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Koreans get powderful with StarCraft English

No doubt about it, playing games is one of the best (and fun) ways to absorb knowledge. A publisher from South Korea has capitalized on the manic love of Starcraft among his countrymen to introduce an English language training book called Starcraft English.

What if the real world was an MMO game? Here’s the review:

From Metafilter.com, user Aeschenkarnos gave a funny and quite accurate review of life in the outside world as a massive multiplayer game...

Super Nintendo Papercraft is Super Cute

Check out this super cute, palm-sized SNES papercraft set designed by deviantArt user Ryo007. It has its own Super Mario All-Stars cartridge and is also fitted with earphone cables to make it look more realistic. Cool, eh? You can make one too...

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Can't read in the dark? Try this book!

A book that can dispel darkness but no, it's not a spell book from Harry Potter.

How to play Tetris on Canon Calculators

For those who would rather play a neverending game than finish their math homework.

Mobile Retro Handsets

Cradle this grandfather of telephony as you make or receive calls and you’ll feel like you’re traveling back to the good old days when phone receivers were made of sturdy plastic... except now it works with your new mobile phone.

Super Trooper

Everyone knows who Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Darth Vader are and their stories. But what about the Imperial Stormtroopers we keep seeing in the movies? (Hey, just because they are in dorky armour doesn’t mean they shouldn’t get any love!)

Catherine's Animals

Yes, that’s a cow sticking its tongue out at you. Meet Catherine Ledner's animals, which are not quite like your usual run-of-the-mill variety..

Bento dressed up as album cover art

The Japanese just have a knack for carrying things to extremes. I’m not even surprised anymore when I see these cute little bento boxes with nori seaweed, tamago (egg) and other ingredients decorated to look like album covers.

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