Archive for August 2010

If there’s one thing that I’ve never been able to do, it’s to create freehand drawings with a can of paint. Luckily, others can do wonders with these cans, as is evidenced by the these excellent Star Wars… graffiti creations found around the globe by Smosh.

While some of the

Link is one of the most cosplayed video game characters partly because his clothes and gear are relatively simple, but of course it takes extra effort to make a spot-on Link. The Zelda Project not only want to bring Link to life, they want to make an Ocarina of Time…

I was never really into arcade games that much, so for me Pac-Man… is but a simple game – eat the pellets before the time runs out, avoid the ghosts, eat the power pellets to eat the ghosts. So imagine my surprise when I came upon Jamey Pittman’s website, The

A few engineers over at Yelp have built this high-tech beer keg, controlled by an iPad.

As engineer Jeff Micklos describes in the video below, the reason they made this geeky keg-bot is because they “…love hacking, …love beer …and love iPads.”… The KegMate iPad app communicates with an array

I wasn’t able to find out too much information about this robotic fish, but it really is a pretty cool bit of engineering.

From what I can tell, Sedensha Co. made this electric fish (link translated from Japanese), which can wriggle its way through the water just like the real…

If you miss the days when you could walk down to the neighborhood arcade, you’re pretty much out of luck if you want to play a game of pinball. Sure, there are plenty of computer games and mobile apps which let you play a digital version of game, but there’s…

Every once in a while, I get a flashback to Bill Murray’s lyrical version of the Star Wars theme, and start busting out into “Star Wars, Nothing But Star Wars…” I guess that YouTuber qcomts was thinking along the same lines when he created his vocalized versions of classic Star …

So there I was, looking for something awesome for you guys to look at, when I came upon what is possibly the best named gadget – the Sharp Plasma Cluster Ion Generator…. I was hoping for a hill-sized cannon copied from Protoss blueprints, but it turns out it’s a

Hikakin –  he of the superb Super Mario beatbox – is back with his version of a round of Street Fighter… (II?), specifically Ken vs. Dhalsim.

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Attention fans of Doctor Who and caffeine! Listen up! I have here your next purchase – a coffee mug that’s based on the Doctor’s main mode of transportation, the TARDIS.

The TARDIS mug is guaranteed to keep your coffee hot, while it can also transport it nearly instantaneously to any…