Android Pie hits 10 percent adoption two months ahead of its ancestors

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2001’s Spaceship Recreated in Gingerbread Form

2001: A Space Odyssey is a classic in just about every sense of the word. Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke created a true masterpiece. Douglas Trumbull’s miniatures and visual effects even rival today’s movies. It’s definitely one of my favorite films of all time. That’s why it’s so easy for me to love this gingerbread sculpture of the iconic spaceship, the USS Discovery.

Southern California’s Blackmarket Bakery baked this amazing model for the recent holidays, and it looks amazing. The bakery must be filled with artists, since they have designed gingerbread masterpieces for holidays for over 10 years now. This year it was the USS Discovery’s turn. I’m just in love with all of the gingerbread detail they worked into this thing. Very nice use of Chex pieces and pretzels there too. Personally, I don’t care if HAL opens the pod bay doors or not. I just wanna eat this ship up.

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The ship is impressive enough, but down below you can see the opening scene from the movie as well, where the monkey throws the bone into the air. Or in this case, candies stand in for bones. The monolith sits solemnly and was easy enough to recreate by using a chocolate bar.

[via SciFi Design]

Gingerbread Alien Xenomorph: Terror for Your Tummy

I’m torn. I could take several bites out of this awesome gingerbread xenomorph, but if I do, it’s gonna take some bites out of me. On one hand, it looks delicious, but on the other, it is terrifying. I know that in space no one can hear you scream, but I’m not in space, so everyone is going to hear me scream. Whatever. I’m going in. Wish me luck.

This lovely but nightmarish beast was created by Norwegian artist Caroline Eriksson. The gingerbread sculpture was built over an iron structure and held together with sugar syrup. Caroline bakes the gingerbread, then sculpts it over curved surfaces while warm to get the proper shape for each piece. The finished product is not only a work of art but also edible. In fact, it will retain its shape for months if everyone is too terrified to touch it.

The end result is pretty awesome. I love all of the detail she put into this work of art. She might as well have sculpted a facehugger though, because it’s gonna meet my face as I attack that sweet gingerbread like a crazy person. Unfortunately, it’ll probably burst out of my chest after that.

[via Reddit via Neatorama]

Star Destroyer Made out of Gingerbread: Imperial Icing

Few things in this galaxy or any other are as intimidating as the sight of an Imperial Star Destroyer. If you are smuggling any contraband at all and you see one of these ships, you drop your cargo and run. You don’t hang around to become space debris. A gingerbread Star Destroyer is no less intimidating. Especially if you are a gingerbread man just hanging around in your gingerbread village. In that case, what can you do but run into your delicious house and cower in the corner, waiting to be obliterated.

Star Destroyer? More like a stomach destroyer. This massive and massively delicious spaceship comes from Star Wars Bakery. They created this truly impressive modern marvel of Christmas confectionary goodness out of nothing but gingerbread and icing. The detail of that icing is what really sells it. They did an amazing job on this creation. As you can see it has a lot of layers of gingerbread, all put together like a model. It is a holiday treat of the First Order!

If you are lucky enough to be in Stockholm, Sweden they put it up on display at the DICE office there.

[via Laughing Squid]

Death Star Gingerbread House: The Ultimate Power in the Bakery

A few years back, we spotted a Death Star made entirely from ginger snap cookies, and while that one looked crunchy and delicious, I think this one is even more impressive because of its construction technique using flat sheets of gingerbread. I’m guessing they used a beach ball or something round inside to provide the initial structure.

I’m not sure what office this gingerbread Death Star is located in, or who made it, but the person who posted it on imgur says that it’s “fully operational,” so gingerbread Alderaan is toast. I wonder if this one’s weapon is powered by Kyber crystals, or if it simply fires frosting at its target.

USS Enterprise Gingerbread Spaceship: Stomach, The Final Frontier

These are the voyages of the USS Gingerprise. It’s on a five year mission of deliciousness.Or at least it was, until it crash landed in the snow.

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This delicious starship was made by Redditor ejustice and modeled after the scene in Star Trek Generations. But even better than this gingerbread ship simply existing to make us hungry, another Redditor nicholmikey superimposed the picture of the ship into the actual movie scene, so we can see the part where it crash lands.

I hope it crashed on a planet where the inhabitants don’t just rush to the crash site and start eating the ship. In other words, this ship is lucky it didn’t crash at my house.

[via That’s Nerdalicious via Geekologie]

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The Gingerbread Iron Throne is Mine by Rights – All Those Who Deny That Are My Foes

Check out this gingerbread version of the hotly-contested Iron Throne. It was built by a group of friends who promised not to fight over it and cut each others heads off doing it. Have you ever seen so many tiny gingerbread swords in your life?

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It just need a gingerbread king to sit on it and say ouch because as you know, that is one uncomfortable chair. Gingerbread houses can be pretty challenging to build, so this throne must have been extra hard to make. It takes a lot more skill to make a gingerbread Iron Throne. It must have taken forever just to put those swords in place and them decorate them.

All of the nobles of gingerbread Westeros would be proud.

[via Neatorama]

Gingerbread King’s Landing Rises in London

Michelle Sugar Art made this awe inspiring 4’x 5′ gingerbread version of the much contested capital from Game of Thrones. You don’t need dragons to conquer this city.

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The model was displayed at Taste of London 2015. According to Event Magazine, the yummy city was one of several food items that HBO commissioned to promote its TV shows.

[via GeekTyrant]