The Wasp Knife might be the least pleasant way to be stabbed to death, not that there is a pleasant method for doing so. Designed for use by hunters and divers as protection against bears and sharks, the specially designed knife has an exploding tip that injects a highly compressed ball of gas which freezes the victims organs in a radius about the size of a basketball.

While a knife with such awesome brutality might be great for protecting against the dangers of the wild, British officials are worried that the Wasp Knife might fall into the wrong hands. Result? People dying in pretty unpleasant ways. We can only imagine how bad it would suck to have a frozen bowel.

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The day is finally here. The Dark Knight, the much anticipated sequel to Batman Begins, is now in theaters. We won’t speak for you (you can do that yourself in the comments!), but we’re mighty excited about this flick. Heath Ledger’s role as the Joker has everybody up in arms. Apparently it really does measure up to the hype.

We came across this absurdly cool The Dark Knight Joker Poker Set and couldn’t help but wet our pants a tad. What a perfect piece of viral merchandise! This poker set includes a prop replica 54 card deck emblazoned with, the now classic,  Joker vandalism style. Every card is a joker to this guy!

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Owning a piece of movie memorabilia is like no other collection venture out there. These are props that we can actually view being used our screens. Products we’ve emulated at the cinema and never dreamed of owning ourselves. But there are ways to scoop up these priceless items.

The Profiles in History auction house is all set to release a huge collection of movie props and gadgets which makes are collective mouths water. The wonder of the movies is never as real as when you actually get to touch the makings of a movie yourself. And if you’ve got the cash, this is your chance.

Some of these props being auctioned off are just… there are no words. Totally iconic gadgets which have changed the vision of technology as we know it. For example, the prop used for Darth Vader’s TIE fighter is expected to sell for £100,000. You can even snag the hover board that Marty McFly used in the Back To The Future movies.

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Hippy, hippy, quite so trippy. How does your garden grow? You can’t help but think of nursery rhymes when the image of magical mushrooms and gardens are filling your head. Today seems like the day of mushroom mania. Earlier today we wrote about a Mushroom Desk Cleaner. While that product is not nearly as fun to mix into rhyming prose of happiness, it’s mushroom themed nevertheless.

And now we’ve found a truly psychedelic product. An integration of mushrooms which many of you might be much more familiar with. The Magic Mushrooms are solar powered LED lit lawn ornaments made to cast some light on your garden at night.

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Have you seen those crazy parachute planes that combine a propeller driven engine with a chute and allows bored weekend warriors to kill themselves without a pilot’s license? Well, now there’s a company taking the next “logical” step by creating a flying dune buggy that does the same thing - kill a reckless driver and anyone else who is unfortunate enough to be on the ground when this 2,500 pound rock drops on their heads.

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At E3, our friends at Crunchgear saw a really cool app for the iPhone - the latest LucasArts and THQ Wireless’ mega blockbuster video game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, has been ported to it. It looks to be really seamless and LucasArts has gotten around the iPhone’s sole multi-touch interface rather nicely.

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Here’s one of the many problems about corporate jobs. You work in a small cubicle in the middle of a sardine packed high-rise so the coffee machine is no doubt a few minutes away from your small work space. So by the time you get back to your desk after the long trek from the coffee machine, your caffeinated beverage is left luke warm. That’s just no way to live.

The ingenious Heat Me is a great little USB gadget which acts as both a beverage stirrer and a liquid heating device. Just plug the Heat Me into your computers USB port and the metal coil will heat up for optimal coffee heating power.

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Inspector Gadget is our hero. Take a second to revel in his memory. How cool was this fictional man? He had a gadget for every situation, all of which were voice activated and ready for duty at a moments notice. In a way, Inspector Gadget is the prototypical dream geek. He is a true gadget idol and a man among mere mortals.

A cartoon character is a sad person to look up to though. There is just no way to compete with someone as utterly cool as an animated geek. We can say “go-go-gadget!” as much as we want, and the truth is that nothing will happen, unless we’ve programmed one of our gadgets to answer to our commands. At least this Go Go Gadget Shirt tee allows us to hold a piece of the Inspector mythology close to our hearts.

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