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Andrew Myers’ 3D Screw Portraits: No 3D Glasses Needed!

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Have you ever thought about making portraits using screws? I never did but that didn’t stop Andrew Myers from using thousands of Phillips head screws to create these incredible three-dimensional portraits.…

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March 21st, 2012 by: Range

Old Tech Turned into New Stools

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You never know what a geek is going to get up to with some old hardware on their hands and a little bit of time. Rodrigo Alonso had some donated, chopped up computer parts that were left over from obsolete machine, along with some whole computer mice and keyboards. He…

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January 30th, 2012 by: Shane McGlaun

Artist Builds a Room Out of PC Parts

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I have about six different computers around here along with a hoard of old hardware that is just crammed into boxes. Artist Marek Tomasik has taken three years of his old computer parts and used them to make a room that is creepy, cool, and reminds me of the Borg…

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June 15th, 2011 by: Shane McGlaun

250gb Playboy Hard Drive Features 56 Years Worth of Magazines, Just as Many Nights in the Doghouse

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Playboy. That one word conjures up so many images.

If you’re done thinking about naked ladies, there’s more to read down here. It seems that the people at Playboy realize that you might not want to have a garage full of old magazines, and decided to give you a way…

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December 2nd, 2010 by: Chris B.

Bitfenix Survivor Computer Case is Cheap and Cool

Being a computer geek, I can tell you from experience that not all cases are created equal. I have had cases before that won’t fit my longer video cards and I have had cases where the cooling system let the PC hardware inside run too hot. A decent computer case…

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October 1st, 2010 by: Shane McGlaun

Nintendo Dsi Ll Officially Revealed: Bigger on the Outside, Still the Same Inside

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The rumors were right – Nintendo officially unveiled the DSi LL, which is basically a Nintendo DSi but with much larger 4.2-inch screens, a 93% increase over the 3.2-inch screens on the DSi. The DSi LL also has 2 pens, a relatively jumbo sized 5-inch pen and a smaller pen…

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October 29th, 2009 by: Lambert Varias

Computer Repair Book Educates Through the Power of Flowcharts

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Let it be known that on this great and blindingly sunny morning I accomplished yet another first here at technabob: I got dibs on the word flowchart…. As unbelievable as that sounds this is indeed the first post here that contains that superficially geeky word. But a flowchart itself,

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September 1st, 2009 by: Lambert Varias

“Black Lines of Death” on the Wii, Just in the Time for the Release of the Black Wii

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the bbps‘ Marc DeAngelis is one unhappy Wii-owner. His friend pointed out several black vertical lines that flickered on and off the screen while they were playing. His friend added that that same thing happened to him; he had to have his console’s GPU replaced. So DeAngelis did what anyone…

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July 16th, 2009 by: Lambert Varias

Ybox2: Set Top Box in an Altoids Tin

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Here’s a fun weekend project for all you hardware hackers out there. The Ybox2 is the latest version of a programmable IP-connected set top box which can fit entirely inside an Altoid box.

The system can be programmed to display widget-like channels on your television, using a library of freely-available…

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January 27th, 2008 by: Technabob

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