I'm not surprised that Bandai's new 20 inch tall fully remote controlled Mecha Godzilla sold out instantly. This thing is a beauty. You can make it walk, spin its head and hands, move its arms, open and close its mouth, and activate flashing lights in its eyes, fingertips, mouth and chest! Watch the video above. Unfortunately, it lacks the ability to shoot laser beams from its mouth but I'm pretty sure no Godzilla fanboy is complaining.
If you're looking to buy a gift for a friend who loves the Transformers, then look no further than these Transformers inspired cufflinks. The silver plated cufflinks are engraved with the image of the Decepticon/Autobot insignia. Freaking awesome! And I guarantee that your friend will love you forever for these.
The best birthday cake ever! Some lucky boy got this alien autopsy birthday cake complete with green alien blood and internal organs for his birthday. Check out the look on the faces of the kids at his birthday party here. Priceless!
The Star Trek Communicator keychain is a replica of the actual Communicator used in the Star Trek TV series. Comes with 8 sound clips from the original crew including “Kirk to Enterprise” and “He’s dead Jim”.
Probably one of the best Transformers toys ever! This all-white Optimus Prime stands 6" tall in robot mode but it's all music to your ears when he transforms into a truck that doubles up as a speaker system that docks with your iPod!
Fans of old school Batman will love this kooky 1966 Batman card game by Whitman Publishing and National Periodical Publications. The card game was based on the original Batman TV show and features drawings of Batman, Robin and other characters.
In 1992, Michael Jackson patented a method for creating anti-gravity illusion. The system consists of a special shoe that has a hitch designed to attach to a projection in a stage. When the shoe engages with the component in the stage, the performer can lean forward beyond his center of gravity. Ah, so that's how he did those moves on stage.
Meet 4 year old Charmaine. She has been diagnosed with stage four neuroblastoma, a debilitating cancer that occurs in children and has been given a 10% chance of survival by her doctors in Singapore.
Watch this video of Charmaine in NUH for her 4th chemo session. She's a brave and cute girl!
There's a new trial drug (3F8) available in the United States that has been known to dramatically increase survival rates by up to five times. The drug is being administered at New York's Memorial Sloane-Kettering Cancer Centre, considered the world’s premier center for treating children with neuroblastoma. With this treatment, Charmaine could have a 50% chance to live, but it comes with a hefty S$500,000 price tag!
To help pay for her medical fees, local football legends Rafi Ali, Fandi Ahmad, Abbas Saad, Malek Awab and more, will come together once again tomorrow, Sunday, 28 June 2009, to host a charity game featuring a Media & All-Stars team against the former ‘Dream Team’. Details below.
Date: Sunday, 28 June 2009 Venue: Tampines Stadium, 25 Tampines Street 82, S528988 Time: 5pm Price: S$10 (tickets can be purchased at Tampines Stadium)
Other organizations have also been forthcoming with donations and fundraising initiatives. Tampines Rovers Football Club, for example, has kindly offered its stadium grounds as a venue for the charity match, and has volunteered to handle ticketing matters. Staff and management of ladies’ spa Subtle Senses have also come forward as volunteers to collect donations at the charity event that will go towards Charmaine’s medical fund. Subtle Senses will further support the cause by giving away vouchers to every donor to redeem for a complimentary spa treatment. Other organizations that have come forward to help include Coca-Cola, Bengawan Solo and many more.
The game will be hosted by MediaCorp actor Oli Pettigrew and Paul Foster from the drama series Red Thread. Also attending is the Minister for National Development and MP for Tampines GRC Mr Mah Bow Tan. Charmaine and her family are expected to attend the event.
In this Japanese variety show, popular Japanese comedian Banana Man Himura has to spend one week among the people of the Gal-Sa tribe, gals who do nothing but dance Para-Para. Must watch!
I cannot believe he's gone. Michael Jackson has died after suffering a cardiac arrest at his home. I'm shocked and very, very sad. Michael was my idol when I was growing up. I listened to his songs, watched all his videos and danced all his moves. I even mastered his Moonwalking and crotch grabbing.
