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Handmade Buckeye Candy

Handmade Buckeye Candy
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Looks like we won’t be leaving the house because it’s football season now, so it’s a good thing that the Sweet Brittle Baking Company can ship, among other delicious treats, these Buckeye candies. Perfect for celebrating when The Ohio State beats that team up north.

Amusien 3D Metal Model Kits

Amusien 3D Metal Model Kits

While we’re not sure the designs are officially licensed, the metal model kits from Amusien are still pretty awesome – especially the ones with color. Among their flat-pack kits are a Peterbilt 389 truck and Optimus Prime, along with a Scorpion Gunship straight from Avatar.

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Dan Sultan: Magnetic

Dan Sultan: Magnetic

Dropbear Digital’s incredible music video for Dan Sultan’s track Magnetic was created through a mix of 3D printing, stop-motion, and projection mapping techniques to bring the singer’s digitized avatar to life. The behind-the-scenes photo album is equally fascinating.

Death Stranding (Teaser)

Death Stranding (Teaser)

Hideo Kojima’s first game with his independent studio is an open-world action PS4 exclusive that stars perfect avatars of actors Norman Reedus and Mads Mikkelsen, along with director Guillermo del Toro. Aaaand that’s all we know. But in Kojima we trust.

Nendoroid Korra Action Figure

Nendoroid Korra Action Figure
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Team up with the headstrong Avatar Korra with Good Smile Company’s cute 4″ action figure. The Nendoroid Korra has joints in her hair, and the included water and fire bending effects have their own stands to give you a variety of posing options.

Voltron: Legendary Defender (Trailer)

Voltron: Legendary Defender (Trailer)

Take a look at the new Lion Force crew and robots in the first full trailer for Netflix’s Voltron: Legendary Defender. If the cartoon’s tone and action seem familiar, that’s because its showrunners used to work on Nick’s sublime Avatar series. Form hype and hype!

What Unobtainium Really Means

What Unobtainium Really Means

Many people derided Avatar‘s use of “Unobtainium” as a name for a rare mineral. But the word actually exists in real life, a humorous term coined by engineers for rare or non-existent materials. Which means the movie actually made good use of it.

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Kiss of Animals Poster

Kiss of Animals Poster
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Artist Róbert Farkas created this awesome image which envisions rockers Simmons, Frehley, Stanley and Criss as their animal avatars. Find individual prints of each animal (and other great art) in his Society6 shop.

FaceRig

FaceRig

A program that uses ordinary webcams to give you a digital avatar, which mimics your head movement and facial expressions in real time. You can use it to stream or record videos and make animated movies or video games.

Mind Blowing Movie Facts

Mind Blowing Movie Facts

BuzzFeed presents a handful of movie trivia, including the reason Indiana Jones shoots the guy with the sword in Raiders of the Lost Ark, resulting in an unplanned classic movie moment, and one possible reason Avatar got made.

Robot Combat League

Robot Combat League

SyFy’s new brings Real Steel to real life, as contestants take one each other using killer robotic avatars, remotely controlled by their pilots. Though we’re still waiting for wearable mech suit fights.

Conan Plays Halo 4

Conan Plays Halo 4

(NSFW, Spoilers) Conan O’Brien plays the blockbuster FPS for his Clueless Gamer segment. Watch him pine for the good ‘ol days, punch his avatar and ruin Cortana for ever. Alt. link here.

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LEGO Mini Stig

LEGO Mini Stig

Some say that he is biologically related to all the “blue” people who appeared in Avatar… All we know is that The Stig finally has his own LEGO minifig – UK shipping addresses only though :sadface.

Double Telepresence Robot

Double Telepresence Robot

Double Robotics’ gyroscopically-balanced robot gives you a remote-controlled avatar you can drive from anywhere on the planet. It uses an iPad as it’s display and camera, and another as its controller.

LBP Karting (Trailer 2)

LBP Karting (Trailer 2)

An Olympic-themed trailer for LittleBigPlanet Karting. Design and share your own karts, tracks and even power-ups. Pre-order to get Kevin Butler’s Sackboy avatar and his golf cart kart.

The Legend of Korra (Trailer)

The Legend of Korra (Trailer)

The Legend of Korra is about Korra of the Southern Water Tribe, the next Avatar after Aang. She will strive to master the four elements while living in a society that favors technology over bending.

GOLIATH

GOLIATH

The music sounds awfully familiar, and the CGI isn’t up to Avatar standards, but we’re still impressed with this concept trailer for Alex Popov’s sci-fi action flick, which he says cost just $150 to make.

Conan the Barbarian (Trailer)

Conan the Barbarian (Trailer)

The first full trailer for the updated classic(?) warrior tale stars a bunch of people with weird names that you’ve never heard of, the evil guy from Avatar – and the smokin’ hot Rose McGowan.

In 3D Supercut

In 3D Supercut

3D films have been around since the ’50s, but thanks (or no thanks) to Avatar’s launch in 2009, countless movies have jumped onto the annoying bandwagon. Mouth-watering 3D? Come on.

Project Draco

Project Draco

Created by Yukio Futatsugi, the guy behind the classic SEGA Panzer Dragoon, this game also features flying dragons, but it plays with the Xbox 360 Kinect. It also does not remind us of Avatar.

Twitter Parade

Twitter Parade

Hit up this nifty website with your favorite Twitter ID or keyword, and it’ll make your own personal parade, complete with your followers, their tiny avatar heads and what they’ve been tweeting.

Sim2 C3X Lumis 3D Projectors

Sim2 C3X Lumis 3D Projectors
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Going for that Avatar-at-the-theater quality 3D media room experience? Sim2’s new C3X Lumis 3D just might do the trick with its dual projector system, each with 3 DarkChip4 1080p DLPs.

Oakley Blade II Watch

Oakley Blade II Watch
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According to Oakley’s Blade II web page, the timepiece contains Unobtanium, the MacGuffin from Avatar in it. All we see is a spiky black stainless steel and rubber watch with looks that could kill.

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