Everyone loves cosplaying as their favorite Italian plumber. All it takes is a red shirt and some overalls and all you’re missing is a hat and phony mustache. Well, don’t worry about buying some expensive Nintendo-licensed product made of fabric. Instead, make your own Mario hat with nothing more than some paper, printer ink and Band-Aids. Just don’t try grabbing any fire flowers in the Mushroom Kingdom because this hat is anything but flame retardant.
What do you get when you mix Hunter S. Thompson with the Mario Brothers? A whole lot of hallucinogenic mushrooms. That joke is the reason I won’t do two shows a night.
Ahh, geek art. Using your game-loving mentality to create a piece of gamer color that can be proudly shown in your humble abode. We imagine long nights, sipping wine by the fire, the sweet smell of leather book binding perfuming the air, as we gaze upon our ultra-classy, and not tacky in the least Super Mario Wall Art Collages, right next to our jaundice-looking Mario Floppy Disc Art. (more…)
Golf may not be your thing, but chances are gaming is right up your alley–and what gamer wouldn’t dig controlling mini Mario and Luigi golfers with a Famicom style wired remote? The objective is to use the A and B buttons on the remote to help the Bros. put the ball into the hole–it’s the most fun you will have playing golf without wearing retarded pants. Available for $24.99 —Sean Fallon
We no longer live in the time of one device call management. People these days own up to four phones sometimes because of their crazy work habits! Crazy, yes, but we’ve seen it happen. The first ever Universal Phone Charger is being shown this week at CEBIT. The AnyFix charger is the product of Prof. Luigi (fitting name for one in the tech industry) Colani, an 80-year-old veteran of the field of industrial design. AnyFix can charge 80% of European cell phones, including all major brand names.
Charging your phone with AnyFix is as easy as pressing a button for the correct corresponding charge. The charger is a product of a totally bio-designed idea. It takes its sleek form from the Dytiskus Marginalis, a 3.5 cm long beetle which can travel underwater at speeds up to 4 meters per second thanks to its streamline body shape. Colani is known for his groundbreaking designs in the auto and aviation field. If the AnyFix does what it says it can, you can add mobile to that list. — Andrew Dobrow