It was only last night when I listened to my all time favourite Michael Jackson song before I went to sleep. One Day in Your Life was recorded by Michael for his 1975 album, Forever, Michael. It was a song very close to my heart. It was Michael's favourite song too. So here it is again, a young Michael singing One Day in Your Life. Watch the video above and listen carefully to the lyrics. I will remember you Michael and thanks for the songs and memories.
I think I need a new office chair. This one made from the ejection seat of an F-4 Phantom - one of my favourite military aircrafts - looks just perfect for me. Will send the link to my boss and hope that he buys me one.
I'm trying to look for more scans of this crazy Japanese comic featuring everybody's favourite alien, E.T.! Don't think Steven Spielberg would like it much but there's a part of me that wants to see more of E.T. getting punched on its face.
If there's one live action movie featuring giant robots that I would like to watch besides Transformers, it has to be Gundam. Someone should make a movie out of the popular anime series but please give this Pink Gundam a miss. I actually love it but I think it is way too pretty to be fighting a war.
Play four different bongo sounds with the Electronic Bongo Drum T-Shirt! It is a touch sensitive drum t-shirt with built-in speaker. Just touch the four drums on the t-shirt and impress your friends with your bongo playing abilities.
Frederick's of Hollywood is a well known retailer of lingerie in the United States, with stores in many modern shopping malls across the USA. Here's its 1964 catalog "Get that marry-a-millionaire look".
They are back! Those giant effing robots are here again. That's right. Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen is finally out in the cinemas. The movie opened yesterday here in Singapore but I was able to catch it on Monday at its Gala Premiere held at Cathay Cineplex.
Ok. Here's something you should know. Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen does not suck. Really! Don't listen to those bloody film critics. In fact, there were plenty of cheers and claps at the Gala Premiere. And me, well I was probably the noisiest. So noisy that I was surprised nobody tried to kick me out of the cinema. And yes, I did shout "I love you Michael Bay" at the end.
So what's Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen all about? It takes place two years after the events in the first Transformers movie. Autobots are now working with the US military to wipe out the remaining Decepticons on Earth. Megatron gets a second chance at life, flies out of the sea where he was dead for the past 2 years to somewhere in outer space. He meets Starscream and The Fallen, who surprise, surprise is Megatron's master. The Fallen is one of the original Primes who betrayed his fellow robot brothers millions of years ago. The Fallen wants Optimus Prime dead so he gets the Decepticons to kill him. Yes, Optimus Prime dies! But Prime being Prime cannot stay dead forever so he returns towards the later part of the movie after being revived to give both Megatron and The Fallen a major ass whopping and save Earth in the process. The end.
So do I really like Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen? You bet! It's one hell of an entertaining movie from start to the end with lots of action packed into the 2 1/2 hours long film. The first Transformers movie was superb and this sequel is just as good. The Transformers and their transformation scenes are exhilarating to watch and so are all their fight scenes especially the one where Optimus was fatally wounded.
There are plenty of Transformers in the film and fans of Autobots and Decepticons should be satisfied. I thought the Constructicons were amazing. They looked menacing even in their vehicle mode. And when they transformed and combined into the giant Devastator, I was like WOW. That thing is scary! Both Megatron and Starscream got lots more screen time together which is great to watch.
Autobots being Autobots are pussies just like in the first film but in Revenge of The Fallen, Optimus Prime really stood out and showed us what a kick-ass Autobot he really is. Bumblebee is super cool but Optimus, he's someone I would want on my side when I face evil robots. Hear that, Optimus?
The humans in Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen are enjoyable to watch too. Shia LaBeouf once more did well in his role as Sam. This guy is really destined for big things. Sam's parents are funny as usual but his mum was just way too irritating in this movie. I was hoping Optimus or some other Transformer would just step on her. I give full marks to John Turturro who plays the Sector 7 agent. Yes, he makes a return in the sequel and shines. And what about Megan Fox? Well, pictures tell a thousand words so here's one.
Aren't those beautiful? I meant she! Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen gets a 8.5 out of 10 from me and yes, I'm a fanboy.
