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Lolcats are probably one of the most popular stuff that can be found on the internet. Whether its cats doing silly or funny stuff, they have always been captured on photographs and videos for everyone’s enjoyment. The video below featuring funny and crazy cat antics pretty much sums it up for the term lolcats.

Gadgets

• LG GD900 Crystal review – The LG GD900 with the revolutionary transparent keypad looks good, but isn’t all perfect. [pocket-lint]

• Samsung releases night vision mobile phone – Samsung releases a mobile phone equipped with an infrared night vision camera, the first of its kind in Korea. [news]

• $6,000 MacBook Pro Stealth edition – The MacBook Pro gets the stealth treatment from ColorWare, the company that colors gadgets with any color you desire. This time ColorWare’s Stealth MacBook Pro comes with SofTouch technology that prevents fingerprints. [colorware]

• Playstation iPhone case – Who says Sony and Apple can’t mix? [link]

• Victorinox SwissFlash – The modern Swiss army knife comes with 16GB flash memory and a laser pointer. Still comes with the essentials. [swissarmy]

• Star Wars USB drives – Darth Vader gets turned into a USB flash drive. [link]

Science/Tech

• Frog-o-sphere ecosystem aquarium – Pets that are sealed permanently in an artificial eco-system. All organisms living in this sealed aquarium need each other to survive; put them in proper sunlight and temperature and the frogs can survive up to four years without any hand-feeding. [link]

Games

• Red Faction Guerilla DLC announced – The first and major update to Red Faction: Guerilla has been announced to land on August 13 2009. [news]

• China didn’t ban gold farming – Using real money to buy virtual cash is not banned, contrary to a previous report. What’s banned is using virtual currency to buy tangible goods and services, which is the reverse of gold farming. [link]

Toys

• Transformers made of felt – These handcrafted felt transformer toys look absolutely awesome. [gallery]

Cool Stuff

• Man transforms car into bulldozer – Japanese guy turns a Fiat Oldtimer into a funny looking mini bulldozer. [link]

• Fancy fast food – Website that turns fast food into fancy restaurant menu items. Big Mac and fries get magically transformed into a mouth-watering fine-dining menu item called ‘McSteak and Potatoes’. [link]

• Creative resume – A very unique and detailed chart for resume purposes. [flickr]

• Truck and jet – Man fits a 2700hp jet to the back of his Ford F-150 truck. Awesomeness ensues. [link]

• 12 fascinating objects covered in diamonds – Diamond-covered anything is practically awesome. [gallery]

Funny Stuff

• There I Fixed it – Ghetto and ingenious fixes to problems under the sun. [thereifixedit]

• Funny t-shirt slogans – These funny t-shirts are bound to capture everyone’s attention. [gallery]

• Pocket Twitter – A shirt made for live twittering with your cellphone display. [link]

Odd Stuff

• The shit box – This box lets you do the big business in the great outdoors. Just insert a poo bag and dispose after use. Also great for sitting on as a temporary stool or as a garbage disposal bin. [link]

Gadgets

• NES controller iPhone 3GS dock – Absolute mash-up of a retro vs current hottest electronic product, the Nintendo controller now becomes a dock for the iPhone 3GS. [link]

• Domo-kun iPhone case – Everyone’s favorite monster now protects the iPhone. [link]

• Solar vest charger – For anyone not afraid of the sun, why not get this solar vest that charges up all your electronics as well. [link]

Science/Tech

• Next-gen Atom chips cooler – The next generation of Intel Atom chips will be cooler and offer better graphics, while generating less heat and consuming less power. [link]

Games

• Playing Crysis on OnLive – Michael Pachter says playing Crysis on OnLive streaming game service will be equivalent to playing it on a gaming-optimized PC. [link]

• Virtua Tennis 2009 review – A gameplay and game-mode review of the arcade tennis game, Virtua Tennis 2009. [1up]

• Nintendo DS chocolate case – How to make the sweet Nintendo DS even sweeter? Just give it a chocolate brick casing. [link]

