TMX Elmo - Fully Automated Elmo Toy (and Cookie Monster)

This Elmo laughs so hard that he falls down, and then he gets back up.




When Money Attacks... Sesame Street.





Here it is with a French Elmo and with the Cookie Monster:




And here a Shizzu dog faces off against the Elmo:

Lego Mindstorms Gumball Sorter

When money attacks... gumballs!

One person said:

"This is great, a set of modular thigns you put together, using light wave recognition and a recorded set of areas to drop the balls in. Now to add to this, wouldn't it be cool to tell the system to stop and alarm if there are too many balls for one column? A register to know the limit of your palette board. 10, or whatever. Awesome stuff, I really loved watching this."

Giant Paint Balloon Slingshot

"A giant paint balloon slingshot create for the demolition of a building to celebrate the redevelopment of East Liberty area in Pittsburgh. Project by Johnny Chung Lee and Joshua Atlas."



When Money Attacks... slingshots.

Build a Miniature Set for $10 - With Stop Motion Animation

When money attacks... stop-motion animation.

"Sick of the REAL world and all of it's REAL problems? Well, with a few sheets of cardboard and some cool tricks, you can build your very own miniature town!"



The animation at the end is pretty funny.

Favorite quote:
"Super Time Lapse! Whoo!!!"

- TAE

How to Make a Stop Motion Puppet for $10!

"Inspired by Nightmare Before Christmas, we show you how to make a stop motion puppet for under $10."



When money attacks... stop motion.

Dancing Cow costume - shoots milk out of its udders!

Dancing Cow costume - shoots milk out of its udders!

When Money Attacks Cows!!!

This video is from "America's Got Talent." It is "Holy Cow." Two of the three judges pull the plug on this one before it ends.

The tail moves, the cow dances on his head, the udders shoot milk, and the wife cheers on her cow.

This is a great case of spending money on a very weird hobby.



Enjoy!

Nintendo Amusement Park

What do you do with a little bit of money and time on your hands? You create a Nintendo amusement park!!!

This is a real-life obstacle course that a player navigates by jumping on trampolines and using harnesses! Of course, there are moving objects and Goombas, just like the hit Super Mario Bros. videogames. You also get to pound bricks, gather coins, and grab mushrooms! And the game wouldn't be complete unless you were dressed up like Mario and Luigi (including only getting four fingers)!!! The video on the home page shows a couple of Americans with a Japanese woman's voice narrating it. I assume this means that the Japanese press is more interested in this than we are!

http://www.nintendoamusementpark.com/

The legal page is pretty funny:
http://www.nintendoamusementpark.com/legal.php

Enjoy!

Beer & Soda chiller from the makers of hardware coolers

"The U.S.B. Beverage Chiller, from CoolIT Systems of Calgary, Alberta, was designed to spare white-collar workers the irritation of wasted caffeine. The device, which can draw power from most any PC or Macintosh, is sort of a reverse hot plate, as well as CoolIT’s answer to the multitude of U.S.B. drink warmers beloved by coffee-craving geeks [who frequent Starbucks].

"The chiller was inspired by a throwaway joke ... “Somebody said, ‘It’s a shame that our coolers don’t chill beer, because we’d make a lot more money,’ ” said Geoff Lyon, the company’s chief executive. “We all had a good laugh about that one.”

But CoolIT’s chief technology officer, Sandy Scott, treated the remark as a challenge rather than a gag. He went home that night and built a crude prototype that could, indeed, preserve a beer’s drinkability on a hot day... “He came in the next morning, plugged it into my desktop, and said, ‘There’s your beer cooler,’ ” Mr. Lyon said."

From:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/business/yourmoney/30goods.html?ex=1311912000&en=5c5db9ba56472a5d&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

http://www.coolitsystems.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=84

...The official website.