Now where did I put that sock? This clever table and chairs and drawers combo furniture called T@tris by Pedro Machado is inspired by a certain madly addictive videogame of the 80s.

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I’ve always fancied myself a pretty good Tetris player, but even at my prime I don’t think I could make art with the blocks while playing the game. This takes some major skills.

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Sam Q. Kim, a guy with a lot of time on his hands (and great willpower to not just om nom all of those gummies) made a stop motion video of the little bears representing Tetris, Pac-Man, Breakout and more. It’s really cute, but now I have a sugar craving.

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Inspired by the xkcd comic “Heaven,” GUD magazine made a playable version of Tetris that occasionally sends a piece “from heaven” that’s exactly what you need to fit in with the rest of your blocks. Link -via Blame It On The Voices

What do you get when you combine Tetris with Rubik’s Cube? I can only imagine how long this clever YouTube clip by BananaNeil must’ve taken him to make!

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Russian artist Danil Zdorov has a great idea — Tetris Sugar! These little sugar cubes could bring an 80s flavor to the tea making experience.

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At first it looks as if the Tetris L block has messed up your game in this Czech building. However, upon further investigation, the block was planned to fall this way in order to keep the bottom floors of the building from being wiped out. See more views with Google Street View. Link -via reddit

Tetris, the game, is the star of a new action film coming to a theater not necessarily near you. Starring la barre! et la croix! It’s in French, but from the looks of the trailer, you won’t have to understand the language to enjoy the action! See the preview at Technabob. Link

The second I laid eyes on these configurable Tetris Couch, that infernal 8-bit earworm of a music popped in my head!

The Tetris Couch designed by Stefano Grasselli is basically a set of several small couches of different dimensions and the set comprises of 8 different members. [...] Each couch has got 4 legs and can be arranged any how you like.

Walyou has more examples of the geekiest sofas you’ll see today: Link

What happens when our hero from the classic Contra video game finds himself trapped inside a Tetris game? Be sure to watch for the surprise ending – via Everlasting Blort

If you like this sort of stuff, then NeatoGeek is the Neatoblog for you!

More "versus" animations? Visit Tvigle.ru [in Russian, but you don't need to know the language to appreciate the clips]

Flickr pool Tetris Tetris Everywhere is dedicated to things in real life that look like the falling blocks from insanely popular video game. Do you hear a certain background music when you read this post?

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This concept of hell is brought to you by the webcomic xkcd. Only a couple of days after this particular comic went viral, there is a playable version. Understand, I said a playable version, not a winnable version. Link -via b3ta

The French graphic design duo Zim & Zou made a papercraft version of a Nintendo Game Boy. It even has an insertable game cartridge. At the link, you can view more pictures, as well as a papercraft Tetris game.

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In First Person Tetris, when you rotate a block, you rotate the entire game! By the time you think you’ve figured it out, the dizziness begins to set in. It’s quite addicting. Link -via Boing Boing

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Image: Erin McKean

Erin McKean is a Chicago-based lexicographer who writes at the blog A Dress A Day. There she opines on various dresses that she sees and makes. Her most recent creation is a dress inspired by the classic video game Tetris. You can view more pictures at the link.

Link via Geekologie | Interview with McKean

Image: Gabriel Cañas

Mexican industrial designer Gabriel Cañas created this fiberglass Tetris-inspired chair. So far, it’s one-of-a-kind, so it’s not yet available for retail. Follow the link to Cañas’ portfolio for more odd furniture.

Link via GearFuse | Previously on Neatorama: Tetris Furniture

This ad for Freebord skateboards has skateboarders flying down the streets of San Francisco in the dark to connect glowing Tetris shapes. I have to wonder where the awesome outtakes are!-via Digg

If you recall the Tetris Shower and wanted one of your own, you’re going to love this. A tile supplier in England makes ceramic tiles in Tetris shapes! Pick up to seven colors for the six shapes and design your own video game bathroom or kitchen. For faster installation, they also offer sheets of mosaic tiles with preset patterns. Link -via Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories

Three months of Tetris playing had two distinct effects on the brains of research subjects: Some areas in the brain showed greater efficiency (the blue areas in the diagram above), and different areas showed thicker cortexes, which is a sign of more grey matter (red). This, says the doctors who undertook the study, shows that focusing on a “challenging visuospatial task” like a videogame can actually alter the structure of the brain, not just increase brain activity [Wired.com]. But surprisingly, there was no overlap between the regions that became more efficient and those that thickened. Haier says more research must be done to determine how different areas of the brain interact during game playing

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As Tetris turns 25 this week, the Geeks are sexy blog compiled a list of ten interesting facts you probably didn’t know about the game.

1- The game was completed on June 6th 1984 by Alexander Pajitnov, a programmer at the Moscow Academy of Sciences who worked on the game in his spare time [...]

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Swedish photographer Erik Johansson of alltelleringet created this fantastic image of what Tetris would look like in real life.

See the rest of his creations here: Link – via Super Punch

If you love the game, chances are you’ll also love the furniture! Here’s a Tetris-inspired line of furniture, by designers Diego Silvério and Helder Filipov.

Just don’t stack ‘em right – they’ll go poof and disappear into thin air!

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Here’s the theme that started it all – Mario:

And here we have Tetris, of course.

Zelda:

Amazing. I still recommend you check out the 40 Greatest Uses of the Mario Theme, though. It’s got everything from the banjo, which I think sounds pretty good, to a dude with a remote control car that drives by a line of glass bottles and hits them to make the appropriate noise for each note.