Archive for June 2010

With Nintendo’s likely E3 reveal of the 3DS coming this week, it was only natural that supposed spy shots of the new handheld would start to surface around the web. So here goes… Apparently, a Chinese blogger first came up with this rough sketch of what the 3DS might look…

I’m filing this one away in the “why?, why they heck not?”… bin. This off-the-wall contraption is an optical electronic theremin stuffed inside a fake banana.

Not only do these iPad and iPhone have googley eyes, they have legs!

Built by Terasaki-san, the iPad Walking Robot and iPhone Walking Robot are so cute we wanna puke. Check ‘em out in all their leggy goodness in the video clip below:
Okay, so they don’t really “walk” –…

Over the years I have reviewed a couple of the lasers from Wicked Lasers and there aren’t things that you would call laser pointers, unless you like the ability to burn those who talk during your presentation. You can catch stuff on fire and blind people if you aren’t careful.…

While World Cup mania has started gripping the world, I’m amazed at this Coke Man that was constructed in Johannesburg recently to celebrate the World Cup. The blocky design makes it look like voxels, which are basically pixels shown in 3D space.

This Coke Man was built out of 2,500…

I used to love yo-yos. I played with them all of the time and got pretty good at it. When I saw this little project over at Make:, I thought about buying a yo-yo and completing it. The build looks really easy and the end product is a yo-yo that…

Make the coolest minifigs – and coolest drinks ever with LEGO’s Minifigure Ice Cube Tray.

How awesome would it be to have a minifig floating in your cocktail? Or to have minifig popsicles? Order the ice tray from the LEGO store for just $8 (USD) and find out.…

Children are full of questions. If you open one up you’ll see that they’re made of nothing but drool and questions. Questions like: “Why do we have to eat?”, or “So I’m a poop factory?”, or  “What would Bill or Lance do if they were trapped in the world …

Gaming accessory maker Penguin United is developing a peripheral for the PS3 that will allow gamers to use both a keyboard and a mouse with the console. It’s called the Eagle Eye, and as you’ll see in the demo below, it works really well. It’s not without its faults though.…

I’m guessing that this Super Mario Bros.… stop-motion animation took just a little bit of time to orchestrate and shoot.