LittleBigPlanet Calculator Boggles the Mind

Remember the other day when I mentioned that the developers of LittleBigPlanet, this year's PS3 killer app, said that it wasn't a game but a platform for creating almost anything. Well one lucky gamer who got a hold of a beta key has taken that concept the extreme.

While maybe not as much fun as the Tetris remake, this fully functioning adding/subtracting machine (video below) consists of 610 magnetic switches, 500 wires and 430 pistons. It may not look like much but wait until the mad scientist behind this creation enters the editor and shows you the inner (or outer depending on how you look at it) workings.

Thanks for the tip Kotaku!

Tetris Remade In LittleBigPlanet

LittleBigPlanet is the ONLY reason to buy a Playstation 3. It looks great and promises such cool gameplay but just recently the developers of the game have been telling us that it isn't a game, it's a universe full of tools to create anything and everything.

So to prove that, someone's gone and created a LittleBigPlanet version of Tetris (see the cool video below). Doing things the LittleBigPlanet way this isn't just a simple recreation of the classic Russian game. Keep your ears out for the old Tetris music playing in the background.

Thanks for the tip Kotaku!

Cute LittleBigPlanet Billboards, Collect 'Em All

Ever since I was a young'n I've loved miniature stuff so when I saw these tiny LittleBigPlanet "billboards" on Kotaku I just wanted one. Take a look at the details on the little billboards there. Tiny ladders for the sackboys and sackgirls to climb up, miniscule (but fake) lights poking out at the front. So cool!

They're all part of a marketing campaign for the soon-to-be released Playstation3 puzzle building/solving game with 100 1,000 of the mini billboards being planted (literally) around major US cities.

To quote Kotaku, "They were first noted in an eBay listing. Some lucky guy wandered outside of his work one day to find one of these tiny signs planted in the nearby dirt. After doing a bit of research he discovered it was destined to be pitched and instead got his hands on it. It was labeled 99 of 100."

After a brief eBay search I found it but unfortunately it's currently sitting on $112 USD with 2.5 days to go and the description says 99 of 1000 (not 100). Ahwell, they're still cool and makes for an interesting marketing campaign. Gets those chubby, pasty gamer kids outside into the sunshine and makes them use their hidden package hunting skills for something outside of a GTA game.

Check out some of the other designs available over at Kotaku.