How’s Lightning McQueen and the other Disney Cars that twinkle when you have a new email sounds to you?

Well, you might want to get the Disney Cars USB Email Alert from USB Brando. I’m not really sure if they are the same company that sells those leather phone cases. But anyway, this USB Email Alert device supports Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook Express and those POP3 email accounts. It works in the background just like your normal browser-based email alert service.

The car will emit a peculiar sound effect or twinkle everytime you receive an email or when there too many unread emails in your inbox.

Here’s the fun part, the Disney Car USB device interacts with your keyboard’s typing motion too.

The Disney Cars USB Email Alerts will set you back for $33.00. And it’s available from this site. You choose any of the Disney Cars such  Lightning McQueen, The King, Doc Hudson, Chip Hicks, or Mater. Or better yet get them all.

How did the line goes? – Too infinity an beyond! Ops, I think that was from another movie.

If you’re in South Georgia, you must have seen this Pac-Man Car, not chasing the monster pellets but probably just giving its owner a ride of his life. Speaking of the owner, he could probably Pac-Man’s most ardent fan. I mean, who would paint his 1996 Chevy Caprice in yellow and red Pac-Man theme?Not only is this car’s body painted with Pac-Man images and shapes but even its leather seats are customized with Pac-Mac designs.

And wait until you see the Pac-Man car’s rims – underneath the chrome wheels is Pac-Man’s face painted in between. Can you imagine looking at this car’s wheels while on the move?  On a hot sunny day, I would advise you to avoid looking at the car’s moving wheels do, it might distract you from your own driving.

It looks cool, right? Gives me an idea to paint my car witheither  Astroboy or Super Mario.

Going back to the Pac-Man car, it looks like it’s not only making the rounds on the streets of Georgia but on the Internet as well, as you can see from source links below.

via flickr via GadgetHIM via walyou via Technabob via Ubergizmo

The idea of doing fan art parodying some of my favorite characters and stars in such a fun and simple style got me hooked immediately. Some of these guys and gals have appeared on the Simpsons and I could just work from that, but most I had to do from scratch.

The results often are amazing and last week’s Ghostbusters week was very cool.

Image credits: All images © Springfield Punx.

Speaking about Transformers, check these cufflinks out from an Etsy shop: Silver Plated Transformer AUTOBOTS and DECEPTICON Cufflinks with Gift Box.

Whether you have a soft heart and like Optimus Prime and his band of Autobots or you lean towards the darker side and prefer Megatron, this cufflinks set will certainly bring out the movie/cartoon geek in you. One cufflink has the engraved image of the Autobots while the other is of the Decepticons. They are both silver plated and are placed inside a black PVV cufflink box (nothing like PVC to keep the Transformers safe, huh?).

Dimensions are as follows:

Measurements (cufflinks): 0.80 inches (Height) x 0.75 inches (Width), which is equivalent to 2cm x 2cm.

Cufflink box measures: 1.0 inch x 1.60 inches x 3.25 inches (2.5cm x 4cm x 8.1cm)

Finkstudio, the seller of the cufflinks also offers other Transformers cufflinks and features other super heroes as well. For you yuppies who actually use cufflinks and can’t let go of your cartoon fixation, you might want to browse this Etsy store for some great finds. Oh, this particular set of cufflinks go for $20, by the way.

The accompanying article complains mostly about the violence in the new generation of cartoons featuring the “weirdies”, the Super-Heroes. While the piece does mention both sides of the argument about the effects of violence on children it comes down in favor of the classic and presumably more kid-friendly characters from animation. The author seems to have forgotten how incredibly violent the old cartoons were. They were astonishingly brutal even with the heavy editing that was performed prior to network broadcast to ensure all the explosions and maiming of bunnies at the hands of crazed opera singers were not shown and all the horror occurred between scenes or off-screen.

Read more at That’s My Skull, but do not forget to admire the illustration in the article.

Another blast from the past is going to be made into a movie.

The hit 80’s cartoon series Voltron is going to get live action treatment in Hollywood. The new movie will receive a moderate budget and will reportedly use more “cost-efficient” technology similar to the ones used in making 300 in order to get more savings.

Max Makowski has been attached as the director of the Voltron movie.

For those who don’t remember it, Voltron was an anime series that tells the story of five survivors of an alien attack who pilots five lion-shaped robots that join together to form a big sword wielding robot.