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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
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author: technabob
filed under: gadgets
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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
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author: karen
filed under: computing | hacks-mods | retro
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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
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author: technabob
filed under: just plain fun | timepieces
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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
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author: technabob
filed under: hacks-mods | interactive
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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
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author: technabob
filed under: gadgets | media players | timepieces
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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
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author: technabob
filed under: design
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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
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author: technabob
filed under: geek art & craft | video games
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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
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author: technabob
filed under: computing | hacks-mods | video games
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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
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author: technabob
filed under: geek art & craft | video games
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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
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author: technabob
filed under: design | timepieces
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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
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author: technabob
filed under: media players
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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
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author: technabob
filed under: just plain fun | video games
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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
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author: technabob
filed under: interactive | just plain fun
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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
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author: technabob
filed under: digital imaging | interactive | video games
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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
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