Use Your Adidas As Video Game Controller

I was reading Consumerist and the intro paragraph was too perfect, I'll just paste it verbatim:
"I've been thinking lately that my sneakers are too stupid. They don't do anything, at least not anything video game related, which is where it matters. Adidas has recognized this problem and has announced a new "augmented reality" sneaker that you have to hold in front of your webcam in order to play special online games."

According to the shoe's YouTube page:

[Each shoe will come] printed with an AR code on the tongue. When you hold the code in front of your webcam, you'll gain access to a virtual version of the adidas Originals Neighborhood. Each month between February and April, we'll launch a new interactive game within the Neighborhood and your shoe will be the game controller.

"I'd include the video, but it's just a shot of a shoe spinning around all Transformers style over and over, meh.

I managed to talk with an anonymous source very close to the project, by which I mean someone imaginary, and he told me all about the Apple Tablet Adidas Original games that are in the works. Here are three concepts:

• Scrape virtual dog poop off your shoe! Scrape faster! Another Adidas Original owner is sitting in front of his computer somewhere and he's already got six pounds of poop scraped off!
  
• Shake those spiders out of your shoe! You can see by the picture of the Sydney Opera House that you're clearly in Australia, so those spiders can't be good for you! Shake! Oh good lord look at all the spiders!
  
• Not so much a game as a "fun" way to Skype. Hold your shoe up to your face and speak into the hole. You're talking into a phone! No wait it's a shoe! Now talking to your friends can smell like your feet! Crazy!

Sorry Adidas, I'm gonna have to pass on this one. If you ever invent augmented reality underwear, I'll reconsider."

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High School In-Game Dunk

Only a few years ago we were all going crazy when Vince Carter did the between the legs dunk in a dunk contest. Now it is being done in a live game --- by a High School kid! Evolution is scary. Which is the precise reason you have to give props to the people who started the next stage of evolution, ie: Nique and Jordan of dunking and then Vince. Now we have High School kids that can throw it down like its nothing. And is it me or is he playing against 6th graders?

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Are Hockey Players Predisposed to Fighting?

I love how it is a under 10 league and a mass brawl breaks out. I mean - under 10! But watch and enjoy the recklessness that these 9 yr olds go flying at each other - all that is missing is some hysteric Russian from an announcer.

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Car Financing for Anyone!

If you have bad credit, live in North Carolina, and need a car, you're in luck! This holy roller can "heal" your credit.

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Jersey Shore Nickname

Everyone on the Man-log had a pretty good time with the Pro Wrestler name creator. Well, now I bring to you the creator of such nicknames as 'Snooki', 'The Situation' (my personal favorite), and J-Woww! I present the Jersey Shore Nickname creator.



'The Nickname Generator'

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Watch out Frank Caliendo, its Aries Spears!

You can’t help but love a good celebrity impersonation the first time you see it. We’ll see if Aries Spears is good enough to earn his 15 minutes of fame.

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42 Manly Places to Eat

[CouponSherpa] Eating is a man's specialty. That's why this next post is going to show you where you show off your manliness and get some MASSIVE portions of free food. Just make sure you eat it in the required amount of time. Who wants to take a road trip?

1. Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub
Location: Clearfield, Pennsylvania
Food Challenge: If you have two people and three hours, take on the Beer Barrel Belly Buster. The 15-pound burger includes a 20-inch patty, 17-inch bun, two onions, a head of lettuce, 25 slices of cheese, three tomatoes, mayo, mustard, relish and ketchup. Finish the challenge in three hours and it's completely free! If you can't finish the burger, it'll cost you $49.95.

2. Jack 'n Grill
Location: Denver, Colorado
Food Challenge: As seen on the Travel Channel's popular "Man vs Food" show, the famous Jack-n-Grill seven-pound burrito eats more like a casserole than a burrito. Women who complete the challenge receive free food for life at Jack 'n Grill. Only three women have ever finished the challenge and word on the street is they never returned for more.

