Hasta La Gadget!

The next time you travel to Vietnam, make sure you check out their 85 milion dollar fire-breathing dragon. An 85 million dollar glowing neon fire-breathing dragon, that is. It can breathe both fire and water.

Did I mention that it is also part of a bridge? The bridge spans the Han River in the port city of Da Nang. This color changing dragon lights up using 15,000 Philips LEDs.

Why can’t we have awesome bridges like this in the U.S.? Probably because all the LARPers would gather there and form a dragon-worshipping cult.

Also sword-wielding geeks would climb up on the head to get their picture taken. Check out the video to see the dragon in action.

[via Geekologie]

A huge number of gamers all around the world live on a steady diet of digital kills, pizza, and caffeine. The problem for a lot of gamers comes when you’re right in the middle of a heated match, you’re hungry, and you don’t want call and talk to the people at the pizza place to order your favorite pie. This is where Pizza Hut comes in with its new Xbox 360 app that allows you to order your favorite menu items from the convenience of your game console.

You don’t even need to get out of your favorite chair to order pizza, just launch the app and you can build your own custom pizza using your Xbox 360 controller, Kinect gestures, or voice commands. The app makes the entire menu from Pizza Hut available – from breadsticks to pasta and everything in between. Users of the app can also link their Xbox Live and PizzaHut.com accounts to save order settings to make future purchases even quicker.

Linking those accounts also allows you to take advantage of local deals that are available when you order. As far as I know, this is the first app that allows players to purchase physical goods from their console. The app is available to download as of today and if you place your first order using the app by May 6, you can get 15% off the entire purchase.

[via Polygon]

The Girl Scouts is an organization designed to help children learn all sorts of skills with the rewards being patches or badges. The Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles has announced that they are working on introducing a new patch that scouts can earn for creating video games. The Boy Scouts of America already announced a similar patch for game creation.

The organization is working with Women in Games International to create a program that meets Girl Scout patch requirements. The patch program will focus on the STEM, or Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, academic initiative. They’ll be encouraging girls to use Gamestar Mechanic to learn to develop their games.

The goal of creating the badge according to those working on the program is to get young girls excited about technology and science. Women in Games International wants to let young girls know that they can have a career in the video game industry. While the Girl Scout’s patch will be specifically for designing video games, the similar patch that Boy Scouts can earn is for the designing of any game be it digital or board.

[via Girl Gamer via Polygon]

German design studio Docstone loves making concrete-based furniture. It showed off a pair of its newest creations at the recent 2013 iSaloni exhibit. The Mister Boom and Little Miss Dynamite are both lamps that look and work like traditional explosives.

The Mister Boom, featured above, has a light switch that looks and works like an old-fashioned TNT detonator, while Little Miss Dynamite has a smaller and more modern dial switch. Both are meant to be wired to “light bombs” shaped like bundles of dynamite.

Head to Docstone’s website to see pdf product brochures for both lamps.

[via The Mag via NOTCOT]

I’m huge fan of Superman. I grew up watching Superman cartoons Saturday mornings with my brother – and as a child of the 80s, I love all of the Superman movies from that period. For me, Christopher Reeve will always be Superman to me. The most recent Superman film wasn’t good, but I have high hopes for Man of Steel set to hit theaters this summer. And in case you didn’t know it, Superman is currently celebrating his 75th birthday.

Image Credit: LA Times

I never read comic books growing up, so I had no idea that the first time Superman appeared was back in the 1930s. The original Superman turned up in Action Comics issue number one in June of 1938. That puts it exactly 75 years back from the June release of Man of Steel.

Also I find it interesting that when Superman debuted in 1938, he was the only superhero around. The first time Superman hit the big screen came in a serial that was shown in movie theaters starting in 1948. The early big-screen Superman was played by Kirk Alyn. The iconic TV series from the 50s featured George Reeves a Superman. Superman will be played by Henry Cavill in Man of Steel when the film launches on June 14.

Who do you think is the best Superman?

[via LA Times]