Table for NES Gamers

If you haven’t realized, I am a BIG Nintendo fan. So when I see a coffee table designed to look like the original NES controller, I feel the need to give all my money away to have it. Created by Charles Lushear over at Made of maple and mahogany, the best feature of the table…it actually [...]

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Google Quest Prank

Google Maps has pulled off yet another great April Fools Day prank. I didn’t even realize this until two days later. As much as I enjoyed the prank, it was sad to find out it wasn’t real. The day before April Fools Day, I went onto Google Maps to figure out directions and what was [...]

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Pale Ale for Retro Gamers

I am not particulary fond of beer. I prefer harder beverages. However, I am quite intrigued to try out the 8-Bit Pale Ale. Tallgrass Brewing Company, from Manhattan, Kansas, has created a beer that’s been getting some good reviews. Many who have tried it, have said it has a tropical scent, and that it has [...]

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Vinnie Jones’ CPR training

Vinnie Jones, known for playing tough guy roles such roles as Big Chris in” Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels”, Sphinx in “Gone in 60 Seconds, has recently starred in a commercial for “The British Heart Foundation“, where he is promoting “Hands-Only CPR” And in today’s society, I believe people would prefer Hands-Only CPR to [...]

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Gojira invades the mall

Although decorating the tree for Christmas is festive, I believe making it look like a monster would scar the kids for life…especially in Japan. In 2000, at the Aqua City Odaiba shopping mall, located in Japan, the holiday decorative committee decided to construct a christmas tree in the shape of Godzilla. Not only did they shape it to look like him, [...]

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Xbox TV

As each year goes by, all the gadgets and gizmos get smaller and smaller. And more and more start to become obsolete. You would never think that the cable box could disappear. Well, think again. The wonderful folks over at Microsoft has showed us that the process of elimination has begun. With the most recent [...]

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Autobot Transformer Ukulele

There are few things in life more pleasurable than learning how to play an instrument. what would happen if that instrument was also awesome in its own right? Why the sheer force of awesomeness would flow forth from your apartment or garage and George Carlin would show up in a time traveling phone booth…   [...]

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House of the Rising Sun Old School Computer Remix

Who hasn’t felt the pangs of loss when an old scanner goes to that great digital divide in the sky? Who hasn’t had a moment of heartbreak as a digital denizen passes on? Well imagine if all your old tech could sing. That is what you get when Stepper Motors and other bits and bobs [...]

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Super Mario on an Accordion

The sweet sound of Nintendo. A trio of accordion players from Bulgaria have brought the sweet sound of Super Mario to our ears. And it has got to be the best rendition I have heard yet.

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Peta attacks Tanooki Mario

Since the beginning of the Super Mario Bros. franchise, which began in 1983, there hasn’t been any kind of complaints about any of the game content in the series. Personally, I wouldn’t think there would be. Well, I guess I was wrong. PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has decided to finally show there concern about [...]

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The Bionic Bumper Cars

Everybody has played Rock’ Em Sock’ Em at least once in there life time. Personally, I prefer the red guy, also known as the Red Rocker. Now as an adult, you wouldn’t mind playing the game, but you need to have it a little more exciting. Well, the people over at Hammacher Schlemmer has given [...]

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Comfort Coffee

The air has a chill to it. The leaves have almost all fallen. And the days feel right. Coffee means a lot of things to a lot of people, to me it means Comfort. Comfort A smooth deep brew slowly wafting sultry scents your way A promise of comfort, A premiss of decadence Coffee this [...]

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Mrs CaffiNation’s Pumpkin Pie Brownies

On episode 507,  we talked a bit about the Pumpkin Pie Brownies from Foodbeast. Well I also sent Mrs CaffiNation the same story. And since I’m all laid up after shoulder surgery she made a couple chnges and whipped up some sinfully tasty goodies. Thick fudge Pumpkin pie goodness. Rather than use the Brownie mix as a basis for [...]

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Call of Duty: Heist

With the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 due out Tuesday, November 8, many are waiting patiently. However, some gamers in France were so excited, they just couldn’t wait. Saturday was a disaster for Activision, with the hijacking of not one, but two trucks, both containing copies of the next installment of Call of Duty. The estimated [...]

