Today on Boing Boing Gadgets

halfelfds1.jpgToday on Boing Boing Gadgets, we looked at a Mondrian MP3 player and catalogued Congress' fight with evil robots. There was a gorgeous birdsong box automaton and an iPhone 3G that comes in Brownlee's favorite color, whore red. And laboratories at night sure are pretty.

We liked the Periodic Coffee Table, although it couldn't help but get us wondering how much cooler an Periodic Coffee Table of Imaginary Elements would have been. That's a project for you boys and girls at home... don't forget the Cavorite. But we digress. The hirsute and porcine finally lasered off his Zune tattoos. Brownlee really likes Half-Elf Tentacle Assault, surprising no one.

Sprint is bizarrely selling its towers, only to lease them back. A racing game is giving testers epileptic seizures. Corn plastics do not make good water bottles and Toshiba says "this is not the UMPC you are looking for." And Neil Young doesn't understand anything about digital audio.

From Joel, an ode to bacon. From Rob, the skewering of a PS3-loving bumpkin. From John, Elder's Game meets Lord of the Flies at summer camp.

Finally: half a terrabyte of foot fetish porn for your perusal. We were really on a roll today.

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