Archive for March 2011
DIY Mario Coin Block Actually Coughs Up Coins When Punched
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We’ve featured several real world versions of the classic Super Mario Bros.… coin block, but this one made by Bruno Pasquini tops them all, because it works just like its video game counterpart – punch its bottom and coins come out! It even makes the classic sound. |
March 25th, 2011
Star Wars Day of the Dead
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Artist John Karpinsky came up with these special designs of your favorite Star Wars… characters for the Mexican Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos), which is a holiday to celebrate all of your family’s recently deceased members. |
March 25th, 2011
Normincies Aluminum Reinforced Laptop Bag: Ready to Rumble
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Since I got a new MacBook Pro 17, I’ve always been concerned about traveling with it. My last laptop’s lid got a bit scratched up in a backpack when I hadn’t been careful about what I put inside of it. This won’t be the case with these bags from Normincies.… |
March 25th, 2011
Paranga Simulates Page Flipping for E-Book Readers
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If there’s one complaint that people have about E-book readers (besides the fact that they’re not flexible yet), it’s that they don’t really replicate the feel of a real book. A team of researchers in Japan aims to change that, by creating a tactile feedback mechanism for digital books.… |
March 24th, 2011
Vulcan Oven Mitt: Live Long and Potholder
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Boy, this must be a record – two posts about oven mitts on Technabob in a single day. I know that it seems weird for a techy geek blog, but this one was just too good to pass up.… |
March 24th, 2011
PreVue is Like a Wrestling Championship Belt and Sonogram Mashup
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Any parent knows that one of the best days of a pregnancy is when you get a sonogram for the first time and look at the baby. If you are lucky, you can also find out what sex the baby is thanks to the wonders of sonograms. A cool new… |
March 24th, 2011
Coldest Star Ever Discovered by Astronomers, Still Too Hot For Vacationers
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Do you know what an astronaut calls that little turd that comes back up after you flush? A brown dwarf. Seriously, though, some astronomers in Hawaii at the W.M Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea have discovered what they claim is the coldest star even found. The star is a brown… |
March 24th, 2011
Shark Bite Oven Mitt is Way Cooler Than My Crab Claw Mitt
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I don’t know if you have noticed, but I get up to a lot of mischief at my house. My kids sort of expect it now. We have this oven mitt that looks like a crab claw. As soon as I put it on my daughter screams like the little… |
March 24th, 2011
Xbox 2600: Ben Heck Builds Atari-Themed Xbox 360 Laptop
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Atari will be re-releasing some of their classic games on Xbox Live, and to help promote it they’ve asked modder Ben Heck to create an Atari-inspired Xbox 360 laptop. At first I thought he was going to stuff the guts of a 360 into an Atari 2600, but the case… |
March 24th, 2011
12-Port USB 3.0 Hub: Half-Past, Half-Present
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Here’s a fairly future-proof hub for USB-gadget hoarders. Chinavision’s Warp Speed hub has 12 ports, 6 of them USB 3.0 compatible. Unless you’re really an early adopter, I think that’s more than enough.… |
March 24th, 2011