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CaffiNation Reviews: Wired Waffles

What would happen if you were able to enjoy your favorite breakfast food and have the same amount of caffeine as a cup of coffee, without the spill hazard? Well the folks at Wired Waffles have the answer. They recently sent us a sample of their wares to run through its paces. We have previously covered these [...]

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Holiday Tea Treats

The following recipes have been shared with me by the fine folks at Lipton, so I pass them along to you as they look mighty tasty. I love when brands share out recipes for any event, and as per usual you can substitute your favorite brand of tea or brew your own into the recipes as you see [...]

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Train Station decorated with 8-bit Nintendo

After being commisioned to cover an entire train station consisting of  8-bit artwork, Finnish artist Lars Arrhenius went to work. The Thorildsplan Tunnelbana station, a train station in Stockholm, Sweden, was redecoratred in 2008.   The entire station is covered in artwork inspired by early 1980′s Nintendo games. The artowrk consists of Dig Dug, Pacman, Super Mario Bros, and [...]

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Traditional pumpkin carvings

This year we are rocking out the traditional pumpkin shapes. With time being limited I would rather have two clean looking pumpkin ghouls. Not too shabby for 25 minutes per pumpkin. How do you throw down for all hallows eve? I personally love making a tall steaming cup of coffee, chatting with the neighbors and [...]

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AT-AT RC

  I wonder how the battle on Hoth would have turned out if the Empire had been rocking these sweet rides. No pesky flying ships trailing chains to trip up a lumbering machine.Christopher Aleria had a different idea of what a AT AT should be, and he used a Axial Rock Cralwer as the base for this one [...]

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Gameboy Zombie

What do you do with a gameboy that hasn’t been used in quite some time. You make a zombie, that’s what you do. And that is exactly what artist Donald Kennedy, an artist over at KodyKoala, did with his old gameboy. Other than the gameboy, he also used hands from a Iron Man Monger figure [...]

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Mike Wazowski Pumpkin Carving

I love carving Pumpkins, and this is the time of year I get to show off my favorite designs. Now Pumpkins don’t always end up what they were intended to be. I started this pumpkin as a Cyclops, but as i started to do the eye ym Son yelled MIKE WAZOWSKI! and I had to [...]

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Super Mario High Heels

Even though none of us here at Caffination are female, or wear any type of woman’s clothing, I thought these were a must see. These were just a personal project. However, if they were to be sold at all, I’m sure the would be quite the hot item among the geeky girls.

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Pumpkin Carving at its best

With Halloween right around the corner, nothing gets the spirit going like carving a pumpkin. I know Paul is talented in carving a pumpkin, but I have not been granted that gift. However, nothing can beat the carvings by Ray Villafane, an artist for Villafane Studios. Some of his carvings are just amazing. His work [...]

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EpicMegaTime Energon!

My son was asking me what transformers ate the other day. I of course answered Energon… An dthen he asked how you make it. And i didn’t have an answer… Now I do. In true Internet meme style. Back that truck up Playah! We bout to change the transformer game EpicMegaTime byNGSMOOV epic meal time [...]

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Smaug over the Lonely Mountain

Last year I started to carve a dragon, and messed up a bit. Put a hole in the other side of the pumpkin. Only one thing left to do when you mess up. Make it into something amazing. What dragon was bitten by a hole in the side of the mountain? None other than the [...]

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The One Pumpkin

Fantastic carving job A carvered Pumpkin, the black speech. I dare not utter it here. But this is a flava flave style pendent if you were to try and wear it around your neck. What does it make invisible? From the artist… “One pumpkin to scare them all One pumpkin to find them One pumpkin [...]

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Light cycle comes to life

Anybody who has seen Tron, knows the best thing about the movie, other than the graphics, is the “Light Cycle.” Owning a bike that looks that good would cost you a pretty penny, $55,000 to be exact. You would find the gasoline powered “Light cycle” over at Hammacher Shlemmer. The Tron bike was presented last [...]

