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You’ve probably seen iPhone cases shaped like chocolate bars. These on the other hand, are chocolate bars shaped like an iPhone case.

They are made by two Portland-based companies. Woodblock Chocolate supplied the bars of dark chocolate and iPhone and iPad accessory maker Grove machined the bars into cases. I know the Internet wants to get its hands on anything absurd, but the two companies have more sense than that and won’t be selling the tasty, but highly impractical cases.

[via Craziest Gadgets]

The world is full of dangers and you have to be prepared – especially when it comes to zombies. The Zombie Apocalypse Survival Cabinet will make sure that you stay alive long after all of your best buddies are slow-walking brain eaters.

It might be best to be among the dead, but if you are brave enough, this will keep you alive. This Wolfram cabinet comes full of all the stuff that you’ll need to survive and function; everything from food to camping supplies to medical supplies to tools and weapons.

You get over 170 items in the $14,500 kit (full inventory list here). The durable double steel-walled cabinet measures 43” (W) x 65” (H) x 18” (D) and should hold up to just about anything you can throw at at.

Kill ‘em dead whenever you see them and stay alive. Where there is life, there is hope. Stay safe my friends.

[via This Is Why I’m Broke]

If you think Flappy Bird is hard, wait ’til you play it in first-person. Er, from a flappy bird’s eye view. Game designer Holden Link made Floculus Bird, a variant of the hit mobile game designed to be played with the Oculus Rift.

Holden made the game as part of the Flappy Jam, a game jam set up to show support for Flappy Bird developer Don Nguyen, who was recently subjected to a lot of harassment and negative attention because of his game. Here’s YouTuber Shinxypaps trying out Floculus Bird.

WARNING: He cusses in the video. A lot. I think you know why:

Flap to Holden’s website to play the game on your browser or to download it for free. You don’t need an Oculus Rift to play the game on your browser, but you do need to have the Unity web player installed.

[via PSFK]

Show off your love for retro gaming with this animated pixel art frame. Similar to the Pixel and Pixel V2, Game Frame is a digital canvas that can be loaded up with hundreds of your favorite 8-bit video game characters and symbols. Time to show off some 8-bit art in your home.

Basically the frame is a grid of 256 ultra-bright LED pixels, for showing off all kinds of geek art. In fact, Game Frame comes with over 40 brand new animations from eBoy. The hardware is Arduino-based, and the complete source code will be released once they ship. Thousands of images & animations can be stored on SD and played back the way you want, configured by two buttons on top.

While it’s not as high resolution as the Pixel, there’s something to be said for the chunky square LED pixels on the Game Frame.

A pledge of at least $230(USD) will get you a completely assembled Game Frame, while you can pick up a kit version with all components but the frame for $150, or without the LEDs for $60.

[via This is Why I’m Broke]

Last year we saw a 24-foot long print that depicts the history of Doctor Who, which was inspired by the mysterious Bayeux Tapestry. The talented pop artist Aled Lewis was also inspired by the relic to make an illustrated history, this time of Star Wars. But instead of drawing it he decided to hand-stitch the entire thing.

Aled calls his creation The Coruscant Tapestry. Yes, it’s not actually a tapestry, nor is it from Coruscant, but you can say the exact same thing about the Bayeux Tapestry. The whole thing is 30ft. long and 13in. tall. and relays the first six episodes of Star Wars. Along the borders of the strip Aled inscribed quotes from the movies in Aurebesh, the alphabet that was invented for the Star Wars universe.

The Coruscant Tapestry is currently on display at Gallery1988 in Los Angeles, California, but you can take it home for $20,000 (USD). Check out the gallery’s blog to see larger images of the piece.

[via Boing Boing]