His outbursts have knocked him a few rungs down the cool ladder, but Mel Gibson is finger lickin’ funny with The Colonel, a KFC meets The Patriot short produced with Jimmy Kimmel.

The bastard child of a Batmobile, a submarine and an F1 racer, the Tramontana R makes up for its funky looks with a twin-charged 5.5L V12 that gets 760hp and 811 lb-ft of torque.

This awesome trailer for Dante’s Inferno makes us wonder why more games aren’t situated in Hell; it not only overflows with maggots and demons but a nearly divine art style.

Forget those cheapy knife-in-the-head Halloween gags–this Gaping Hole Costume uses a digital camera and a DVD player strapped to your stomach to simulate a very bad ulcer.

It’s not quite R2D2’s holographic projector, but The Astonishing Tribe’s 3D Eyetracking UI uses active eyetracking and the cellphone’s orientation to simulate depth in real time.

Although Mario and Luigi are no strangers to flab, Tom Rhodes’ Old Game Characters introduce the joys of droopy skin and love handles to everyone from Lara Croft to Ken & Ryu.

The Safari 4 Beta is out for both Mac and PC users; it features fast JavaScript (30x over IE7; 3x over Firefox) and Cover Flow, as well as Tabs on Top and Top Sites a-la Google Chrome.

Oh hell yeah: Comet Crash bolsters PSN’s already healthy tower defense game lineup by adding counteroffensive attacks from the AI or–most importantly–a human player.

Oakley’s S.I. Assault Boot is the civvy version of gear made for the Elite Special Forces; it features ample wet/dry traction, a moisture-wicking liner and urethane shock absorption.

Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard gets a proper 80s-styled trailer, with mono audio, cheesy retro sound effects and even cheesier graphics; that, and Neil Patrick Harris.

Billed as their flagship multimedia desktop, the Dell XPS 435 comes with a Core i7 965 running at 3.2GHz, up to 24GB of RAM, 7.1 channel audio and a spiffy crimson trim.

While it may not pack as many tools as Topeak’s Alien II, this Increase Utility Knife by Stussy sneaks in a few goodies, including a pen light and tone-on-tone Stussy graffiti logo.

Meet Captain Awesomer, above: we built him in The Hero Factory, a comic book-styled website that lets you customize apparel, abilities and more, all while listening to 80s music.

These streamlined Focal XS 2.1 speakers don’t just look great, but produce studio quality sound for professionals via an active amplifier; they also include a convenient iPod dock.

A must for any retro arcade fan, Neil Gregory’s A Simple Plan t-shirt shows that all space invasions start off easily enough; just be sure you can survive the inevitable hail of pixels.

We’re not fans of the bug-eyed styling, but Alfa Romeo’s MiTo GTA hatchback presents real competition for the MINI JCW with a turbocharged, VVT DI engine that pushes out 240 hp.

This trailer for Jumpgate: Evolution reminds us of EVE: Online, but that’s not a bad thing: more space-based MMOGs are always welcome, and this one should be out in June.

Alesis’ ProTrack stereo audio recorder now works with the iPod Touch; you’ll get up to 13 hours per GB via condense and dynamic mics or mixer outputs; you’ll also need iProRecorder.

Featuring a blast furnace for a chimney effect, the Grilletto is a portable charcoal grill that folds in half for easy storage; it also includes 170 sq. in. of cooking surface and a roasting oven.

Even at the age of 68, French designer agnes b. continues to keep things fresh with this DC Shoes collab; the lightly perfed leather and classic colors will launch in Paris next month.

Whatever your politics, we like that Sundance winner Sleep Dealer takes risks with modern issues; it presents them in a dystopic thriller that mixes Blade Runner with A Brave New World.

As if the giant 3″ OLED screen wasn’t enough, Samsung’s 12MP TL320 packs a pair of analog gauges for battery and storage capacity; it also features a wide-angle lens with 5x zoom.

Carl Sagan’s prescient prose really resonates in this amazing short by Michael Marantz; it’s titled The Pale Blue Dot, after Sagan’s 1994 book and Voyager 1 photo of the same name.