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Nutty as a Coconut (Amp)

The Scholar — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:19:50 +0000

If you’ve ever seen the movie Castaway you know that Chuck Noland, the character Tom Hanks played, existed on coconut meat for quite some time before getting back to civilization. When I look at this cool amp with coconut shell cover created by Steve Lodefink it makes me wonder what parts of the movie they edited out.

Did Chuck have any rhythm? Did he make percussion instruments out of the other coconuts? Do you think the first Guitar Hero game might have been created on Gilligan’s Island? Perhaps they made instruments out of palm fronds and rope from the boat to put on a show! Discuss amongst yourselves… and see more fun photos of Steve’s tinkering over on his Flickr stream.

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Santa Claus iPod Speakers: Ho Ho Hum

Technabob — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:49:47 +0000

I saw these ridiculous looking speakers over on 7Gadgets and just had to give them a mention. The perfect accompaniment to your sequined Christmas sweater, these goofy speakers let you listen to your favorite holiday tunes emanating from the O-shaped mouth of of good old Saint Nick.

Personally, I think they remind me more of the Travelocity gnome than Santa, but who am I to question?

If you’re one of those people who just has to have anything and everything Santa-themed, I’m sorry to say they’re only available for wholesale purchase at this point. I suppose if you’ve got a ton of people to buy for this holiday season, you could pick up a gross or two and hand them out.

Q*Bert + Quilt = Quiltbert

Technabob — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:11:40 +0000

Remember the expletive-spouting orange dude from 1980s arcade game, Q*bert? Well the strange little guy has now been immortalized in this awesome handmade video game quilt by Lenore, an artist over an Evil Mad Scientist Labs.

She’s done a valiant job recreating the details of the game, including the game’s signature isometric diamond blocks you jumped on, those spinny colored escape platforms, and a couple of those weird enemies. Best of all, Lenore documented the construction process, so you can make your own too.

Actually, the best part of the design is the score of just 400 points, which is about as far as I ever got in this game before perishing from that stupid purple snake (his name was “Coily”, thanks WikiPedia!) @!#?@!

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