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That's right, Circuit City managed to cause "$12,119 worth of damage to VTECnical's 2007 Honda Civic while trying to install a Pioneer AVIC Z2 navigation system." Continue reading to see a video of the damage.

Honda later declared VTECnical's car a fire hazard and told him it was unsafe to drive. Despite destroying the car's heater ducts, stock wiring harness, and dashboard, Circuit City has refunded only $3,190, and insists that VTECnical speak exclusively to their third-party insurer

Despite the shortage of Amazon Kindle devices, a fan decided to pay tribute by baking a picture perfect cake, complete with screen and keypad. Product page. Click here for first picture in gallery. A word from its creator:

"I've been jonesing for a Kindle for weeks now, and since I can't get the real thing just yet, I thought I would make a Kindle cake to show my love." says Lilpeapod. "It was tons easier than the Helio Cake, but this time I made it just for fun so there was way less pressure!"

So you've seen press shots of Softbank's transforming 815T PB, now check out the phone in the wild. Click here for first picture in gallery.

We've just returned from a joint press conference with TV Tokyo, SoftBank, and Toshiba where we saw the 815T PB in the flesh, the very first Mecha/Transformer like 3G mobile phone. As we stated earlier, this is a kit given with the phone that you glue to the back of the handset

Austrian luxury designer Peter Aloisson has unveiled the $176,400 iPhone Princess Plus. It boasts "17.75 carats of diamonds set in 18k white gold around its rim." Click here for one more picture.

The phone derives its name from the Princess cut used on 138 of the 318 diamonds on its surface. The rest of the 180 diamonds on the phone are brilliant cut..its first customer is a Russian businessman who had pre-ordered it way back in October 2007 for January 2008 delivery

This custom built coffee printer uses a modified Philips 8155 x-y flatbed plotter to "shoot out edible ink." Video after the break.

The result is a machine that can draw surprisingly detailed art on your cup of joe — and put creative baristas everywhere to shame

"Eject" basically "allows users to eject plugs leading to devices not currently in use in order to keep consumption of 'vampire power' to a minimum." No word yet on if this concept will go into production. Click here for one more picture.

Additionally, any ejected socket is automatically turned off in order to keep your meddling youngsters safe from electrocution

That's right, a "22-pound BDU-33 dummy bomb from a group of six just 'fell off' one of the F16s that was heading for a practice bombing run in Kansas." Video after the break.

The first indication that something was amiss was apparently at the bombing range itself, where only five impacts were recorded from that aircraft

With living units priced from $180,000 - $2.5-million, "Freedom Ship" could be home to thousands when/if the ice caps melt. Features include: a casino, school system, and "more than 100 acres of outdoor park, recreation, exercise and community space." Click here for one more picture.

Now the Freedom Ship company has a new set of designs for the floating urban space, which looks sort of like a giant mall parking lot, and sort of like a really giant Love Boat

The $300-million Masdar HQ in Abu Dhabi is claimed to be the world's first "positive energy" building -- creates more energy than it uses. Click here for first picture in gallery.

The Masdar HQ is the very vision of a greener future. In fact, a roof pier will be the first part of the building to be hoisted into place, which will be covered in solar panels that will generate energy for its own construction

Here's a first: an Etch-a-Sketch modded to automatically draw the time, which uses "some basic stepper motors combined with a bit of programming." Video after the break.

At the beginning of every minute, the device draws out the time in a matter of seconds and then erases it to start the process all over again the next minute