This week , I find myself contemplatingmonsters . I ’m not talking about metaphorical fiend , or even terrible the great unwashed who ’ve done monstrous things . I ’m babble aboutrealmonsters . honest-to-goodness - style mythological monsters . Like Godzilla . Or that jumbo merger of dust and taxation human body that presently resides under my bed . Scarystuff .
It ’s not so much the giant themselves that I find myself thinking about as their relationships with masses . Why are we frightened of monsters ? Are they just dissimilar , or are they in fact evil as well ? Do they go home to monster families at nighttime , have freak dinner , then sit down to read the monster paper ? hoi polloi require to fuck .
Well , maybe notpeople . ButIwant to know .
Anyway , on this week ’s Gadgetbox , we ’ve got a terrible trio of lusus naturae - themed treats for you . First up , the tool you ’ll necessitate to survive a lusus naturae encounter , followed by a truly monstrous webcam , and we top it all off with a game that only a goliath could love .
Survival of the fishiest
I went to seeCloverfieldthe other night with some friends . Since the movie ’s been out about two month and it was 9:15 on a Monday nighttime in suburban Springfield , Massachusetts , you might rightly infer that we were the only three people in the film dramatic art . We get that as license to break all the rules of moviegoing , chatting liberally about the film as it stretch .
Amongst my repeated marveling that I wanted a video camera with a battery that live on as long as the one on which the movie is supposedly shot , my friend commented : “ It kind of makes you want to put together an emergency kit , does n’t it ? ”
Fortunately , you do n’t have to go to nifty lengths to assemble the kind of equipment you might desire in such a package : ThinkGeek’sSardine Can Survival Kit ’s already done all the ponderous lifting for you . The rainproof , atmosphere - tight , crushproof container has twenty - five vital particular packed within it , include pain reliever , bandages , matches , a compass , duct mag tape , a rainproof bag , and more . And heck , the thing’ll even float if you drop it in the river .
Of of course , you hope you never need one of these things , but should you ever be in a metropolis attack by a giant monster , you ’ll be glad you spent the $ 13 . Now , if only it had extra barrage for my camcorder .
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Your galactic conquest, now on YouTube
As long as we ’re on the story of human race - destroy monster , it seems only fair that you be alert to the tardy developments in theWhoniverse . We ’ve handle many a musical composition of Dr. Who - related appurtenance in these pages , from theCyberman voice - changing maskto the Sonic Screwdriver . Now , from the terrifying profoundness of space comes the most blood - chilling one to date : theDalek Webcam .
Little is known about the Dalek Webcam : its line and specification remainshrouded in mystery story . What wedoknow is that it has a built - in mike , it costs about £ 18 ( ~$36 ) , andthat it is a webcam shaped like a Dalek . No doubt we could have determine more , had the webcam not begun shouting “ EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE ” and threatening to plunge our toilet . Fortunately , I live on the third floor , so the trouble was solved by putting the Dalek Webcam in the basement , at the bottom of a recollective flight of stairs .
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Hulk no want surgery! Unless ice cream afterwards. Then Hulk okay with it.
I was never really a big devotee of The Incredible Hulk . He ’s just not thatinteresting ; honestly , I got my fill of big gawk who cry a lot , utilize poor grammar , and solve all their problems with ferocity back in high school .
And yet I incur myself overwhelmingly draw tothis version of Milton Bradley ’s Graeco-Roman game Operation , which sport as patient none other than the alter egotism of Bruce Banner himself . More than anything else , though , it is the philosophical and epistemological doubt the game kick upstairs that continue to capture me : why , for exemplar , is the Hulk in OR ? How add up he does n’t transform back into mild - mannered Bruce Banner ? And how the devil did that rocket end up in his toe ? I blame the US military ; the path they hound him , it’sshameful .
As in the original game , if you touch the edge while trying to remove one of the foreign object , the Hulk ’s eyes will light up and he ’ll roar at you . Like that ’s not enough to put even the most experienced surgeon on sharpness . The game itself will be release sometime in June , for about $ 30 . Gamma re exposure resulting from playing is state to be “ within acceptable limits . ”
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All right , I assure : no more monsters next week . Cross my pith . promise to be consume by the Form-1040 - junk - animate being - from - below . Which , of course , does n’t be . See you next Wednesday .
