Hasta La Gadget!

You all know Tim Burton as the only man on planet earth who can make an animated nine year-old child give a grown man nightmares.  (Yes, I’m talking about Frankenweenie.)  On an unrelated note, you probably also know a man named M. Night Shyamalan, who is the only guy who can put a (un-satisfying) twist ending into every single one of his movies.  Anyone see that movie Devil?  SPOILER: It was the old lady, who died almost halfway through the movie.

So sit back, relax, and enjoy these Pokemon characters drawn like Tim Burton would have imagined them.

These were done by a Tumblr guy named Hat Boy, who is currently drawing Pidgey in the style of Tim Burton.  (He’s just going in numerical order.)  The above is a rather mutated, frustrated Venusaur that the frightful person himself would approve of.  I’ll tell you what, though: if that came ouf of a Pokeball, I think you could win most battles by default.

This Tim Burton-like representation of Charmeleon is one of my favorites that HatBoy has created.  Why?  It reminds me of the two little guys from the Hercules Disney movie.  It also reminds me to plug in my nightlight, since I am now afraid of what I may find under my bed.  Hint: my bum brother-in-law wielding a pack of opened matches.

Here’s our little buddy Squirtle, complete with creepy dot nostrils characteristic of Tim Burton characters.  I’m done giving myself the heebie-jeebies, so you should probably go check out something else weird like the Q*bert Pillow.  Or, if you’re drawn more to the Pokemon side of things, take a look at these custom Pokemon onesies.  For adults.

[via Venture Beat]

This super awesome post was written by Jack, lead blogger at Cool Gizmo Toys.  Jack puts together lists to help geeks quickly find the stuff that they love, and has a free eBook that you can get today!

It’s the classic question mark icon from the Super Mario Bros. games. I’m not sure if its classy enough to be used to propose to someone, but it could come in handy in a fight. And you know how often us geeks get into fisticuffs right?

Each sterling silver question mark ring is made to order and it takes about 12-15 business days to be made.

You can order the ring from SmilingSilverSmith for $49 (USD). They also make other punctuation rings, in case you’re more of a Metal Gear fan.

[via Fancy]

So you just sold your entire videogame collection and you’re swimming in money. You already bought the Space Invaders wristwatch, but you’re still Scrooge McDuck! What to do? I suggest you add the official Pac-Man watch to your shopping list.

Romain Jerome – the same company who made the Space Invaders watch – teamed up with Namco to make four ever so slightly different Pac-Man watch designs each limited to just 20 pieces. I’m not sure why they didn’t just make 80 of the one above, because the other three variants all look inferior to it on account of having fewer Pac-Man characters. But I guess if all of them have parts made of “steel fused with parts of the Apollo 11″ and “low oxidation silver fused with moon rocks”, 8-bit icons are just a quirky bonus.

The watches will be exclusively launched at the Colette store in Paris starting September 3, followed by a wider availability on September 10. Each watch will be sold for $17,900 (USD). Wakka-wakka-WHAT?!?

[via Romain Jerome & Perpetuelle via HiConsumption]

The Pianocade is the embodiment of chiptune music. It’s a synthesizer that looks and works like an arcade controller, down to the analog joystick and token buttons.

But the Pianocade’s gamer theme isn’t just skin deep. It’s open source, hacker-friendly synthesizer board is based on the NES and Game Boy sound hardware, so it makes the monophonic pings and blips out of the box. Here’s a demo of the Pianocade’s features:

And here’s the Pianocade being used by Shaun Hatton aka Megashaun to play live:

Portmanteau Devices is selling one- and two-octave variants of the Pianocade; the former costs about $250 (USD) and the latter is about $350. You can also pre-order just the electronics for about $100.

Portmanteau Devices said that they will try to make the Pianocade also work as a USB game controller out of the box, but that’s not their priority right now. They did say that they might release a firmware update later on if they can’t do it by the time the device is released. Perhaps one of you clever hackers will even do the job for them.

[via Engadget]

Here’s your chance to be the Picard, Kirk or Janeway of your own USS Enterprise. It’s not a high tech starship, just a small remote-controlled plane, but let’s face it: if you suddenly found yourself on the NCC-1701-D, you and everyone in your crew might as well be wearing red shirts.

The plane was designed by RC enthusiast Dennis aka SGTalon. It’s made from foam and a glued-on skin. Dennis sells kits with all the ship’s parts and skin, but you’ll have to supply the other parts such as the rods and motor, and of course put them all together. The video below is a review of the kit courtesy of YouTuber joehandsome99. You can skip to about 3:05 to see it fly:

You can order the USS Enterprise RC kit from SGTalon for $22-$87 (USD). Not a Trekkie? Dennis also sells Cylon Raider and Imperial Destroyer kits.

[via ThisIsWhyImBroke]