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tetris + ice cubes = icetris

filed under: retro | strange and wonderful | video games

icetris tetris ice cube trays by mystake

What better way to keep your “on the rocks” cocktails chilled but with some whimsical Tetris block ice cubes?

Given the heritage of Tetris, it’s only appropriate that these Icetris ice cube trays would come from Dima Komissarov of Russian design shop Mystake…

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posted: July 9th, 2008 stumble it! 3 comments author: technabob

cool red cube hides a high-tech label maker

filed under: gadgets

King Jim Label Maker

Inside this unassuming red cube lurks a fancy shmancy label making system.

Click the black button and the top opens up to reveal a keyboard and LCD screen. The keyboard appears to be a standard US qwerty version, but unfortunately (for those of us who can’t read Kanji characters, that is) the screen text looks to be in Japanese…

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posted: June 16th, 2008 stumble it! 1 comment author: karen

modder crams g4 cube mac into mac plus

filed under: computing | hacks-mods | retro

Mac Plus G4 Casemod

Got an old Macintosh or Mac Plus lying around? There’s got to be something better to do with it than turn it into an aquarium, right?..

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posted: May 31st, 2008 stumble it! 6 comments author: technabob

rubik’s cube clock is unsolveable

filed under: just plain fun | timepieces

Rubik\

If you spent way too many hours of your childhood trying to solve that infuriating Rubik’s Cube, now you can have a constant reminder of your frustration every single morning when you wake up.

This Rubik’s-inspired clock takes the basic design concept of the classic cube puzzler, and turns it into an LCD digital alarm clock…

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posted: May 17th, 2008 stumble it! 1 comment author: technabob

rgb + xyz = fun

filed under: hacks-mods | interactive

Interactive Color Cube LED by Steve Gilbertson

I came across this nifty concept for an electronic plaything earlier this week and thought I’d share it with you guys.

Steve Gilbertson’s interactive color cube uses a 3-axis accelerometer to detect movements and relays that information to a grid of brightly colored LEDs to create a portable light show in a box…

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posted: May 14th, 2008 stumble it! 2 comments author: technabob

mp3 alarm clock gets color video screen

filed under: gadgets | media players | timepieces

JWD MP4 Video Cube Media Player

This wouldn’t be the first time I saw an alarm clock that could play MP3 tracks, but it is the first one I’ve come across that can play movies after it wakes you up.

JWD’s pint-sized MP3 media player has a compact 2.0-inch full-color LCD screen which can play MP4 format video clips…

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posted: April 30th, 2008 stumble it! post a comment author: technabob

led cube displays 3d images in color

filed under: design

3D LED Cube LED Display by Seekway

A while back, I reported on James Clar’s cool 3D cubes which could display images using a grid of about 1000 LEDs connected to a computerized controller. While Clar’s cubes are simply amazing, they can only display monochrome images. Now, a company in China has taken the same concept and created a multi-color version…

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posted: April 6th, 2008 stumble it! 7 comments author: technabob

weighted companion cube cake is not a lie

filed under: geek art & craft | video games

Weighted Companion Cube Cake by mandrake88

If you’re like me, you probably killed more than a few weekends back in the Fall playing Portal. As you probably know by now, the cake promised as the reward for completing all the puzzles was a big fat lie…

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posted: March 17th, 2008 stumble it! 3 comments author: technabob

weighted companion cube pc: where have you been? [casemod]

filed under: computing | hacks-mods | video games

Portal Weighted Companion Cube PC Casemod

I’ve been keeping my eye on this Portal-inspired casemod project for a while now, watching and waiting for the builder to eventually finish his creation. And just like the cake, I guess that case was a lie…

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posted: January 21st, 2008 stumble it! 1 comment author: technabob

knitted companion cube sure ain’t weighted

filed under: geek art & craft | video games

Knit Weighted Companion Cube

Here’s another fun Portal-inspired craft goody — it’s a plush, knit version of the game’s Weighted Companion Cube. Now you may ask, how can something so soft and fuzzy qualify as “weighted”?

I guess we just have to allow some artistic license to the creator of this handstitched wool cube…

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posted: January 3rd, 2008 stumble it! 1 comment author: technabob

time cube tells time with triangles

filed under: design | timepieces

Time Cube Clock

For just a few brief moments each day, this clock looks like an ordinary cube, but most of the time it transforms to form star-like geometric patterns.

The Time Cube carves off one corner of its 6-sided box to form a series of layered triangles which rotate to tell the current time…

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posted: December 26th, 2007 stumble it! post a comment author: technabob

tiny cube speaker offers big sound (for ants)

filed under: media players

Tiny USB Cube Speaker

Being a fan of big, multi-speaker room-filling sound systems, I find it strange that I’m captivated by this miniature speaker. This tiny 1-inch cube speaker is so small that you can easily keep it in your pocket…

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posted: December 24th, 2007 stumble it! post a comment author: technabob

portal companion cube accompanies you anywhere

filed under: just plain fun | video games

Portal Companion Cube Pendant

Know someone who’s addicted to Portal? Here’s the perfect holiday gift for the obsessive fan of The Orange Box’s mindbending first-person puzzler.

Inspired by the game’s handy Weighted Companion Cube, this pendant will accompany you through the test chamber of life. Please take care of it…

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posted: November 22nd, 2007 stumble it! 3 comments author: technabob

fentix cube: like rubiks on roids

filed under: interactive | just plain fun

Fentix Cube Interactive Plaything

Interactive artist Andrew Fentem created this cool electronic cube puzzle game loaded with colorful LEDs. The Fentix Cube is controlled by touch as well as through movement…

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posted: October 19th, 2007 stumble it! post a comment author: technabob

levelhead: trippy augmented reality game

filed under: digital imaging | interactive | video games

Julian Oliver’s levelHead Interactive Game

New Zealand digital artist Julian Oliver is working on a cool game that blends the electronic universe with the real world. His work-in-progress game called levelHead uses a series of cubes placed on a table top…

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posted: October 14th, 2007 stumble it! 9 comments author: technabob

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