Archive for October 2009
Have One for the Road With the Motorcycle Grip Bottle Opener
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This is one of those gadgets that’s funny for like 5 minutes – a bottle opener that looks like a motorcycle’s grip. It revs up when you open a bottle with it! Yay. Awesome. Open a bottle of your favorite beer! Vrooom! Or a miniature bottle of your favorite whiskey!… |
October 26th, 2009
Wear These Cufflinks to Unlock Achievements in Style
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Looking for sleek, slightly geeky cufflinks? You know Etsy is the place to go if you’re looking to subtly show off your proclivities while dressed in your best. And with these cufflinks, you can announce your allegiance in the console wars without messing up your look. I think what I… |
October 26th, 2009
Touch Dj Puts a Complete Dj Mixer in Your iPhone or iPod Touch
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Touch DJ is a soon-to-be-released iPhone app that lets you mix music in real time, just like you would with professional DJ equipment. Created by Amidio – the same folks who brought us the amazing noise.io iphone synth. According to the Amidio guys, Touch DJ is a serious live performance… |
October 25th, 2009
Facial Recognition Tech Helps Tvs Save Power
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This new technology from Hitachi automatically detects when you’re actually watching your television, then shuts the display off whenever you’re not looking. By using advanced facial recognition technology, the monitor can tell when your eyes are on the TV screen, and keeps it turned on only when you’re actually watching.… |
October 25th, 2009
The Lone Wanderer in Brickville [Fallout 3]
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With all the attention Borderlands is getting, I feel it’s important to remember that other futuristic game with important vaults: Fallout 3. And what better way to remember anything than with LEGO? And, of course, the best thing to immortalize in brick from from Fallout 3…? The two-headed |
October 25th, 2009
More Fighting! More Foraging! More Elder Scrolls!
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This has to be the best news I’ve heard all week: a new Elder Scrolls game has been sort-of confirmed, finally. Time to wrap up those last few quests in Oblivion…, folks. It only took, what, a year or three to finish that one? Probably as long as it |
October 25th, 2009
World’s Largest LEGO Mario Up for Auction: Its’a Huge
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This unbelievable bit of geek art is purportedly the largest LEGO block statue of Mario ever created. It sure looks like it to me. And it’s definitely WAY bigger than this one. The mammoth LEGO Mario was created by Dirk VH, and is made up of over 40,000 individually placed… |
October 24th, 2009
Sega Zippo Lighters: Hey Man, Your Console is on Fire!
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Now I’m not a smoker, but the fact that these Zippo cigarette lighters look like retro Sega consoles might be enough to get me to start. Actually, no. But they might be enough to convince be to buy a lighter that looks like a retro Sega console anyway.… |
October 24th, 2009
Surfacescape Redefines Tabletop Gaming
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Anything that starts out of a suggestion from Penny-Arcade’s Mike Krahulik & Jerry Holkins – aka Gabe & Tycho – is bound to be geeky, and this one is no exception. The duo visited the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University and ended up chatting with a bunch of… |
October 24th, 2009
Behind the Scenes of a Star Wars Psa Reveals C-3PO & R2-D2′S Secret
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I headed to the Star Wars blog after reading about the impressive Tauntaun wedding cake, but I became more interested at this old footage. It’s a clip showing a bit of behind-the-scenes of a Public Service Announcement released in 1977, shortly after A New Hope… came out. If your kid |
October 24th, 2009
