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WASD Custom Keyboards Put ColorWare to Shame

wasd custom keyboards

Computer mice come in many shapes, sizes and colors, not to mention variety in the number of buttons. But there’s less variety to be found in keyboards, or so I thought until I saw the V1 Custom Mechanical Keyboard by WASD Keyboards. The company lets users make the typing device…

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February 10th, 2012 by: Lambert Varias

Encline Designs Custom Figures: Transformers Transformed

encline designs custom action figures

I know how complicated LEGO creations can be, but I’m equally impressed with people who customize action figures. I could be wrong, but isn’t it harder to find or sculpt parts compared to looking for LEGO bricks? That’s just half of it; the painting and finishing touches can make or…

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October 1st, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Surprise! Colorware Now Customizing iPhone 4

Now you can have a white iPhone 4, or even a red or a black or a technabob-themed one, because ColorWare is now offering to customize your iPhone 4. Who would’ve thought? Yeah, we all did.

If you think that this is a good way of getting an unlocked iPhone…

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July 14th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Colorware Can Give You a Yellow iPad if You’D Like One

colorware ipad

Or maybe even a Bondi Blue iPad. The de Blob of the gadget world, Colorware is pleased to announced that they’re now selling custom colored iPads. Colorware offers a wide range of colors for the iPad’s body, Apple logo and home button. Here’s an LA Laker-ish color scheme that I…

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April 9th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Street Headphones: Loud in More Ways Than One

street headphones by brian garret schuur

A byproduct of Brian Garret Schuur’s graduate thesis (pdf), the Street Headphones has a laser sintered (i.e. melted) polyamide outer shell. Made using rapid manufacturing, customers can personalize the shell by having something custom etched into it, like the names of your favorite musicians, as shown below.…

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March 7th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

My Little Colossus is Too Cute to be Slain

my little pony shadow of the colossus customization

Until recently, I wasn’t aware that there’s a diabolically awesome trend that involves customizing My Little Pony figures, like this horrifying L4D Hunter Pony. Shame on me. Time to catch up! deviantART member Blondeyetti took a pony, applied some “Sculpey, stone effect spray paint, acrylics and “burnt grass” flocking” to…

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December 24th, 2009 by: Lambert Varias

Colorware Brings the Black Macbook Back, but It’S Gonna Cost You

cw blackbookpro 1

When it comes to their laptops, Apple has a bit of a sadistic side, adding neat features only to take them away soon after. For example, the Firewire port was a staple of the polycarbonate Macbooks, and then it was removed from the first Unibody 13.3″ Macbooks, only to be…

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July 6th, 2009 by: Lambert Varias

New Soda Bottle Tech Lets You Mix Your Own Flavors

Ipifini Choice-Enabled Soda Bottle

In the future, you’ll be able to customize more and more products to your own liking, and why should beverages be any different?
This new technology from Ipifini, called “Choice-Enabled Packaging,” provides bottles of soda with multiple flavor “buttons,” which can be pressed to create your own customized soft drink…

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October 6th, 2006 by: Technabob

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