Archive for October 2010

Dell has gobs of notebooks on the market with all sorts of offerings that run from basic netbooks and notebooks up to high end gaming models. The computer maker has pulled the covers off a cool looking new notebook called the Inspiron 15R Alloy Edition that has a cool aluminum…

If you own a vehicle that runs on diesel fuel, you may have thought how cool it would be to make your own fuel at home using bio-diesel production methods. There are contraptions that you can buy for your home today that will make bio-diesel for you, but they look…

This steampunk R2-D2 has been lovingly made out of wood and brass. Although the astromech droid is now too small to fit an actor, he’s got some nice dials and knobs.

It was created by the artist Amoeblablok who says that he won’t be selling off this steampunk droid on…

When I was a kid, my brother and I would make tents out of a sheet and a box fan when our parents wouldn’t let us get out a real tent. All you had to do was put the sheet over the fan and you ended up with a ready-made…

While I had to take off my glasses to be able to see the resemblance, once you see it it’s uncanny! It was definitely important to get the colors right on each of these 3 pixels, as that’s not a lot to be able to identify a character.…

I’ve seen a lot of awesome things made out of LEGO, but Peer Kreuger’s remote-controlled tank is now my all-time favorite. Even though Kreuger was inspired by the Metal Slug tank, to ‘Metal Grudge’ looks straight out of Vanquish….

I love the omnidirectional wheels and that big-ass cannon.

Using a combination of LEGO bricks and an RFID reader, JustJon created this neat Green Lantern power battery that lights up when it detects its complementary power ring.

JustJon wasn’t too specific with his build, but he did say that he placed an Arduino board to control the RFID reader.…

If you go waaaaay back in the wayback machine to 1975, you might remember a little computer called the Altair 8800. Officially, it was the “world’s first personal computer,” running a speedy 8080 processor which could make the red lights on the front blink in and out of sequence among…

Peek has been selling portable devices that look a bit like smartphones without calling capability that support email and texting for a while. The company has three models on the market with the Classic, Pronto, and the new Peek 9.…

There hasn’t been a cool flip phone in my opinion since the Razr from Motorola was the device to have. The flip phone form factor is still around, but most of the high-end devices come in candy bar form today like the iPhone and all sorts of other smartphones.…