Super Meat Boy, arguably one of the best — and hardest — platformers of the modern era, is known for its punishing difficulty and unbelievably tight controls. That being that case, it would be perfect as a touchscreen smartphone game. Wait, would it? Team Meat thinks it could be. In a flurry of tweets today, Team Meat released some info about the upcoming Super Meat Boy mobile that might ease some of your fears, namely that it’s not so much a port as a complete re-envisioning.

So this is a pretty neat idea: An aluminum cube that gives you the physical sensation of tomorrow’s forecasted temperature. It’s called the Cryoscope, and it’s the Arduino-powered creation of Robb Godshaw. The idea is that instead of just looking at the weather forecast, you can put your hand on the cube and actually feel the air temperature thanks to the device’s internal heat pump. It’s clever, though one wonders how it would handle extreme temperatures. Perhaps if you saw frost forming on your Cryoscope, you’d know that it’s best to stay inside. See Godshaw’s explanatory video, after the break.

If you’re devoted to someday living an entirely steampunk life, there’s good news to be had; you can still have a guitar. Tony Cochran has taken upon himself the selfless endevour of bringing steampunk guitars into the world, and they are beautiful. Naturally, you might be wondering if they still work, and the answer is a resounding yes. They make good art pieces, but can still rock out.

So you like the idea of living in the romantic past, but only to the extent that it doesn’t inconvenience you, huh? You’re the kind of person who wants the personal pleasure of sending letters, without the trouble of having to write and send them? If that’s the case, you probably also want a typewriter that’s also an iPad because, lets face it, you’re a hipster. All that aside, an iPad typewriter —  the Typescreen – really does exist and it lets you gleefully drink in a pre-”word processor” nostalgia. All that while reaping the benefits of the modern world. Come to think of it, that sounds pretty awesome. Sign me up.

When you open up a pair of sound cancelling headphones, the first thing you have to do is play the “Which one of those weird nubs fits my ear canals best” game, which unfortunately can sometimes end in “None of them.” Well, if you’ve ever wanted earbuds that fit you perfectly, your life just got easier. Custom molded headphones have existed for a while, but up until now they’ve required going to an audiologist, having a cast made and then sent out to a lab, waiting 2-3 weeks, and paying several hundreds of dollars at the least. Eers, introduced at CES, aims to remedy this by making custom fit earbuds wherever you want, in only five minutes.

When you think cutting edge technology, you think cooktops. Alright, maybe you don’t, but I do. Okay, I don’t either, but it turns out that cooktop tech is way cooler than you might give it credit for. Enter the Thermador Freedom Induction Cooktop, recently unveiled at CES. Because the Freedom Induction Cooktop uses a series of 48 magnetic inductors, it gains all sorts of super powers. Its surface stays cool to the touch, it can support pans of any shape and size, and it doesn’t limit you to placement on any specific burner.

What better way to keep your head warm this winter than by dressing up as everybody’s favorite cold-blooded, crime-fighting, pizza-loving mutants? If you’re in the market for some righteous turtle-wear, you can order one of these Immature Radioactive Samurai Slug Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle beanies from Miss Pamela. They’re made to order, so you don’t have to worry about stock, but it seems like she won’t make any with non-standard colors, and rightly so.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman has a really awesome studio. Awesome enough that when he decided to auction off everything in it to raise money for the Hero Initiative, a charity that helps comic creators in need, people were actually interested and started bidding on his stuff. The wealth of neat things includes original art, action figures, t-shirts, over 600 DVDs and, of course, his desk and chair. When he says everything, he means everything. The catch is, you can’t pick and choose.

Don we now our gay apparel, and why shouldn’t that apparel be primarily composed of Christmas lights synchronized to flash with music? Andy Coulson asked himself that same question and came to the conclusion that he should build a pair of light suits for himself and his friend. You know, for science. Of course, a big part of this rig is the actual lights, but the real important part is the LabVIEW interface that breaks down .wav files into power levels and frequency bands, and the arduino that uses that information to sync the flashing lights. The result is a pair of festive, but flagrantly flashing fatigues that would make you the center of any holiday gathering.

Check out a video after the jump.

It’s almost 2012. In this day and age, if you hear someone say “boombox,” it’s reasonable to assume they’re either time travelers from the ’90s or they mispronounced Boom Blox, which they were talking about for some reason. Boomboxes can still be cool though, as evidenced by this DIY wooden one put together by Matt Keeter. They don’t have to be expensive either; Keeter managed to piece this one together for a total cost of less than $100.