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needle-felted jabba the hutt: awwwwwww

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How do you make a disgusting alien cute? Easy: just replace his slimy skin with wool. Oh and give him a “squezzly bunnybear.”

Flickr pro/proud mom/Jedi Grand Needle Felter Kit Lane imagined that as a child, Zorba’s offspring wasn’t really an evil Hutt. Unfortunately “the unmerciless(?) taunting by his slime mates over his compulsion for plushies” pushed him over the…

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July 5th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: cool toys geek art + craft just plain fun retro

sarlacc pillow might just bite your face off

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Another day, another pillow–stuffed examples of geekery are fluffing up all over this week. But yesterday’s RSS pillow’s got nothing on this plush rendition of the sarlacc pit where Boba Fett met his ignoble end in Return of the Jedi.

Those tentacles may look soft and harmless, but I’m not sure I would be willing to put any portion of…

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July 2nd, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: alisha k.

filed under: design geek art + craft strange + wonderful

bottle cap mario and pac-man art pop onto etsy

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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 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: geek art + craft retro video games

space invaders needlepoint fridge magnets plan their attack on your ice box

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Think you have enough Space Invaders stuff in your house? Are you sure? Really? If they haven’t yet invaded your kitchen yet, you’ll want to grab these Invaders magnets for your fridge.

In all, the set comes with 56 individual pieces, including 50 aliens, 4 defense bunkers, 1 UFO, and a laser cannon for wiping out the aliens. Lauren of LostMitten handstitched…

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June 21st, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: geek art + craft retro video games

atari cartridge wallet pays homage to the classics

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Etsy seller Nilesz urges us to recycle and to reminisce about the great 80s with his Atari cartridge wallets. They’re made from real games, and Nilesz says that “the only piece of the original game not used in the wallet design is the screw.” So yes, this is quite an improvement over the Atari-themed duct tape wallet.

Nilesz even made…

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June 14th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: geek art + craft retro video games

space invaders soaps take over bathrooms everywhere

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Now if you’re a regular reader of Technabob, you know that we’ve spent more than our share of time digging up cool geeky craft over on Etsy. On a recent expedition through the massive online craft website, I came across an odd new trend – Space Invaders soaps.
Not one, not two, not three, but no less than four crafters are…

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June 1st, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: geek art + craft just plain fun retro video games

tiny felt playstation controllers to hang on your gadgets

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There’s something just so wrong it’s right about these tiny little Sony PlayStation controllers that you can hang all over the place.

As shown in the picture above, these miniature felt PlayStation controllers look perfect hanging from your Sony PSP (or even better yet on your Nintendo DS). Created by textile artist RabbitRampage, each keychain-size controller is handsewn from felt…

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May 28th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: technology

metroid amigurumi: samus aran gone soft

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Oh, Samus. Even when you’re all sexed up in your Zero Suit, or Justin Baileyed into your bikini, you’re still supposed to be an icon of female strength and power (and just generally bad to the bone). But in amigurumi form, you’re reduced to abject cuteness. For shame!

And if that’s not bad enough, here’s the least threatening Metroid ever:…

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May 21st, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: alisha k.

filed under: geek art + craft video games

super mario fridge magnets: 8-bit kitchen fun

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Every once in a blue moon, you have to peel your ass off the sofa and take a break from your video game so you can get something to eat. But that doesn’t mean you have to stop playing when you get to the kitchen, does it?

With these fun Super Mario Bros. refrigerator magnets, you can turn your ice box…

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May 16th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: geek art + craft just plain fun retro video games

adobe cs pillows: not photoshopped

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Adobe’s simple and stylish icons are just begging for spin-offs, so I wasn’t surprised at all when I saw these Adobe CS stuffed pillows from My Suite Stuff.

These are definitely geekier than the ctrl alt del pillows. Each handmade pillow sells for $15 USD (plus shipping), while a 6 piece set – one of each color – sells for…

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May 16th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: geek art + craft just plain fun

which tastes better, sms or ical?: iphone cupcakes

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iBaker cornburstt made her friend a bunch of birthday cupcakes. Since her friend made an iPhone app – a Rubik’s cube for the iPhone – she decided to make iPhone cupcakes. iYummy.

If you ask me I’d say those are iPhone icon cupcakes, but I can’t bake and I don’t own an iPhone so. Could be wrong.
[via Geek Crafts]

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March 19th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: geek art + craft just plain fun

video game controllers for your cat

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You may have read about this innovative video game for cats last April. Now there’s a bunch of cat toys perfect for those geeky cats who like to gnaw on the wires from your video game controllers.

GEEKitty makes these soft and lumpy cat toy versions of controllers that are guaranteed not to electrocute your feline pals.

Each toy is…

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March 12th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: cool toys geek art + craft just plain fun video games

donkey kong junior shower is truly bananas

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You really don’t hear much about Donkey Kong Junior these days. If you ever wonder what happened to the little pixelated monkey in diapers, look no further. He’s got a new job keeping watch over naked people as they hose off.

This intricate hand-tiled shower was created by Colombian artists Andres Barragan and Miss Vynilos (who seems to have a…

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February 20th, 2009 comments (7) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: geek art + craft retro video games

iphone 3g and blackberry earrings: real earphones (get it?)

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Whether you’re an iPhone addict or hooked on your CrackBerry, you have to be a real gadget nut to wear these miniature smartphone earrings.

Toronto artist Barb Feldman handcrafts these teeny tiny iPhone 3G and BlackBerry (Curve?) dangly earrings by precisely layering and slicing Fimo polymer clay.

If you have any doubt about how detailed these earrings are, check out…

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February 4th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: geek art + craft just plain fun mobile tech

5.25-inch floppy disk coasters save tabletops, not data

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For some strange reason, I never thought I’d write a story about floppy disk coasters twice. But these really floppy, floppy disk coasters I found over on Etsy today were just too good to be ignored.

Modeled after the truly retro 5-1/4″ floppy disk, these soft coasters are handmade from colorful felt, and just like their real-life cousins, are guaranteed…

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December 30th, 2008 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing geek art + craft just plain fun retro

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