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Rocksmith, Forge your Skills

Are you a Rhythm Gamer? Guitar Hero god? Completed Physcobilly Freakout on iNSANE? nicely done. However real guitar players have long since derided these accomplishments as “button pushing” and other less savory terms. File Rock Band, Guiatr Hero and Dance Dance Revolution into the same catagory. Follow instructions on a screen to get better in a very specific set of tasks. [...]

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Siri – Then and Now

Siri is the new Apple personal assistant, voice recognition app. It can do so many things, and apparently one of them is comedy! Part of the challenge of designing software that reacts to people in real language is dealing with unexpected input. This isn’t a new problem, drop an F bomb in Zork, and you get [...]

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Buckyballs goes Cube.

When I found Buckyballs, a bunch of pebble sized balls made from rare earth magnets, it wasn’t long before I had to get it. And when I did, I had nothing but fun for weeks. And I still have fun to this day. Recently, the company who sells Buckyballs have brought out a new product, [...]

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Zombie Candy Corn

Meet Out Out Damned Corn (Patient 0) and Return of Yellow #5 (Patient 1). Candy Monsters… tell your friends. In fact warn your friends.  Artist Andrew Bell has seen the light and in the creation of his project The Creatures in My Head. And he has set out to expose the dangers of zombie candy. We can only [...]

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Blackboards in Porn

Who says the internet can’t teach you things. The Adult industry has long since used the taboo subject of  Student / Teacher flings as fodder for a genre of its films. But this site, in response to those films is hilarious. Blackboards in Porn is an academic studeny on the contents of the blackboards found in [...]

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Barcade Philly!

You know… I was just thinking how much I would love to be able to play retro video games (1980′s Style), and enjoy the fine atmosphere of a night out with my friends all at the same time. I’ve talk about the Barcade in Brooklyn, mostly in hushed reverential  tones. Never in my wildest dreams [...]

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Netflix says “Forget what I said.”

About a month ago, I released a story about how Netflix was making big changes. This news did not sit well with just about every subscriber of Netflix. Comments came pouring in about splitting the company into 2 different services. The overall feeling was that it was the worst idea for Netflix to come up [...]

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Shark Attack Mug

    You know you have a certain theme song in your head right now! Bah Dum, Bah Dum…. and so on Its a Shark that appears as you drink, and will eat your face, if he ever gets released from carbonite… or Porcelain. ( bucks is not a bad deal. I love the tagline, [...]

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World Gone Sour (The Lost Kids)

 What do you get when an old school rapper like Method Man hits up some Sour / Sweet candy treats? Viral Gold… I love me some Sour Patch Kids. And according to the video a new game called World Gone Sour This video has some seriously quotable lines, and a lovely Star wars reference. World Gone Sour (The Lost [...]

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Dead Island coming to theaters?

The recent release of “Dead Island” has gained good reception on the gameplay. However, what made “Dead Island” a big success was something better than the game itself. When the trailer for the game hit the internet, about 10 million hits were made to the video in just 2 days. With a huge response to [...]

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25 years of Zelda on display

When I found out that not only was there such a place called Nintendo World, but to have The Legend of Zelda journey on display, I was close to fainting. If you were unaware of Nintendo World, it is in New York City, 10 Rockefeller Plaza, to be exact. The whole display is set up on the [...]

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Coffee Power Up

Coffee is what fuels us, it is what powers so many things we do. I’ve shown this design before, and even printed out some fun giveaway posters. And of all of the things I’ve done this is one of my absolute favorites. I can think of no better story to throw down on National Coffee [...]

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DJ Kitty

        This is the internet, where would we be if there weren’t ca pictures. How about a cat product? No geek or nerd connection, just a fun pun. And at only 15 pounds who can’t win with this? Who has Cat Scratch Fever? Cat Scratch, A Turntable For Cats.

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Adidas Star Wars Campus Wampa Sneakers

  Sneakers are big business, and so is Star Wars. But do you the chops to actually buy and wear limited edition Wampa Fur Sneakers? Actually for 150 dollars you don’t get the finest in culled fur from long long ago, nor far far away. This is horsehair. With a fun Wampa logo, and a [...]

