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Dinosaur and Robot Rolling Pins Should Be How You Spend Your Dough

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Dinosaurs all over your cookies. Robots all over your pie crust. Sound good? That could be your new reality thanks to these awesome rolling pins. Just ask your mom or wife to make treats with it, because you suck at baking cookies. By you, I mean me. Seriously, there would be flour everywhere.

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These awesome laser-cut rolling pins are available from Etsy seller ValekRollingPins and they will emboss cool images all over your baked goods. They have several different patterns to choose from and they cost $42(USD), though if you want a custom design it will cost you $136.

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Everything tastes better with robots and dinosaurs on them. These are great for making treats for kids parties. By kids, I mean me again. By parties, I mean every day.

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[via Geekologie]

Jiva Coffee Cubes: Your Real Companion Cube

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For most of us, breakfast isn’t complete without a cup of coffee. Not everyone has the time to brew coffee and instant coffee mixes get old fast. If you’re looking for an alternative that offers richer flavor but the same convenience, then you might want to give Jiva Coffee Cubes a try.

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They’re like sugar cubes, only instead of sugar, they’re made from, well, coffee. Each cube is made by packing high-quality Colombian coffee into a cube and binding the whole thing with raw sugar.

Jiva launched a campaign that was successfully funded about a week ago introducing a new flavor for their line of coffee cubes: Jiva Black, which uses a minimal amount of sugar as its binder so it’s still all-natural without the added sweetness.

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Don’t fret if you missed the campaign because you can still grab the coffee cubes from their website. These are way handier than those packs of coffee sticks, don’t you think?

[via Food Beast]

Guy Sends out Custom Brewed and Packaged Beer as Resume: You’re Hired!

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If you want to be hired, don’t just send the company yet another boring resume. After going through stacks of them, hiring managers could use a good drink. So send them some booze and you pretty much have the job.

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That’s what Canadian graphic designer Brennan Gleason‘s ‘Resum-Ale’ is all about. It is a 4-pack of blonde beer he home-brewed and packaged with his resume. The resume is actually printed on the box, and each bottle has an example of his graphic design work printed on it.

No matter what his work might be like, it is seen through beer goggles, so he has a better chance of landing that job. Awesome idea, Brennan.

[via Laughing Squid via Geekologie]

Guy Sends out Custom Brewed and Packaged Beer as Resume: You’re Hired!

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If you want to be hired, don’t just send the company yet another boring resume. After going through stacks of them, hiring managers could use a good drink. So send them some booze and you pretty much have the job.

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That’s what Canadian graphic designer Brennan Gleason‘s ‘Resum-Ale’ is all about. It is a 4-pack of blonde beer he home-brewed and packaged with his resume. The resume is actually printed on the box, and each bottle has an example of his graphic design work printed on it.

No matter what his work might be like, it is seen through beer goggles, so he has a better chance of landing that job. Awesome idea, Brennan.

[via Laughing Squid via Geekologie]

Pizza Bed: You’ve Made Your Dough, Now Lie in It

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You eat it for every meal. You love it. Now sleep in it. This pizza bed looks delicious and comfy. This bedspread looks like an extra large mega pizza and turns your bed into one.

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Imagine sleeping on a huge pepperoni pizza with a sauce-colored interior and comfortable crust pillows to lay your head on. If you fall asleep in a half hour or less or it’s free. I wish. Besides, this wouldn’t work for me. My wife likes to pull all of the cheese and pepperoni off of me and I usually wake up with only light sauce.

Sadly you can’t buy this bedding because it is just a concept by artist Claire Manganiello, but now we can all dream of sleeping in this piping hot pie.

[via This Is Why I'm Broke]

Edible Canned Bugs Look Disgusting

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I’d have to be really hungry and desperate to eat bugs. For instance, I would gladly lick that gross jelly goo from the inside of a tin of Spam before I would eat a bug. If you want a really gross gift to give someone as a gag, ThinkGeek has a new Edible Bugs Gift pack.

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The bugs apparently really are made to eat. You get five individually sealed tins with a bug in each and a special flavoring to make it go down better. You get bacon and cheese grasshoppers, BBQ bamboo worms, nori seaweed armor tail scorpions, salted queen weaver ants, and wasabi house crickets.

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I think the scorpion would be the worst to eat. Check out the video below to gross yourself out even more.

Italy Wants to Send Espresso Machine to the ISS

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Growing up, I really wanted to be an astronaut. Since I was only eight and had little chance of actually making it into space I did the next best thing and drank lots of Tang. I learned quickly that one of the downsides to being an astronaut was crappy breakfast drinks and freeze-dried ice cream.

It appears that the Italian contingent aboard the International Space Station is sick and tired of instant coffee and they are ready to do something about it.

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Italy is reportedly working with a company called Argotex and coffee giant Lavazza to create a special espresso machine for the ISS. Naturally, the machine will be called the ISSpresso.

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The machine will reportedly use those small capsules that some coffee makers here on Earth use. Rather than plastic tubing, the ISSpresso machine will have steel tubing that can withstand 400 bar of pressure. I guess it needs the pressure to make the water flow in zero gravity. ISSpresso will also have redundant parts to keep the caffeinated liquid flowing.

[via The Register]

V-8 Engine BBQ Grill: Now We’re Cooking with Gas!

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Are you the type to have a spare engine sitting around your yard? I bet yours doesn’t grill meat. This one does. This beautiful V-8 engine is actually a working gas grill. Grill with eight cylinders of power.

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To properly cook and char meats, they need to be seared to mouth-watering perfection. Only a V-8 engine BBQ grill will do that. Best of all, your meat will not smell and taste like gasoline. This propane grill features a stainless steel cooking grate and a diecast aluminum body, and priced at $695, it’s way cheaper than an actual engine.

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This life-size engine block will have you making the best BBQ on the block. Rev it up and throw in some meat. This beast is hungry!

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[via This Is Why I'm Broke]

Bombs Away Shot Glasses: Get Bombed Tonight!

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If you like to consume adult beverages of the type best served in a shot glass; ThinkGeek has a fun way for you to get bombed this weekend.

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These shot glasses are in the shape of a bomb and have the radiation symbol in white on the side. Each of the shot glasses has a pop-off top that completes the bomb look. Once the top is popped off, you can drink.

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The glasses are made from plastic and the fin-shaped base is made from metal. Each shot glass measures 1.8″ in diameter and stand 4.5″ tall with the cap on. Capacity is 1.5 fluid ounces each. You can’t wash these in the dishwasher or put them in the microwave – which coincidentally, you should never do with an actual bomb either.

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So open the bomb bay doors and drop in to ThinkGeek, where you can pick up a set of Bombs Away Shot Glass for $14.99(USD).

Ewok Tea Bag Tidy: It’s Tea-wok Time!

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The next time you have tea, you can set the tea bag on this Tea-Wok tidy, so you don’t make a mess. It also makes a good spoon rest. This is great if you are working on an Ewok themed kitchen, complete with fire pit and roasting spit.

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If that is your idea of fun, tea parties must be a real treat at your place. Two humans dressed as Ewoks, sitting across the table from each other, sipping tea and poking each other with sticks. Hey, I’m not judging. Jub-jub all you want, my furry friends.

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This cool tea trivet is only £6 (~$10 USD) from Etsy seller Gallonsofink.