Awesome Leisure

We loved these interlocking blocks the first time we saw them. Now win one of three 256-piece Blocklets kits, worth $50 each. (Contest Has Ended, Thanks for Your Entries!)

Game Boy Online lets you play Game Boy and Game Boy Color games online for free, no emulators needed. If you prefer NES or SNES games, check out GBO’s sister site Play Nintendo.

It takes a lot of balls to laud your own tricks and deem them “insane”, but in this case, Schrobotindisguise is totally spot on. He is a predator, and the puzzles are his prey. Part I here.

Too lazy to stand up while you waterski? With the Ski Seat, you can sit your bum down while you get dragged along the water’s surface by a powerboat. Actually, it looks way more fun than that sounds.

52-year old Yves “Jetman” Rossy has crossed the English Channel and flown loops on his awesome jetpack. Here’s a glimpse at his historic flight over the Grand Canyon on May 7, 2011.

Soda fans, take your addiction to the shower with these shampoos from Digitalsoaps. Most of them have the appropriate scent of the soda you love, and some have even been spiked with caffeine.

The talent collective at Blue Q offers a funny series of packaged teas to clear up everyday problems, like erasing your past, getting good karma and being a better parent. Yes, but does it really work?

Like the Gatling Slingshot Crossbow, Jörg Sprave’s Avalaunche uses 20mm steel balls, but it can fire up to six of them at once. We can’t wait for the 6-shooter version of the machete slingshot.

Feeling all played out with Crysis 2? Grab 4 new maps for more multiplayer mayhem starting on 5/17. Check out Park Avenue, Transit, Shipyard and Compound in this sneak preview.

Instructables’ BAKON alarm clock is an immersive porcine experience: set your preferred cooking time and wake up to the intoxicating scent of bacon and sweet piggy sounds. (Thanks Dave!)

Google beats Apple to the punch with their cloud music service, letting you upload your tunes to the Internet, playing them from all your computers and Android-based gadgets. Request a beta invite here.

In response to all the football, basketball and hockey trick shot videos out there, Brodie Smith responds with his flying disc. He just needs to cut the finger-pistol bit – and the porn soundtrack.

(NSFW: Language) We’re not quite sure how they pulled it off, but a group of supper-clubbers recently took a ride on a NYC L train for an elegant six-course meal, delivered stop-by-stop.

(NSFW: Language) We’re not sure what to make of a B-movie about little people zombies starring Penn Gillette, Adam Savage and effects by one of The Chiodo Brothers, but our curiosity is piqued.

A ruggedly handsome hand-sewn guitar case from Whipping Post made of 100% full-grain leather with stainless steel parts. Its shoulder strap can be adjusted so you can carry the case as a backpack.

Kid Rock and other savvy musicians are fans of Memphis blues musician Johnny Lowe, who forges collectible handmade guitars out of cigar boxes, pool sticks and other repurposed objects.

If you picked up the Collector’s Edition of Dead Space 2, you know it came with a cheap plastic replica of the Plasma Cutter. Kipkay improved his by outfitting it with laaaa-ser beeea-ms.

From the publishing house that gave us Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Android Karenina comes another posthumous collaboration, this time between Franz Kafka and Cook Coleridge.

The first full trailer for the updated classic(?) warrior tale stars a bunch of people with weird names that you’ve never heard of, the evil guy from Avatar – and the smokin’ hot Rose McGowan.

The Crovel (shovel and crowbar) eliminates the need for a plethora of tools in order to survive – it has 13 different tools for a multitude of tasks combined into one tidy package. (Thanks, Anton!)

Designed by Bob and John Loughlin, the TiGr is made of a flexible titanium bow and a compact, highly pick resistant lock cylinder. The tough and bendy bow is highly resistant to sawing and cutting.

David Thorne has documented his sometimes unsettling, but hysterical digital mischief on his website, 27bslash6.com. His new book catalogs his most memorable exploits – no Internet required.

(NSFW: Language) After their thrilling landing in Iraq, the Top Gear guys learn the hard way that the Middle Eastern desert is no place for roadsters, nor is it very appropriate for BBC hosts.