Found on It’s Nice That, this shoe looks like boatloads of fun. Gives the classic slip-on Vans a new meaning, eh?

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Technology helps prevent crime. That’s a no-brainer. London’s use of CCTV has turned the city into a near police state and GPS has led to more arrests for car theft. As of yesterday, New Yorkers will be able to send text messages, picture messages and video to 911 and 311. This will enable citizens to report crimes of all types, as well as provide evidence so the police ultimately have less work to do. By next year, images and video sent to 911 will be pushed to patrol cars and will be used as evidence in trial. All in all, the technology only took about 18 months to develop and cost $250,000.

While I find this to be a great improvement to public safety, it also makes me weary of my privacy. What if someone is drinking in public and they get snapped by an angry friend? Not good.

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I saw this picture and just couldn’t resist.

Here’s a cool little image gallery we found showing a bunch of images which show geek culture at its, well, geekiest. There’s a ton more pics over at the site, but here are a few of our favorites. Some of the pictures have been seen before, but a lot of them are new to us. Check it out. You won’t regret it. More after the jump. (more…)

This little guy sticks to your toilet lid, waiting for an unsuspecting victim. When they open the lid, BAM! There he is, waiting to scare the piss out of them (quite literally). Take that, kids! You should have gone before we left the house! — Andrew Dobrow

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Product Page [PrankPlace, via Funniest Gadgets]

Here is some hysterical and interesting gadget images we’ve come across along with some color commentary from our very own Andrew Dobrow.

“Can we go to cheese.com nooowww, please?”

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Google Maps always turns up some interesting images. Whoever made this Space Invaders ode is our new personal hero, but has entirely too much time on their hands.

On second thought, this image might of been taken by an airplane, as a commenter on Wonderland suggest, because of its higher resolution. From a satellite image it’s more likely that the lovable space invaders look like a bunch of white blobs rather then the ghost of gaming past.

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Day in and day out, we sit here and drone on about the magnificence of cameras that take lower then 10 megapixel photos. And all this time, we could of been droning on and on about a 4 Gigapixel camera! Stupid us. The 2.5 Gigapixel photo in question was created using 600 seperate merged images taken with a 4 Gigapixel digital camera on top of a building in the Netherlands. In our opinion, they could of chosen a better landscape then the barren looking buildings they chose for the shot, but hey, to each his own. The complete photo was a staggering 7.5 GB with the amount of merging time topping out at almost an hour and a half. That’s one fat ass picture! Though zooming in and out of the photo on the site is an entertaining experience. — Andrew Dobrow

2.5 Gigapixel Picture Zoomer [via Gizmowatch]