3. Papa Bob’s Bar-B-Que
Location: Bonner Springs, Kansas
Food Challenge: Finish the Ultimate Destroyer -- a giant 12-inch sandwich with a half-pound pulled pork, half-pound hickory-smoked sliced pork, and two slices of bread -- and Papa Bob's will refund your $45 entry fee.

4. Pizza Party
Location: Santa Clara, California
Food Challenge: Eat one Belly Buster 20-inch pizza with cheese and two toppings in one hour or less. Unlimited water is included with the pizza, however you may not dip your pizza into the water (or any other drink). You have to keep down all the pizza and clean up your mess if you vomit. Finish and you'll receive your entry fee back (equal to half the cost of the pizza), a T-shirt, your picture on the wall of the restaurant, and a free extra-large pizza every month for a year.

5. Beau Jo’s Pizza
Location: Colorado
Food Challenge: Finish a Grand Sicilian Pizza made of 12 to 14-pounds of hamburger and sausage on a loaded 16-inch thick crust pizza. You and a friend will have one hour to complete the challenge. If successful, the pizza is free and you'll receive $100 and two free T-shirts.

6. Pho Garden
Location: San Francisco, California
Food Challenge: Step up to eat three large bowls of “Pho Garden” combined in one massive bowl. This meal contains two-pounds of noodles and two-pounds of beef. If you succeed within the 60-minute time limit, the meal is free and Pho Garden will place your photo on their Wall of Champions.

7. Lucky’s
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Food Challenge: You have one hour to finish three sandwiches in Lucky’s Sandwich Contest (roast beef, pastrami, corned beef, Capicola, smoked turkey, ham, Cajum chicken, The Fredo, The Two Bagger or Salami plus toppings). Finish and receive the third sandwich free, a T-shirt, and your photo on the Wall of Fame. Finish in 30 minutes to receive all sandwiches free.

8. Big Pie in the Sky
Location: Kennesaw, Georgia
Food Challenge: Take on the Carnivore Challenge with a friend to eat an 11-pound pizza in one hour. If you follow the rules and succeed, you'll receive $250 (or $200, since the entry fee is $50).

9. Seiad Valley Store and Café
Location: Seiad Valley, California
Food Challenge: Chow down on the Pancake Challenge. If you manage to eat all five-pounds of pancakes (with syrup and butter) in two hours, your meal is free. Currently only seven people have managed to get through this amazing amount of pancakes in 15 years.

10. The Big Texan Steak Ranch
Location: Amarillo, Texas
Food Challenge: Try to take on the Texas King. A 72-ounce steak (four pounds) with buttered roll, shrimp cocktail, salad, beans and potato. If you succeed, you will be one of 7,000 who have completed the challenge in the past 50 years. The meal is free if you’re able to finish, but costs $72 dollars if you leave anything on your plate

11. Clinton Station Diner
Location: Clinton, New Jersey
Food Challenge: You and three friends can try to mount the 50-pound Mt. Olympus Burger in three hours. It's free if you finish.

12. Gus and Paul’s
Location: Springfield, Massachusetts
Food Challenge: Eat the Worlds Biggest Corned Beef Sandwich at Gus and Paul’s. It contains 2.5-pounds of corned beef, one-pound of swiss cheese, two sliced tomatoes, half a head of lettuce, 1.5-pounds of water roll, half-a-pound of mustard, one-pound of sliced pickles, one-pound of coleslaw, and 1.25-pounds of French fries. Finish this giant sandwich in an hour or less and it's completely free.

13. Bang Bang Pizza
Location: Norwalk, Connecticut
Food Challenge: This challenge requires you finish a 22-inch Sliced Pie with two toppings in just 30 minutes. You may not consume any beverages during the competition. Finish and receive one free pizza per month for a year, a T-shirt, and your name on the Wall of Fame. Fail and you'll pay for the pie and forever face your picture on the Wall of Shame.