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This is Spinal Tape

    Look at this wonderful product shot. have a mild chuckle to yourself, now find a new story. I just saved you 8 dollars. That is what this roll of gag tape costs. 82 feet of a printed contiguous spinal cord. Vertebrae after vertebrae and not a single 11. OhGizmo! » Archive » This Product [...]

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Origami Cuptea Teabag

  The experiance of drinking tea is just as important as the taste. there is a ceremony involved in creating good tea, in enjoying it to its fullest. This product, dubbed Cuptea, by designer Lee Seo-jin brings all of that into one delightful package. At this point just a design exercise but the product is [...]

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Create-Your-Own Mug

Not sure when this came out but I love the idea. Starbucks has debuted a larger mug with a special coating on it. This coating, when written on with the included pen and baked in an oven becomes permanently marked with your words of wisdom, inspirational doodle or hilarious missive. And honestly $14.95 for a 16oz mug, [...]

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Snoballimus Prime

Yup that right there is optimus priime… As a Hostess Snowball. Apparently there is also a Chockwave cupcake, for Shockwave, but chocolate. I’m not sure if i have to explain this further than pointing at the picture. Yep… that just happened. Snoballimus Prime.

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Need More Coffee

Yup… Think the more you watch the more coffee I drink… By the by this was created with Social Gif if you have a webcam and 30 seconds you too can become teh internet STAR! you know i’m even starting to freak myself out here

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Angry Bird’s Halloween Costumes

    Now is the time to get your Angry Birds All Hallows Eve Costumes… with the Paper Magic Group Angry Birds Costumes, I don’t know how much i have to say about these costumes, except I am a little sad they are so flat.. they need to be rounder, fuller. But if we are still talking [...]

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Borrow Kindle Books from your Local Library

One of my biggest problems with eBooks was that the act of sharing a book with a friend was lost, Libraries would cease to be a place were you could borrow an adventure or rent a thriller. Amazon’s Kindle is a huge gadget, it does one thing and does it beautifully. It allows you to [...]

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Fall Flavours: Coffee Confections

The fine folks at KRUPS  have passed along a couple of fun fall themed coffee recipies. Now I know not everyone likes flavoured coffee or spiced lattes but there are a large portion of people who do. I for one love fall the season, and do try to enjoy a good coffee confection now and [...]

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Talk Like A Pirate Day

Yarr. Yo ho and all those funny witticisms. So today is the day we act like fools, and remember that you need to have a little fun. So its all the booty without the scurvy… which is nice. Have an Orange and chat with your mates. Check out  The Official site for International Talk Like [...]

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Netflix Rest in Pieces

How to Kill a Giant: Reed Hastings, Co-Founder and CEO of Netflix is a David to his companies Goliath.Netflix is a successful and thriving business of providing entertainment to millions of satisfied customers. No one should kid themselves here. Netflix is first and formost an entertainment company, my 5 year old kid knows that netflix, either in the mail [...]

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Netflix, Qwikster, and video games

When Netflix raised their prices, people were outraged. Many dropped the service, feeling it was too expensive to keep receiving DVDs in the mail. So, to try and get rid of the confusion, get back some old customers, and grab some new ones, Netflix is making some drastic changes. One of the changes they did to infuriate customers, [...]

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Worship at the altar of Mega Man

 Faction: By Sam Ho, built as a tribute to his childhood. All of the Villains and foes from Mega Man 1, and 2 are collected into this medieval style faux glass rosetta. This piece debuted at The Old School Video Game Show at Gallery 1988 Venice in Santa Monica California. I can’t even begin to say how awesome [...]

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Space Invaders Watch

  Romain Jerome has done some funky stuff, but this is funky fresh. Coming in two flavors the Space Invaders watch comes in full on color or authentic monochrome each to a limited run of 78 pieces each. this was done in homage to 1978 being the year that space invaders came out. This watch is fused [...]

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NHL12 has girls

When I first heard about EA Games bringing females hockey players to NHL 12, I immediately thought of Jimmy Dugan from ‘A League of Their Own’, “I don’t have ball players, I’ve got girls!” This will be a start of something new to all future sporting games. The decision to put the female gender in the game comes [...]

