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Hopefully physical activity will become as addictive as the game.

“Angry Birds has its own board game, plushies, cookbook and even a knock-off attraction in a Chinese theme park, but now the massively popular mobile game is getting an official line of playground equipment and parks.

Two Finnish towns, Rovaniemi and Espoo, will be getting the world’s first official Angry Birds playgrounds next year, according to a press release.”

(via Your Kids Will Be Playing On Angry Birds Playground Equipment Next Year)

We may see some new cool Apple “smart garments” in the next few years.

“Apple has received a Granted Patent that relates to the Nike iPod product, though it may relate to a future iteration of the product line as it specifically relates to “smart garments.” Although the smart running shoe is the main focus of this particular patent, the patent does state that “authorized garments” include shirts and slacks. Elsewhere in the patent Apple mentions cross-country skiing and in-line skating. So the Nike iPod product line may expand in the future.”

(via Apple Wins Smart Garment & iPhone Circuit Board Patents - Patently Apple)

Brilliant.

(via The 20 Most Brilliantly Unusual Print Ads of 2011)

The black bun “Darth Vader Burger” from French fast food chain Quick looks serious (like a heart attack).

“To promote the re-release of The Phantom Menace in THREE DEE, French fast food chain Quick is making a Darth Vader Burger complete with a black bun. A BLACK BUN. On a burger!”

(via Nomad via This Black Bun Darth Vader Burger Looks More Awesome Than The Phantom Menace)

A One Laptop Per Child tablet will be demo’d at CES 2012 this week.

“The price of the tablet will in fact be under $100, he said, though various options will put it over that. It has an 8-inch screen — traditional LCD, though it may be upgraded to a Pixel Qi display for power savings and e-paper-like capability.”

(via OLPC XO-3 Tablet To Be Shown At CES | TechCrunch)

The perfect gift.

gamefreaksnz: Our Favorite Things: Last-Minute Gift Ideas (Day Five) | Techland | TIME.com

NEStalgia Cartridges ($16)

Remember the good old days, when you played the 8-bit versions of BioShock and Call of Duty for the NES? I hope not, because those games never existed. That didn’t stop the artists over at 72pins from creating all-new, original covers for Nintendo games that never were. Each one is slapped on a working NES cartridge chosen at random, which means your fake copy of Angry Birds might actually be a real copy of Base Wars, which would be the most awesome thing ever. At $16, they make for a pretty funny stocking stuffer for a nostalgic gamer.

These mobile shopping instillations are similar to the Home Plus execution in South Korea, and it looks like the concept is taking off.

“Just in time for Christmas, giant retailers Sears and Kmart have deployed ‘mobile shopping walls’ to turn high-traffic areas into large catalogs. These walls feature top-selling toys from Sears and Kmart and provide QR codes so that customers can easily scan the barcode and purchase the item directly on their smartphone. Currently the shopping walls have been seen in airports, malls, movie theaters and bus shelters across the U.S.”

(via Sears & Kmart Turn Walls Into QR-Enabled Catalogs @PSFK)

We can’t let this happen..

“Self-proclaimed Comic Sans defenders, Comic Sans Project, has collected famous brand logos redesigned with the world’s most hated font—to show us how the world would look like if Comic Sans wasn’t hated into oblivion.

“We fear no fonts and we will make the whole world comic sans,” the font defenders wrote. “Because Helvetica is sooo 2011.”

(via Kelly Brix via Comic Sans Fights Back with Redesigned Famous Brands - DesignTAXI.com)

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This campaign isn’t very scaleable, but you have to give it to Olla condoms for being daring enough to try this.

“Brazilian agency AGE Isobar … apparently targeted specific guys and created actual Facebook profiles for their unborn children (by tacking “Jr.” on to their names), who then attempt to friend Daddy. Kind of a clever idea, though labor intensive—and surely against Facebook’s usage guidelines.”

(via Friend Request From Your Unborn Child Is Actually a Condom Ad | Adweek)

Smart campaign.

“If you’ve gotten a confusion migraine from furniture assembly and/or you live in Vancouver, you’ll appreciate Canadian retailer Urban Barn’s “No Assembly Required” ad campaign by local shop Spring Advertising.”

(via Furniture Retailer Mocks Assembly-Required Products | Adweek)