Archive for March 2011
Jabba’s Palace Bookends: Complete with Carbonite and Leia in Disguise
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Looking for a place to put your collection of Star Wars books? While you could grab some of those trash compactor bookends, you might want to put a set of these Jabba’s Palace bookends on another shelf.… |
March 6th, 2011
Pixel Trash Can: For Real World Deleting
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Inspired by this template for a papercraft 8-bit trash can, Instructables member BrittLiv decided to make a functional version out of plywood. It seems roomy enough that a whole computer could be dumped inside. Since it’s made out of wood, the pixel trash can is quite heavy – BrittLiv reckons… |
March 6th, 2011
Digital Surfboard Won’t Surf For You, But Will Track Your Moves
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This high-tech surfboard won’t actually surf for you, but it could let the judges in competitive surfing events know what exactly you’re doing, because it’s easy to miss the details when the waves are high.… |
March 6th, 2011
AT-AT Snow Sculpture Holds Up to Little Kids, But Not a Rebel Attack
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I know that making AT-ATs out of snow has been one way of using up some of the massive snowfall that’s been plaguing the U.S. this season, but I have to say that this one from Norway actually looks pretty awesome too.… |
March 6th, 2011
ByteSpotter: The See-Through Hard Drive
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A company called CONVAR introduced an interesting line of external hard drives at CeBIT 2011. Called ByteSpotter, the case of the drive has a hole with a transparent cover over the platters, letting users see both the actuator arm and the platters in action. That’s not the only feature that… |
March 6th, 2011
Sony Sells 41.6 Million PS3s Globally
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I really love me some PS3. I use the thing for a Blu-ray player in my home theater, and we play tons of games on it. When my original PS3 died late last year, you would have thought the world ended around my house. We also have a Wii and… |
March 6th, 2011
Minimal Video Game Characters: Can You Guess Them All?
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This clever illustration by Fabian Gonzalez is chockful of famous video game characters – all boiled down to their most minimal essence. All have to say is that I stared at this image for about 20 minutes, and was only able to figure out about 40 of them, but I’m… |
March 5th, 2011
Boba Fett Helmet Pipe: The Empire Strikes Back, Then Has the Munchies
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Ok, this could to be the strangest Star Wars item I’ve ever come across. It’s a glass pipe in the shape of Boba Fett’s helmet.… |
March 5th, 2011
PSP Go Gets Price Cut to $150, Still Sucks
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Remember the epic suck that is and was the PSP Go? It’s the portable Sony console that uses no cartridges and wanted you to download all of the games like the iPhone. The real suck of the thing was the price and the fact that you couldn’t even import the… |
March 5th, 2011
Invisible Paintings Show Up Only After You Take a Pic
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I’ve always enjoyed modern art, but involving the viewer with these paintings that only become visible after you take a photo with your cell phone or your camera is genius.… |
March 5th, 2011
