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It seems like you can make a Guinness World Record out of any feat these days. Last year, 381 Australian kids set the Guinness World Record for simultaneous Nintendo DS playing. I wonder if there’s a Guinness World Record for most people standing around in Times Square with a thumb in their ass.

Tomorrow, members of a UK DS fan group called DSLondon are going to take a crack at breaking last year’s simultaneous Nintendo DS playing record. DSLondon hopes to attract at least 500 DS gamers to the Rocket Complex on Holloway Road, London. In the area? Be a part of history. All you’ve got to do is show up with a DS and begin playing. What an easy record to break.

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When American beer meets data storage, the match almost seems like it was meant to be.

Well, it wasn’t. Have you ever had beer spill onto a USB 2.0 device? Apparently CNK Promotions hasn’t, because it was daring enough to claim the world’s first beer-filled USB drive. While it can’t open a beer for you, it can create a sticky mess all over your computer. If there is one thing we’ve learned from the past, it’s that beer is only good for one thing: drinkin’.

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After having seen a USB drive that comes packed with Ernie Hudson on it, it seemed like no other flash drive could ever come close to tickling my fancy. That is, until I saw this bad boy. While the USB drive bottle opener is far from a new concept, who says digital storage and beer don’t mix?

This nifty flash drive is from German manufacturer TrekStor, which proves that Germans know how to party. It’s available in sizes ranging from 1GB up to 16GB priced anywhere from $10 to $71. Imagine how fly you’ll look when cracking open your lady friend’s beer. Imagine how fly you won’t look once you show her what’s on the stick.

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They’ve made thumb drives out of pretty much everything; even Luke Skywalker comes in USB form. Now, snobby wine connoisseurs everywhere can confuse their dozens of wine corks lying around the house for this 1GB USB flash drive.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t double as a wine stopper, it just looks like one, so if you happen to mix it up and try to use it as one, you can kiss your data goodbye. Look on the bright side: you can always drink the pain away.

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When I first caught glimpse of the AlphaGrip, I thought to myself “Well, I guess the jig is up. We humans had a fine run on Earth but the alien visitors have finally landed.” I was relieved to discover that the AlphaGrip Handheld Computer is actually a very terrestrial device. A high-performance high-speed portable concept computer made for gamers.

The AlphaGrip features a overall killer hit list of interface specs, such as handwriting recognition so you can use a stylus to write directly to the screen, a 10 finger touch typing system, a thumb-controlled trackball, and buttons that are positioned to increase typing speed up to 200%, while maintaining a pretty dainty size measuring only 6 5/8 x 6 3/8 x 3.5 inches, with an optional folding display of just 3 inches across. (more…)