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It seems like just about once a week, I come across somebody who’s comes up with a clever new use for a classic Nintendo Entertainment System gamepad.

This time, an industrious hacker has taken the guts of an optical mouse and slapped them inside the NES controller…

I really dig the great job that Nintendo enthusiast Michael Karpinski did with his new subwoofer.

He’s carefully painted it to match the classic “question mark” brick from the Super Mario game series. Looks like that little stuffed Yoshi won’t be long for the world when Michael cranks up his next big bass extravaganza…

If you just can’t stand the simple good looks of your new iPhone, you can now have it indelibly imbued with a splash of color by the folks over at Colorware.

Starting at $149, they’ll take your iPhone and and coat it with a durable automotive-grade color finish. They’re also offering brand new pre-colored iPhones for $649 (4Gb) and $749 (8GB) if you don’t have one yet…

Have an old Macintosh G4 Cube computer lying around? Why not transform it into an enclosure for a modern Mac Mini?

Like the abandoned shell of a hermit crab, Mac enthusiast Rich Willis removed the innards of the old G4 cube and filled its guts with his Mac Mini as well as some add-ons. He even went the extra mile to add a virtual laser keyboard so the whole thing is nicely self-contained…

This guy has gone through the painstaking process of cramming his shmancy Motorola SLVR mobile phone into the case of an old Nintendo NES controller.

While the end result is pretty fugly from the phone side of things, it looks pretty convincing from the outside…

So what do you do when you crack your iPod screen? This industrious hacker has decided to turn his broken eggs into an omelet by turning his fractured iPod into a tiny little laptop.

Owen McGarry created his iTop mini laptop by cutting his old iPod in half, keeping only the screen, battery and audio portions intact, then flipping that portion up at a 45-degree angle…

If you’re the adventurous type and think the stock case design for the Nintendo Wii is a bit bland, look no further. Check out the new I-Case Chameleon from Team Xtender.

The clear replacement shell features a cool glow in multiple LED colors. The case backlighting gradually cycles between 7 colors giving your Wii a case of disco fever…

While it’s certainly not the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen, you’ve got to hand it to this casemodder for his gumption.

This supremely modified Nintendo Gameboy has become host to an entire Windows XP computer. The system uses that new EPIA Pico-ITX mobo I was telling you about a few days back to get things down to size…