So it might not be the best idea to make your little kids watch Rambo, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be able to dress like a commando. With the Crayon Bandolier, your youngun will be a young gun, toting around their colorful ammo.
Instead of bullets, this bandolier holds up to 24 crayons – for making art, not war. Perfect for members of the Crayola cartel, the Crayon Bandolier sells for $24.99(USD) over at ThinkGeek – including 24 crayons, including that oh so useful white one.
When you see cosplayers, sometimes you look beyond the beauty of their costumes and realize that many of these people combine art with sheer effort. Some costumes are not worn, but endured. I think I could say the same for this amazing GLaDOS cosplay by Athena Cole aka Enayla, who had herself suspended five feet off the ground to emulate the Portal villain’s appearance.
Enayla presented her cosplay at the 2013 PAX Prime and was so eye-catching that she had to be moved to another hall more suited to gawking at GLaDOS. Here’s a better look at her costume taken by Count3D, which includes the PVC structure that she’s hanging from.
On her blog, Enayla said she stayed up in 40 to 45 min. increments and took lots of breaks. By the end of the day, she reckons she spent a total of four and a half hours in GLaDOS’ nonexistent shoes. Here’s her in-costume interview with Invader Boom:
Enayla should use a voice modulator so she could talk like GLaDOS.
[via Invader Boom & Enayla Cosplay via Geekosystem]
If you avoid black cats like the plague and run to the opposite direction when you spot a ladder propped up against the wall, then you might want to buy yourself some Insta-Luck.
There’s a one in 10,000 chance that you’ll come across a four-leaf clover yourself (hence, the reason why it’s deemed as being incredibly lucky), so you might be spending more than a few hours on your hands and knees looking for one.
It kind of ruins the whole point of why four-leaf clovers are lucky, but if you need some help and have about 12 bucks to spare, then you can just buy some luck instead by getting an actual four-leaf clover in a jar. It’s literally luck packaged in a teeny tiny jar that’s hand-picked and grown in the US of A.
Insta-Luck is priced at $11.99(USD). Unfortunately, they’re currently sold out, so your luck will have to hold out until they have some more in stock.
[via Green Head]
We all want our own personal interdimensional portal, but you can’t find real ones just anywhere. And even if you do, you might get trapped in another dimension. So this one is much safer. This infinity mirror has a series of Arduino controlled LEDs that can change their color.
It looks pretty amazing. I bet real-world portals don’t look this cool. They probably don’t look like anything. I would ask someone who has seen one, but they are all gone. Never to be seen again. They should have just made one of these. So shiny and pretty.
If you want to learn how to make one for yourself, check out the instructables page by the mirror’s creator, Ben Finio.
[via Obvious Winner]
Brands, brands everywhere! If you’re tired of seeing brands and logos plastered on everything these days, then why not go generic? Chris did and he did it in the most unusual way possible when he threw a generic birthday party for his wife.
Staying true to his 100%-generic theme, Chris put up some boring decorations and balloons and set up some generic games, most of which were done up without color. Now, generic isn’t synonymous with colorless, but I guess Chris just wanted to make everything as basic as possible.
Chris explains: “My wife wanted a run-of-the-mill birthday party. I asked her, ‘So just a generic party?’ This is the result.”
Even the gift is wrapped in generic paper, although I’m pretty sure Chris didn’t go with a completely generic gift on the inside because I’m not sure his wife would be too happy about that.
[via Pleated Jeans via Neatorama]
On one hand, many of the fans of the original Doom games are too old to be playing with plushies. On the other hand, some kids might be find these toys too freaky. So really, these are for teenagers who may or may not have played Doom.
Then again, the monsters in Where the Wild Things Are are far scarier than the Cacodemon plush. Heck, Suezo from Monster Rancher is faaaar scarier than these two.
Fight your way to Bethesda’s online store to order the Cacodemon and the Pain Elemental plushies. Each toy costs $15 (USD) and is about 7″ tall. What would really make everyone’s Halloween is if Atlus released plushies of the Shin Megami Tensei demons.
[via Joystiq]
What do you do when you procrastinate? Look at cat pictures and GIFs on the web? Really? Why, me too!
It seems like a lot of us do nothing but scour the internet for the latest feline-related funnies, so it isn’t really surprising that something like Procatinator actually exists.
It’s a hilarious website that partners up a random animated kitty with an appropriate song from YouTube. Consider it a soundtrack of sorts for the cat that’s being featured in the GIF.
The site was started back in 2011, so it’s definitely been there for a while now, serving up laughs and hours of mindless fun to people who constantly put off important stuff like work for later. I mean, why do it now when you can do it later?
Spoken like a true procrastinator.
Procatinator was created by Ernesto González Aroca and Claudia Mussett.
[via Laughing Squid]
I’ll admit I’ve been out of the loop when it comes to the new Robocop movie the last several months. Last time I mentioned it here, Hugh Laurie, the guy that played House, was set play the CEO of OmniCorp. It looks like while I wasn’t paying attention they made a few changes.
Nowhere in the trailer do we see Hugh Laurie, but you do see that bad motherfu**** himself Samuel L Jackson. It’s hard to tell from the trailer, but it appears that Jackson is playing the Chief Executive A-Hole of OmniCorp. The trailer also shows a Robocop who is more human than he was in the old-school 80s flick.
Notably, Robocop isn’t doing the robot at each turn. He appears to be quite fluid and has an auto-retracting face shield. The trailer also shows that while Robocop thinks he’s in control, he actually doesn’t have as much free will as he believes. I’m particularly glad to see not a single Ford Taurus in any of the scenes.
This isn’t the first time that we’ve seen the Berlin Boombox. The device turned up on Kickstarter about a year ago when it was seeking funding for production. We lost track of the device after the Kickstarter campaign and it has now turned up again, and this time you can buy it outright.
The DIY Berlin Boombox is a cardboard papercraft kit that requires you to fold and stuff tabs into slots. Other than the cardboard shell for the boombox, it also comes with speakers and other hardware required to make the audio work.
The Berlin Boombox has a pair of small speakers that slot into the little cardboard slots inside the cardboard shell, a volume knob, and a battery pack that holds three AA batteries. Once built, you simply connect your audio device to the speakers using the 3.5 mm plug. This would probably be the perfect ghetto blaster to go with your 80s music collection and giant sheet of cardboard for breakdancing.
The Berlin Boombox is available from Bitemyapple.com for $79.99(USD).
People are naturally fascinated with royalty. Case in point? All the attention Prince William and Kate got when they had a baby. This fascination extends beyond reality, as artwork and spoofs are often created with Disney’s Princesses as their muses.
Another one of these is this series by Tumblr user Missmaceymouse.
Here, she imagines the princesses having an iPhone and the messages that they would send to their friends and significant others. Ariel is still looking for more thingamabobs, Cinderella can’t seem to stop losing her shoes, Aurora is still a big sleepyhead, and Mulan is still, well, Mulan.
Check out the gallery below for the full series.
[via Buzzfeed via Incredible Things]
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