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Games

Video Surfaces Of Man Marrying Anime Video Game Character

8:27AM Sean Fallon | As promised, the wedding ceremony between a man named Sal9000 and Nene Anegasaki, a character from the Nintendo DS game Love Plus, was filmed and broadcast across the internet. It’s predictably sad. More »
Peripherals

Elecom ‘Spoon’ Mouse For Bite-Sized Travel

12:31AM Mark Wilson | If you’re going to buy a travel mouse, it might as well, in some small way (possibly entirely induced by marketing), resemble a spoon. Right? More »
Music

Three-iPhone Ocarina Much More Expensive Than No-iPhone Ocarina

2:10AM Adam Frucci | Do you have three iPhones kicking around that you aren’t using? If so, you could make an insanely expensive ocarina out of them using some laser-cut plastic. But the real question is why you would do such a thing. More »
Games

Guy Marries Video Game, We Don’t Judge

1:40AM Mark Wilson | That Nene Anegasaki, she’s a charmer. She’s also a video game character from extreme dating sim Love Plus, now wedded to a flesh-and-blood gamer. More »
Screens

Video: Sony’s Massive 280-inch (711cm) 3D LED Display

11:34PM Danny Allen | Similar to Mitsubishi’s 155-inch OLED screen, Sony’s huge display is made of individual panels (70 smaller LED screens in this case) and is designed for outdoor marketing. You know, because we all carry around polarised glasses, right? More »
Vehicles

World War 2 Japanese Super-Submarine Found In Hawaii

7:54AM Jesus Diaz | According to Dr Hans Van Tillburg, “[the I-201 submarine] was nothing like anybody had in the Second World War”. It had a streamlined body and conning tower, retractable guns and three catapult-launched bombers. They just found it in Hawaii. More »
Sports

Baseball King Balls Throw The Curveball For You

1:00AM Mark Wilson | I wasn’t blessed with a modicum of sports talent, but I can get behind this idea: cheating. More »
Design

Japan Self-Defence Force Sunglasses

12:19AM Danny Allen | These JSDF shades have apparently been endorsed by the Japanese military because they won’t fracture even if struck at 170km/h by a 6.5mm-diameter object. Not quite bulletproof, but the picture looks cool. More »
Toys

Rejoice! Colour Tamagochi Will Make The World Go Round

12:00PM Jesus Diaz | You know we have arrived to The Future when Bandai manbirths a Tamagochi with a colour LCD screen. Because the future is really like the ’90s, but in colour. Fortunately, the Tamagochi ID only exists in Japan for $US56. More »
Design

By Royal Decree, The Food Of My Kingdom Is Now Hot Pockets!

6:45AM Adam Frucci | This is a 2m tall throne made entirely of Famicom (NES) cartridges. Whoever sits in it becomes king for the day of the fantastical realm of Sadtopia. More »