Now, bring on the third, hopefully with more Transformers, Unicron, Hotrod/Rodimus Prime and more Megan Fox!
I bought these made in China mini Transformers toys from the shop at Mint Museum. Each costs only S$1 so I grabbed 10 of them - 5 Autobots and 5 Decepticons. The Autobots pictured above. You can easily spot Optimus Prime there.
Here are the Decepticons. Anyone familiar? The leader looks like Megatron or Starscream or maybe a hybrid of both.
The toys are pretty easy to transform as you can tell from this video above. The parts are a little flimsy and some of the toys can't stand properly when they are in their robot modes - either they are front heavy or back heavy. Oh well, I guess one can't expect too much from a $1 Transformers toy. I'm just happy that these rip-offs can still transform. More pics here.
Jozaeh doesn't want to have just another iPod so he makes one out of wood! His finished wooden iPod mini is handmade from Australian red cedar and Camphor Laurel which was used to make the clickwheel. He also uses brass plates, brass screws and the guts from his first iPod.
In the first Star Wars movie, Luke, Han Solo, Chewie and Leia were all trapped in a trash compactor, desperately trying to prevent themselves from being squeezed into pancakes. Now you can relive that scene thanks to these Star Wars Trash Compactor Bookends.
Can't Afford Em Crafts is selling clocks made from old Atari game cartridges like this Donkey Kong one. He says, "I tore out the inside areas of the cartridge and replaced them with clock movements. Then I mounted the cartridge onto a black stand, so it fits perfectly on the corner of the desk."
Found on Amazon is this one of a kind colouring book. I'm at a lost for words so let me just grab one comment from a buyer that describes the book best: "Who said crayons are for kids?!! This wonderful book will bring out the artist in everyone. Great adult entertainment. You are guaranteed to be the star of any occasion with this unique gift."
Lucky dude from the audience gets to come up to the stage and play a giant, Space Invaders game at Video Games Live Singapore 2009. Space Invaders is one of the earliest shooting games and it was first released in 1978. Instead of using a joystick to control the movements of the laser cannon, he has to physically run to the left and right. Watch the video above.
Unfortunately, he did not manage to shoot down all the aliens in the game despite all the encouragement from the audience. It's a pity because he could have won the prize which is an awesome home gaming console with hundreds of classic video games in it.
Video Games Live, the biggest and most popular video game concert in the world debuted in Singapore last Friday at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Featuring music by the Singapore NUS Symphony Orchestra and NUS Choir and visuals projected into giant video screens, VGL featured the most popular video games from past to present, including Classic Arcade favourites, Castlevania, Final Fantasy, Guitar Hero, Metal Gear Solid, Sonic, Space Invaders, Diablo, TRON, The Legend of Zelda, Kingdom Hearts, Mario, WarCraft and many more. You can watch the first segment of VGL (the Classic Arcade Medley) above.
If you have really poor eyesight, please don't attempt to rob a bank, but if you do, then make sure that it isn't a sperm bank. Watch the video above. And please don't drink anything that looks like yoghurt.
The USB Crunching Rocky III is not a USB Memory drive but once plugged into your computer, it will continuously do a series of sit-ups, hoping that it will inspire you to keep in shape. Oh, there's a Mr T version too.
Asian Poses has just become one of my favourite blogs. It documents all the quirky and cute poses that Asians are notorious for. This cute and easy to do pose is called the Salute. To do it, choose your favourite eyebrow, take your hand and put it on the chosen eyebrow, do a two finger salute and don't forget to act cute.
Over 2,000 people took part in the Sixth Annual Mp3 Experiment. The organisers put an MP3 online and participants download and transfer it to their iPods. Everyone then synchronizes their watches and heads out to the same public location. At the predetermined time, everyone presses play.
Dude got this awesome Back To The Future cake for his wedding. The cake is a recreation of the scene in Back To The Future where the DeLorean is driving towards cables that connected the clock tower's antenna to two lamp posts, hoping to catch a lighting bolt to send it back to the future.
