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I love Tetris and I’m also one of those girls who loves to have lots of cushions, so these shapely bits of gamerfied design are right on the top of my latest list of must haves.

They come in a myriad of colors, and all the seven Tetris shapes. Each one is handcrafted and they are made from raw texted cotton, and stuffed with polyester. Show the world your love of video games, and your penchant for wacky design at the same time. Available on Etsy for £183.oo for the set.

via: The UberReview

Patrick Runte is a German photographer, and he’s decided to bring the 8 Bit world into ours. There is both something fun and surreal about his photos.

Patrick Runte’s photographs don’t just imagine what old video games might look like in the real world — with 8 Bit characters translated into three dimensions. They also imagine how those games might be played in our world — and they look like a good deal of fun.

Hedge maze Pac-Man would be a blast, and not being able to see the placement of all the dots and ghosts adds a layer of difficulty to the game. How would you go about doing real-world Tetris, though? Would you have a wind machine or conveyer belt that pushed players down in one direction?

What other 8 Bit games would you want to see in the real world?

This officially licensed desk lamp is not only Tetris themed, but each tetromino lights up when stacked on top of one that is already lit. That also means you have free reign to customize your light every single day you sit down at your desk, how cool is that!

This desk light is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of Tetris swag that was on display at the American International Toy Fair in New York a couple weeks ago.

The Tetris Desk Tidy Set is a Tetrified set of office supplies, including a double highlighter pen, pencil holder, pencil sharpener, eraser, memo pad, tape dispenser, staple-free stapler, and desk organizer. You can even take out your frustrations on Tetrimino-shaped stress balls.

Apparently there is also the Tetris Alarm Clock, featuring numbers that change using falling Tetrimino blocks but you’ll have to check out the link below to see that one in action.

All three Tetris products will be available this September. The Tetris Desk Light will sell for $50, while the Tetris Desk Tidy Set and the Tetris Alarm Clock will sell for $32 and $40, respectively. Let’s hope they make it over to the UK too!

via: Action Figure Insider

Not new to the world apparently, but new to me, so I thought it was worth a mention.

So anyway, Tetris Giant uses two huge balltop joysticks to control huge blocks on a huge screen. Shown in the images is a projector, which has now been dropped down to a 40-something inch LCD. Probably to bring some of the $10,000 cost down, but also to reduce the footprint

If you’ve got a significantly shorter significant other, Sega have got that covered with the different sized sticks!

Check out a video here.

The guys over at the great design house that is SUCK UK have launched a great retro Post-it note pack. I could see myself just peeling these off in random order and playing Tetris on the kitchen cupboard

Why has it taken this long for these to come out?

SUCK UK Sticky Tetris Notes :: technabob