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ku-xlarge-1 melonkids ku-xlargeAccording to Chinese news agency Xinhua, a fad for dressing babies in watermelon overalls that started during a record heatwave last month in Wenzhou has now gone viral throughout the country.

And long may it continue.

MORE: These Are China’s Watermelon Kids (Kotaku)

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A 3m tall four-armed mecha suit made for WIRED by monster makers Stan Winston Studios and Legacy Effects (which created the Jaeger effects for Pacific Rim).

Premiered last month (with the help of Adam Savage) at San Diego Comic Con, (top) the second video shows a recent ‘walk test’ where the suit is being piloted by its creator Bruce D. Mitchell.

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Youtuber Stealth Cosplay’s extremely impressive replica War Machine suit from Iron Man 2.

Here are the vlogs detailing how he made it.

Yes, he probably could have chosen a better filming location than the hall outside the downstairs loo.

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The Sleepsuit by Forrest Jessee is made of a structural pleat composed of EVA foam and based on US engineer Buckminster Fuller’s notion of Dymaxion or Polyphasic Sleeping (a regime of 30 minute naps every six hours to achieve more time awake during the day.)

Practical AND stylish.

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25-year-old Shanghai telecom worker Wang Kang’s Iron Man Mk1 ‘armour’ is actually a 50kg foam costume that took three months and $450 to make.

‘No colleagues knew my mission, and some of them froze there in seeing me approach,’ he said. ‘Some were even screaming for being scared.’  But Wang said the effort had been well worth it – with the costume drawing praise from his bosses and compliments from women. He claimed some had even ‘fallen in love’ with him because of it. ‘They said I am a happy and creative man, and they wanted to know me’.

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