Don't throw away that empty cigarette box. Here' a step by step photo instruction of how to turn a cigarette box into a fighter jet! Go ahead and impress your friends.
Yahoo invited several bloggers as part of their Blogger Outreach Program to CommunicAsia 2009 on Wednesday. There, we were given a presentation of the new Yahoo mobile, an open and highly personalized mobile starting point to the Internet.
Yahoo Mobile for the web is now available across more than 400 devices with HTML enabled mobile browsers. Yahoo also announced that the Yahoo Mobile iPhone app is now available in the Apple iPhone App Store.
With Yahoo Mobile, you can get the most current, relevant answers you need thanks to Yahoo oneSearch and read the most interesting stories buzzing on the Internet right now as selected by Yahoo's editorial team.
You can also use Yahoo Mobile to access your Yahoo Mail and other popular email services, connect to social networks thanks to Social Pulse, chat with your friends via the Yahoo Messenger and manage your favourite content such as blogs, websites, news, etc.
Here's Yahoo's Adam Taggart (video above) talking to the bloggers about some of the cool features of Yahoo Mobile.
After the blogger event, we then headed to Yahoo's booth and were treated to their Yahoo Purple Freeze which tasted like er, Ribena. I love Ribena but I still prefer the Yahoo Ice Cream that they gave out at last year's CommunicAsia.
Here's a video of the crowd queueing for the Yahoo Purple Freeze - lots of thirsty people there - and some photos taken at the Yahoo booth.
As promised here are some pages from Freedom Formula: Ghost of The Wasteland (Part 1 of 5), the comic written by Edmund Shern, CEO of local comic publisher Storm Lion. I featured Storm Lion on this blog yesterday. Freedom Formula will be produced into a Hollywood movie sometime soon.
Dear LG, instead of giving me a free LG GM730, can you send me your smoking hot Korean dancer (shes' the one wearing black in the above video) please? I will be eternally grateful.
I promised all of you that I will post more videos taken at the LG Bloggers Event at CommunicAsia 2009. Here they are. One is a clip of LG showing their latest TVC (video above) which is really cute and the other is a clip of the bloggers trying out the LG GM730 (video below). I can't wait to get one from LG.
Oh, and my favourite part of this video is when Sabrina tells Pris: "I'm taking a picture of you, taking a picture of you." Classic!
If you're heading to CommunicAsia tomorrow, don't forget to drop by at CG Overdrive 2009 and check out the guys from Storm Lion, a local comic book publisher. Storm Lion's comic book Freedom Formula written by Edmund, its CEO, has been sold to Hollywood to be made into a live action feature film with Brian Singer producing! What an amazing achievement! I had the opportunity to talk to both Edmund and Gavin (formerly from Yahoo, remember him?) about their exciting business. Watch the video above. I will post a page or two from Freedom Formula tomorrow so watch out for that.
Yesterday, I was invited to LG's press conference at CommunicAsia where they introduced their latest innovative handsets. The phones at center stage for LG this year all include the company’s innovative new 3D S-Class User Interface. They are the LG-GM730 smartphone, the world’s first transparent LG-GD900 Crystal (see my previous post for pics and video) and the full touchscreen 8 megapixel Viewty Smart (LG-GC900) camera phone.
Watch the video above for a short introduction of the LG Crystal and some of its exciting new features.
And here's a video demo of the LG-GM730, LG’s new flagship smartphone, which is the result of a strategic partnership with Microsoft. The combination of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.1 with LG’s S-Class User Interface provides easier access to the powerful smartphone’s myriad features including easy to use e-mail and organization tools.
After the press conference, the specially invited group of bloggers were brought to the awesome LG booth to check out their phones and other products up close.
The LG-GM730.
One of the many babelicious LG girls at the booth posing with the LG Crystal.
After the tour of the LG booth, we then headed to a special LG bloggers event where we were given a more in-depth presentation of the new phones and the LG app store.
There we received the good news that each of us will receive the LG-GM730 real soon!
