This “animaquette” is produced by Gentle Giant, a purveyor of all kinds of weird fantasy tchotchkes. I don’t believe I can put it any more succinctly than Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog already has: For those of you who busy trying desperately to make sense of a world gone mad, allow me to confirm your mind-shattering suspicions:…

ShareBrained Technology offers this wonderful and ridiculous open-source clock…thingie. You can buy it fully assembled, as a kit, or as a raw circuit board. If you’re really brave and/or have too much time on your hands, they even offer the circuit board layout so you can print your own. The Chronulator starts life as a…

Jeff Russell has put together a collection of science fiction objects, from aliens to Dyson Spheres, each in their proper scale. How much taller than Yoda is E.T.? Now we have a definitive answer! Link (via Dark Roasted Blend)

Where were these when I was pregnant? Where?!?!? I got Shadow and Shadowboy matching v1.0 and v2.0 shirts a while back, but that’s no consolation for missing out on this maternity tee. Argh. (It’s probably overkill to get pregnant again just to have one of these shirts, right?) Link

Flickr user absinthetic dressed up as a 19th-Century time traveler last Halloween, and built the “Chronotheric Fluxing Capacitron” to use as a prop. His photo set doesn’t give any detailed instructions, but there are enough different angles that it shouldn’t be too hard to put together something similar. This would be a nice prop for…

In the “Scientific Advances We Didn’t Know We Wanted” department comes the Bubelle Dress, designed by Philips Electronics. It contains an inner layer of biometric sensors that detect a person’s emotions and project them as various colors onto the outer textile layer. It was developed as part of the SKIN Probe Project, researching what lifestyles…

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Ten-year-old George Baker is a huge Dr. Who fan. His parents, whom the word “indulgent” does not seem adequate to describe, made over his bedroom into a replica of the TARDIS control room. This is just a hunch, but I have a feeling that George may eventually have trouble getting a date. Link (via SciFi…

Get ready! “Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day” is last month. Walk up to random people and say “WHAT YEAR IS THIS?” and when they tell you, get quiet and then say “Then there’s still time!” and run off. Link (via Neatorama)

A bit too late for Christmas, but if you’re looking for some geek-friendly games to play at an upcoming gathering, Wired has a pretty neat list. Hey! That’s My Fish! Mayfair Games, two to four players, ages 8 and up, $25 Buy it for: The geek with young geeklings You play: Hungry penguins with an…