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Lost Star Trek Original Series Script Published as E-Book

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Today’s youth may be preoccupied with camp vampire or camp werewolf, but we geeks have had years of our own team debate: Kirk versus Picard. Frankly, I’ve never been a big fan of the original Star Trek series, I only started watching when TNG… aired and Jean-Luc is still the

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February 24th, 2012 by: Shane McGlaun

Tetris Desk Lamp: You Light up My Life

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Check out this awesome Tetris desk lamp. It beats any other geek lamp out there. This officially licensed lamp is not only made up of Tetris… blocks, but each tetromino lights up when stacked on top of one that is already lit. How cool is that?

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February 23rd, 2012 by: Conner Flynn

NES Pillowcase and Cushion Cover: Press Start to Sleep

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Itching to get your hands on those retrolicious NES controller pillowcases and cushion covers we featured last week? Wait no more. Emily has set up shop on Etsy and is currently taking orders.…

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February 23rd, 2012 by: Lambert Varias

Twin-Lens Reflex LEGO Camera Actually Shoots Pictures

I’ve never been enough of a camera nerd to build a LEGO camera myself, but if I did, it would be this Twin-lens Reflex camera, inspired by an old 1950′s Yashicaflex. Carl-Frederic Salicath from Norway built this one and he calls it the Legoflex B1.…

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February 22nd, 2012 by: Conner Flynn

Stormtroopers Take a Well-Deserved Break

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When you’re a stormtrooper, you’re pretty busy, either obeying Darth Vader or the Emperor, or most probably constructing the Death Star to make it less expensive to make than previously forecast by the Dark Side accountants.…

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February 22nd, 2012 by: Range

Vintage Arcade Mega Poster, Gotta Play Them All

I love vintage arcade games. I love the art on the cabinets, I love the sound they make and I love the games. Probably because I grew up with them. There’s nothing quite like those great big buttons and that stiff joystick… Okay, that just sounds strange.…

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February 21st, 2012 by: Conner Flynn

Wood iPhone Boombox Gets Birthed by Shopbot

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Are you tired of looking for that perfect iPhone boombox? Are you sick of those cheap looking plastic ones in every store? Take a look at this minimal  wooden boombox.…

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February 21st, 2012 by: Range

Robocop ED-209 Robot Recreated from Junk: Old Detroit Streets Still Not Safe

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I just happened to catch Robocop on satellite yesterday again, and determined that it’s aged nicely from an cheesy, hyper-violent action flick into a hyper-cheesy, hyper-violent action flick over the years. Plus, it has the guy who played Dr. Romano on ER getting covered in toxic waste and splattered

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February 20th, 2012 by: Technabob

Fallout NES Cartridge Art: Relic from a Pre-Post-Nuclear Era

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I’ve talked about 72pins before, but their latest cartridge is just too damn good not to share. The NEStalgic shop collaborated with artist Nick Robalik to create a Fallout… NES cartridge, which will surely fetch a vault full of bottle caps in the post-nuclear world.

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February 20th, 2012 by: Lambert Varias

Stay Puft Birthday Cake, Don’t Cross the Icing Streams

Mmmmm, cake. This is the cake that any and every Ghostbusters… fan has dreamed of for their birthday. Because, let’s face it, a Slimer cake would be disgusting and would also require a ton of clean up.

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February 20th, 2012 by: Conner Flynn

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