Here's a pretty clever marketing tactic: Pizza Hut Canada is giving away a limited quantity of its own perfume to Facebook fans that will make you smell like "freshly baked, hand-tossed pizza dough." Aptly nicknamed "Eau de Pizza Hut," the novelty fragrance was apparently inspired by a Facebook fan's response to the restaurant chain's post surveying how much people loved the smell of a Pizza Hut box being opened.

Japan's robotics research collective Bravo Robotics unveiled a preview of its latest prototype model for a remote-controlled sports car that transforms into a bipedal robot, which will be presented during the upcoming Maker Faire in Tokyo. The 1/12 scale model is operated by a modified PS3 controller and comes equipped with a missile launcher on each arm and a wireless camera that feeds into mobile devices like iPad.

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Trotify is a wooden bicycle accessory created by Original Content London that sits on your front wheel and makes the bike clop like a horse. The production will begin once the first 1,000 pre-orders have been submitted.

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Check out this stellar line-up of modern scientist action figures designed by digital artist Russell Gawthorpe. According to his DeviantART profile description, Gawthorpe spent about 50 hours on Photoshop to revamp his collection of Star Trek action figures into the most famous scientists of the 20th century. While there is no plan for production yet, people's reaction on Twitter may change that in the near future. Hat tip goes to CBC.

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Peruri 88 is a proposal for a 400-meter tall skyscraper complex to be built in the southeast area of Indonesia's booming capital Jakarta. Designed by the Dutch studio MVRDV in partnership with American firms Jerde and Arup, the building would consist of four staggered towers topped with jungle-like rooftop gardens and even a lopsided outdoor IMAX theater (shown, bottom left). If the developer's submission wins the bid, the construction will start imminently, according to Designboom's report.

New York-based artist JR Schmidt designed this 3D topographical model of New York City based on a pixel-by-pixel rendering of Google Map's satellite imagery.

Hat tip goes to This Isn't Happiness.

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1. Download Minecraft World Exporter (Windows).
2. Choose a portion of your Minecraft world.
3. Upload it to FigurePrints and place order.

Found via Wired.