And as you can tell from this group photo taken at the end of the bloggers event, all of us looked so very happy. Thanks LG! You can view more photos taken at LG's booth at CommunicAsia, the press conference and the LG bloggers event here. I have more videos that I will upload tomorrow.
LG is showing off its new mobile phones at CommunicAsia. One of them is the beautiful LG GD900 Crystal. The revolutionary phone has a stunning scratch-resistant drop-down transparent Cystal Touchpad. Other features include Mouse Mode, Gesture Shortcut, S-Class UI, Multi-Finger Touch, 3" WGA, 8MP Camera and WiFi accessibility. Mouse Mode allows the Crystal Touchpad to become a fully functional touch key pad like a mouse pad found on laptop computers. Gesture Shortcut makes running applications more quickly and easily. Layers of menu browsing is gone with just simple finger gesture on the Crystal Touchpad. More pics and a video of the LG Crystal below.
Do you want to get a smartphone and which operating system would you prefer? In a recent survey conducted by CNET Asia and sponsored by LG, 86% out of a total of 1905 respondents from across Asia Pacific would like to purchase a smartphone in the near future.
When choosing a smartphone, the operating system of the smartphone is the most important purchasing factor according to the respondents. 50.2% of them stated that they preferred a smartphone with the Windows Mobile operating system as it has an easy to use interface that is similar to a PC-like experience.
The respondents also revealed their critical concerns about the smartphones. They complained about the bulky design of the smartphones and more surprisingly, they perceived smartphones as being unaffordable despite their desire to buy one. Smartphones are expensive due to the fact that they are the most advanced handsets in the market, they claimed.
These robots can handle food with their hands just like human ones. Watch the video above. By moving artificial muscles using air pressure, soft foods such as sushi and baumkuchen can be carried without losing their shape or being dropped. Just imagine what else these robot hands can do. Hand jobs anyone?
The Gecko EduBook is an upgradeable, low power and portable laptop that uses standard AA size cells! It can use NiMH 8 pcs (4 hours), Li+ 3S (4 hours) or Li+ 3S2P (6 hours). And it's also cheap. The basic configuration costs only US$200.
Of all the fun pics in Stefan's Stormtroopers 365 Flickr photoset, I love his photo showing two Stormtroopers trying to get rid of the swine flu the best. Poor Piglet. Stefan's aim is to take a daily shot of his Stormtroopers action figures for one whole year! He is currently at Day 73 of 365 now.
Check out Universe Today's guide to all 88 constellations before you head out to take a look at the night sky. Each entry has a chart for the region of the sky, descriptions of the major objects you’ll find there, background mythology and a guided tour through each constellation with binoculars or a telescope.
Mental Floss has 8 eccentric and unauthorized variants of the popular Monopoly board game. One of it is this version called HomoNoPolis, a Dutch edition dubbed “The Most Gayotic Game”. I'm so not going to play it.
Dude was inspired by an illustration of a Death Star Grill so he decided to make one himself! He says, "The basic idea was to have a working grill that looked like the Death Star and could actually cook something." His Death Star Grill is currently for sale.
Remember the giant Gundam that is being built in Tokyo as part of the 30th anniversary of the Mobile Suit Gundam anime? Here are some awesome pics and videos that show the construction stage and the completion of the 18 meters tall giant. If this doesn't make you want to go to Tokyo, nothing will.
This Thai Pantene TV commercial (video above) is perhaps the best commercial (and definitely the most touching) ever produced for a shampoo! It tells the story of a deaf and mute girl who learns to play the violin against all odds.
Had a little accident today - nothing serious - but I thought all of you would be pleased to know that my balls, my balls, my balls are ok. Yes, they are!
As some of you may have already known, I've joined Klik.TV as its editor. What is Klik.TV? Klik.TV is a new online entertainment channel for youths that will be launching in late July - early August. The people behind it are the same folks who started Moving Visuals, one of Asia's leading content and media providers. Moving Visuals has produced over 300 episodes of programming for channels such as Mediacorp TV Singapore, Disney Television, Discovery Channel, AXN Asia, National Geographic Channel, The History Channel, ESPN-Star Sports and The Food Channel.
