“Life In The So-Called Space Age”
What’s this?
Not sure? Here’s the back:
You got it! It’s the 2011 Club Nintendo Platinum reward, a set of Mario pins. But not just pins – pins that come packaged in boxes that can be separated…
…and reassembled into three different Mario murals…
All this could have been yours had you earned 600 coins in this years redemption program. That’s $600 spent on Nintendo products.
Yes, $600. Yep. 25 crappy pins 🙂
Let’s continue with the topic of graduation gifts. Here’s another I received, a Striiv:
This nifty little device is a pedometer with all sorts of additional features. In addition to keeping track of steps, stairs, calories and ‘energy’ the Striiv incentivizes the user with Trophies!
So for trophy junkies like me, that’s a win right there. The system has extensive stat tracking as well (which I love) and can challenge the user to do more exercise than they usually would:
The currency earned is used in a little fantasy simulation game called Myland. It’s purely a distraction, but not bad for a pedometer.
Many of you know how much I loved the DS pedometer software i used to use. This guy is all that and much more, plus it’s all there in my pocket. I’m loving it so far 🙂
Starting today, and for the next 25 days, you lucky buggers can expect a new Robot Claw blog entry every day! “What will they be about“, you ask? Well I don’t really know, but there’s been a lot of things I’ve been planning to blog about that I didn’t get to because of how busy I was so you can expect I’ll get to that in these next few weeks. In other words, the usual stuff 🙂
To get into the spirit of things, I’ve even designed a festive logo. Here it is:
Took me hours that did. I hope you like it 😉
So, so, so… what better way to start this special limited series than… an advent calendar! Today I cracked open this:
Here’s what it looks like open:
And here (spoiler alert!) is what was behind box 1:
Um, what is it? You’re guess is as good as mine since no (mini) instructions were included. Could it be a few bits and pieces of something bigger? Perhaps I shall find out tomorrow!