Archive for October 2010

Brooklyn artist pixlpshr makes these awesome pixel collages, based on classic video games.

Each one is made from hand-cut felt squares, delicately glued to a canvas surface, then finished with felt on the sides, and ready for you to hang on your walls. While most of her designs feature video…

It’s funny, I always thought when they named it the Starship Enterprise, they were talking about the type of ship that could fly through outer space. But apparently, the ship… part was referring to a water-bound vessel. At least that’s what I learned when I stumbled onto this remote-controlled Enterprise

You might know Aram Bartholl as the man who came up with CAPTCHA business cards. Bartholl is making waves once more with yet another clever and still geeky work of art. Bartholl calls it Dead Drops, and the idea is simple – he embedded five flash drives into walls or…

Seriously though, this is impressive stuff. John Salvo, who together with a friend made a couple of iPhone 3GS costumes last year, took the next step and built himself an iPhone 4 costume, complete with a 40″ LCD touchscreen panel. The costume is linked to a jailbroken iPhone 4, and…

Verizon was busted not too long ago for fleecing their customers for extra data charges going back for years. The charges were apparently tacked onto the bills of users who didn’t have data plans or went over their meager allotment of data.…

sQren over at the Star Wars The Old Republic strategies site dug up this little gem while he was rooting around through some old VHS tapes at his parents house.

You see, it turns out that C-3PO knows how to rap – if you can call it that. R2 backs…

It took me a while to come to grips with using a netbook or ultra portable without an optical drive. At first, I worried that I would miss the drive all the time, and on occasion I do. For the most part the optical drive not being in my netbook…

Everything is going “green” today, and that’s a good thing. TVs are increasingly using green tech, which is better for the environment and costs you less to run the set. However, I am getting a bit bored by companies that put out TVs and brag on the green features when…

I love Halloween. While I haven’t gone trick-or-treating in like a million years, just getting to see the creative costumes that geeks come up with every year makes me grin from ear-to-ear.…

Well, not really. But you can make your iPhone 4 look a whole lot like the classic Nintendo Famicom controller thanks to this case.…