As part of our launch, Klik.TV will be at the Singapore Toy, Games and Comic Convention from August 13 to 16. I covered the convention last year. You can read all about it here. Besides having a booth there, we will be covering the entire 3 days of the convention.
So here's the even more fun part. If you are passionate about toys, games and/or comics and are interested to host/present our coverage at the convention, we would like to hear from you. Send me your videos and/or pictures and tell me about yourself. You don't have to be a blogger or a model or have good looks. Just make sure you look decent enough in your humanly form. Email me at izreloaded at gmail dot com or iz at klik dot tv. Hurry or else they will make me stand infront of the camera and you know how much I hate that aye.
Ok maybe it's unfair for me to call this a toy, but the Pasta Pasta by Takara Tomy actually lets you make pasta from the comfort of your own home. Just put some refrigerated pasta dough into the pasta maker and you can make eight different types of pasta with the aid of the stamps, crank and molds.
Dude is selling his 90" wide x 60" tall mosaic of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Han Solo on eBay. The mosaic is made with over 43,000 Lego bricks! The price you have to pay to proudly display this in your home or office: US$3,990. Time to break that piggy bank.
My Favourite Mirror has some of the cutest mouse pads. I love their Dino-Myte Love! Mouse Pad. So cute! They use a professional quality heat-press and top of the line mouse pads and all are hand-pressed in their own home studio.
Watch this intriguing story (video above) about a man in Egypt who has the strength of 30,000 men, has married 28 times, fathered 35 kids and needs to have sex with his four wives 15 times a day! What a guy!
iPod, digital SLR, mobile phone and other popular electronic goods made using brown packaging cardboard! Kyle Bean says of her Disposable Technology art project, "Technological items are now said to be effectively 'disposable'... and living in our 'throw-away society' just adds to the issue. My solution... Cardboard Technology!"
Dude made a puppet version of Caprica Six, the seductive, statuesque Cylon infiltrator in Battlestar Galactica. Unfortunately, the puppet version isn't as hot as the real Six but it is a good attempt nonetheless and I don't mind sticking my hand in her. I mean the puppet.
These Lego lightsabers are really something! They are custom made by Ken aka buriedbybricks. I've been scrutinizing each picture in his photoset carefully and have been blown away by the amount of detail that he puts into his lightsabers. Man, I want one!
Heinz's Beanzawave is a USB-powered microwave that can heat up a single cup of Heinz Snap Pots (baked beans in single-serving containers) in less than a minute thanks to intense heating action from a combination of cell phone and radio frequencies.
Vicki makes one-of-a-kind rings with blinking eyes taken from vintage dolls. When the ring is held vertical, the eye remains open and when it is horizontal, the eye closes. Keep moving your hand, and the eye will continue to blink.
This image of a figure in Asian mask is actually a tourism poster for the South Manchuria Railway Company. You can view more wonderful travel posters courtesy of Boston Public Library in this Flickr photoset here.
Burak has made these cute sliced bread notebooks. He says, "It is a 12 slices/notebook set which has been packaged for convenience. Each delicious slice has number on it (1 to 12). You can use each notebook for the related month."
Mike aka Balakov takes quite a lot of photographs of Lego. Most of them are pretty cool but I like his photos of the Star Wars Lego minifigures in action the most. This one is a Scout Trooper riding a conventional bike, something you don't see everyday in the Star Wars world.
I agree with the folks at Screen Rant. This cinematic trailer for the new Star Wars: The Old Republic massively multiplayer online game (video above) is just pure awesome. In fact, the 3 minutes plus trailer here is even better than the entire Star Wars Episode I and II combine!
I previously featured Rémi Gaillard and friends dressing up as Pac-Man and Ghosts invading a supermarket. This time, the Frenchman shows us that not only can he make dangerously funny videos but he can kick a football as good as David Beckham too. Watch the video above.