14. Kooky Canuck
Location: Memphis, Tennessee
Food Challenge: We dare you to try and eat the entire Kookamonga Burger. This monstrous burger includes four-pounds of ground chuck, two-pounds of bun, 1.5-pounds of lettuce/tomato/pickle/onion/and cheese totaling 7.5-pounds of food with optional fries. You'll need 26 hours of aerobics to burn of this whopping 12,387 calory burger. Finish in 60 minutes and it's free. Kooky Canuck also will post your picture on their Hall of Fame. Fail and you'll pay for your burger plus see your face on the Hall of Shame.

15. Pig n Chik
Location: Sherwood, Arkansas
Food Challenge: Attempt to finish the Sarge Burger in 30 minutes or less....a feat only accomplished by one person to date. This burger contains four-pounds of burger, a one-pound bun and plenty of fixings. Finish in less than 30 minutes and it's free!

16. Red Devil’s Pizza
Location: Granada Hills, California
Food Challenge: Finish a 28-inch pizza between two people within a half hour. Finish the pie and receive a gift certificate for two additional 28-inch, four-topping pizzas and Red Devil Pizza merchandise. After every 20 winners, there will be a drawing for a $500 prize. (You must be at least 16 years old to enter this contest.)

17. LW Pizza
Location: Long Beach, California
Food Challenge: LW Pizza dares you to eat an entire 28-inch pepperoni pizza 28-inch Pepperoni Pizza // --> in less than one hour. No fair using the bathroom or throwing up during this hour-long challenge. Finish to receive $100 cash, a $100 LW Pizza Gift Car, and your money back for the challenge pizza.

18. Big John’s
Location: Redondo Beach, California
Food Challenge: Finish a 32-ounce burger in under 60 minutes and it's free. This challenge has only been completed once in 1,825 attempts.

19. The Broken Yolk Café
Location: San Diego
Food Challenge: If you love breakfast, why not try the Broken Yolk Café Special? This dozen-egg omelet includes mushrooms, onions, American cheese, and a slathering of chili and cheese. It also comes along with home fries and two biscuits. Your breakfast is free if you finish in one hour.

20. Bokampers
Location: Plantation, Florida
Food Challenge: Swallow The Beast! You have one hour to devour a three-pound burger with eight slices of bacon, four slabs of cheese, four farm-fresh fried eggs and French fries! Finish in time and the burger is free. Bokampers' also will post your picture on their Wall of Fame.

21. Pointers Delivery
Location: Richmond Heights, Missouri
Food Challenge: Two people have one hour to take on the 28-inch Pointersaurus Pizza, weighing in at 10 pounds with two meat or four veggie toppings. Finish in the time allotted to receive $500.

22. Outlaws BarBQ & Steakhouse
Location: Sonora, California
Food Challenge: Finish the Mother Lode Burger at Outlaws BarBQ & Steakhouse in an hour and it's free. This burger includes a two-pound bun, 1.5-cups pickles, a head of lettuce, tomato, onion, eight slices of cheese, five pounds of beef and two pounds of fries.

23. Wallie’s Diner
Location: Tracy, Manteca, and Ripon California
Food Challenge: You have 15 minutes to force down a two-pound Big Wallie Burger. The burger has all the toppings and cannot be cut. Finish to receive the burger for free and be eligible to enter the early Monster Burger Contest, with a chance of winning $1,000.

24. West End Tavern
Location: Boulder, Colorado
Food Challenge: If you’re hungry for wings, step up to the Wing King Challenge. You must eat all 50 wings to the bone in 30 minutes. Winners get their wings for free, a T-shirt and a dozen free wings for another visit.

25. Diggers Diner
Location: Brush, Colorado
Food Challenge: Try to take down the State Champion Burger, containing three-pounds of beef, 1.5 -punds of bun, eight slices of cheese, one-half tomato, half an onion, one-half-head of lettuce, one-half cup of pickles, and 12 ounces of fries. Finish in one hour and the burger is free and you will be put on the Wall of Fame.

26. Tubby’s Diner
Location: Pueblo, Colorado
Food Challenge: Conquer Tubby’s Five-pound Burger in just one hour and it's free. The burger includes two orders of fries and a drink.

