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Mirror Tic Tac Toe

Shahar Peleg designed this Tic Tac Toe game played on a a mirror. The Xs and Os are only half a letter, but seem whole when placed on the mirror board. It makes a way-too-simple game seem almost cool! Link -via Unique Daily

Original post by Miss Cellania

Alice Chess Set

Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s book "Through the Looking Glass," Yasmin Sethi created this Alice chess set where the pieces are opaque until they are put on the board - then they magically turn transparent to reveal their identities.
Link - via DVICE, thanks Sheldon Price!

Original post by Alex

The Particle Zoo

Adorable subatomic particles you can cuddle up with! The Particle Zoo is made up of quarks, neutrinos, gluons, and others that each have their own personality. Meet the muon, who lives fast and dies young, the up quark and the down quark, who are best friends, and Higgs boson, who everyone wants to meet. Pictured is the strange quark and the gluon. Link -via Metafilter

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Original post by Miss Cellania

Things the Look Like Pac-Man

Games Radar has collected pictures of 65 Things that Look Like Pac-Man. And a few things that look like the ghosts, too! Link -via Gorilla Mask

Original post by Miss Cellania

Things that Look Like Pac-Man

Games Radar has collected pictures of 65 Things that Look Like Pac-Man. And a few things that look like the ghosts, too! Link -via Gorilla Mask

Original post by Miss Cellania

Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds Barbie Doll

It’s coming! It’s coming! (Get it?) Mattel is coming out with a new Barbie doll from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 horror film The Birds!
It’s not yet available, but boy, when it comes out, it’ll be an instant classic: Link - via Presurfer

Original post by Alex

Gameboy Foot Controller Plays Chiptune

Joey "Animal Style" Mariano, a Philadelphia chiptune artist, created this awesome Gameboy foot controller to create some amazing 8-bit madrigals:
Using the power of the Gameboy sound chip, Mariano’s madrigals blend the body of early role playing and puzzle video games with awesome, powerful electro-dance beats. Since the Gameboy only has three melodic monophonic channels to create melodies to begin with, this helped Mariano stay true to the traditional madrigal form of 2 to 3 voices.

Geekadelphia has a pretty neat video of Joey (and the foot controllers) in action: Link - thanks Eric!

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Original post by Alex

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