Archive for December 2011
Ambient Rock Lights: What Happens When Lava Lamps Cool Off
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Designed by Andre Cazenave, these rock sculptures do double duty as ambient lighting. They’re smooth and cool stones by day and sexy and toasty lamps by night.… |
December 23rd, 2011
Star Wars’ Old Republic Forces Its Way Into Times Square
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I’ve seen loads of different Star Wars promos over the years, but this epic Star Wars battle is a pretty good one. To celebrate the official launch of BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic… video game, EA set an army of Jedi and Sith loose on Times Square, lightsabers in |
December 23rd, 2011
AOC Monitor Gets Built-in iOS Dock, Enlarges iPhones Instantly
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Do you ever wish you could stream stuff from your iPhone or iPod Touch to your computer display? Then this AOC display could be the one for you. It features a 30-pin dock that outputs audio and video directly from your iOS device to the screen.… |
December 23rd, 2011
Contact Lens With LED: You’ve Got Something in Your Eye, Sir.
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It’s one thing to stick an LED in a prosthetic eye, but to place it in a contact lens and then place the lens in your still working eye? Gross. Also not as impressive. But YouTuber/tinkerer/proto-Adam Jensen Ben Krasnow did it nonetheless. For science!… |
December 23rd, 2011
Skyrim Breezehome Gingerbread House: +40 Candy-Mage Skills
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It’s that time of year again. Geeks are making gingerbread treats that look like other cool things. In this case it’s a gingerbread Breezehome from Skyrim… made by a super cute girl. |
December 23rd, 2011
Pac-Man Stress Balls: Squash Some Ghosts and Chill Out
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Now I don’t exactly remember the part of Pac-Man… where you smash the ghosts with your giant fists of doom, but I suppose that would have been pretty cool. At least now you can try and replicate that gameplay dynamic at home with these Pac-Man and ghost stress balls. (Is |
December 22nd, 2011
Reel Doozy Adds Santa (or Keenan Cahill) to Your Holiday Movies
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If you have kids and they’re anything like mine, they are apt to bust out singing and dancing at any given moment to some sort of soundtrack in their heads. One episode of Dancing with the Stars,… my daughter danced with her cat and after a talk about how kitty’s |
December 22nd, 2011
Fully Functioning Batmobile Replica Lets You Ride Home In Style
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This officially-licensed 1966 Batmobile replica isn’t as destructive as the 21st century Batman’s Tumbler, but at least you can drive this one on the streets. Imagine riding this home for the holidays this year. You’ll be a smash, but only if you live some place warm because even if it… |
December 22nd, 2011
NORAD and OnStar Help Track Santa Again
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I really feel bad for the people that are working at OnStar answering phones Christmas Eve. OnStar and NORAD have announced that they are again teaming up to help owners of GM vehicles and the OnStar FMV mirror track Santa’s whereabouts on his trip around the world. Last year my… |
December 22nd, 2011
Got $1,000,000? Then You Can Become the Next Human Slinky
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If I had a million bucks to spare, I’d probably open up a business, or invest it in something that could make the money grow. Then I’d eventually donate a percentage to charity, set aside some money for a vacation with my family, get a whole new wardrobe, and probably… |
December 22nd, 2011