27. What’s Cooking
Location: Fairfield, Connecticut
Food Challenge: Take on a 2.5-foot San Diego Chicken Sub. You have only 30 minutes and one cup of water to finish this challenge. If you succeed, you will receive the cost of the sandwich back, an extra $25 and a T-shirt.

28. Eddies Bar and Grill
Location: Dunedin, Florida
Food Challenge: Attempt to finish Eddie’s Monsta Burger, including three-pounds of meat, fixings, and one pound of fries, all in less than 30 minutes. If you succeed, the burger is free.

29. Stevie Tomato’s Sports Page
Location: Cape Coral, Fort Myers, Naples Florida
Food Challenge: Try to eat Stevie’s Five-pound Heavyweight Champ Burger in 30 minutes. This massive burger includes three-pounds of meat, a half-pound of lettuce, a half-pound of tomato and a bun. If you get it all down in 30 minutes, the burger is free.

30. Quickies Burgers & Wings
Location: Hollywood, Florida
Food Challenge: Finish a Four-pound Burger with all toppings in one hour and it's completely free. You must call ahead to enter this challenge.

31. Fat Sandwich Company
Location: Champaign, Illinois
Food Challenge: Eat a Big, Fat and Ugly in under 15 minutes and it's free. This includes two rolls, four cheeseburgers, double cheesesteak, chicken cheesesteak, gyro meat, grilled chicken, bacon sausage, mozzarella sticks, chicken fingers, chicken nuggets, mac n cheese bites, fried mushrooms, jalapeno poppers, pizza bites, onion rings, hash browns, mini corn dogs, American cheese, mayo ketchup poppers and pizza bites.

32. The Dunn Inn
Location: Bloomington, Indiana
Food Challenge: I Dare Ya! is a super-sized challenge, including the Damned Duck Drums, The Done Protien Supreme, The Drunken Spud Mountain, Deep Fried Snickers Bar, and Underberg. If you can complete all this food within the half hour time limit, you'll receive your food for free and have your picture put up on the wall.

33. Sammy’s Pizza and Salad
Location: Greenwood, Indiana
Food Challenge: Complete the 20-inch Challenge. Finish a 20-inch pizza solo in one hour and it’s completely free.

34. Barlo’s Pizza
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Food Challenge: Take on the Big-29 Challenge. This is a 29-inch, one-topping pizza that must be consumed by one person in less than two hours. If you manage to complete the pizza, you'll receive your pizza for free and a cash prize ranging from $300-$1000.

35. Eat at the Eye
Location: LaPorte, Indiana
Food Challenge: Bring a friend and attempt the “I” Pie Challenge. This 16x24-inch Meat Lovers Pizza must be consumed within one hour. You may not dip your pizza into any beverages and to participate you must call in advance. If you beat the “I” Pie Challenge, you'll receive the pizza for free, one free pizza per month for a year and a T-shirt.

36. Kelsey’s Steak & Seafood
Location: Valparaiso, Portage Indiana
Food Challenge: Meat lovers might try the Six-pound Challenge at Kelsey’s Steak & Seafood. This challenge includes a 96-ounce top sirloin steak, potato, small house salad or soup, and one slice of bread. If you can eat all of this in one hour, it's free! The challenge is only available with reservations Sunday through Thursday.

37. Sam’s Steak House
Location: Marshall, Illinois & Terre Haute, Indiana
Food Challenge: Take on the 48-ounce Steak Challenge. If you can finish the entire steak in less than 20 minutes, Sam's gives it to you for free.

38. Specks Bar and Grill
Location: Topeka, Kansas
Food Challenge: Try to take down the Speck Burger in less than 45 minutes. This is a three-pound burger with all the toppings and a full serving of French fries. Complete the challenge and your burger is free.

39. Chubby Ray’s
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Food Challenge: See if you can finish the Fat Teddy Five-pound Burger. You have one hour to complete the challenge and purging is not allowed. Fail and you pay for your burger; but win or fail, you receive a free T-shirt.

