Archive for July 2010

So by now, the entire universe knows that Steve Jobs offered up free bumpers and cases for iPhone 4 users to help them with dropped calls from the so called “death grip” issue if you touch the lower left side of the iPhone while making a call. While I appreciate…

So you’ve got some spare change lying around, do you? Who wants a stupid old piggy bank when you can have Boba Fett keep an eye on your coinage?

This Boba Fett bust bank is perfect for keeping all of your change in check, and should defintely keep your money…

iPad stands are a dime a dozen, but this is the first that I’ve seen that’s made out of plyboo, which is plywood made out of bamboo. I don’t know about you guys, but I find this mount strangely appealing.

This The Walet Mount was designed by Jonathan Danforth from…

Ah, another day, another strange Japanese product. This time, we’ve got a pair of googly eyes you can stick anywhere you’d like, and they blink. Yep, that’s it.

Through the miracle of modern suction cup technology, the Niko Dama blinky eyeballs will stick on just about any surface. Want proof?…

Over the last few weeks, I have come to feel that Apple might have designed the antenna on the iPhone just so they can sell more bumper cases. But with all of the negative media hype about the purported reception issues, I have a feeling that Apple’s press conference today…

A couple of engineers from Dyson decided to build a balloon accelerator, which uses Dyson Air Multiplier fans to speed along a balloon on its merry way, kind of like what a particle accelerator does, albeit at a much slower speed.

I think that it works well for a publicity…

Remember the $0.69 (USD) business card holder-turned-iPad stand? This is the exact opposite of that:

It’s called the PC Set Stand, and it’s made by Japanese company Resound. It was originally made for notebooks and portable DVD players, but then Resound realized that it works with the iPad too. It’s…

One little Flash “game” has caught the attention of the whole world. Okay maybe not the whole world, but at least the commenters of Rock Paper Shotgun, one of the video game blogs where pOnd was featured. pOnd was made by Peanut Gallery as a response to this whole video…

A picture really does speak a thousand words here. Modder Evil Nod managed to somehow cram a fully-functional Nintendo 64 system inside the body of an old SEGA Game Gear portable. Why? Why the heck not, I say.…

The Swedish band Rymdreglage’s music video ’8-bit trip’ is a stop-motion homage to retro Nintendo video games created using only LEGO bricks.

The video took over 1,500 hours to complete, since each LEGO-constructed character needed to be moved around individually, then photographed. While the music video has been around for…