Wait a minute! Maybe you shouldn't throw away that PSP of yours yet. FolkLord36 has been working to convert his PSP into a PSP laptop! It has a full keyboard, thanks to an Xbox chat pad, a Joytech visor for the top. It is still a work in progress and that means I can't wait for him to finish it.
Throw away your PSP! It's time to play all your favourite retro games on the palm of your hand. The Pocket Retro Game Emulator is a mini handheld gaming system that plays roms from your favorite 8 and 16 bit game consoles. No emulator software to load. Just copy over the roms (if you know where to find them) and start playing.
The Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines in Moscow State Technical University has 37 different kinds of Soviet-era arcade machines - 20 in working order! These machines operate with only old Soviet 15 kopek coins. Fortunately for us, we can still play the games online (site in Russian)!
Won P and Dani T must have been the two most popular dudes at the 2009 Kawaii-Konn 2009. Their Optimus Prime and Bumblebee cosplay custumes are so jaw dropping amazing! The costumes come complete with flashing lights and fully-articulated fingers and are made using every kind of foam you can think of.
How long do you take to brush your teeth? This electric toothbrush can clean all of your teeth in 40 seconds thanks to its four heads that clean six surfaces - the front, back, and chewing surface of top and bottom teeth - simultaneously!
In Cogitate, you manipulate actual Lego Technic gears, beams, conveyor belts and motors to complete the ten pre-built puzzles. Enjoy viewing player solutions and challenge yourself to achieve them with the fastest time, lowest cost or highest score.
I love Ted McGrath's sketchbooks! Ted has done doodles for some big names. And for this special feature on Doodle Anonymous, he has given them an exclusive set of scans from his sketchbook, 29 of them to be exact! I don't about you but now I wanna go steal his sketchbook.
Afraid someone will steal your mug in the office? Don't worry. With the Plug Mug, no thief will be interested to steal your mug. The Plug Mug is a mug with a hole in it! Just keep the plug with you when you're not using the mug.
In conjunction with World Environment Day, Panasonic is running its ‘eco ideas’ experience road show from June 5-7 at Suntec City Tropics Atrium. I was invited to its official opening ceremony this morning.
At the ceremony, Panasonic announced its plan to promote eco awareness, eco products and eco manufacturing as well as drive down carbon emissions and gave a preview of its ‘eco ideas’ experience road show to guests and the media. The road show supports one of the three pillars of Panasonic Asia Pacific’s corporate eco declaration – ‘eco ideas’ for Everybody, Everywhere – which is to encourage the global spread of environmental activities.
Visitors to the road show can take part in interactive quizzes, see Panasonic’s latest eco solutions which are exhibited for the first time outside Japan (these include vacuum heat insulated appliances, tilted drum washing machines and energy efficient light emitters and home entertainment systems), and have the opportunity to make a personal commitment to small eco lifestyle changes that will have a big collective impact.
The Panasonic ‘eco ideas’ experience road show will head off to India, Malaysia, Thailand and other parts of the world after its run in Singapore. Go catch it if you're at Suntec this weekend. It is free.
Gillette Fusion is supposedly a good shaver. It has five blades spaced closer together for serious comfort. You trust it for your face so why not go further? That's right! Learn how to best shave your head, chest, back and even the all important groin here. Thanks Gillete! Now I know how to shave my own balls. Watch video above. Remember guys, when there's no underbrush, the tree looks taller.
There are many portable speakers for the iPod but the Balloon Music Speaker has to be the cutest and smallest. Just plug the self-contained speaker system into your iPod or any MP3 player and you can easily share your favourite tunes with the people around you.
Skulley and Bella are the ponies of the apocalypse! One enjoys fresh organic apples, brains and walks on the beach while the other loves trotting through soft fields of dead bodies.
Teri Pettit has a really nice collection of paper doll books that are now out-of-print like this 1984 Strawberry Shortcake's Paper Doll Book. View all her scanned paper dolls here.
Big Bad Toy Store is selling a range of remote controlled toys based on the hit video game, Halo. This one is a remote controlled Mongoose, the four-wheeled vehicle, driven by Master Chief in the game.
