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About a month ago, Wired.com editor Leander Kahney crucified me when I wrote about a man killing a bear with a stick: A piece of wood is hardly considered a "gadget," he said, gently leaning his knee on my throat. But a stick was cool enough to make it into the National Toy Hall of Fame in New York on Thursday.

The stick, along with the baby doll and the skateboard, joined the Strong National Museum of Play’s lineup of classics, including Mr. Potato Head, the cardboard box and the Atari 2600 game system, according to a CNN story.

Well deserved. Sticks are awesome, dammit! Back when we were kids, a stick was whatever we wanted it to be: A light saber, a fishing rod, a pipe bomb. Long live the stick.

Stick, skateboard, Baby Doll enter Toy Hall of Fame [CNN via Gizmodo]
 

Photo: Lenny&Meriel/Flickr

Programmers who made knockoffs of the Atari game Breakout are getting nasty letters from the game developer to remove their apps from the iPhone App Store. So far touchArcade says BreakClassic, BreakTouch 3D and Super Pong 2 have all been targeted, which is similar to the situation where the Tetris knockoff Tris was also pulled due to the Tetris company. On a similar note, the lightsaber app PhoneSaber was removed by request of Lucas Arts, and went back with new art assets and official help. We don’t think Atari will be so kind. [TouchArcade via Kotaku]

If Gundam mated with Will Smith’s Audi in I, Robot, the offspring would resemble these futuristic concept cars from European brand Peugeot. The cars car-like vehicles were all entries in the 2008 Peugeot Design Contest. Designers were asked by organizers to create vehicles for that ambiguous but tantalizing “city of the future.” Areas of focus included environmental awareness, “social harmony,” interactive mobility and efficiency. As you can see in the “Blade” vehicle above, efficiency is improved with the wind turbine that designer Ying Hui Choo added to charge an on-board electric battery.

The 888, designed by Oskar Johansen, pivots at the center and reduces its size for “easier parking, maneuverability and increased visibility.”

Emre Yazici’s “EGO” has two wheels and is controlled Atari-style with a joystick. The windshield doubles as the door. [Telegraph]