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Crabs Adjust Humidity

Crabs Adjust Humidity
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(NSFW: Language) Are you no longer disgusted by your Cards Against Humanity deck? Check out Crabs Adjust Humidity, an unofficial expansion of the world’s most offensive party game. It’s the Mega Bloks of card games.

Shark Laser Pointer

Shark Laser Pointer
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Make your presentations deadlier with ThinkGeek’s Shark With Frickin’ Laser Pointer. Sure, they’re not as awesome as actual sharks with laser beams on their heads, but you’re not actually Dr. Evil either.

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Take on Mars

Take on Mars

This sim puts you behind the controls of robotic vehicles to explore the sandy and rocky surface of the red planet. While it’s not the most action-packed game, it’s the closest you’ll get to driving NASA’s Mars Rover. Coming to Windows PC.

RHex: Parkour Robot

RHex: Parkour Robot

University of Pennsylvania’s RHex robot has six bouncy legs which let it not only run like a screaming banshee, but it can climb stairs and spring itself into the air. While it’s designed for rescue missions, we want a toy version.

Canary Home Security

Canary Home Security

A home security device controlled via an iOS or Android app. Canary can not only display and record videos, it can also track motion, temperature, humidity and air quality. It also has a night vision mode, a speaker and a siren.

Vespaology

Vespaology

Creative agency Nomoon put together this animated tribute to the last 70 years of the iconic little scooters, from 1943 to 2013. We had no idea Vespa made a car. Or a military scooter. Or a gyrocopter/submarine for that matter.

Lifesaver Jerrycan

Lifesaver Jerrycan

The Lifesaver Jerrycan holds up to 5 gallons of water. It can filter all known viruses, bacteria, parasites and fungi from freshwater sources. Its filter can clean up to about 5,300 gallons of water. It also has a shower attachment.

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What Blind People Find Attractive

What Blind People Find Attractive

Blind Film Critic Tommy Edison explains what he finds attractive in a woman, without the benefit of sight. Maybe if we all connected with our partners on this level, there wouldn’t be so many failed relationships.

Da Police

Da Police

We’re not sure why these Danish cops are getting chauffeured around on a stack of speakers in the first place, but that’s not important. It’s the tune they’re jamming out to that is. Original (sideways) version here.

Shadowrun Returns (Trailer)

Shadowrun Returns (Trailer)

The Kickstarter-funded cyberpunk fantasy RPG launches this week. Play as a Shadowrunner and complete dangerous missions for money and power. Wield magic and machines, hire companions and talk, hack or fight to survive.

Caterpillar Speed Trick

Caterpillar Speed Trick

On his trip to the Amazon Rainforest, Destin of Smarter Every Day found a group of caterpillars that seem to have figured a way for all of them to move faster. How? By acting as each other’s conveyor belt. Unedited video here.

NVIDIA Shield

NVIDIA Shield

NVIDIA’s first mobile gaming device is available for pre-order and shipping soon. It runs Android Jelly Bean and comes with two games, with more on Google Play. Also streams games from your PC if you have a compatible graphics card.

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Snake & Mongoose (Trailer)

Snake & Mongoose (Trailer)

They may not be as famous as James Hunt and Niki Lauda, but the rivalry and marketing savvy of legendary drag racers Tom “The Mongoo$e” McEwen and Don “The Snake” Prudhomme revolutionized and popularized their sport.

Cocoon Slim Backpack

Cocoon Slim Backpack
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The Slim is Cocoon’s first ever backpack to have a pocket lined with the company’s awesome Grid-It! elastic straps. This lets you store items vertically and maximize the bag’s space. It also has room for a 15″ MacBook Pro.

Flaming Card Trick

Flaming Card Trick

Stuntman Steve Truglia is also a magician and an expert on gambling cheaters. Here, he does a burn and a card trick to symbolize the pressure that cheaters feel. The trick isn’t great, but we certainly couldn’t do better while on fire.

Mirror City

Mirror City

Time-lapse videos of Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego, Las Vegas and Los Angeles turned into kaleidoscopic eye candy by photographer Michael Shainblum. Check out the stills on his Flickr page. The song is Butterfly by Bassnectar.

Grandma Rocks the Skins

Grandma Rocks the Skins

While music store performances aren’t always the best, you’ve got to hand it to this little old lady who stopped by La Crosse, Wisconsin’s Coalition Drum Shop to turn in an impromptu performance. (Thanks Aaron!)

Cosplayers out of Character

Cosplayers out of Character

We usually see photos of cosplayers hamming it up with their fake weapons and muscles, but CollegeHumor curated this series of geeks doing ordinary things at conventions. We always wondered if superheroes went to the bathroom.

2014 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG

2014 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG

The latest variant of the luxurious S63 AMG sedan turns in an admirable 0 to 60 time of just 3.9 seconds, with the help of a 577hp 5.5L biturbo V8, and a 220 pound weight reduction. And how about that all LCD dashboard?

Minecraft Creeper IRL

Minecraft Creeper IRL

For his latest clip, Richard over at RatedRR lives out many a geek’s fantasy, by obliterating one of those pesky Minecraft Creepers with 30 pounds of real TNT. Unfortunately, one of his GoPros was a casualty, but the big boom was worth it.

12 Years a Slave

12 Years a Slave

There are already Oscar rumors for what look like powerful performances from Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender in this film based on the true story of Solomon Northrup, a free man who was abducted and sold into slavery in 1841.

Goorin Bros. Heisenberg Hat

Goorin Bros. Heisenberg Hat

Be the one who knocks with this limited-edition hat based on the one donned by Walter White. Comes with an equally awesome hat box with the man himself emblazoned on top. The first batch sold at SDCC, but more are coming soon.

Hunger Games 2 (Trailer)

Hunger Games 2 (Trailer)

Katniss and Peeta planted the seeds of hope in the hearts of Panem’s oppressed citizens. But they don’t have time to worry about the rebellion: the next Hunger Games is a fight between winners from previous Games.

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