It looks like the LEGO Sith Trooper won’t be the only life-size brick-built character to grace San Diego Comic-Con. A life-size LEGO Marvel’s Iron Man, straight out of Avengers: Endgame, will be joining the party too. So yeah, it is indeed the Iron Man with the Nano Gauntlet – complete with lighting to boot. Lighting […]
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In Finland, Heavy Metal Knitting Championships Gave Birth To Headbanging Knitters
There are all sorts of championships. From the seemingly normal ones like arm wrestling to a little odder ones like mud running to full-on weird competitions like butt slapping championship and this: Heavy Metal Knitting World Championships. Wait, what? Yes, really. In fact, the first of the kind Heavy Metal Knitting World Championships just concluded […]
Grandpa Pokémon Go Player Has Evolved From Playing With 11 Smartphones To 30
Remember Chen San-yuan, AKA Pokémon Go Grandpa, who was seen on the streets of Taiwan playing Pokémon Go with 11 smartphones? Well, apparently, in between now and then, he has upgraded to 20 devices and even more recently, he has evolved up to an incredible 30 devices. As you can see from the video below, […]
Transformers: War For Cybertron Unicron Will Be Largest Transformers Toys At 27 Inches Tall
I guarantee that this will be the most exciting news for fans of Transformers, specifically the animated series, today. What you see here is Transformers: War For Cybertron Unicron, the harbinger of death and destruction, and the ultimate villain in the Transformers universe first seen in the Transformers: The Movie (1986, Sunbow Productions). You will […]
Mondo Is Bringing Some Pretty Snazzy Metal Gear Solid Merch To SDCC, Including This Vinyl Set
Good news, fans of Metal Gear Solid. Mondo art house is bringing a couple of MSG goodies to this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. There are two merchandises to look out for. The first is a poster with artwork by Sachin Teng and the second item is the first-time-on-vinyl soundtrack released for the 1998 Playstation video […]
Gucci Adds Retro Arcade Games To Its Official Mobile App
Here’s an interesting development in the world of designer’s fashion and spoiler alert, it has absolutely nothing to do with fashion. Gucci has added two arcade games to its official mobile app, Gucci, in two separate updates in April and May (version 5.32 and version 5.31, respectively).
Mattel Celebrates 50 Years Of Space Oddity With A Super Cool David Bowie Barbie Doll
The many faces Mattel’s Barbie now expand to include the late English singer-songwriter and actor David Bowie. Marking the 50 years of Bowie’s hit song Space Oddity from his second studio album released in 1969, David Bowie, Mattel has introduced a David Bowie Barbie doll.
Unihertz Is Making A BlackBerry Passport-like Rugged Android Smartphone
Here’s a piece of good news for lovers of smartphone with physical QWERTY keyboard who sometimes have butterfingers. In other words, a BlackBerry Passport-like device that can survive the punishment of clumsy hands and a device that fits into an established ecosystem such as Google Android.
GPD P2 Max Is No Bigger Than An iPad mini 4, Staking Claim As The “World’s Smallest Ultrabook”
China-based computer maker who kind of carved a niche in making tiny laptop, AKA ultra mobile PC (UMPC), or basically a netbook is back on Indiegogo peddling its latest tiny laptop called GPD P2 Max. Billed as the world’s smallest ultrabook, the GPD P2 Max is about the size of an iPad mini 4, measuring […]
This Is LG UltraGear Nano, The World’s First 1 Millisecond IPS Gaming Monitor
At last month’s E3, LG Electronics revealed the new LG UltraGear Nano IPS NVIDIA G-SYNC gaming monitor which the South Korea electronics maker claimed as the “world’s first 1 millisecond (ms) IPS display.” Mind you, though. The 1 ms isn’t the panel response time; it is 1 ms GTG, or gray to gray. It means, […]