40. Lucille’s Café
Location: Leesville, Louisiana
Food Challenge: Attempt to finish the Bull Burger at Lucille’s Café. This massive burger contains 2-½ pounds of hamburger, four slices of cheese, four slices of bacon, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, pickles, mayo, mustard and French fries. Complete this challenge in 30 minutes and you'll see your photo on the Bull Board, a T-shirt and your burger for free.

41. Andy's Cheesesteaks
Location: All over North Carolina
Food Challenge: Step up to the plate and take the Big "A" Challenge. Andy will stack up almost 50 ounces of meat on a burger bun, with at least four trimmings, a side of fries and a 24-ounce soft drink. If you can eat it all in 30 minutes or less, it's on the house. If you can't finish it or you cheat, you get to pay for it.

42. Nascar Cafe
Location: Las Vegas
Food Challenge: If you're truly hungry for Mexican food save room for the Nascar Cafe Burrito Challenge. This huge six pound burrito is free of charge if you are able to finish it along with unlimited free rides on The Sahara's Speed Roller Coaster.

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Nuts Optical Illusion

It's a magic trick for the eyes. I want you to watch it and see if you:
a) Believe it's real and can be done
b) Think it's the pencil
c) Think it's the positioning of the nuts
d) Think something else is going on




At 20 seconds, stop the video and ask yourself, how is this happening? Don't be vague like, 'it's the pencil', or 'there's something up,' try to guess specifically what is going on.

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Tiger Woods Ho Down Golf Game

In the never ending quest to poke at Tiger Woods here is one more and a great way to waste some time. Let's see who can do the best. After a couple attempts I got a 29.



Ho Down Golf

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100 mph winds

I love this because there is something about a news reporter that screams 'uptight, being official, and 'professionalism.' If this was anyone else, I don't find the humor but since I work in a news organization that talks about this all the time, I think this is worthy to pass on.

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Purse Snatchers Hit By Thrown Bicycle

[TrueCrimeReport.com] Most people would just stand by and watch a mugging. But if you're from China, you're probably more likely to throw your bicycle at the criminals whilst they fly by on their scooter. Watch this:

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10 Funny GIF's

[CavemanCircus] I found 10 GIF's that are pretty funny. If you don't know what a GIF is, imagine a bunch of pictures put together to form an animation that the computer thinks of as one picture. You could use these in avatars in forums or whatever. Most of these are made from famous YouTube clips.

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Pump Up The Jam

EA Sports recently announced that it will be bring back the ultimate 2 on 2 game. I spent WAY to many hours playing NBA JAM and searching out new cheat codes. Sadly, I don't think I will have the time to enjoy the new version as I did the old.



ESPN.com reports:

When EA Sports community manager Alain Quinto tweeted back in December that EA execs were preparing to announce a new game, the rumors and speculation spiraled out of control. Was EA going to steal the WWE license from THQ? Is "MVP Baseball" coming back? Is a new sport like lacrosse finally going to break through with an NCAA-licensed game? To make it simple, no, no and no.


EA plans to bring back the classic Midway game exclusively for the Wii.
Instead, sources confirmed to ESPN that the new title is actually one of the all-time classics coming back to consoles as EA Sports has acquired the rights from the NBA to deliver an updated version of "NBA Jam" that will ship to retail exclusively for the Wii.

For those too young to remember, "NBA Jam" is a two-on-two basketball game that hit arcades back in 1993 and instantly took the video game industry by storm. The game (originally published by Midway) shattered all coin-op records, and still holds the mark for most money earned at a single location in one week.

"'Jam' was making so much money when it first came out. There was so much four-player action at this one arcade in Chicago that the first week they had to shut the arcade down, because there was a huge fight over whose turn it was to play," the game's creator, Mark Turmell, told me last year for a piece in ESPN The Magazine. "There was so much money coming in, they had to change the coin-box every day. It was crazy."

