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Why just put a couple of magnets on the front of your refrigerator when you can cover the entire thing with ‘em?
These mosaic magnets from Australia’s Motifo let you build complicated pixel art creations all over the front of your fridge.
Each pack of Motifo magnets ($79 to $99 USD) comes with nearly 1300 1-inch square magnets, along with…
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June 27th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: design geek art + craft
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I really love these whimsical folk art renditions of classic video game characters, handmade from bottle caps.
Etsy artist BottleCapArt turns discarded beer bottle caps into pixel art. Each creation is handmade from bottlecaps, paint, pine, and tons of hot glue. My fingers hurt just thinking about the burns the artist must have endured pressing metal into scalding hot glue…
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June 26th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: geek art + craft retro video games
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Reader Alex commented on our call for surveyees (take the survey! there’s a prize!) that the stuff we usually feature are cool (of course they are ) but mostly expensive. Alex, if you’re reading this, I’m sorry but this is another one of those cool-but-expensive stuffs. But they’re not just any stuff, they’re works of art. Remember iri5 and her…
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June 25th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: geek art + craft retro strange + wonderful
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The Design Inspiration cobbled together 45 artworks depicting the ever-popular Mario and his brother Luigi. All of them are pretty fun to look at: Some of them took the pair back to their earlier looks, others channeled cartoons, while some, like Anthony Jones, decided to go with a more mature style. Here’s Jones’ awesome version:
Luigi looks a bit pale…
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June 21st, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: geek art + craft just plain fun retro video games
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I’m not a particularly huge Star Trek fan–not the dressing-up kind, just the appreciating, occasionally-watching kind–but even I have to say that this is probably the most awesome crib in the history of cribs. If Cribs was about cribs instead of cribs, this would have its own show, even though it’s a cradle.
Not enough for you? How about the Klingon…
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June 21st, 2009
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author: alisha k.
filed under: design geek art + craft just plain fun strange + wonderful
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The RX-78 Gundam statue is aliiiiiive!
Okay not really but it’s still awesome. It looks like a chunkier Exia. Of course it does. They’re both Gundams. Giant Robot Statue is making me stupid.
And its head moves too! *sobs*
It doesn’t just do “Look at me I’m awesome” poses too, it can also be dramatic, as shown in this shot:…
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June 14th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: geek art + craft just plain fun robotics strange + wonderful technology
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Projects Watches are known for selling fashionable, quirky and overall just well-designed watches at prices that people can actually afford. Fortunately, their new IRIDIUM watch is no different – it’s a fun and affordable watch. Designed by Daniel Will-Harris, the idea behind the IRIDIUM watch is simple: Instead of using watch hands to tell the time, IRIDIUM uses colors. The…
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June 14th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: design timepieces
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Luxury watch makers Romain Jerome have an array of limited edition timepieces that possesses what they call “Titanic DNA.” The term refers to the fact that the watches have bezels made from “authentic steel from the wreck [of the Titanic] lying 3,840 meters under the sea, and steel supplied by the Harland & Wolff shipyards in Belfast, where the Titanic…
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May 28th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: design gadgets retro strange + wonderful technology timepieces
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Swedish artist Erik Johansson has both delighted and disappointed me today. His digital art and image manipulation is top notch, and anything influenced by Tetris is of course awesome. But as great as this piece is, it’s terribly sad, because I cannot play giant Tetris.
This is just begging for someone to make a flash game for this concept: using a…
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May 17th, 2009
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author: alisha k.
filed under: geek art + craft strange + wonderful video games
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What will future societies think of us when they excavate bits of iPods and N64 controllers? (That we had damn fine taste, that’s what!) Though we can never know, you can get a glimpse of the future of current tech thanks to one artist creating fake fossils from for (from?) the future.
Artist Christopher Locke crafts these not-fossils from concrete…
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May 12th, 2009
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author: alisha k.
filed under: gadgets geek art + craft technology video games
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We featured a chair made of recycled CDs a while back; I’m pretty sure that chair will carve markings on your ass after just ten minutes of sitting. I’d rather sit on this computer keyboard armchair. It’s equally geeky but far more comfortable. I think. “Sit on a keyboard” is a thought that never crossed my mind.
Called “Text-ile”, the…
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April 27th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: computing design strange + wonderful
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Got 256 old 3.5-inch floppy disks lying around the house? I can’t think of a better use for a bunch of floppies but to make a giant 16×16 pixel art Pinky ghost mosaic out of them. Can you?
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March 24th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: geek art + craft retro video games
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Artist iri5’s “Ghost in the Machine” is a series of portraits that connect music with visual art by making use of old cassette tapes as medium. When I first saw Neatorama’s post about the project I thought it was just a cheap trick. But after taking a closer look at the portraits, the simplicity and accuracy of the portraits changed…
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March 22nd, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: geek art + craft retro strange + wonderful
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A portable Xbox 360? All in a day’s work for Ben Heckendorn. But now that he’s gone bigtime, the Heck had to work with ColorWare to create a one-of-a-kind Xbox 360laptop. The result? The usual awesome. Yawn.
Heckendorn says that it’s a prize for THQ’s Darksiders game. A prize for winning what exactly he doesn’t say, but I already know that…
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March 15th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: geek art + craft hacks + mods just plain fun video games

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I love this little Mario Kart sculpture made out of coins, binder clips, wire, and other found office supplies. From the creative mind of Donald Kennedy (aka Kody Koala).
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March 13th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: geek art + craft quickpix video games
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