Toys

• Custom-built Optimus Prime Transformer – A custom-built Optimus Prime Transformer is up on auction at Ebay. [gallery]

• Homemade rubber band shooter – Wooden rubber band shooter that expels at the rate of 1200 rubber bands per minute! [link]

Software

• Firefox 3.5 released – The fastest, smartest and safest browser by Mozilla has been released. [mozilla]

• Firefox 3.5 review – A close up look at the features and performance of Firefox latest browser version 3.5 by Technologizer. [link]

• Firefox 3.5 – Firefox 3.5 press release and feature video. [slashgear]

How-To’s/Tips & Tricks

• Retro USB Apple flash drive – Instructables user Max Headroom teaches you how to make a retro USB flash drive out of an old Apple keyboard button. [link]

Cool Stuff

• Book sculptures – Beautiful and creative book sculptures made from thick books. Unusual but cool medium for artistic artwork I may add. [gallery]

• Super Mario Bros push pins – Let Super Mario characters and icons hold and spice up your documents. [link]

• QRCode ruglet – Guy makes rug consisting of QRCode embedded with his mum’s name at Google I/O conference. [link]

Funny Stuff

• The best wife – Behind the most successful man, is a capable wife. [pic]

Odd Stuff

• Woman shares homes with eleven large cats – She lives in her house with wild animals such as cheetahs, white lions and tigers. [link]

• Wooden value meal – A tray of fast-food made in wood. The ironic thing is that this value meal is valued at $1500. [link]

Muvbox is a restaurant that is built to the shape of a 20-foot container. When the container deploys, the Muvbox unfolds and transforms instantly into an open-concept restaurant.

This allows anyone who wants to own a restaurant be able to have their Muvboxes shipped to them by land or sea on order.

Some technical specs of the Muvbox:

• Deployment: 1.5 minutes
• Complete installation: 15 minutes
• 28 places, 14 which are seated
• 3-4 employees when in use
• Up to 40% energy self-sufficient, notably due to two solar panels

Muvbox videos:

[muvboxconcept]

Nobody needs to be Professor X to be able to move their own wheelchairs without moving a muscle anymore. Toyota of Japan has been developing one such wheelchair that can be steered and controlled with the power of thought! This means that people without the control of their hands can get around just as easily as everyone else.

Classic arcade games, hits of the 80’s now remade using Lego and stop motion video! Featuring favorites such as Frogger, Space Invaders, Pac Man and Breakout.

Watch the video of the Lego arcade games in action.

Gadgets

• Boy uses a Walkman for a week – A 13 year old boy living in the digital age swops his iPod for a cassette tape playing Walkman, gives his thoughts after using the hottest music entertainment gadget of yesteryear for a week. [news]

• iPhone OS 3.0 7 hidden secrets – Did you know you can undo what you typed with a shake and many new tricks with the new OS. [link]

• Electric powered shopping cart – Guy builds world’s first electric shopping cart. [link]

Science/Tech

• Magnet and ferrofluid – An interesting video of a magnetic fluid which looks as if it changes states from liquid to solid on entry through a magnetic field. [video]

• Man modifies truck to run on wood and waste – A man has modified his truck using a gasification method that produces hydrogen-hydrocarbon by heating organic matter which doesn’t pollute the environment on expulsion. [link]

• MDI AirPOD eco-friendly car – This car runs solely on compressed air and has zero emissions. Range is estimated to be between 90-125 miles. [link]

Internet

• SEO tips for Bing – An insight into the capabilities of Microsoft’s Bing search engine, its decision engine system; and how webmasters can tune their sites for some Bing love. [link]

Games

• Razer Megalodon gaming headset – A look at the tech specs of the Razer Megalodon gaming headset due to ship on June 30th. [link]

• 5 iPhone apps to destroy productivity – Here, apps actually refer to games. So these are the games that will keep you glued to your iPhone, death till us part. [link]

• China bans gold farming – China has banned businesses and individuals from trading virtual currency for real goods and services. [news]

