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Giant LED Lamps Made From Leds
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Designer Kei Yamamoto created these lighting fixtures that look like giant LEDs. Made from acrylic, aluminum and a dozen LED light sources each, they’re each about 20-times the size of a normal light-emitting diode. The fixtures’ clear acrylic shell and arrangement of LEDs create a beautiful visual effect on the… |
October 7th, 2007
Technabob Mascot Immortalized in Rubik’s Cubes
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See that little robot guy in the upper right corner of the Technabob site header? He’s the original mascot of our humble little website, inspired by the classic arcade game Berserk. So I was oh so thrilled when I heard a world-renown urban artist has immortalized the same robo-dude using… |
October 2nd, 2007
Space Invaders Sighted on Bluetooth Headset
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Bluetooth headsets are pretty much a dime a dozen these days. So it’s gotta be something pretty different that makes me even think of mentioning one here on Technabob. This recent addition to Jabra’s headset line allows you to customize the design by swapping out different custom covers. |
September 28th, 2007
Is That a Wii-Mote in Your Ear?
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Gamer girls, if you weren’t fortunate enough to pick up the Nintendo DS necklace, here’s another fun piece of video game inspired jewelry I found. These earrings are tiny versions of the Nintendo Wii-mote controller. Artist Thiakosia hand-sculpted these tiny Wii controller earrings entirely from Sculpey polymer clay. Nope, there’s… |
September 26th, 2007
Zelda Mosaic Immortalizes Link in Stained Glass
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Here’s something for true fans of Nintendo’s classic Legend of Zelda… adventure series. Etsy contributor ProphetofDoom recently created this wonderful mosaic version of the video game’s protagonist Link. Handmade from thousands of individually cut pieces of stained glass, it took the artist over three months to complete. The $250 piece |
September 19th, 2007
Look Mr. Bubbles, We’ve Been Etch-a-Sketched
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Given the fact that for my entire life, I’ve been completely incapable of drawing anything but some straight lines and the occasional stair step on an Etch-A-Sketch, this image simply blew my head off. I was already duly impressed with the detail that artist the Etch-A-Sketchist has been able to… |
September 18th, 2007
Mirror Answers the Question: is That a Weave?
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I first told you about artist Daniel Rozin’s cool interactive mirrors about a year ago. He’s now showing off his latest creations at New York’s Bitforms gallery. Here are a couple of my favorites: The Weave Mirror uses 768 individual strips which are woven together into a grid. As passersby… |
September 17th, 2007
Reveal Watches Tell Time a Little Bit at a Time
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The funky-cool Reveal Watch by pioneering typographer/designer Daniel Will-Harris tells the time by gradually revealing the digits hidden behind a set of partially opaque discs. As each minute and hour passes, the previous number gradually fades away, revealing the next number in the sequence. There’s a little tiny dot in… |
September 17th, 2007
10,000 LED Orbs Land in a Field in Italy
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Artist Giancarlo Neri has put together this stunning installation which places 10,000 individual colored LED orbs in a field. Each sphere gradually cycles through colors, creating a beautiful, dramatic vista. While the illuminated globes are absolutely stunning by night, they’re equally as interesting when turned off during the daylight hours.… |
September 9th, 2007
Guitar Hero Controller Gets Stuffed
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Amidst her handmade menagerie of teddy bears, bunny rabbits and other cute critters, Delaware crafter Poisonholly created this seemingly out of place plush Guitar Hero 2 controller. The hand crafted guitar bears more than a passing resemblance to the PS2′s cherry red Gibson SG, complete with colored fret “buttons” on… |
September 8th, 2007
