Archive for March 2010

Sander Mulder made a Pong Clock way back in 2005, but Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries ups the ante with the Monochron, a Pong-themed clock for tinkerers. If you want to have one you better know how to solder, because the Monochron will be delivered to you unassembled, and by…

Twice the size of an actual 3½ diskette, the pillow’s smiling face and familiar form will have you waxing nostalgic in no time at all. That is if you’re old enough to have used floppy disks.

You can get a Mini Floppy Disk Pillow at ShanaLogic for $18 (USD). Actually…

Released in 1983, M.U.L.E.… is a classic video game developed by Ozark Softscape and published by EA.  The title refers to the robot worker that players buy in order to operate factories – the letters stand for Multiple Use Labor Element, and the M.U.L.E. looks, well, like a robot mule.

Have I told you guys how much I love trolling around the aisle of the new Makers Market? If you haven’t stopped by there yet, you owe it to yourself to check out this new online emporium of everything DIY. Take for example, this wonderful little laser-cut creation from Evolution…

…well at least with this thing your cat won’t get your real iPhone.

Handmade by Catsicle, this silly-looking felt and fleece iPhone is made just for kitty. It’s loaded up with “64 gigs of organic catnip,”… and even has a pair of dangly headphones for your cat to get tangled

We’ve featured a number of unusual finds from Korea’s EarlyAdopter over the years, but this is the first time I’ve seen them come out with their own electronic hardware. While it might look like some sort of strange antennae or musical instrument, this otherworldly-looking device is actually a complete audio…

This incredible Foosball table was made by Austrian Star Wars… and LEGO nut 2×4. He put this table together with LEGO bricks, and to top it off, it’s fully playable.

Naturally, the Rebel Alliance faces off against the Empire. C-3PO plays the goalie and he faces a bunch of storm

I have seen a bunch of weird speakers in the home theater world before. Typically, the really weird speakers also carry a very high price tag. I guess the makers figure they are more like sculpture than plain old speakers are.…

After the whole iPad naming fiasco, we all knew that it wouldn’t take long for some more maxi-pad humor to come our way. Here it is: the iMaxi, the apple iPad case with maxi wings!

A lot of women, including my wife, were thinking that there couldn’t have been single…

Good luck getting a signal in heaven, or wherever you think when your earthly hardware goes after death.

Showcased at the Verona Luxury Fair in Italy – like its name implies, the fair is a billionaires’ flea market –  the coffin costs $381,000 (USD). For that amount of money I…