Archive for May 2010

With summer here, each time we go to the lake or the pool I worry that my camera and camcorder will get wet and ruined. It’s not just the water at the pool or lake I worry about, it’s the kids spilling their drinks on the camera too. It’s for…

It must be insanely hard to be a Pokémon fan. For someone who’s been trained to “catch ‘em all”, it’s bad enough that there are a hundred and one Pokémon games out there, there’s also the awesome merchandise to collect. CollegeHumor sheds some light on the situation with a more honest…

Suraj from Machoarts put together this roundup of great digital robot illustrations. Most of these can be downloaded as wallpapers for your computer. Here are a few that tickled my fancy.…

LED-powered signs have rapidly become omnipresent in big cities. Now you can even have one inside your house. It’s called Lucia and was created and designed by Tangible Interaction.

Lucia is a sound reactive LED matrix, which consists of a 112×20 pixel RGB LED light box that can display a…

About a year ago Samsung revealed the LD220, a monitor that connects to computers via USB. I’m not sure if this is the same monitor, or if it’s an offshoot, but this is amazing nonetheless – a few days ago the Korean electronics giant showed off an 18.5-inch LCD monitor…

Designed by Studio Psyho, the “unpackman” bottle opener is the perfect way for retro gamer geeks to crack open a cold one.…

The guys over at Tiny Cartridge stumbled onto this awesome Dreamcast boombox casemod by XCKDIY.

The design seamlessly integrates the Dreamcast’s CD-Rom drive into the portable’s old DVD tray, and wired the console to the front-facing LCD screen. He even perfectly integrated the Dreamcast’s four controller ports into the front…

Assuming you don’t have to pass through airport security, this iPhone carrying case that looks like a gun will definitely draw attention whenever you whip it out to make a call.

Created using 3D object printing technology on a MakerBot, DIY-er Junior Tan created this bit of awesome for all…

Ubisoft has ported the original Prince of Persia… for the iPhone, iPod Touch and of course the iPad, just in time for the release of the movie.

Here’s a nerdy a sub-genre in an already geeky genre: some Lego Mindstorms enthusiasts all over the world love creating Great Ball Contraptions, or GBCs – a large, modular machine that does nothing but transport balls in a never-ending route. A typical Great Ball Contraption has many modules, each one…