Archive for December 2011
Christmas Present Shake Prank: Mess with Their Heads This Holiday Season
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We all do it. Despite the fact that we might be destroying some fragile major award under the Christmas tree, we like to shake our wrapped gifts to try and figure out their contents. Well, here’s a geeky prank you can play on your loved ones the next time they… |
December 11th, 2011
Future Fossils: Relics from a Recent Past
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Strangely enough, we’ve already featured two geeky examples of fossilized artwork. The first one featured robots, while the other one had rocky renditions of popular gadgets. Here’s a third from art and design studio Bughouse, featuring retro devices rendered in cement.… |
December 11th, 2011
Gingerbread TARDIS: I Hope Your Stomach is Bigger on the Inside
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This gingerbread TARDIS looks yummy. But is a gingerbread TARDIS better than a ginger companion? Discuss.… |
December 11th, 2011
Angry Birds Mate With PSP, Lay an Egg
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You’ve gotta hand it to schlock gadget merchants of China for their ability to completely laugh in the face of all intellectual property laws. Take, for example, this craptacular version of Angry Birds… which you can now buy. |
December 11th, 2011
Tooth Guardian Lets You See What Your Dentist Sees, Every Time You Brush
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Here’s a concept design that I actually think is quite smart. It’s a toothbrush with a built-in camera to help you make sure to get all the built-up gunk off your teeth when you brush.… |
December 11th, 2011
CPU Wars: Trump Cards for Techies
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Engineer/consultant/card shark Harry Mylonadis has given the classic trump card game a geeky refresh. His new project CPU Wars pits 30 of the most significant computer processors in a battle of numbers, a game which PC enthusiasts already play with real computer components.… |
December 11th, 2011
Ministar Travel Guitars: Perfect for the Vagabond Musician
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These Ministar travel guitars will allow you to easily play music, almost the same way as if you’d be carrying a bulky electric guitar. There are some models that are only 19 inches long, and they lack something obvious: the main body of the guitar.… |
December 11th, 2011
Apple Hairband Headphone Concept for Listening to More than Hair Bands
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These minimal headphones don’t look like the usual crop of over-ear ‘phones. They actually kind of look like hairbands, since it looks like they’ve got nothing more than earbuds on the ends. I don’t know how those small drivers will sound, but it is an interesting look to say the… |
December 11th, 2011
Pyro Board: Your Tunes are So Hot!
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I’m sure many of you have are familiar with the Rubens’ Tube, which is a device which works sort of like a VU meter, but with flames. But I have to say that this thing is even cooler. It’s like a Rubens’ Tube which operates on two axes.… |
December 11th, 2011
Robots Pop Popcorn and Fix a Sandwich
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You know, there might be a day sometime in my life where robots performing mundane tasks will no longer be a novelty, and they’ll just be part of our everyday lives. But until that day, I’m still going to find things like robots popping popcorn and making sandwiches to be… |
December 10th, 2011
