Archive for August 2011
Train Casemod is Off the Rails
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Over the years, I’ve written about a wide variety of computer casemods based on vehicles ranging from cars, to motorcycles, to tanks, to spaceships. But this is the first mod I’ve seen with a computer built into a train.… |
August 23rd, 2011
LocalSin App Encourages You to Sin With the Locals Around Your Town
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These days, you can do anything and find almost everything with applications that you can download and run on your phone. You can bang out some awesome beats without needing any drumsticks with the TableDrum, get a virtual boob job and some lipo on the side with BuildMyBod, and name… |
August 23rd, 2011
Marvel Digital Mercury: Cheap Android Tablet, Still More Expensive than HP TouchPad
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HP might have had to have a fire sale to dump their now-discontinued WebOS TouchPad tablets, but Marvel Digital’s Mercury Pad Tablet is running Android, so you’ll be safe with it. As tablets go, the Mercury has solid specs, but is still more expensive that the discount-priced $99 TouchPad (if… |
August 23rd, 2011
Tube Squeezing Toothbrush Helps You Get Every Last Bit of Toothpaste Out
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You might recall that new tube design called SavePaste that some smart folks came up with to help get every bit of toothpaste out of the tube. The last dollops of paste left inside the tube might not amount to a whole lot of dollars’ worth, but the point is… |
August 23rd, 2011
R2-D2 Bike Helmet Protects Your Motivator Unit
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Between C-3PO and R2-D2, there’s no question which droid was the most durable. That’s why I think it’s a good idea that the girl who made this made the right choice to protect her noggin with an R2-D2 helmet, and not one made to look like that other golden droid… |
August 22nd, 2011
Portal 2 Proposal: The Wedding Cake is Not a Lie
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Who doesn’t love a good romantic story – especially when it involves Portal? Well, you can have your cake and eat it too, thanks to this tale of a guy and his very special Portal 2… proposal. |
August 22nd, 2011
Jetty the Duct-cleaning Robot Cleans with Dry Ice
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Criminals and special ops guys will now have something new to tangle with in ventilation ducts. Jetty, the duct-cleaning robot. And though this bot looks and acts harmless, it would be pretty scary running into it inside of a ventilation duct, because it looks like something you’d find in the… |
August 22nd, 2011
R2-D2 Planetarium Dated and Priced: My God, It’s Full of Stars
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Remember that awesome R2-D2 planetarium from a while back? Of course, how could any self-respecting geek forget? Well, it is finally on it’s way to store shelves and our geek homes and hearts.… |
August 22nd, 2011
Angry Birds Rock Out!
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Those Angry Birds may be angry, but their sticky sweet theme song is anything but reflective of the aggressive avians. Perhaps its time for the Angry Birds… theme song to get an edgier makeover. |
August 22nd, 2011
Banknotes Pixel Art: Pictures Worth a Thousand Bits
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You’ve probably heard of the controversial Bitcoin, a digitally generated peer-to-peer currency. Some people think it’s a great idea, while some think it’s inherently worthless and is doomed to fail. All I know is that these pixel art banknotes are a great fit for Bitcoin.… |
August 22nd, 2011
