Archive for July 2010

These portrait projecting rings were made by the Bristol artist Luke Jerram for his wife. They were inspired by the Stanhope optical jewelry of the 19th century. Luke worked with a jeweler named Tamrakar so that this ring can project the embedded image onto a wall when a light source…

This cool video was released almost two years ago, and I think that it still looks good. Actually, it looks pretty awesome! It features a bunch of guys having a lightsaber duel.

This lightsaber duel was made by Brian Curtin, Mat Powell, and Matt Hall. It’s good enough to make…

I don’t think Corneria would have won the Lylat Wars with this bunch:

Those aren’t fighters; they’re hawk food with glass bowls over their head.

Slippy’s much more adorable in that form though. You can order the Do A Barrel Roll!… T-shirt at Threadless for $18 (USD).

Er, real LEGO. It’s a triple geek mash-up all the way across the screen! Oh what does it mean?!!

The question is, which came first – this or the shirt? Unfortunately, the shirt is extinct already sold out.…

We’ve featured the realistic gaming controller soaps from DigitalSoaps before, but this bundle they’re offering really caught my eye.…

While the robots that have found their way from Japan’s Kondo are of the humanoid, bipedal kind, they decided to go off the board this time, offering up a four-legged turtle-bot.

The Kame Robotto is the first robot in Kondo’s animal robot series, and he’s a cute little bugger. A…

A dude named foldsfive decided to recreate the entire original Star Wars trilogy in MS Paint, then converted to animated GIFs. He released his take Star Wars: A New Hope last month. This month, it’s The Empire Strikes Back…‘s turn.

Foldsfive is also known as David Court and created

Ben Heck chose to make his Bill Paxton pinball machine the old fashioned way, using actual flippers and tunnels and whatnot. But there’s also another, less complicated way to make a pinball machine – by running an emulator on a computer. But “less complicated” doesn’t mean easy, especially if you…

As a child, Robert Burden was amazed by the action figures he had – G.I. Joes, WWF wrestlers, Star Wars… characters. Now that he’s all grown up, Burden makes paintings of his childhood love in an attempt to re-capture the awe that he felt as a youngster (and to

Sony just introduced a video demonstrating this amazing new 360-degree display technology that’s something you might find in a James Cameron movie.

The new autostereoscopic display projects 360 individual slices of an image onto an array of special LEDs, providing a volumetric display you can walk around and view from…