For $285 or more on eBay, you could pick up your very own Grand Theft Auto 4’s “Key to Liberty City”, which was only given to gamers who completed 100% of the achievements within the first 7-days of its release. Auction page. More pics after the jump.

The fuzzy jewelry box is about 7 inches wide by 4 1/2 inches in depth. On the inside top of this case is the Rockstar logo. The key itself is 5 inches long. The key says “THE KEY TO LIBERTY CITY” above the rockstar logo, with “MCMXCVIII” underneath the same logo.

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This amazing 14 x 19 foot “Rise of the Jedi” home theater, “modeled after Chancellor Palpatine’s office in Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith, is ringed with faux windows showing the capital city below.” More pics after the jump.

Steve Simon’s converted garage theater features images from a Marantz DLP projector thrown onto a 103-inch Vutec XFH screen.

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Simply put, the Ferrari Zobin’s “rear end looks cribbed from the one-off P4/5 produced by Pininfarina, but the front end places the Enzo’s F1-inspired nose amidst the contortions of a metal band that swoops around to create both the front spoiler and front fenders.” More pics after the jump.

The headlights are suspended from the metal band and seem to float beside center fuselage. This is a single-seater concept that’s powered by a fictional engine of unknown cylinder count and displacement located amidship.

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When it comes to broken iPhones, pocket lint probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when trying to pin the problem. That’s exactly what this Popular Mechanics editor found. One more picture after the jump.

Only after I had dismantled the motherboard, separated the screen and delicately pealed free the “home” button’s backplate from the adhesive that had affixed it to the machine’s front glass could I see what had disabled my iPhone. Lint.

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Terminator Salvation, set to hit theaters in 2009, will feature your normal fare of robots and then the all-new “Moto-Terminator”. It’s basically “a previous even more zombiesque version of Arnie’s T-800.” More pics after the jump.

Hello? Does that mean there will also be Carterminators? iPodterminators? Ah, the wonderful world of the merchandising. Whatever they do, I hope they find some use for the secret kinetic rocket fire balls.

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Called the “iPod Ghetto Accessory”, this concept is comprised of an “iPod with classic earbuds, two toothpicks, and four cups.” No word yet on availablity, but you can probably make it yourself with supermarket-sourced supplies. One more picture after the jump.

Can we trust a person who totally just MacGyvers up a speaker system out of cups and toothpics? Yes. Yes we can.

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In this episode of Will it Blend?, “Tom gets a new personal navigation system that is getting him in trouble — see how he resolves the issue.” Video after the break.
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At $5600 on eBay, the Vertu Constellation is “crafted from aerospace-grade titanium and carbon-fibre image leather with ceramic keypad — assembled by hand in England.” Auction page. More pics after the jump.

High performance 20mm hands-free loudspeaker, advanced Yamaha polyphonic hardware, From 2.5 to 4 hours talk time, Up to 270 hours standby time, GSM Quad-band coverage.

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For those didn’t already know, Quantum of Solace takes the Call of Duty 4 game engine and “wraps it around the James Bond universe with a few new trimmings to try and keep the action feeling as fresh as possible.” Continue reading for the Quantum of Solace review.

Quantum of Solace isn’t the game that it should have been. It’s not bad by any means, but what brings it out of the pits of despair is the foundation of a much better game that we all know and love.

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The YBox2 from ThinkGeek is “based around the multiprocessing Parallax Propeller Chip and features a built-in Ethernet controller, video output, infrared remote control sensor, full-color status LED, and even a piezo speaker.” Video after the break. More pics after the jump.

If you aren’t already familiar with the Propeller, it’s a unique multiprocessor programmable in a built-in high-level language called Spin as well as assembly language. Each of its eight cores can access common memory and an array of I/O pins that can be configured to talk to almost anything.

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