Hasta La Gadget!

Thanks to Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft, we’ve seen plenty of innovation as of as of late, when it comes to gaming devices. But the Wiimote, PlayStation Move, Kinect, and even the 3DS all pale in comparison to the sheer breakthrough innovation that Sony is offering the world with its latest invention–the Toylet.

The new technology is urinal-based, challenging players/pee-ers to compete in four different urine-based mini-games while doing their business. The games included pee quantifier “Manneken Pis;” image eliminator “Graffiti Eraser;” “The North Wind and Her,” in which the player attempts to lift a woman’s dress with his urine; and “Milk From Nose,” which pits two milk-squirting sumo wrestlers against one another.

The games have been installed in four Japanese metro stations, where they’ll be up in a test run until the 31st. The games also include a USB port, so player can download their high scores to a flash drive. But please, wash your hands when you’re finished.

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Today, Apple announced that over one million apps have been downloaded from the Mac App Store in the first day. Apparently, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard users jumped on the chance to get some of the more than1,000 free and paid apps for their Macs. You can choose from apps in Education, Games, Graphics & Design, Lifestyle, Productivity, Utilities and other categories.

“We’re amazed at the incredible response the Mac App Store is getting,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Developers have done a great job bringing apps to the store and users are loving how easy and fun the Mac App Store is.”

For more info about the Mac App Store, check out PCMag.com’s Apple’s Mac App Store: Hands On and 11 Great Software Deals in the Mac App Store.

10, 9, 8, 7… quick, get out your phone at tweet “Happy New Year” to all your followers before the ball drops! If you found yourself tweeting your New Year’s wishes instead of kissing your boyfriend, hugging your friends, or calling your mom as we entered 2011, you’re not alone. According to the Twitter Blog, just four seconds after midnight in Japan on January 1, an all-time record number of Tweets sent per second (TPS) was set as 6,939 TPS were sent.

The East coast time zone alone reached its peak of 3,000 TPS, which is almost more than the entire world sent during the peak moment of the World Cup. Twitter made a video which visualizes New Year’s Eve tweet data across the world. The circles get larger as more tweets are sent at that moment. It’s a neat because you can actually see the different amounts of tweets in each time zone as each one hits midnight. 

Check out the video after the jump!