Archive for November 2010
5-to-9 Clock Makes a Statement, Barely Tells Time
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If there’s one thing I like about having irregular jobs, it’s not having to do the 9-to-5 grind every day. Granted, I’ve had jobs that required I work these hours, and I generally hated it. Early to bed and early to rise might make a man healthy, wealthy and wise,… |
November 22nd, 2010
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn Features Hyperlinked Dialogues: the Internet Must be So Proud
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RPGs and other games with rich fictional histories have long had a select few fans that could cite obscure trivia like they were just telling the time, like the famous Red Shirt Guy. You’d think that with such voluminous amounts of fake facts (fakts?) to keep track of, games like… |
November 22nd, 2010
The Greatest Dog-Shaped Vacuum Cleaner Ever
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The guys over at Futility Closet dug up this awesome retro invention which I only wish they had actually made. Patented by Ann Margaret Zaleski way back in 1973, this dog-shaped vacuum was supposed to help your scaredy pup cope with the stress of you vacuuming up their hair when… |
November 21st, 2010
Nexcopy Standalone USB Duplicators Let You Copy Up to 31 Flash Drives at Once
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Need to crank out hundreds of flash drives for a business presentation or a trade show? Want to create your own digital business cards? Looking for a great way to distribute your next music demo? The guys at Nexcopy have a nifty solution with their industrial-strength USB duplicator systems. Just… |
November 21st, 2010
White iPhone 4 Kit Converts Vanilla iPhone to White, Seller From Genius to Criminal?
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You don’t have to wait until Spring 2011 to get a white iPhone 4 – if you already have the default black one, that is. Fei Lam, a 17-year old college student out of Queens, New York is selling a conversion kit for the iPhone 4 which is supposedly of… |
November 21st, 2010
Newertech Offers New USB 3.0 Universal Drive Adapter
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I have a bunch of old HDDs in my desk that have data on them I don’t want to trash and don’t want on my current computer. If I want to get the data from those drives, as it is I need an external enclosure or to open my computer… |
November 21st, 2010
It’S Either This or a ‘Beware of Nerd’ Sign
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Give your visitors fair warning of what they’re getting into: The There’s no place like 127.0.0.1… door/floor mat is available at ThinkGeek for $40 (USD). Bewildered expressions at your doorstep guaranteed. |
November 21st, 2010
Kinect Lightsaber Hack: First Kinect Star Wars Game (Sorta.)
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The hacking possibilities for the Xbox 360 Kinect peripheral seem to keep growing every day. The latest hack to hit the inter-pipes: the Kinect lightsaber. Yankeyan used the OpenKinect drivers, along with image processing, tracking and rendering by OpenCV to create this great real-time lightsaber effect on his PC. All… |
November 20th, 2010
Super Mega Punch-Out!! Cross-Stitch: 80,000 Stitches of Retro Awesomeness
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It took crafter Sewsew-a-Gogo almost two years to create this Punch-Out!!… art, and it looks like it was well worth the wait. When you first look at this thing from a distance, it doesn’t look like much, but when you realize that it took her over 80,000 cross-stitches to bring |
November 20th, 2010
Pac-Man Cookie Cutters: Wakka Wakka Wakka Chomp
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Get some ghosts in your kitchen with these awesome Pac-Man cookie cutters. Created for what seems like the never-ending 30th anniversary of everyone’s favorite dot-gobbling arcade game (except for Ms. Pac-Man), these cookie cutters come in a set of four, including Pinky, Inky, Clyde, and Pac-Man himself.… |
November 20th, 2010
