NSFW: A new threat is literally growing in American households. While offspring are typically excreted out of the house after an long 18 year gestation, some devolve into good-for-nothing parasites.

Help Car and Driver keep the manual transmission alive – it makes for a safer, more fuel-efficient and more fun ride. Don’t let your kids miss out on the thrill that only grinding your gears can provide.

The newly announced FujiFilm FinePix S2800HD camera has a 28mm-504mm high precision lens with 18X optical zoom, a 14 megapixel CCD sensor, 720p HD video and image stabilization.

Go straight from the street to the beach with these summer kicks from Opening Ceremony and Timberland. Made with have breathable mesh, quick-dry neoprene and waterproof nubuck suede.

If this trailer is any indication, the Terran campaign promises to be one hell of a ride. The Starcraft II website also has a couple of videos for those who need to catch up on Starcraft history.

A couple was sailing off the coast of South Africa when a 30ft, 40-ton Southern Right whale jumped out of the water and slammed into the side of their yacht. Incredibly, no one was hurt in the incident.

Louis Vuitton’s clever Spin Time GMT watch is built on a base ETA automatic movement, has a face with 12 cubes that rotate to show numerals in 24 hour format, an orange GMT hand and gold case.

We always thought that apparatus under Darth Vader’s mask looked like some sort of a musical instrument. Now we know it really was a harmonica… and boy, that Anakin can really blow!

We can’t think of a more delightful meal than a pre-cooked cheeseburger, vacuum-sealed inside a pop-top can. We’re pretty sure it won’t look like the burger in the photo when you open the can.

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.

A convicted arsonist (Edward Norton) asks his beautiful wife (Milla Jovovich) to help manipulate the man who holds the keys to his parole (Robert DeNiro). Opens in theaters this Fall.

A mod of the classic puzzle game. Instead of arranging the blocks to form lines, all you have to do is stack as many as you can. Easy right? Not with the new physics. Download the game here.

If you ever wondered what it might be like if God of War’s Kratos decided to make a peanut-butter and jelly sandwich, this video is for you. It makes absolutely no sense, but still made us chuckle.

Just in time for this week’s Comic-Con, Disney rolled out a new trailer for the upcoming TRON sequel, complete with digitally “de-aged” Jeff Bridges, and lots of new footage.

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.

Carry up to 4 adults and have amenities like a queen-size bed, a sofa, and built-in power supply. Choose from the all-aluminum Trail ($10,000) or the more rugged Extreme Trail ($12,000) Edition.

We’ve featured fascinating animals before. Unfortunately, Jimmy Nail’s not one of them. He can’t sing or act. Jimmy’s just a plain ol’ pigeon. A plain ol’ pigeon with a nail embedded in his head.

NSFW: The dog and the mallards are in cahoots, but it’s not like they love what they’re doing. Especially the birds, who are forced to smoke, drink Red Bull, take drugs, not to mention get shot.

Quicken’s handy visual guide shows how the typical American household can save money doing little things, from insulating the attic to changing the oil in your car. Click to see the whole guide.

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.

Dan Cassaro’s clever Garden State map based on Springsteen lyrics shows us where they haunt this dusty beach road in the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets, among other places. (Thanks Nik!)

Check out every Fatality from the original Mortal Kombat, demonstrated for us using paper cut-outs, courtesy of animator Eric Power. Gotta love those paper death spikes. They look really menacing.