Beware of the adorable, homicidal lamps.
I knew this was going to happen sooner or later. Pixar’s infamous desk lamp mascot’s constant brutal attacks on the letter “I” has finally taken its toll and now Luxo Jr. must pay for his crimes. Does the death sentence seem suitable for the crime committed? I sure think so. Luxo killed a beloved vowel for gawd sakes! I say give you letter killer the chair and get it over with. John Lasseter must be crying after realizing what kind of monster he has created all those years ago. It’s always the bright ones that turn out to be screwed up in the end (see what I did there? Yeah, I’m lame). Hit the jump to see the crime AND punishment in action.
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ZOMGWTFBBQ!!!! This may be the cutest astrometric droid I have ever seen. Rob Meyers of Rob Meyer Productions created a 1:18 scale R2-D2 that can be controlled by remote control. RMP is a metal fabrication, practical effects, and costuming studio located in Tucson, Arizona. His company designs and produces robotics and special effect machines that you may find at a museum exhibit or movie.
RMP designed this little Artoo and pimped him our with three Solarbostic GM13 page gear motors. Measuring at a teeny weeny 2.36″/6cm tall, this little astro-metic droid is controlled by remote which lets the user move Artoo wheels and his head. Mini Artoo is so adorable. He looks like a mini salt shaker. I’m pretty sure the mini R2-D2 would still make C-3PO his bitch.
Hit the jump to see a video of mini Artoo in action!
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I take great pride in featuring really cool geek edibles. iGT has already featured geek inspired cookies, cupcakes, and cakes. Now we get the chance to feature geek bon-bons. If you don’t know what a bon-bon is, bon-bons are chocolate and truffle confections. Sweets artisan, Ana Fuji of Campinas, Brazil is well known in the flickr community of creating some deliciously geeky chocolates. Ana has the ability to mold fondant into cute miniatures of characters from Super Mario Bros., Poke’mon, and Alice in Wonderland. Best yet, all these creations are edible. I wonder if I ate the fire flower power up truffle, I would get to shoot balls of fire. Hit the jump to see Ana’s wonder creations.
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Battlestar Babes. Tricia Helfer & Grace Park Set Phasers to Sexy…. (WTF!)
As long as I could remember, I’ve been collecting magazines that have featured cool covers for sci-fi or fantasy movies and televisions show. Thanks for scifiwired.com, I will be camping the local 7-11 for the November issue to Maxim magazine. Gracing the cover of Maxim will be Tricia Helfer and Grace Park of Battlestar Galactica (the newer one. If it was the original, that would be awkward as hell…). We all know that Tricia and Grace played cylon hotties, Six and Boomer (if you didn’t know, I really hate you) on BSG (thats what we cool kids call it), and even though the series came to an end this year, the lovely ladies are strutting their stuff. Battlestar Galactica was an epic story that will be a fan favorite for many years to come. I am pretty sure Tricia and Grace will have hordes of lovestruck geeks (and drooling stalkers) following them to every convention that they appear at. If its a bit odd to you for the reason why Maxim would be featuring BSG on their cover after the series ended, the reason may be because the prequel to BSG, Caprica will be premiering in 2010 (and if you didn’t know THAT, I hate you even more).
I still don’t get why Maxim used a Star Trek reference for their caption on the cover. I just don’t give a crap if you noted in perentacies. Its still stupid.
Side note: Yes. You are right. I only made this blog post so I can shamelessly put up pictures of purrdy girls. I LOVE YOU SIX!
Hit the jump to see more from the issue!
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Whoever Modified Power Wheels community member flux83’s kid is, you are one lucky boy. Daddy just built a heavily modified Power Wheel to resemble the M12 Light Reconnaissance Vehicle AKA “The Warthog” from Microsoft/Bungie’s Halo 3. Using Mattel’s Street Scene Silverado Bling Chevy Power Wheel (geez, that was a mouth full…), flux83 did some heavy customization and fabrication on the Warthog.
Fortunately, thanks to the folks at Bungie, we’re all that much more knowledgeable about the DIY Power Wheels modder set. All it took was one M12 Light Reconnaissance Vehicle–better known as the Warthog–fashioned from the guts of a Power Wheels miniature truck–a “very used 2001 G3740 Street Scene Silverado,” according to its creator.
flux83’s Warthog may not be powered by a 12.0 L liquid-cooled hydrogen-injected ICE, but it does have a pretty bad ass mini-replica M41 Light Anti-Aircraft gun mounted on the back to chase the neighborhood cats around. Well, at least I would… Hit the jump to see pictures/videos of flux83’s great mod!
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