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Those jackasses over at Boing Boing Gadgets have done it again. Posted a rad picture with no description. Look, is this really a camera with a damn garden growing out of the lens? It seems entirely plausible. Then again, it could be Joel photoshopping his pubes into sprouts. Link

Leave it to New Yorkers to one up the rest of America. Noah Fulmore and Erin Finnegan dropped more than $16,000 on a wedding in a zero-G plane. A 90 minute ride full of dives and twists allowed the happy couple to say “I do” entirely upside down. Too cool. Link

Don’t go getting any ideas with the title, mister. This here is straight out of the Doom and Apogee days. Shareware anyone? Keep your games, movies and other things totaling larger than 1.44MB on this floppy disk flash drive. I have no idea who made it, how much it costs or if it requires OS/2. Link

Ridiculous. Even with pouring rain covering half the United States, people still flocked in droves to the Apple store to pick up the latest iPhone, as we’ve come to expect every summer. Today, Apple announced that the bum rush picked up over a million iPhone 3GS models. And the madness doesn’t stop there. Over six million people downloaded the official ...

Well folks, our contest has come to an end and its time to announce the winners. I’d like to thank all of you for entering and sharing your favorite ’80s bands with us. Some people liked awful bands whilst others simply had great taste. Here’s the two winners we chose: Kate really knows how to start a party: Hall & ...

Bout damn time! T-Mobile officially announced the myTouch 3G today. It’ll drop next month and is quite the improvement over the Google G1. It’ll of course use the Android OS but will come packed with a nice big 3.2-inch display, WiFi, a 3.2-megapixel shooter and Exchange support. It’ll ship in black, white or merlot and should retail for $199.99 with ...

Have you ever dreamed that you too could be a mysterious super-awesome political street artist like Banksy? Here is your chance, no matter how lame it might be. The iBanksyMachine is basically a vending machine which doles out instant Banksy stenciling kits. Included in the kits are stencils of some of Banksy’s most popular street pieces, along with spray paint ...

Newton’s Cradle, if you didn’t already know, is an awesome perpetual motion toy made using a series of identical balls suspended from a frame. You might have seen them at your local psychiatrist’s office or in many offices of CEOs. Geek Group was on a mission to create the world’s largest Newton’s Cradle. How big, exactly, was the finished product? ...

Just imagine if some genius TV exec came up with the idea to film a live action version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It would likely look something like the design for this t-shirt. The only question I have is, would the turtles still love pizza? It wouldn’t be the same without it.