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Giant Nintendo Controller Won’t Fit in Your Hands

Giant NES Controller

You won’t have any trouble finding the buttons on this massive replica of Nintendo’s famous NES controller.

Game fan Philip Torrone and his team of builders put together this 5-foot wide joypad for the recently completed 2007 Maker Faire. Constructed mostly out of wood and assorted other parts, the controller…

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June 10th, 2007 by: Technabob

World’s Largest Multi-Touch Screen

Obscura Digital’s Huge Multitouch Display

HP wowed crowds with this amazing, massive multi-touch display wall at this past week’s Wall Street Journal D5 Conference.

The 16 x 8-foot interactive display allowed multiple visitors to simultaneously control audio, video, photos and other multimedia content using their hands to navigate.
The installation was put together by Obscura…

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June 9th, 2007 by: Technabob

Hp Pavilion Hdx: the World’s Largest Laptop?

HP HDX Gaming Notebook

While most of the world is interested in making computers more and more portable, HP has taken the opposite approach with their high end gaming notebook.

The centerpiece of the new HP Pavilion HDX is its whopping 20-inch widescreen display, capable of displaying high definition content at up to 1680…

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May 11th, 2007 by: Technabob

Jvc Shows Giant 110-Inch Rptv

JVC 110 Inch Rear Projection Television

Japan’s JVC is showing off a monster of a television this week, with a whopping 110-inch diagonal screen size.

Just look at how much bigger this TV is than that “tiny” 37-incher on the left (and the life-sized woman to the right for that matter.)
Not much is known about…

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April 12th, 2007 by: Technabob

Sit on These Giant Key Caps

Command Site Stackable Stools

Designer Ross McBride has created these whimsical stools which are modeled after the keys on your computer keyboard.
Command Sit stackable plastic stools look perfect for a dorm room or other playful space. The giant key seats provide one simple and succinct command, “sit.” They’re available in both black with…

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February 23rd, 2007 by: Technabob

Dream Arcades 100-Inch Home Gaming System

Dream Arcades 100 Inch Arcade

If you love classic arcade games and you have to have a big screen, you’ll love the new Dream Arcades 100-inch Home Video Arcade Center.

The system features a 100-inch diagonal screen and a 2000 lumen DLP front projector, running at 1024×768 (XGA) resolution. An Athlon 64 CPU powers the…

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November 27th, 2006 by: Technabob

Minesweeper Made Out of Pixelblocks

Giant Minesweeper Pixelblocks

From the “someone has too much time on their hands” file…

A true geek going by the screen name Cursors managed to take enough time out from his busy office life to build a giant reproduction of the Windows game, Minesweeper, entirely out of tiny plastic pixelblocks. The finished display…

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November 2nd, 2006 by: Technabob

110 Inches of (Rear Projection) Paradise

JVC 110 Inch Rear Projection TV

Every few days, I report on a “world’s largest” or “world’s smallest” thingamabob, and today should be no different.

JVC has just shown a new D-ILA (aka LCOS or SXRD) rear projection set that measures a whopping 110 inches. The set features full 1080p (1920×1080 resolution), but I bet you’ll…

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September 29th, 2006 by: Technabob

Is That a Swiss Army Knife in Your Pocket?

Wenger 264 Swiss Army Knife

..or are you just glad to see me?
The folks at Wenger thought it would be a good idea to create the ultimate in Swiss army knives by including every tool they make (85 in all) in a single form-factor. The result…

I’m not sure whether to call it an…

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August 25th, 2006 by: Technabob

Massive Panoramic Computer Display

Zenview Powerscape Ultra HD

“Virtual” desktops are for wusses.
The new Powerscape Ultra HD from Zenview… is the ultimate in desktop monitor rigs. The system features a huge 30″ diagonal widescreen LCD at 2560×1600 resolution, flanked by four 20.1″ “surround” monitors in portrait mode at 1200×1600 resolution each, for a total screen resolution of

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August 25th, 2006 by: Technabob

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