The latest book in publisher Quirk Classics’ line of literary mashups comes to us courtesy of author Ben H. Winters, the same man behind another mashup classic: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. This time, his daunting task was to take Leo Tolstoy’s 19th century novel Anna Karenina, regarded by many to be the best novel ever written, and somehow turn it into a book with robots, cyborgs and interplanetary travel without ruining the essence of the original story.
Amazingly, Winters managed to pull this off and tell a pretty damn good science fiction story in the process. He also managed to spark in me a insatiable desire to one day own a companion robot, because if they ended up being anything like the ones featured in Android Karenina that would totally kick ass.
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It just isn’t a poker game without clouds of smoke enveloping the room. This poker ashtray may get the smoking action a lot closer to the game than these players would like, but that sectional sofa just works out so nicely to corral live embers and ashes.
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If you take your bathroom time seriously, you need to take a look at the not-so-high tech Crapmaster 3000. It has room for 3 rolls of toilet paper, plenty of magazine storage space and a shelf for your ashtray and beer. It has everything you need to survive the morning after an epic visit to Golden Corral.
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The idea of using a bathtub as an ashtray is not new news to the average smoker. But the addition of a cockroach who looks like he is about to get swatted makes it fun. Not exactly sure what this neo-Army hack is swatting it with, but he is obviously very serious about it.
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If you are going to smoke then you might as well take the lifestyle all the way. Using a pipe shaped ashtray is one of the ways to decorate your personal flavor country.
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This turtle is mutated alright—but instead of a wisecracking ninja it transformed into a 4-port USB hub with an ashtray and a stapless stapler. Additional images are available after the break.
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This table is meant for every golfer who spends so much time the sand traps that having a sand trap built into a table at their home only makes sense. The tabletop has a nice carving of a green on the one side and the real sand filled bunker on the other. It can double as an ashtray if you find stubbing out lit cigarettes in it is the only way to feel better about yourself.
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