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Cthulhu loves coffee

  I Love getting an image stuck in my head, and quite honestly this one had been bouncing around in my attic for a while. Especially when people ask how I like my coffee. Black as my soul? or If you happen to be able to brave the horror, i would truly enjoy some R’lyeh [...]

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Angry Birds In Real Life

  You have to love it when video games make their way into real life. These pictures are from a carnival / theme park game in China. Where people use life sized Angry bird plushies to knock down Evil Pig Balloons. This apparently happens in some sort of Mini Golf situation where you need to progress [...]

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Gears of War 3 Bike

With the release of Gears of War 3 just 8 days away, what better way to get pumped up for it, then seeing a bike dedicated to Gears of War. Paul Teutul Jr., also know as Paul Jr, and the people at PJD have built a bike to for epic games in celebration of their [...]

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Zombie Ipsum: Frightful Filler for Your Damned Designs

Way back when, you know in times of latin and stuff. Well at least before Times New Roman, and definitely before Helvetica, typographers had a problem. When they wanted to show someone a new typeface, or work out layout on a design people kept focusing on the content of the type on the page. So [...]

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Project Gutenberg founder Michael S. Hart has died

This is quite a sad announcement. But hopefully it might bring a bit more publicity to a project this man loved. Michael Hart invented the eBook, all of you digital marketers, twitter hounds and keyword junkies who try to leverage your knowledge into a revenue source. Think about that. This man, in 1971 invented the [...]

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Justice League meets the Wild West

Now this is a neat design. If the Justice League were to be around during the western days, I think names like Billy the Kid and Jesse James, would have no meaning. An artist, by the name of Ten Bandits, has designed the founders of the Justice League of Americas, as if they were in the [...]

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Beating Lazy Eye with gaming

Every now and then, you hear about how video games can cause damage to a person, physical and mental. It has been that way for many years. However, there is some good that comes out of playing those games. Researchers from the School of Optometry and the Neuroscience Institute, at UC Berkeley, have found that playing [...]

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Legend of Zelda on Marimba

If you don’t know, I am quite the Legend of Zelda fan. So when I saw this video, one question came to mind. What the heck is a marimba. After a few google searches I found the answer. As for how it sounds, I think it is beautiful. Especially when it plays any Zelda music. [...]

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Inkling, a digital solution to a paper problem

Wacom has done it again, They have found a simple way to convert a tactile, and personal media such as sketching and convert it to a digital file. I love my wacom tablet once set up correctly it makes creating digital files with the skill i have worked to develope. But it only lasts as [...]

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Adult Sandbox Opens in Las Vegas

What little kid ever looked at a bulldozer, backhoe or any other piece of heavy equipment and didn’t immediatly want to drive it around and dig a giant hole somewhere nice? What city in the world specializes in making dreams come true, and we don’t need a mouse for these bits of fun. Las Vegas [...]

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Promo for the CaffiNation Episode 500

5.5 years in the making Episode 500 will be epic. And hopefully gargoyle free

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Majesco changes the game

There is not one person who can say they have not played the game of Twister. It is a game that brings families and friends together…literally. You would never think that the game could be played on an Xbox360. Well, Twister is about to get a major makeover. Majesco, who has had big hits such [...]

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Celebrating Zelda with Gold

As a big fan of the Legend of Zelda franchise, I know that whenever Nintendo wants to celebrate one of the releases, something always turns into gold. The original Nintendo had the gold cartridge, Gameboy had the gold handheld GameBoy, N64 had the gold console with a gold controller. So it would only be right [...]

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Philly Invaded

So a new semester started at TU yesterday, new students, new computers and new virii. But the really big problem is the type of virii the students are bringing in these days. Downright insidious. You see now the attempt to mimic old arcade games. Currently they are attacking the city. as shown below. Beware people, [...]

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An Illustrated Silmarillion like no other

I am a huge fan of Tolkien’s World. Middle Earth is unique amoung fantasy worlds in that it lives and breathes. It has a history, linguisitc and mythological. The Hobbit was an introduction, The Lord of the Rings was the Poetic Edda, the culmination of years of study into a world that was growing organically inside [...]

