Back in the day there were two handheld consoles which ruled all. Game Boy was the vertical colorless classic and Sega Game Gear was the horizontal version of Genesis in your pocket.

While the retro-tastic Horizontal Game Boy clone doesn’t include the color graphics and lithe designs of more modern adaptations, it does provide an alternative perspective of what gaming would have been like, had Nintendo opted for a horizontal form factor. Man, I wish I had held on to my original Game Boy.

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Personally, I’m happy with my iPhone 3G (though I am excited for the iPhone 3.0 OS) and WWDC isn’t too big of a deal to me. But to others, WWDC is everything. New hardware, new software - it’s a true nerd dream. Here’s what everyone is saying about the pending iPhone announcements:

• The new iPhone is called iPhone Video [TUAW]
• Cheaper version of the iPhone will launch [Financial Times]
• iPod Nano to feature camera? [Gearfuse]
• Leaked images, ahoy [Mac Rumors]
• Several different placeholders appear on Carphone Warehouse [Apple Insider]
• Multi-touch coming to old-school iPods [Apple Insider]
• Palm Pre vs. iPhone [The Guardian]

Remember: Don’t believe the hype. It usually will just end up letting you down.

Hey, hey Sony gamers. Looks like the Playstation team has let one slip. Originally scheduled for an E3 unveil, screenshots and video clips of the PSP Go have been revealed early by Qore magazine.

Above you will see the PSP Go in all of its glory in a apparent screenshot from the magazine. There’s also a video floating around of Qore’s Veronica Belmont chatting about the device with Sony’s John Koller. Now, what to do with that old 3000?

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Perfect for those confidential notes that call for being destroyed right after being read. The Amazon Kindling was created using a laser cutter.

This reminds me of that famous holiday ditty:

Amazon Kindling on an open fire
Jeff Bezos nipping at your nose (but mostly your wallet)

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The Retro Mini is a handheld device with a 2.4″ LCD screen that is actually compatible with full-sized NES cartridges. No emulation needed here. Four AA batteries gives you eight hours of battery time. The Mini also features built in speakers, a headphone jack and a composite AV out cables for playing the games on a TV set. Sexy handheld retro gaming for $49.99.

Because sometimes we just need to hold it right in our hands. Know what I’m saying? Huh, huh, boys? Yeah, get outta here ya little bastard.

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In other words, this is a rock made for the kitchen. Embrace your instinctive caveman nature and just bash and grind the living hell out of your food. It might not be as rugged as just grabbing a big rock from the wild, but it’s surely more manly than using a porcelain mortar and pestle.

For $43 you could do worse than buying a tool of our evolutionary past. No instruction manual is needed. Your animalistic instincts will put two and two together. Rock = smash.

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Though widely acclaimed and highly anticipated, Amazon’s Kindle 2 isn’t perfect by any stretch of the imagination. Much like any awesome gadget, there are tons of ways to improve the user’s experience even further than what is already offered by the gadget alone.

The Periscope Kindle case is a leather-bound case which offers a host of useful little gadgets which will likely improve your e-book experience. For one, there is a neat pop-out book light for illuminating your digital page without causing issues for anyone else who might be trying to sleep. Also included is a pocket for an odd shaped notebook and a pen, just in case you feel like jotting down a note or five.

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Assisted by your favorite brand of hair spray, these knife combs are unstoppable. The “Comb-At” and “Combmando” combs allow you to whack a dirty, narc cockroach and still maintain your perfectly sculpted hairdo.

Designed by Italian designer Lorenzo Damiani (”Comb-At”) and Thailand’s Studiobo (”Combmando”), the knife combs are made for the stylish hitman. Perfect for the fashion-conscious murdering sociopath who nary has a moment to pause and stare in the mirror. The Combmando can be seen above, hit the jump to check out the Comb-At. (more…)

Wow. Just wow.

Take a minute. Let’s get one more “wow” in. OK. WOW.

Seems a coffin and urn manufacturer called Eternal Image (you may have heard of them before) pulled quite the licensing deal. It’s now providing officially licensed Star Trek caskets and urns so that when you die and go on to that great gig in the sky, you’ll feel just like Captain Kirk. If you’re cheap and go the way of cremation, the 2009 urn will make your dead loved one look like a creepy black orb. Lovely. Way to go out in style.

The casket, however, is actually pretty bad ass. It’s got a nice red velvet interior, plenty of Star Trek symbols and what looks like a “power on” switch on the side. It’d probably make a cool bed for children. Vampire children, that is. Hit the jump for a picture of the coffin.
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Congratulations asshole. You can solve a Rubik’s Cube in negative .802934 seconds. Now go choke or something. And by “or something” we of course mean you should move onto something a little more challenging so we can point and laugh at your frustration. The insanely and overly difficult Petaminx, created by Andrew Cormier, was designed using 975 individual parts and 1,212 stickers. The whole production process took around 75 hours, which happens to be the amount of time it’ll probably take you to solve the damn thing.

And sure enough, the whole creation process is documented, so if you were so inclined, and nerdy enough, you could create your very own Rubik’s-inspired puzzle of death. In fact, I think the word Petaminx is French for “don’t even fucking bother.”

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