Warring inhabitants lay waste to their home planet while fighting for territory and energy. Sounds familiar. If only we could transform into dinosaurs and combine to form mega vehicle robots.

Noah Lambert’s Uni-Fold Wallet achieves durability through simplicity. Each wallet is handmade and hand-stitched by Lambert from a single piece of leather, so it has no weak folds or joints.

Kåre (“Zenta”) Halvorsen’s incredibly cool, equally creepy MorpHex robot starts out looking like a ball, but can sprout six legs and walk around whenever it feels like it. Fortunately, it has no weapons (yet.)

For 40+ years, Al Jaffee has written MAD’s Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions. Last year, the 90-year-old Jaffee did a live reading, and we have to say we plan on using some of these lines now.

We are getting a laugh out of this goofy Cthulhu weenie roaster; even though he looks more like the Punisher than the H.P. Lovecraft character, the encased meat beard looks pretty dapper.

Motion director Paul Clements has created a stunning animated ad for the Ministry of Sound’s headphones that is is quite mind boggling. We love the part when the earphone gets wrapped.

An explosive spectacle by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Quiang over the desert of Qatar, firing off colorful clouds in place of sparks. The big booms and massive fireballs don’t hurt either.

Animator Steven Briand (aka BURAYAN) created this trippy stop-motion short while doing a two-month internship at Partizan. We only wish all internships were this creative and productive.

Combining our urge to crush cans with our bare (not bear) hands with smart industrial design, Emami Designs’ Handycan fits human (and bear) hands perfectly, and crushes like an accordion.

They appear to take their puppetry in Taiwan a bit more seriously than we do here, with artful, intricate puppets, and even some that breathe fire. From the upcoming documentary, PuppetVision.

YouTubers Austin Dodge and Elliot Barbernell left disposable cameras around their town, with each camera accompanied by signs that urged people to snap away. Here’s what happened.

Still haven’t found gifts for your pets for the holidays? Dogmeat toys are packaged and shaped like cuts of meat. They’re nontoxic and completely safe. Not safe enough to eat though.

Can’t get enough of the zombie genre? Keep an eye out for this film by airsoft gun maker Airsoft GI and CGI studio Northern Five Entertainment. It’s bound to be an ad, but at least it’ll be fun to watch.

Has a 12.1-megapixel CMOS sensor and a do-it-all 24× super-telephoto zoom lens. CNet says it will drop in January 2012 for $950 with Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements as freebies.

For Stephen Neary, deer are man’s best friend. And his worst enemy is his own soul. This bizarre, yet heartwarming video is one of the animated shorts included in the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

A icy smooth track from promising MC/battle rapper Dirtbag Dan and Anya, whose voice is as hypnotic and seductive as her beauty. The song is from Dirtbag Dan’s Selfhelp Tapes Vol. 4.

The latest trailer for BioShock: Infinite has a tearjerker for a song, thrilling and lively in-game sequences and beautiful graphics. Quite the overload. The song is Will the Circle be Unbroken.

Ever wanted some cool gadget that’s only sold in Japan? For a 15% fee, WRE helps you buy just about anything from Japan. Just send a link to the item you want, pay for it, and they’ll do the rest.

Korean artist Kang Duck-Bong creates these sculptures which look like they got hit with Photoshop’s “Wind” filter, using only pieces of PVC pipe, painted with urethane paint.

Poor Bella has Megaesophagus, a syndrome that makes it difficult to properly swallow. Her special chair helps her sit up and use gravity to bring food and fluids to her stomach. More here.

We’re assuming the robots-run-amok plotline of the new Spider-Man game parallels the 2012 movie reboot, but even if we’re wrong, the idea of Spidey battling spider-like robots looks like fun.

Halfway between a Samurai’s blade and a gardening tool, this two-handed weapon can clear brush with no problems, but is probably best used taking down approaching zombies with a one-handed throw.

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