Archive for November 2010

PC gamers, are you looking for a better way to control your PlayStation 3 first-person shooters? The FragFX Piranha might be the ticket.

The unusual controller comes with two components – a left-hand control pod which provides directional movements, and a right-hand mouse for accurate aiming and firing. The left…

Minecraft is officially the sleeper game hit of 2010. Heck it’s still in Alpha, has sold over 600,000 copies to date, and has nearly 2 million registered players. So what better way to show that you’re a Minecraft… fanboy or girl but to bring its awkwardly rudimentary pixelated world to

I bought a dSLR camera years ago because I was tired of getting photos of just an arm when I tried to snap my kids because my point and shoot was too slow. I also wanted to be able to get pics that were exposed well, even if it was…

My son really likes the Star Wars Clone Wars… cartoon on Cartoon Network. He still hasn’t quite wrapped his head around how the Clone Troopers are good now, and end up being bad later though. One of the episodes we watched recently had some of the clones training in a

I live in Texas where it’s not just hot in the summer, its hawt. The upside is that in the winter if we get below freezing more than a few weeks it’s a bad winter. That said, we rarely get snow so we don’t get to make snowmen or throw…

This awesome Halo… Master Chief helmet is made out of LEGO bricks. While it looks pretty awesome, I just wonder how long it will stay in one piece if it’s actually worn around.

Ben Caulkins (aka Benny Brickster) created this helmet. Naturally, it’s wearable, but how comfortable is it? It

While it seems dubious that anyone in the Victorian era had an LED wristwatch, that didn’t stop Eric Schleapfer from putting one together himself.

This steampunk LED wristwatch uses a LED wristwatch board. The watch is constructed from a small piece of oak and some pieces of brass sheet and…

Mirrors are great. They let you see yourself much the same way that the rest of the world does. Unfortunately they have one major drawback: Everything is reversed.

You’d think that whoever invented the things would have noticed that everything you see in a mirror is backwards. No, they took…

If Optimus first landed on a golf course:

The longer I look at it, the more I want to see an actual Optimus golf cart.…

Need to express your objection or allegiance to a cause? There’s an app iOS device for that:

Spotted at a protest over cuts to the pension system of Lithuania:…