Archive for October 2010

Good thing there’s no such thing as a Hulu for pictures (not yet anyway), or else we might not be able to see Paul Mutant’s painting:

Check out the full sized pic of Mutant’s “This painting is not available in your country”… (acrylic on canvas) on his Flickr page.

Everyone’s favorite block-stacking puzzler makes its big-screen debut in Tetris: le Film.
Yeah, the only French I know is “Je voudrais une omelette au fromage“… but retro games are the universal language, no? non?

While this definitely isn’t the first time I’ve seen a lamp designed on a computer, it’s definitely the first one I’ve seen where the primary design tool was Microsoft Excel.

Ben Geebelen used Excel to create the pattern on his TulipK lamp, then used software called 3-matic and output it…

Star Wars fans will recall back in May that we talked a bit about the Wampa rug that ThinkGeek had unveiled. The thing wasn’t shipping at the time so all we could do was look at the images and dream about a Wampa rug in front of the fireplace. The…

Nothing says geek like Star Wars collectibles, and if you are really geeky, you need something you can wear that shouts Star Wars geek to the masses. ThinkGeek has a backpack that will most definitely get the job done when it comes time to step out of the geek closet.…

Attention all hipsters and retro gamers, check out these crazy new specs from Samal Design. Yes, they are actually designed so that they look like they were rendered in super-low 5 dpi and in 6 dpi resolutions. Now that’s pretty cool.

You might be thinking that these glasses were just…

The webcomic xkcd has just released a new version of the map of online communities. The word is that Farmville is taking over more and more of the world. Well, maybe not, but seriously, Facebook is taking up a lot of space.

A lot of thought went into their new…

The guys at 1 Block Off the Grid needed a high-end Mac to run Adobe After Effects, but instead of buying an expensive Mac Pro, they decided to build their own computer. Normally that would be nothing to write home about, but the 1BOG staff really put the hack in…

MOC Pages member Schfio Factory took a kid’s camera and turned it into an adult’s toy:

The toy camera’s innards were not replaced – it has a resolution of 3 megapixels and can store 80 images.  It’s case was made to look more respectable is all. Schfio Factory better get…

In celebration of Pac-Man’s ongoing 30th anniversary, the guys at Moleskine have revealed a collection of new notebooks with a Pac-Man flourish.

Each of the notebooks will have ghosts, fruits, Pac-Man or other what-nots on them.…