Awesome Leisure

Give your middle finger a rest with the Drivemocion LED Car Sign; it displays 16 decidedly non-middle-fingery verbal and facial expressions while mounted to your rear window.

Introducing the LEGO MOC to end, crush, and recycle all other MOCs: Dave DeGobbi’s Crawler Town is a giant “Eco-punk” mobile city with hangar, solar panels, airport, and more.

It’s a bit hazy ethically, but Little Billy’s Letters is indeed a prank-de-force; praised by master hoaxer Alan Abel, fictional Little BIlly gets real replies from presidents, celebrities, and more.

We’ve known from the get-go of Yakuza 3’s emphasis on cinematics and storytelling, but this Characters Trailer gives us the low-down on the game’s good, the bad, and the really bad.

It’s been around since 2004, but hat tip to CM for this gem: the Big Bad-Ass Book of Shots is crammed with over 1,400 recipes and 706 pages of shots, shooters, and slammers.

This Ascension Trailer for Command & Conquer 4 hints at a surprising and dramatic conclusion to the Tiberian storyline: come to think of it, Kane’s been around for a looong time…

Splinter Cell: Conviction’s Story trailer is our kind of video: learn why Sam Fisher is pissed off, and then spend the next two minutes learning why you never get Sam Fisher pissed off.

Toltec Studio’s Unreal 3 mod The Ball goes commercial Summer 2010 with 6 hours of gameplay; this trailer shows off the action puzzler which stars (you guessed it) a giant lead ball.

Brooklyn’s Finest is also Hollywood’s finest, with a cast that includes Richard Gere, Wesley Snipes, Ethan Hawke, and Don Cheadle; it’s about NYPD officers in Brooklyn’s 65th precinct.

And we thought console games were expensive: Dunhill’s Shagreen Games Chest features chess, backgammon, and noughts & crosses wrapped in leather made from male rays.

Noteput lets you literally play with your music; the interactive table uses a camera that tracks the position of marked notes, which are then outputted via MIDI to sound software.

Rework’s entrepreneurial tips (“fire the workaholics,” “emulate drug dealers”) seem out of left field, but it has strong pedigree: it’s written by 37signals’ founders and has Seth Godin’s blessing.

Based on the work of The Crow’s James O’Barr and shot on a RED, Frame 137 stars 10-year old Sam Ransom; he does all his own wire work and fire breathing in this bad-ass teaser.

At 24″ this Super Shogun Stormtrooper may be a little short for a life-sized one, but it’s super-sized for collectors; it features rotating wheels on the feet and a Rocket Punch firing fist.

Because some days it just doesn’t pay to get out of bed (at least until high noon): Red Steel 2’s cowboy takes a licking but keeps on ticking, slicing, and ass-kicking in this Bad Day trailer.

Roger Ma’s Zombie Combat Club gets its first book 4/6/10; Zombie Combat Manual is packed with 320 pages of illustrations and accounts on surviving hand-to-hand battles with the undead.

Napoleon: Total War dishes on its new features in the trailer above; they include all seasons on the map, greater terrain detail, multiplayer campaigns, and environmental effects.

San Francisco-based Fatlace and YoYoFactory take the legendary toy back to its old school roots with a wooden Yo-yo; it comes laser etched with Fatlace graphics and is only $10.

Yes, EMSL’s Drink Making Unit is made with breast pumps, but it’s all in the name of affordable DIY; it’s able to make three-part drinks and display data via an 8×8 RGB LED matrix.

Hot Toys goes all out with this stunning 12″ Iron Man Mark III; made with over 300 pieces, it includes light-up eyes/ARC reactor, 7 pairs of hands, 2 chest plates, 2 helmets, and more.

Sure, it’s geared towards kids, but the Academy Award-nominated The Secret of Kells wins us over with its fantastic animation style and imaginative Celtic storyline. Thanks, Thorir!

Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch mixes Mega Man with Doom 2, turning the original 8-bit sprites and textures into a 3D shooter; the fan-created game aims to recreate Mega Man 1-6.

Available 4/13/10: Apollo 13 finally lands on Blu-ray for its 15th anniversary; it’ll feature 2.35:1 1080p video and 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio plus a feature commentary with Ron Howard.