually Jake.

Best of luck to you and your Lady Rainicorn Josh!

[via Josh Adams]

Fashionably Geek reader Kevin Pacheco had Konami’s transcendent cheat code tattooed on his arm.

Apparently the images of the buttons and directional pads are the same size as the ones on the NES controller.

I wonder what kind of cheat codes we’ll have in the future, when games run on virtual reality headsets and gesture-based controllers.

[via Fashionably Geek]

Have you ever wished you could capture your pet and train them as your Pokémon? Then take a look at these 3″ Pokéball replicas. Really, just look at them, because that’s all they’re good for. They don’t even open. They’re really shiny though.

These Pokéballs are made not by the Poké Mart but by a shop called Pallet Town Exports. They will be available in six types, but for now the shop only has images of the regular Pokéball, the Premiere Ball and the Ultra Ball. The other three will be replicas of the Master Ball and Luxury Ball, plus a 1.5″ version of the regular Pokéball.

As you can see in the images, the replicas have light-up switches and can be customized with either a clean or battle-worn look. Do Pokéballs battle?

Choose your wallet and go to Pallet Town Exports to order. If you want to be the very poorest trainer that ever was, you can also order the shop’s trainer belt replicas.

[via Albotas]

Final Fantasy VII was the first game in the FF series to have 3D graphics. Those graphics probably look laughable now, but the squished low polygon rendering of the characters make for really adorable figurines. Look! It’s freakin’ Biggs and Wedge! Well, Gaia’s Biggs and Wedge.

The figurines were designed by Joaquin Baldwin and are printed using full color sandstone. All of the main heroes are included along with some of the villains and many of the secondary characters, including Sephiroth, Zack Fair, a Moogle, a Chocobo and the Turks.

Ride on Cid’s airship and head to Shapeways to order the figurines. They cost between $13 to $32 (USD) each. One funny thing about this set is that Joaquin seems to have priced each figure based on the amount of material needed to print it. This means Cait Sith and the Chocobo are the priciest ones, even though Cloud, Sephiroth and many others in the set are more popular than those two. The cheapest of course is Barrett’s kid Marlene.

[via Kotaku]

Redditor anders202 built a boombox that’s perfect for summer parties. It’s called the Boominator, a solar-powered boombox that was designed by diyAudio member Saturnus back in 2007. Unlike its battery-devouring ancestors, the Boominator not only runs on free energy, it also gathers and converts enough solar power to charge mobile devices.

Anders202′s Boominator is powered by an Indeed TA2020 2 x 12W amplifier and two 10W solar panels. It has two P.Audio HP-10W subwoofers and two Monacor MPT-001 piezo-electric tweeters on each side, so it can make people sweat whether it’s behind or in front of them. Anders202 says that with eight hours of sunlight, the Boominator can play for six hours at 100% volume and still have enough power left in its 12v battery to fully charge an iPhone 3 times. The only downside to the Boominator is that it weighs about 66 pounds Then again, I weigh over twice as much as the Boominator and I’m not even half as useful.

Check out the Boominator Wiki, Saturnus’ original guide or anders202′s image-filled walkthrough if you want to make your own Boominator.

[via Hack A Day]