12 Full Color Printed VHS Video Boxes: $9 . Full Scale Plastic Washer and Dryer Set: $139 . 2 Piece 20″ Wide Screen LCD Style Computer Package: $49 . Outfitting your entire home with prop gadgets: Probably a bad idea . If you’re like me and ever looked at one of those prop TVs in a store and wondered how much they go for, then the mystery is finally over. You can seek out Props By IDM, a company who sells such fake gadgets, and price check. [ Props by IDM via Boing Boing ]

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How to Look Like a Gadget Lover Without Buying Any Real Electronics [Wtf]

Here’s some tasty-looking hard candy. And here’s that same tasty-looking hard candy scanned by an SEM. Tuns out that there’s a company offering to stick almost anything under an electron microscope and we can’t help but wonder: What to pick? SEM Elemental Analysis company ASPEX is offering this great service where people can submit their own samples to be viewed under a scanning electron microscope. They even post results—like these—on the site: Now, back to the big question: What would you want to see scanned by an SEM? [ Aspex via Maria Popova ]

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Lego biped robots are a dime a dozen, even while some look pretty sweet . This one is special: It’s the first walking Lego robot. And, unlike your usual feet-dragging toy robots, it actually walks by raising its feet . This is definitely not easy to do with Lego or any other material. Maybe this guy should start thinking about building a Big Dog . [ Flickr via Brothers Brick ]

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First Walking Lego Mecha Is Looking for Lego Godzilla [Lego]

Here are a few things you don’t have time to do when your car plunges into an icy lake: remove a Leatherman multitool from your glove compartment; unfold it; cut through your seatbelt; refold it; smash through your window. Thankfully there’s the ExiTool, a clever little gadget that attaches to your seat belt for quick access when your shit goes “glug, glug, glug.” It includes a high-carbon stainless steel slicer, a tungsten carbide smasher, and, just for good measure, an LED light. Sure, having an open blade attached to your seat belt all the time isn’t ideal, but it’s definitely more ideal than being trapped in your car at the bottom of some murky body of water. The ExiTool will be available soon for $27, so if you’re the type of person that worries about this thing it’s probably a worthwhile investment. [ CRKT via The Awesomer ]

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ExiTool: A More Practical Approach To Escaping Your Automobile [Multitools]

If I were Neil deGrasse Tyson—host of the Pluto Files and director of the Hayden Planetarium—I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night. Not after reading the hate mail from thousands of outraged American kids. The kids wrote to de Grasse Tyson demanding an explanation about why scientists changed Pluto’s classification from planet into a Kuiper Belt object . The Natural History Museum also retired it from their Solar System model, which logically got a lot of kids reaching for their pellet guns. Neil, they may sound sweet, but they are vicious, those beasts. [ PBS ]

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Pluto Fanboys Hate Mail [Science]