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D&D Soda Is Really Your Parents’ Shameful Tears, Bottled

1:40AM Mark Wilson | You’re walking through a dark cave, clutching your enchanted bow when you realise, CRAP, you’re really just in the back of a comic shop with some friends. And you’re thirsty. More »
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Tomy’s Piggy Bank Comes With Built-In RPG

8:30AM Jason Chen | Japanese kids and otaku need slightly more motivation than the rest of us to save money, and to that end, Takara Tomy has made a piggy bank with an RPG game built right on there. It’s called Bank Quest (was Final Bank Fantasy taken?) and you can buy weapons and armour for your dude from the savings you place inside. That reminds us of the RPG Toilet we saw in Japan one time that rewarded us for the size, weight and consistency of he deuce we dropped. Wait, that might not have happened. [Akihabara News via Boing Boing Gadgets] More »
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Hacked Wii Fit Board Lets You Stumble Around Azeroth

8:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | The Germans who hacked a Wii Balance Board from Wii Fit to surf Google Earth have found a much more fun use for the peripheral – running around World of Warcraft. In this follow up video, Simon and Mattieu control a low level gnome exploring Ironforge, avoiding wolves and slamming into tree trunks. Now all they need to do is hack the Wiimote and Nunchuck to understand macros and I will be the fittest WoW player EVER. [Technabob] More »

Self-Contained RPG Game Solely in a Mint Tin

8:20AM Seamus Byrne | If you thought putting your iPod nano in an Altoids tin was impressive, check out what Greg Sanders got inside a Penguin mints tin. It’s a self-contained RPG game whose parts all fit inside the tin. All you have to do is plug in a Sega Genesis controller and a TV and you’re set. Yes, but does it tell you how old your brain is? [MAKE via Play Gadgets] More »