Archive for November 2010

Nintendo just revealed this awesome Super Mario Bros.… cake during the game’s 25th anniversary celebration in New York. I can say that this is the perfect way to celebrate all those years of playing Mario games in their different incarnations over the years.

The cake is based upon World 8

The geeks over at ThinkGeek have added a new shirt to their collection of shirts that you can use to create your own band. They already have a guitar shirt and a drum shirt and now you can add this synthesizer shirt to the line to complete your 80′s T-shirt…

If you are a serious geek that has a hankering for some DIY LEGO style decorating for the holidays you will be glad to see these sweet new plans for a LEGO DIY Christmas tree. The thing is small so you can’t stand it in your corner, but it would…

Laptops sacrifice a lot for their portability – they’re nowhere near as upgradable as most desktop computers, and they’re not that easy to tinker with as well. But a group of students from Stanford University and Aalto University in Finland have shown that it’s possible to make a laptop with…

I’m not a tea drinker, Mountain Dew is my beverage of choice. However, I do live with a couple of people who love them some tea. Seriously, I think there’s an entire cabinet just dedicated to the stuff.

One thing I’ve always thought strange was how the little paper bit…

We already featured Metin Seven’s Steve Jobs bust. Here’s his take on Apple’s other Steve:

Who wouldn’t be cheered up by that pixelated smile? I personally would rather have this than Jobs’ scowling mug. Woz’ smile and chubby face remind me of those smiling Buddha statues.…

Have you ever tried to dunk an Oreo in a glass of milk, only to have the cookie break into a bunch of pieces, leaving a soggy mush in the bottom of the glass. Yep, thought so. Well, today is your lucky day. See, there’s a new product in the…

…and when I say original Apple-1, I mean it. Only about 200 of the first-gen Apple computer were ever built, and they have become extremely difficult to come by, with an estimated 50 left in circulation around the world.

It was announced today that Christie’s will be auctioning off one…

I can officially say that in the 4+ years and 6675+ posts that we’ve had on Technabob, that we’ve written articles about condoms exactly twice. Now, we’ve gone and done it thrice. And one of the previous times was about a Darth Vader condom too. But that one was in…

I know we have all heard the phrase “on like Donkey Kong”… uttered on more than occasion. This is one of those phrases that can mean all sorts of different things depending on the situation. I’ll use it in a sentence for you, here it go. A pal might ask,