The Force is Strong with the Muppets

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Final production samples of action figures featuring The Muppets dressed as Star Wars characters. Featuring Beaker as C-3PO and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew as R2-D2. The other sets will include Link Hogthrob as Han Solo with Fozzy the Bear as Chewbacca, and (my favorite) Sam the Eagle as Obi-Wan Kenobi with Gonzo as Darth Vader complete with his chicken Camilla as a Stormtrooper. These figures will arrive in the Fall at Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World Resort's only.

http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2011/06/the-force-is-strong-with-the-mu...

Amazing HyperPhotos

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Really cool if you view full screen then click to zoom in on various areas of the pictures. You think the far off elements won't be sharp, but the images are so high-res, that you can zoom way in on any element in the photo.

http://www.rauzier-hyperphoto.com/voyages-extraordinaires/

"Jean-François Rauzier's "Hyperphotos" are his way of combining “infinitely big and infinitely small things in one same image.”

Avengers Cardboard Costumes!

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Here’s a really cool idea; what if you could cosplay completely using completely recyclable products? Better still, make that cardboard boxes. Not very many people would be imaginative enough to create what the guys behind Nikejerk3 on Flickr have done for Dragoncon 2010. Namely, making full body, complete colour renderings of some of the famous characters from the Avengers team of superheroes. For these cardboard heroes, it’s time to assemble!

Disney Animator creates Traditionally Animated Superman Short Film

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"Veteran Disney animator Robb Pratt – whose work includes Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Tarzan – has created a one-minute short film entitled Superman Classic. The whole thing is a mixture of hand-drawn animation and digital effects, and is definitely fantastic. Really takes you back to those Saturday mornings watching cartoons.

Make sure you watch through to the end, as Pratt has a bit to say about his creation."

Solowheel - The wheel from the comic strip BC is now a real product!

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I've always been a fan of the B.C. strip and the classic C64 game "Quest for Tires" - and now the wheel from B.C. is a real product! The Solowheel is sort of a minimalist Segway, consisting of only a powered, gyroscopic wheel and foot platforms. It should be available sometime this month for $1,500. See more pictures and a video at Gizmodo. Here's a video fo the Solowheel in action. [Solowheel via Cool Hunting]

Northpoint Church iBand

http://dvice.com/archives/2010/12/the-iband-orche.php

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Some of the coolest apps for iPads and iPhones turn them into virtual musical instruments like keyboards and guitars, so it was only a matter of time before someone put together an orchestra with a bunch of Apple instruments playing together.

Behold the first Christmas concert by the North Point Community Church iBand, from Apharetta Georgia. In the video they rock a Christmas medley using only iPad and iPhone based virtual instruments, including drums, bells, guitar, synth, and percussion. They save the best for last, with an awesome version of Feliz Navidad complete with a hideously auto-tuned vocal performance.

Via Gadget News

Designers Spin Spidey-Worthy Webs From Packing Tape

http://www.fastcompany.com/1656197/designers-create-spiderman-worthy-cave-fro...

Packing tape has gotten MacGyver out of many a jam, but he never managed to make an entire home out of the stuff. So he could probably learn something from Viennese/Croatian design collective For Use/Numen. The team uses nothing but packing tape to create huge, self-supporting cocoons that visitors could climb inside and explore.

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