Awesome Leisure

Our experience shooting off fireworks is limited to the occasional bottle rocket, but these guys did just a little more than that, shooting off 15,000 fireworks in sequence from a single ignition.

Craving some sugary sweets at your desk, and already filled up on mini donuts? Get your hands on this essential bit of cookery, and you’ll be popping tiny cupcakes in your mouth in 5 minutes flat.

If you think about the number of cigarettes smoked during the first three seasons of Mad Men, we’re pretty sure everyone in the show would have died of lung cancer by the start of this season.

Tony Nijhuis’ incredible R/C model plane not only looks just like the real B-50 bomber on which it’s based, it actually flies. The plane has a 19-foot wingspan, and took 2 years and $9000 to build.

This design for a futuristic yacht by Yuk Dragovic features a retractable swimming pool that can put you eye-to-eye with the surrounding seas. Keeps sharks out, assuming they’re not the jumping type.

If you spent countless nights since 2004 glued to your television to find out what would become of LOST’s castaways, now you can own a bit of the island for yourself at this prop auction.

This incredible fountain from KOEI Aquatec is located in Japan’s Canal City mall, and can “paint” images and words on a curtain of water using computer-controlled H2O jets.

The coolest thing about tarp surfing is that you can’t drown. Plus, you can do it anywhere – without waiting for high tide. Heck, you can even do it in a parking lot. Added bonus: no sharks.

Perfect for group hugs – or kills. Unfortunately, they’re sold out already, but maybe you can ask the creator to make some more. Or try to make a pair yourself. All you need is cardboard anyway.

The Pnoe fiberglass horn speakers from Arcadian Audio have a distinctive round back loaded horn design. They use an AER MD3B driver, are 100 db sensitive and have 16 Ohms impedance.

If you’re into Halo and haven’t run out and bought yourself the new Xbox 360 yet, you might want to wait ’til 9/14 for this $400 silvery-grey console, bundled with Halo: Reach, and two controllers.

And we thought the building jumping, wall climbing acrobatics of Parkour were a recent phenomenon. Check out this 1930 footage of Arnim Dahl which proves that it’s been around much longer than that.

Super villain Super Skrull, the mysterious Trish from Devil May Cry, and returning warriors Chun-Li and Doctor Doom join the fray in Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, due Spring 2011.

Not only is it loaded with over 20 mini-games inspired by 1980s arcade classics, the normally $20 game is yours for exactly the price of one e-mail address if you grab it before Monday, 7/26.

EA/Maxis’ upcoming action RPG takes the Spore franchise to a new, dark place it never went in the original. The Darkspore is transforming planets into armies of mutants, and it’s up to you to stop them.

It’s our hero’s finest hour in Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour, the last volume of an epic tale of love, music and video games. Will he and Ramona end up together, or will he get killed trying?

This wacky game for the PlayStation Eye or Move puts your likeness into a cartoon fighter, then take on opponents by wildly gesticulating. We can’t decide if it looks stupid or fun – or stupid fun.

Out 10/26, the Blu-ray box set includes all four Alien films in HD, with 60 hours of bonus features and 12,000 still images. The limited-edition egg version might be worth the extra dough.

File this one under the “one-trick-pony” category. There’s something just so wrong it’s right about this ridiculous Japanese invention that’s perfect for cooling a watermelon, or maybe a head.

We’re already excited about the gameplay of 007 Blood Stone. Its opening credits look even sexier, with music by Joss Stone and Dave Stewart. It’s the next best thing to a real Bond flick.

This 4-wheeled, 4-person recumbent bike is a marvel of modern mechanical engineering. See it up close and personal at Detroit’s Maker Faire 7/31-8/1. Maybe you can beg for a ride.

Created by a group of designers at Valve hired from the Mod community, Alien Swarm not only looks like an awesome co-op game, it’s FREE, and comes with all game code. Hits Steam on 7/19.

Go on a romantic date to the bottom of the sea in this 2-person electric sub, capable of diving up to 6 hours at depths down to 1,000 feet, to explore exotic oceanic species. (Thanks for the tip, Ron!)