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All Game for Easter: Super Mario Nintendo Easter Eggs

Nintendo Mario Easter Eggs

Easter is fast approaching. Religious significance aside, it’s time to break out your brushes and pots of paint once more because it’s time to design those Easter eggs! Instructables user Imnopeas got a headstart on everyone else by doing her eggs early this year for her son, and they turned out great. I think it’s safe to assume that her kid’s a gamer from the looks of these eggs.

In case you’re out of ideas and want to copy her idea, you’re in luck because she’s shared the details of the project on Instructables.

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Everything Looks Better At 2,500 FPS

Our eyes, fancy as they are, are limited; they can’t see the super fast or the super slow. So here’s a little slow-mo p0rn, to keep you entertained for 6 minutes on a Wednesday. It’s a bunch of highlights from season 2 of the Danish TV show “Dumt & Farligt – igen” (meaning “stupid and dangerous”) airing this spring on TV 2 Zulu.

Our favourites include the bullet through the Diet Coke and the piggy bank on the lawnmower.

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What Goes In Must Come Out: Rainbow Pasta Amidst Parmesan Clouds

Rainbow Pasta

As the title hinted, there are going to be some references to ass kabobs, so if you’re easily grossed out, then I suggest you just look at the pretty pictures and skip the not-so-pretty words.

You know how, as a kid, you’d wonder why you’d have bum nuggets that are black as coal or turds that are slightly greenish sometimes? At this point in your adulthood, you probably already know why your lumpy farts are that shade of gray: it’s all that damn coloring in your food! I’d normally stay away from food color bombs like the bowl of rainbow spaghetti you see pictured above–but St. Paddy’s day comes only once a year, and you know what they say about special occasions: it calls for special food, too.Continue Reading

NanoBlimp Is Allegedly World’s Smallest RC Blimp

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This looks like a fun toy. The Nanoblimp is a remote controlled blimp that uses regular party balloons filled with Helium, and to which you attach a set of propellers. There’s three of these, which used in combination allow for upwards/downwards, forwards/backwards and rotation movements. That should be enough to get you anywhere, even if you can’t move sideways. What blimp moves sideways anyway? There’s a set of ballasts that you also attach to the balloon to achieve neutral buoyancy and the remote control frequencies allow for up to 4 such airships in one room. That means battles and mayhem, which is the best way to spend a Friday afternoon in the office.

It’s $50 for one, which includes ten balloons, the propellers, ballast and remote control. The Helium, you have to find yourself.

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Calling Chocoholics Anonymous: Now You Can Drink Chocolate Stout from this Chocolate Glass

Chocolate Beer and Glass

Beer and chocolate make for a surprisingly delicious combination. It might not sound very appealing, but don’t knock it until you’ve tried it. Because once you have, I swear, you’ll be coming back for more. Japanese brewery Sankt Gallen is well aware of this, since they’ve been producing chocolate flavored stout for a while now.

However, they’ve decided to take things a notch further by offering a set that includes a bottle of their best-selling chocolate stout and an edible chocolate glass. Beer and chocolate aficionados are supposed to pour the stout into the glass and enjoy the flavorful drink while taking a few bites of chocolate in between.

Rocket News 24 asserts that the glass could counteract the bitterness of the “ultra-dark beer’ which was brewed “with over twice the ingredients of your average dark beer including roasted ‘chocolate malt.’”

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Awesome Invites for Awesome Parties: PercyVites, DIY Balloons, Flip Books, and Superheroes

DIY Wedding

If you’re in the process of planning a grand celebration for a grand event, then obviously invitations are at the top of your list. Because without invites, how can you get people to attend your event, much less let them know why you’re celebrating and where you’re going to be holding the festivities? It used to be that people simply went to a printing press to have their invitations printed. But in this day and age, people are getting more involved and more creative with their invites.

For example, ultimate geek couple Bill Porter and his wife (but then-fiance) Mara decided to do away with traditional embossed wedding invitations and bring out the circuit boards instead. They worked laboriously to print and assemble over 50 invites fitted with LED lights. The coolest part is that the lights flashed a secret message in Morse code when the sensors in the board detect decreased light levels. Pretty cool, huh?

For more awesome invites that were no doubt made for equally awesome parties, hit the break. You might get a few ideas for your own party in the process!

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It’s Rainbow-rrific: Unicorn Sprinkles Shaker Adds Magic to Every Cupcake

Unicorn Sprinkles Shaker

It’s interesting how just a little bit of color adds so much life to whatever dessert you’ve got, from ice cream and cupcakes to brownies and fudge. And what better way to add rainbow-colored sprinkles and life to your sweet treats than with an equally festive sprinkles shaker in the form of a unicorn?

Quirky salt and pepper shakers like the Switch and logic-defying Vortex shakers have had their share of the spotlight for years. It’s about time sprinkle shakers took center stage, starting with this one.

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Hand-Woven Room Dividers: Now You Can See Through Walls–Well, Sort Of

Hand Woven Walls

When you think of walls, you think of concrete or wood-paneled structures that divide a certain space into different rooms. I guess you could say that those are walls of the conventional kind, because there’s a different kind on the rise, although I wouldn’t go so far to say that they’re “new”, given that, well, they’re not.

These hand-woven walls by Dutch designer Wies Preijde are walls in every sense of the word–except for the solid part.

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Get Ready for a Fizzy Blast-Off With the Soda Bottle Rocket

Soda Bottle Rocket

Kids grow up way too fast. One minute you’re busy fussing with milk and diapers, the next you’re watching them strut across the stage to get their diploma. Parents often complain that their kids take them for granted, but I think the same can be said about some parents when it comes to their kids.

So while they’re still young and, well, living under your roof, why not set aside some time each week for some serious playtime? You can take on simple DIY projects where you can spend some time working on building toys or making crafts with your kid, and enjoy the fruits of your labor when it’s ready to be played with. And you can start with a project like the Soda Bottle Rocket.

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