Hasta La Gadget!

Games make life a whole lot more fun, and mealtimes are no exception. The latest food-related game is Pixelate, and it’s unlike most eating games you’ve played before.

Like most, it involves stuffing your face with food as fast as you can. The extra challenge is you have to follow the order indicated on the interactive dinner table.

Pixelate was created by Royal College of Art students Sures Kumar and Lana Z. Porter. Basically, players compete to eat what’s on their plates in the correct sequence as displayed on its screen. Whoever finishes everything fastest wins. It’s like Guitar Hero or Tetris, but with food instead of musical notes or falling blocks.

It’s a simple game with a complicated table to play it on. The table itself was developed using Arduino and OpenFrameworks. You don’t have to rely on human witnesses to tell who’s the winner, because the table can determine that much on its own. It does so by detecting the resistance for the food touching the forks that are connected to it. Neat, huh?

Pixelate sounds like a simple concept… until you check out its execution and realize it’s not that simple after all.

[via Core77 via Dvice]

Remember Beardvertising, where people could pin ads on their beards so they can be walking beardboards?

Well, Tokyo-based PR consultant Hidenori Atsumi took a page from that book and came up with their own advertising gimmick that makes use of another body part: women’s thighs.

Call it sexist, but their target market is guys who are looking for a reason to ogle, so it somehow makes sense to hire girls and paint ads on their thighs. Well, sort of.

Over 3,000 women have reportedly signed up to become thigh-boards already. As Atsumi explained: “Guys are eager to look at them and girls are okay with exposing their thighs.”

Let me just tell Atsumi though: not all girls are okay with it. Just sayin’.

In order to get the gig, girls 18+ years old must be willing to show off their thighs and have at least 20 connections on their social media profiles. Skirts and socks are recommended outfits, and the girls are also required to post a photo of them sporting the ad on their thighs on their social media profile.

[via theguardian via Pop Up City]

The ability to to make perfect copies is one of the most convenient advantages of working with digital content. That’s why software developers make it easy to copy and paste content between applications. But what about copying and pasting to and from different computers? What if you could drag content from one screen directly to another screen? That’s what the people behind the Tagtal tStylus claims it can do.

The tStylus works with companion desktop and mobile apps to let you copy what’s on the screen of a desktop computer or an iOS device, and then transfer that to another iOS device. All you have to do is press the tStylus on the screen of the source device, wait a couple of seconds, then do the same on the recipient iOS device. The devices don’t need to be connected in any other way; they just both have to have the tStylus app. Once you’ve dropped an image, you can trim it down using the tStylus.

Aside from transferring screenshots between devices, there’s also a specialized tSylus app called Tagtal Album, which you can see in the image above. With Tagtal Album you can copy and paste images to and from Instagram, Facebook, Picasa or Flickr using the tStylus.

Finally, the tStylus app also has a color picker feature:

Pledge at least $29 (USD) on Indiegogo to receive a tStylus as a reward. Tagtal claims that the stylus will eventually be sold for $80, so you’re getting $51 off. If they add the ability to copy text from one device to another, I’m sold.

[via Mashable]

So you made a rash decision and used BreakupText to end things with an otherwise awesome guy (or girl.) What now? Well, you could grovel on your knees and beg for their forgiveness… or let another app do the work for you: MakeupText.

Created by the same people behind BreakupText, the MakeupText app offers the user with a bunch of reasons for making up. The “something shiny caught my eye” and “kidnapped by Russians” mistakes are ever present, but the groveling begins on the next screen.

Here’s a sample of the mindless sweetness the app can come up with:

I left you because I thought I found something great, something different, something worthy of my attention. It sucked me in, like a hypnotic octopus with bright and heavy tentacles dragging its willing partner further and further underwater. Until I suddenly realized I was being tricked. Their glitter was sand, their shine only the sun’s reflection off their cold, metal self. You, my dear, my love, are the sun. You are nothing but glitter, I know because it fills me every time we speak, every time I see you it’s all lightning flashes, you can light up the night’s sky. I left you because I’m an idiot, because that dastardly farce. I miss you, let us be together, let me take in your light. If you can find it in you to forgive me, I will spend every day worshiping your sun, you will never lose me again.

While BreakupText costs $0.99 to download, MakeupText is available for free – for a limited time. So if you unwittingly broke up with someone who you still want to be with, download this now before they start charging for it.

[via C|NET]

The guys at Fast Furious and Funny have created something awesome. It’s a Nissan Micra that’s been converted into a Batmobile. Sure, we’ve seen other cars turned into Batman’s ride in the past, but normally you would want to use a more substantial vehicle as your base. As it turns out, this sub-compact was an amazing car to use – assuming Batman wants a slightly comical but still badass car.

Sure, it’s black and has tailfins, but it wouldn’t be a Batmobile without plenty of gadgets and weapons. An RPG comes out of the unfolding roof, machine guns that pop out in front to deal with bad guys ahead of you, and there’s a flamethrower in back.

Check out the complete build in the video below:

It is deadly, but cute. They even put a furry material over the extra bodywork, which is appropriate for a bat. Awesome. Great work guys. We can’t wait to see it in action.

Keep an eye out on FFF’s YouTube channel on August 7th to see the Micra Batmobile take to the roads.