Hasta La Gadget!

There are plenty of things to be afraid of when you are in the dark. Anything could be walking your darkened halls and waiting to pounce on you. Aliens, a Predator, maybe even Weird Al Yankovic. Darkness is our enemy. I say embrace your fear and gather enough courage to install this awesome Alien Facehugger light switch plate.

Sure, it is scary, but at least you know it is there and not moving anywhere. It might even scare some of those other demons away. Besides, when a facehugger is busy hugging your wall switch, it’s all good. It is too busy to hug you to death.

It’s made from resin and cold cast bronze by Afterlight Sculpture and sells for about $24(USD). I don’t recommend ever flipping it to the “off” position though.

[via Obvious Winner]

Ok, just four words are required to describe this object:

BEST. SERVING. DISH. EVER.

It was made by Gretchen of Three Little Monkeys Studio using a cheap kid’s dinosaur toy, a melamine plate, some glue and paint. Best thing is, you can easily make your own for less that $10. While it’s shown here serving up some OREOs, I think it would also work well with chunks of raw meat for fondue.

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I love sushi. Not only does it taste good, it’s actually one of the more healthy things you can put in your body. I really should eat more of the stuff. But I have a thing about only eating it when it’s freshly made in a restaurant. I never buy the pre-made rolls in the grocery – and definitely don’t possess the knife skills to make my own. But maybe owning this sushi plate would inspire me to eat sushi at home more often.

The ceramic shark sushi plate is handmade by Avigayil of Avi Ceramics, and it’s the perfect way to eat your sushi – assuming you don’t mind fighting a great white for each tasty morsel of raw fish and rice, as you dip it into the beast’s mouth to get some soy sauce.

So if you’re a sushi loving marine biologist, you can order one for yourself for $70(USD) plus shipping by following the instructions over on DeviantArt.

Mathematics geeks will often use the number of digits of Pi they can remember as a measure of pride. While I might be able to get as far as 3.141592653589793, that’s about where I lose it. But with these special drinking glasses, I bet I’d be able to recite 100 digits in no time.

TheUncommonGreen’s Pi series is printed several hundred digits of the mathematical constant – which for those of you who flunked math class is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Duh.

There’s a Pi pint glass ($36/pair), a Pi rocks glass ($36/pair) and a Pi shot glass ($20/each), so you can even memorize digits while you get drunk. I’m not sure how much those Pi coasters go for, though. And if you want to keep working on your math while you cook dinner, there’s a matching Pi kitchen towel.

And when your guests arrive, you can help them learn Pi too, while they cut the cheese on this Pi plate ($55).

But my favorite of the Pi series won’t help me memorize its digits at all – but it will help me drink more beer – and that’s the Pi bottle opener ($45).

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