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Mario Pipe Mug

Warp Pipes, not for the faint of heart, now if you have a fan’s mind and a kiings wallet a 34.99 mug might seem like a good idea to you. I love the design and the fact that you get one of 4 molded coasters is a great find, but 35 bucks a lot of coins to [...]

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The Golden Ratio of Apple

I love design, especially good design. And Apple has been a part of some great design in the past 30 years, other times not so much, I’m looking at you one button mice, and puck mice. But their logo has always been beautiful (although I am partial to the older multicolored one) But i was [...]

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BBQ Branding Iron

Nothing ruins a good grill off like stolen meat. We can all now thank ThinkGeek for making available a meat naming tool. this isn’t like the other brands you have seen, you know for cows, or whatnot. this is the letter press of meat brands… Meatpress? Either way you too can craft your own scrabble-esque [...]

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Little taste of the Shire

It is amazing what people do to show how much they are a fan of something. Many devote their lives just for you too see how much they enjoyed a book, a novel, or someone famous. In Montana, this is exactly what Steve and Christina Michaels did. They are so much of a fan of [...]

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Marry With Portals

My wife is not a true geek,she is a wonderful woman but not a real geek. She is… geek-ish. She knows how to code, works with databases and tolerates my endless nerdy jokes. But in all reality she is quite a normal sane lady with no interest in star wars, tolkien or anything else. For [...]

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Doom’ed, By An Awesome Father

The joys of geek fatherhood. this is not me or my house, but it very well could be. Well Played MrJibaku! Geek Dads are awesome. via If you sleep in at my house, you are “Doom”ed. – YouTube.

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Poor Mario

I never realized that the little guy actually dies on the cover. Should have told us something about our chances to finish the game unscathed. Kind of a Modern, All hope abandon ye who enter here. Well, then. via justinrampage: How did… | Agent M Loves Tacos.

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LEGO my lunch Box

There is a blog dedicated to the travels of quite possibly the most awesome  lunch Box ever. Everyday we get to peek into the deep dark recesss of a Blue Lego brick to see what Vesselina Tasheva has for lunch. There is even a chance to be a guest lunch box, which as a concept is quite [...]

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Coffee Changing the World

As a friend of mine from High School said, “Break out your scuba gear cause I’m about to get deep.” Can Coffee change the world? Can Coffee change the way people think about another country as a people? Not really, but it can sure try. Does anything about this picture seem odd to you? It [...]

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Lollipop Chainsaw

A video game that consists of a high school cheerleader, who kills zombies with a bedazzled chainsaw, is something…different. Grasshopper Manufacture Inc, who are known for mostly doing Japanese games, has teamed up with American writer and filmmaker James Gunn. They are developing a game, where a California high school cheerleader, Juliet Starling, has to fight off [...]

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Perfect use for Life’s lemons

Here at Caffination.com, we are all about the lemons. Over at Snorg.com, you too can show how much appreciation you have for combustible lemons. With the “Burn life’s house down” t-shirt, you would make Cave Johnson very proud. Burn Life’s House Down

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Mario Bros. Indie Film Trailer

I love me some alternate realities. In one dark and seedy Reality Mario and Luigi had past their prime, that film Noir tale took hold of me for the entire sourse of its run. That was There will be Brawl. This Video speaks to a different world yet again, Mario as a hapless plumber down on his [...]

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GameFly vs Redbox

While all the new games are coming out, with better technology and software, the video game industry sales are have fallen to its lowest point since 2006. Everything is becoming more expensive, making it harder to purchase any of the new releases. So gamers have started to do the next best thing, use game rentals. [...]

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1, 2, Freddy’s coming for you

With the success of Mortal Kombat, how could they make the game more interesting. By putting in one of the most infamous horror villains known, Freddy Krueger. The boogeyman himself comes to the Netherrealm to face off with the likes of Scorpion and Shao Khan. For $5, or 400 Microsoft Points, Freddy can be yours to control. [...]

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Furin Cosplay: Wheatley

The fine folks over at Furin Cosplay have put together one of the most awesome cosplay / puppets I have ever seen. Wheatly the friendly protagonist from Portal 2, and all around idiot, is a perfect character. He is both hilarious and evil all rolled into one giant ego trip waiting to happen. And Furin manage to [...]

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