And that crazy four-player action is set to return big-time as sources claim that EA has not only hired Turmell to work on upcoming sports games (would love to see him also bring back "NFL Blitz"), he's already been brought to EA's Vancouver studio to help consult on the new "Jam." Sources also claim that Turmell isn't the only old-school "Jam" vet being brought back into the mix, which makes me wonder if EA will also hire the voice of the original game, Tim Kitzrow, to once again unleash phrases like "Boomshackalacka!" and "He's on fire!"

And considering that "Jam" was famous for including hidden characters like Bill Clinton and Will Smith, one has to wonder if EA is planning a hidden Obama character to deliver a presidential throwdown on King James.


"NBA Jam" first hit arcades in 1993 and soon became one of the industry's most popular games.
Then again, even if there's no president this time around, the prospects of who will be in this game are intriguing, to say the least. Thinking back to the dominant teams in "Jam" history, dynamic duos like Larry Johnson and Alonzo Mourning, John Stockton and Karl Malone, Patrick Ewing and John Starks, and Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp ruled arcades and consoles for years. Will Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol be this generation's best squad? Or will a team of Shaq and LeBron make for an unbeatable one-two punch (especially considering that Shaq was in the original arcade game way back when he was teaming with Scott Skiles).

I guess we won't know until EA Sports officially announces the game later this month.

Until then, I leave you with some of the secrets of "Jam's" past from my ESPN The Mag column, straight from the mouth of famed creator Mark Turmell:

The Limited Edition Team of Michael Jordan and Gary Payton
"Payton didn't make the cut to be in the [first arcade] game, and of course, Jordan pulled himself out of the licensing of the NBA, so we had to pull him out of the game," explained Turmell. "But one day, I got a phone call from a distributor out on the West Coast who told me that Gary Payton was willing to pay whatever it cost to get into the game. So we told him what to do in terms of taking photographs, so he sent in photographs of himself and Jordan, saying, 'We want to be in the game, hook us up.' So we actually did a special version of the game and gave both players all-star, superstar stats. There are only a handful of these machines, but Jordan and Payton did end up being in one version of the game."

The Pack-A-Shaq
"Shaq actually bought two machines," said Turmell. "He kept one at home and then, if you can believe this, they shipped the game with them on their road trips, setting up the machine in their hotel rooms as they traveled. The players would play, then get someone to pack it up and ship it off to the next city."

The Pippen Jinx
Did Scottie Pippen's ratings really drop when he played certain teams or was I just the least clutch shooter every time I played Detroit? "It's true, but only when the Bulls played the Pistons," explained Turmell. "If there was a close game and anyone on the Bulls took a last-second shot, we wrote special code in the game so that they would average out to be bricks. There was the big competition back in the day between the Pistons and the Bulls, and since I was always a big Pistons fan, that was my opportunity to level the playing field."

The One Where Drazen Petrovic Haunted the Studio
"We had already finished making 'NBA Jam' when Drazen Petrovic died," said Turmell. "The game had already shipped and he was on the Nets. So we had all of these coin-op machines around, and one night we were playing 'Mortal Kombat' and there was a 'Jam' machine next to it, and all of a sudden the game started calling out 'Petrovic! Petrovic!' And this only happened after Petrovic had died. Everyone started freaking out. Something weird was going on with the software, and to this day, if you have an original 'NBA Jam' machine every once in a while it will just yell out 'Petrovic!' It's wild."

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10 Painful Faceplants

[CavemanCircus.com] Somebody on CavemanCircus put together a top 10 list of faceplant videos. Do you have any to add to the list?



Warning: Some swearing and if you get squeemish, DON'T WATCH THESE.

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Newlyweds on the Job

There is a Twitter account that posts automagically every time a couple has sex. It was an elaborate prank that involves sensors under their bed (the couple doesn't know about it). This was done as a wedding prank by the groom's best man. All parties have remained anonymous. All the details about how long they do it and a "Frenzy Index" is twittered. ps - they have 20k+ followers in the last month




The best man got the idea from these instructions provided by the twittering office chair.

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