Lego Aliens (and a Voltron joke)









Lego Aliens by Brandon Bannerman, who also compared starting a Prius to driving Voltron:







*Buy Alien toys by Neca at eBay.
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1. "GM has autonomous, electric pods that can be summoned by a smart phone and will whisk you, hands-free, to wherever you want to go. They're almost ready, now we just need to wait for GPS to catch up."

2. Destructoid didn't like Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet:
Sadly, great visuals do not a great game make. Nor does gameplay that spends most of its timing striving only for a passing grade. Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet scores points for its moments of genuine cleverness and tight, logical design, but the majority of the experience is a lukewarm and superficial one. It tries to merge three types of gameplay together, and while the intention is admirable, the effort made is far from total.
3. Mike Maihack is looking for commissions.
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Bowling pin car




Car with retracting bowling pins. Via.
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1. Lamborghini is apparently going to stop making manual transmissions.

2. Emily Shur talks about photographing Sarah Palin for Newsweek.

3. Recipe for Coffee Bean's Sunrise. Is there a recipe for their Black Forest?
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These ads for Scion (featuring Zeus) are way better than that Immortals trailer

I love these ads by Attik for the Scion tC by, starring Zeus. Funny and they do an excellent job of showing off the car:





I couldn't make out what his brand of juice is:



The minisite features ringtones and a downloadable autographed picture.

There's also several "behind the scenes" videos, including this one in which he explains how he created Athena:

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1. Even Jiffy Lube is now saying you don't need an oil change every 3,000 miles (at the location I pass the most, business is so bad, there's typically multiple employees holding signs in front instead of servicing cars).

2. Marie Callender's declared bankruptcy and kicked out diners (and workers) mid-meal. (I sure hope my local store hasn't closed, I need the occasional French apple pie fix.)

3. "The Transportation Security Administration announced Friday plans to fire 36 Honolulu International Airport employees and suspend 12 more" for incompetence.
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The airstream of the future

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Disney imagines the future of highway transportation






From the 1958 Disneyland TV Show episode entitled Magic Highway USA, check out wildly inaccurate predictions about the highways, cars, and cities of the future. Via.

*Buy The Wonderful Future That Never Was: Flying Cars, Mail Delivery by Parachute, and Other Predictions from the Past at Amazon.
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Nissan shared banner ads with its customers





Clever ad campaign by TBWA\RAAD for the Nissan Micra. To emphasize the car's small size, Nissan posted banner ads with lots of space left over for customers to use to try to sell their own cars. In return for posting the user's ad, Nissan placed a Tweet about the Micra in the user's Twitter stream.
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1. The owner of a Porsche saved it from a flood by parking it on an anchored inflatable raft.

2. What a terrific sponsored post at Eater - - a secret dining society sponsored by Patron. These types of ads make so much more sense than banner ads, yet I see them done properly so rarely.

3. Since the NFL has locked out players, it's up to the players to organize their own offseason workouts. Drew Brees took it one step further and is paying for many expenses, including insurance and lodging for younger players.
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A few gems from Reddit:


Spirited Away cosplay.



Mach 5.



Angry bird.




Lion and cub.

*Buy Speed Racer toys at eBay.
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GM's EN-V looks like a rolling diver's helmet

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Batmobile redesign contest

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Rattan and bamboo car




The Phoenix by Kenneth Cobonpue - - made of of rattan, bamboo, steel and carbon fiber. Via these sites.

*Buy concept car toys at eBay.
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1. Japanese-themed custom items for a Team Fortress 2/Total War: Shogun 2 cross-promotion.

2. Reports that the Nissan Leaf gets a lot less mileage than advertised, and worse, misrepresents how much charge is left, leaving drivers stranded.

3. Animated gif is close to the real life version of Lucy yanking the football away from Charlie Brown.

*Buy Peanuts toys at Amazon.
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Mercedes-Benz Aesthetics No. 2 sculpture








Mercedes-Benz Aesthetics No. 2 sculpture:
Interior Design at Mercedes-Benz in Germany has created a sculpture that expresses visually that which inspires designers, and on the other hand gives space to the creative artistic process in the design of the vehicle interior. It makes an aesthetics of sustainability visible and is oriented towards the perfect forms of nature which evolved over periods spanning millions of years.
You'll find more wallpaper-sized images here.

*Buy Cars: Freedom, Style, Sex, Power, Motion, Colour, Everything at Amazon.
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