This isn’t good as the Optimus Prime Cake from last year, but still is a good effort.

The cake is a mixture of carrot cake (My favourite cake) and chocolate cake (everyones favourite cake), the wheels were made from sugar icing and were ludicrously sweet.

via ohmz

If you can’t drink it, it’s not beer but if you can talk to it, it could be a Budweiser telephone. (or just a beer bottle and you got too drunk)

Too bad, the beer bottle isn’t real glass, making it too easy to tell it’s not a real beer bottle.

• Very Vivid Budweiser beer shape phone.
• Beer Telephone is prefect as a decoration in your bedroom / living-room / bar-table / computer desk / pub / snack store
• Last Number Redial.
• The functions of “*” and “#” button are not the same as usual telephones. The”*” button is for Redial, and the “#” button is for Pause. There are no usual “*” and “#” button in the Phone.
• Enter your desired numbers, suppose the line is busy, just press the reset button and press”*” then the last number will be redialed automatically
• When rings, pick up your phone, you will be incontact with your caller
• Just stand the phone upright on any flat surface to hang up, lift to get dial tone.
• Both Headphones and mike are attached on the body of the Budweiser bottle.

via engadget

Sharp is working on solar LCD TVs for houses without electricity.

The only question I have is, if they don’t get electricity, will they get any TV reception at all?  (Maybe air reception is good… real good…)

LCD prototype which uses just a quarter of the power (or a third measured annually) of a conventional CRT with the same screen size. That’s low enough to be suitably powered by a Sharp, triple-junction thin-film solar cell module whose surface area is roughly equivalent to that of the LCD screen.

via engadget

A Super Mario Bros. fan?  Well, now you can easily turn your bedroom walls into a Super Mario Bros. playland.

via tokyomango

5 TB 3.5 inch hard drives maybe coming soon…in the next 2 years or so.

Hitachi has pledged to release a 5TB 3.5in hard drive within two years, and it claims two of the drives will boast enough capacity to store everything in your brain.

According to a report by Nikkei Net, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies will use Current-Perpendicular-to-Plane Giant Magnetoresistance (CPP-GMR) magnetc read heads to achieve the aim. This, the firm claims, will allow its drives to store 1TB of data in every square inch of the recording surface.

via reghardware

Canadians are upset about the high prices of the new iPhone 3G and what will they do to bring down the prices?

They are going to boycott iPhone 3G phones until the telecom companies bring down the price.

What do I think?

It’s a great idea as I have been guilty of boycotting iPhone for the last 2 years or so. (although I do own an iPod Touch, nothing wrong with that)

My boycott has to do with the fact that iPhone hooked up with AT&T’s slow network.  Even with the new 3G, I won’t buy one until “everyone” starts telling me it’s so fast instead of “it’s so slow”.

Here’s some news you can read up on Canadians:

Solution to high iPhone prices is not to buy one
One answer: Don’t buy the iphone

The user-accessible screws on the new iPhone 3G might be an indication of user-changeable batteries. (although we highly doubt Apple would do that)

As previously noted, Apple’s new “guided tour” of the iPhone 3G demonstrates operation of the AppStore and a slew of already-detailed functionality. Closer inspection of the video has unveiled a few more revelations.

A look at the bottom of the new iPhone 3G during the video reveals new audio components on the bottom of the iPhone 3G. The left side grill is the speaker and the right hand side is the microphone. Apple purports “greatly enhanced” audio from the new hardware.

via iphoneatlas

If you have been looking for a door stop that looks like a key, (not that you would ever in a million years) you can get the Key to the Doorstop.

If you need to keep any door open here’s likely the most appropriate door stop, a giant key, simply ingenious (that may be going a bit far).

via coolest-gadgets

If you thought Nintendo Duck Hunt was innovative back in the 90s, take a look at this ultimate shooting trainer which incorporates theater-sized screens and life-like ducks you can shoot.

The simulator can be used with most shotguns and rifles. The camera sensor that registers gun movements and shooting direction can be easily attached to the barrel of your own gun. The shooting direction is calibrated by a single shot at a calibration target. The shooting scenarios include moving and fixed targets. Starting position, trajectory, speed of the targets are parameters that can be altered by the user creating a wide variety of scenarios to practice on. Hit position and the effectiveness of the shot are evaluated according to all contributing factors: ammunition load and weight, range, target size, trajectory and speed.

via bornrich

Believe it or not, this guy claims that he can start BBQ charcoals faster with his homemade wire-mesh and hair dryer.

You might want to consider trying this method for your Independence Weekend BBQ.

Whenever I have trouble starting coals for my BBQ I grab a hair dryer, point it at my grill and pull the trigger. One minute later I have red hot coals and I never have to use any lighter fluid to get them started.

Video after the jump!

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via instructables