Place some bare framwork festooned with folded paper into the included petri dish, add water, and a few hours later you have these elaborate Christmas decorations bursting forth as if by magic. It reminds us of compressing a straw wrapper, then adding a few drops of water—and voila! It turns into a squirming worm. Looks like a Japan-only decora-toy, but fun enough to make it to these shores eventually. There's one for Valentine's Day, too. See the gallery below for before and after pics. [Tokyo Mango]

At about 6:15, legions of Wii-equipped Segways and guys with LCD TVs propped above their heads emerged from Toys 'R' Us to titillate and entertain the front section of the line. While the LCD TV guys didn't have much to do other than hand out stickers, the Segways had big ol' TVs on the front hooked up to playable Wiis. Boy, it almost makes sitting on the sidewalk in Times Square all night for no real reason worth it, doesn't it?

Hit the jump for more Segway pictures. – Adam Frucci

In case your dual-core desktop was starting to show its age, Dell is now letting you cram a quad-core processor inside its top of the line XPS desktop. The new XPS 710 packs Intel's Core 2 Extreme QX6700 quad-core CPU, letting you throw any multi-threaded app you can find its way. For expansion, the desktop has four memory slots and seven expansion slots comfortably fitting as many video cards as you can afford. Dell's 30-inch LCD also got a few upgrades. Click through for the update and pricing.

The new UltraSharp 3007WFP-HC now has a 92 percent color gamut, which Dell claims will deliver brighter, crisper colors. It also has a faster 8ms grey-to-grey response time (vs 11ms on the old panel). All this goodness is gonna cost you though. The XPS (available today) will start at $3,699 while the monitor (which will be out the 21st) will go for $1,699. We're particulary excited about the LCD, as there's few multi-threaded apps in our library to justify splurging close to $4 grand on a desktop. – Louis Ramirez

Dell XPS 710 & UltraSharp 3007WFP-HC