Best Buy has put up this really cool billboard in New York City’s Times Square promoting their recycling program where they will “e-cycle” many of your old electronic items you bring to the store. The great thing about the billboard, besides the green earth-friendly message, is that the letters on the sign are actually made up of recycled electronics:

That’s some really great creative advertising right there. Kudos.

via scouting nyc (great site if you’re into nyc photography, movies and location scouting)

Stuart Hughes has created yet another gold covered Apple product, this time it’s an iPod. This little beauty will set you back a mere $95,000. Dubbed the “SUPREME Rose”, this iPod features 263 grams of 18k rose gold, a platinum rear Apple logo with 53 diamonds and a platinum navigation button on the front with 4.5ct of diamonds surrounding it and a name that’s partly ALL CAPS. Only 10 will be made, so if you want them all maybe you should transfer $950,000 from savings to checking and pick up a few.

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The Apple G4 Cube computer is just too gorgeous to throw away, yet too old to be of much use as a computer. But the simple elegant case makes the perfect Apple fanboy tissue box. Sure it’s probably been done 1000 times before and it’s not rocket science but here’s the Instructable in case you want step by step instructions on how to make your own (hint: remove computer from case, insert tissue box). You can pick up a G4 Cube on eBay for around $100 (less if you can find just an empty case).

I can’t believe someone would actually buy a television set just because it has Hello Kitty on it. Especially when you consider it doesn’t look like much more than just a Hello Kitty sticker placed on the bottom and the remote control. It’s actually probably a decent TV since it’s a Toshiba, so if you can take your eyes off the little kitty at the bottom of the screen, you can see some good quality stuff. Although I would suspect that anyone who buys this TV will be watching one thing and one thing only: Hello Kitty.

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The Hi Fido speaker by Matteo Cibic is a total woofer. Actually it’s a very high end speaker that uses ceramic to diffuse high quality sound with a bass reflex system (I’m not sure what that means either but it’s a dog, a speaker and 150 watts). Hi Fido stands about 2 feet tall. Available this April in extremely limited quantities (50 total and just 10 in the U.S.), no price listed yet.

Wake up on the dark side with this new Darth Vader Shadow Alarm Clock. This $26.99 alarm clock projects a shadow of the Dark Lord onto your bedroom wall. If that doesn’t scare you out of bed, you’re not getting up at all. I would assume that you could move this Star Wars alarm clock even further away for a larger, scarier shadow. Pre-order now from the Star Wars shop for May 2010 shipping.

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This is easily the most outrageous (and largest!) iPod dock we’ve ever come across. The “Disco Table“, designed by Moritz Waldemeyer, is a go-go dancer cage, except the “cage” is virtual- made of LED lights and lasers and it has a smoke machine too. And oh yeah, it also has speakers and an iPod dock on the bottom. When it’s not being used as a makeshift club in your living room, it shuts down into a relatively normal looking Corian coffee table. No price listed, available “on demand for the discerning homebody”.

Today is the Super Bowl and you’re going to need some crazy gadgets to get you through the big game. Here’s two touchdowns worth of things you should have already bought to make your Superbowl party the best ever. Or not:

Beer Bottle Hoodie

Because you might just need a free hand or two to scoop the guac or punch the couch in anger during the game.
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