• WoW players soon to have the ability to change sides – WoW players will be able to change sides after Blizzard rolls out a new service, enabling them to switch from the Horde to Alliance and vice versa, while preserving a set of equivalent skills. [kotaku]

Anime

• Gundam cosplay comparison – How can the quality of cosplaying Gundam costumes be rated? Sometimes it is too easy to discern. Too easy. [pic]

Music

• Ayumi Hamasaki’s theme song for new Jdrama – Jpop diva Ayumi Hamasaki’s latest single ‘Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~’ will be the theme song for "Dandy Daddy?" on TV Asahi network, which marks 6 years since she has done a theme for any Japanese drama series. [tokyograph]

How-To’s/Tips & Tricks

• 6 new insights on sleep – 6 new and uncommon ways that can help our bodies get to sleep more easily. [link]

Cool Stuff

• Pilot says love to beau – A Russian pilot professed his love to his girlfriend by drawing a gigantic heart in the sky with contrails from his plane. [pic]

• Transforming laptop – A rather real-looking CGI video of a transforming laptop. [youtube]

• Russian Wall-E casemod – A really cool step-by-step gallery showing the detailed construction of a very realistic-looking Wall-E as a PC case mod. (Warning: Huge image gallery!) [gallery]

• 15 coolest laptop bags – Laptop bags made of stuff you would never have imagined. [gallery]

• Blue Angels cockpit cam – A video taken from the cockpit of one of the planes from the Blue Angels stunt flying team. [youtube]

• 11 amazing street paintings – Amazing street paintings that look life-like when seen from an angle. [gallery]

Odd Stuff

• Giant cockroach pool float – Fancy floating on a inflatable cockroach in the pool? [link]

News & Articles

• Wrong house dude – Burglar chose the wrong house to steal from, which is owned by a 72-year-old former boxer. [news]

• How McDonald’s conquered France – McDonald’s is known for its not-so-healthy treats. France is known for its fine-dining and wine, so how did a fast-food chain like McDonald’s grapple a foothold in this country? [article]

• Fast food calorie information – Calorie information could be made mandatory on all menus at the point of purchase in fast-food restaurants. [article]

Are there any similarities in behavior between lions and ordinary housecats? They belong to the cat family after all. You may be pleasantly surprised after watching this video from a Japanese TV show.

Gadgets

• Canivorous clock eats insects to power itself perpetually. [link]

• Fake car key spy camera. [link]

• Frolicat automatic laser pointer for pets. [link]

Science/Tech

• VirtualHUD gives all pilots an affordable heads-up display. [link]

Games

• EA announces to release Battlefield 1943 on July 9th. [link]

Cool Stuff

• Top 10 Beverages in Japan. [link]

• 60 beautiful night shots. [gallery]

• Coffee recipe chart. [flickr]

• Chimp and white tiger cubs. [gallery]

News News

• Michael Jackson’s family album photos seen for the first time. [news]

• New building falls over on its side in China. [gallery]

Gadgets

• Sony considering PSP/Phone hybrid. [news]

Games

• Inside gaming Left 4 Dead 2 exclusive interview. [youtube]

• Ultimate gaming rig. [flickr]

• Street Fighter Cammy cosplay. [gallery]

Anime

• 3rd Neon Genesis Evangelion remake film to be titled Q quickening. [news]

Software

• 19 twitter desktop apps compared. [link]

How-To’s

• How to convert pdf document to word format. [link]

Cool Stuff

• 35 spectacular scenes taken from the International Space Station. [gallery]

• Honda’s amazing hovering car concept. [link]

• 30 amazing aquariums. [gallery]

• iPod birthday cake. [flickr]

• Bottle cap Mario and Pacman monster. [link]

• 14 Modern teapot and kettle designs. [gallery]

• Most awesome backyard explosion failures. [youtube]

Funny Stuff

• Durex is cheaper. [link]

• Kitten begs for food. [video]

Odd Stuff

• Nintendo controller as wireless doorbell. [link]

• Grape flavored Kit-Kat. [flickr]

• S’mores keyboard. [link]

News News

• Time Magazine’s special commemorative June 29th cover of Michael Jackson. [link]