Today on Boing Boing Gadgets

John Brownlee 12:43 pm Wed Sep 17, 2008

Today on Boing Boing Gadgets, we pulled our breakfast from a refrigerator for flatshares: "a weeping, mold-ridden melon." We washed down its feculence with a cup of joe served in a camera lens then gorged ourselves on iPhone cupcakes. Excelsior! Off to the day's adventures.

Beschizza spotted a biomechanical, steampunk Bluetooth headset and posted in flaccid British rage about Canon trying to extend NDAs for camera announcements. Joel coined the word Kraftfahrzeugelektrikermarschall in a post about a Chevy Volt hybrid with some surprisingly smart features, then spotted a swank Nintendo DS remote for a Canon DSLR. Then he reported on a man dumping his sex doll in a ditch after deciding to move in with one of his children. Very thoughtful of him.

There was a talking LEGO Terminator, as usual, and a $30,000 straight razor mystically forged by Merlin himself. Brownlee found a MAME cabinet that can play practically every game ever made, and a gaggle of Atari-cized video game covers, one of which features mocha-colored candy cane zombies. He also wondered if he was metal enough to wear the new Metallica headphones: the readers answered for him, "Nay."

And LazerTag is now releasing the coolest ray guns on Earth.

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