Turn your bathroom's walls and ceiling into the starry night sky with the Homestar Spa Bath Planetarium by Sega Toys. It is a waterproof planetarium that floats in your bathtub and contains a bright light that projects out into the room. I want one but first I need to get a tub.
Neal from Seoul is a big Jennifer Love Hewitt fan. He is desperately looking for Teenage (November 1998), Inside TV (1 May-14 May 1999) and FHM-Singapore (October 2002) magazines with Jennifer on the cover. If you have any of these lying around somewhere, here's a chance to make a quick buck. He's willing to pay up to S$72 for a copy!
The time traveling DeLorean from the movie Back To The Future is every boy's ultimate dream car. This Lego version will not bring you back in time but it is 100% remote-controlled! How awesome is that!
Lucy Roberts rescues soft toys from charity shops and carboot sales and turns then into unique mutant animals! This one is her creation called the Turkey Bear. Yes, it's half turkey, half bear.
These Pez-like candy dispensers sport the heads of popular video game and comic book heroes like Wolverine, King Kong, Mario and Spiderman. Called Klik, they are dispensers for Smarties candies. I have never seen them before but I bet the Wolverine, Iron Man and Captain America ones are already collector's items.
Karen Schmidt is working on a project that requires her to paint many 3″ x 3″ portraits so she is seeking headshots from everyone. Send her your headshot and she will paint it and post it on her blog. I'm sending mine!
I have no idea how you play it but the Mario World board game sure looks fun. It is a paper city designed to be able to play as a build-it-yourself board game. Rules of the game are located on the back of the Nintendo lookalike controllers.
No wonder some men in Orange County, USA are very happy lately. They have a new Vietnamese cafe that has really hot bikini clad girls serving them coffee and tea! To watch a video of these girls in action, just click the sexy girl above. No funny business going on, according to the owner. Ya, right. Can someone please start one here in Singapore? I'd be happy to be the brand ambassador. Will even do it for free.
Lee asked Twitter users to participate in the world's first collaborative Twitter film by taking a picture of something circular and tweet it with #circlepic. You can watch the final film above. Now, can someone start a Twitter film with squares?
Dude found a white 1990 Wrangler jeep after searching eBay, Craigslist, Cars.com and many other sites. He then converted it into a jeep that looks identical to the one in the movie Jurassic Park. Now all he needs is a park full of Jurassic dinosaurs to drive around in.
Animal plastination is a technique used in anatomy to preserve bodies or body parts of animals. Certain plastics are used to replace the water and fat. If you like this kinda stuff, then you should check out Dr Christoph von Horst's animal plastination gallery.
Jason de Caires Taylor's underwater sculpture park explores the intricate relationships between modern art and the environment. His sculptures are sited in clear shallow waters to allow divers, snorkelers and those in glass-bottomed boats to easily view them.
This one of a kind umbrella lets you enjoy your smoke under your own little shelter even when you're standing outside in the rain. The Smoker's Umbrella has a clip-on covered ashtray that easily attaches to the handle and its top has various song titles about smoking.
So what did I do the day before I start work at Klik.TV? Spent the Sunday afternoon on a boat, of course! The gang took a ride on Abhijit's boat from ONE°15 Marina at Sentosa to Eagle Bay which is errr, somewhere out there. Check out the video above. It was a fun ride and Abhi's got a really nice boat. The next time, he is going to teach me how to drive it. Yay! Abhi, better stock up on more life vests mate.
I.Z. Reloaded covers news, pop culture, blogs, websites, gadgets, the fascinating and the weird from a Singapore perspective. The blog is a runner up in both the 2006 Weblog Awards (Best Asia Blog) and the 2004 Asia Blog Awards (Best Singapore Blog) and it is also the first Singapore blog to be syndicated by Newstex. I.Z. is the Editor of Klik.TV and is currently serving as the Brand Ambassador for Comboutique Asia. Previously, he has served as the Blog Ambassador for Advertlets and as the Brand Ambassador for San Street. Send him stories, invites, sponsorships or write to him at izreloaded[at]gmail[dot]com.
