Yup. I’m all too excited with these two upcoming Marvel movies. And oh, don’t forget about Iron Man, but that’s a different story. If it’s all for the excellent casting so far, then I really wouldn’t have a problem with a few storyline tweaks.

First up, Edward Norton as the Incredible Hulk (pictured above). While some think that Eric Bana already did a good job playing Bruce Banner, I’d still go for Norton here. He’s the only reason Fight Club worked for me.

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Mmmkay. So we’re placing it in quotes. These phones aren’t strapped with your Autobots and Decepticons icon but they can sure transform. Dubbed as the Mecha/Transformers phones, the SoftBank 815T PB can really be “transformed” from phone to robo-phone. And yes, you can actually make calls with this one.

The phone’s made for a new J-dorama entitled Ketai Sousakan 7 which airs soon. There’s really not much to the phone except for the fact that, with a few twists and turns, you can actually play with it as a toy robot. Aside from the arms and legs, it is functional as a normal cellphone and comes with a QVGA screen and a 3.2-megapixel camera.

Source: Akihabara News

Photo Credit: freshManila

I haven’t really heard of the store until I stumbled upon this blog. A little bit of Google-fu and I finally came across freshMANILA’s Multiply site. It just hope its the same store.

From the looks of it, they’re a designer toy shop selling these annoyingly-cutesy-that-you-want-to-have-them toys. Aside from toys, I see that they also sell some apparel like shirts and sneakers. The shop’s located in Quezon City so it could be an easier trip than Greenhills (probably the Philippines’ answer to Akihabara).

We have this (nasty) habit of raiding shops and stores that interest us (like what we did with Manga Kissa 10) or watching a movie and occupy one full row of a cinema for one Saturday. Sugoi Day Saturday, anyone?

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Just a news flash but this is surely some great news for hot-blooded young men Wii gamers. It first came to the Nintendo DS with Doki Doki Majo), now an eroge/hentai game is coming to the Nintendo Wii. The concept of having a DS h-game was interesting with all the stylus control but hey, imagine what you can do with the Wii.

The game is called Osouji Sentai Cleen Kurin Kipa (Cleaning Squadron Clean Keeper) and will feature the player as a squad of cleaners to tidy up a high school in heaven that has been dirtied by the “Filth Devil.” Winning game battles would feature interesting CG rewards.

I’m not too sure how hentai this game would be but given what has been made before, we can only speculate how nasty this would be.

Source: Famitsu via Kotaku

If there’s one thing my girlfriend and I love, it’s those good old 8-bit Nintendo NES/Family Computer games especially Super Mario, TwinBee and Battle City. Gimme those old Megaman/Rockman cartridges and I’m good for a day or two.

Anyway, revisiting those games are quite tricky, unless of course you still have an old NES lying around. Or you get those compilations of old classics for the PSP and DS that are quite popular. Rigging modern day controllers even offer just a bit more oomph to the gameplay. Ever used the analog stick to play TwinBee? Quite responsive, I tells ya.

In for a great nostalgia trip? Here’s graphic representation of the evolution of good old Nintendo characters – Mario, Link, and Donkey Kong.

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I used to find people who attach other input devices to their laptops weird especially if there are already a touch pad and a track button built in to the laptop. Well, since technology has beefed up and laptops can be as powerful than desktops allowing a lot of other functions. So it’s not that awkward anymore to see people lug around portable mice for use in a whole bunch of functions that the touch pad just won’t be able to handle. (Ever tried using Photoshop with a touch pad?)

Portable mice, I’ve seen a lot but I haven’t seen a lot of people lugging around portable trackballs for mobile computing. I haven’t really considered using one but I guess i should start considering it especially since trackballs are said to lessen the risk of carpal tunnel syndrome that is quite common with mice. Here’s one that caught my eye – the Genius Traveler 350.

Genius releases the Traveler 350, a portable mini trackball for notebooks. One of the latest innovations from Genius, this optical mini trackball offers smooth cursor movement and great performance.

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No one wants just a piece of a Ferrari (since definitely everyone wants the whole car), except probably with this one. What you’re looking at isn’t an F1 car that would hit the tracks for this year’s racing season. It’s a 4,405-lb. hunk of Belgian chocolate from nose to tail.

This chocolate Ferrari F1 was made in Italy and will be the centerpiece of the Scuderia Ferrari Club Napoli’s club party. The car, which took more than a year to build, will be displayed and then it will be smashed out with hammers then be handed out to party guests. Now not everyone would be probably end up cringing with the site of this F1 getting smashed to pieces. That’s Belgian chocolate and who wouldn’t want to have a piece.

Mind you that this is a life-size model of the Ferrari F2008 (this year’s version of the F1 track car). Everything’s edible, including the red coating. Want one? Be ready with at least £12,000.

Source: Ananova

Tickle Me Elmo dolls rank as one of my most hated things on the planet. Elmo, for that matter, must be my most hated muppet of all time. Nothing beats drum-busting Animal and those grumpy old men as my favorite muppets. Oh yeah, and the Evil Bert is sort of cool too (in a very sick kind of way).

Me and my high school barkada always wanted to make a short film featuring a Tickle Me Elmo doll and “induce” some Chucky streak into it. But alas, seven years after, we never got around to doing it. And today, you have a lot of variations of the blasted Tickle-Me-Elmo doll. You have the Tickle Me Elmo Extreme or TMX, which is, to me, is an X-rated version. And what’s up with that Hokey Pokey Elmo that shakes like Beyonce’s getting her groove on.

But this one, I just might like. A killer Elmo.

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