Each notebook comes in ruled or plain notebook models and includes a LEGO bookmark and stickers. Best of all, they also include an actual LEGO piece built into the cover. So you will be able to use the special space in the notebook as the foundation for building a little creation should inspiration strike.

This is a very clever idea and they executed the design perfectly with the accompanying graphics. I can’t imagine any other paper notebook being more fun than these. No word on price yet, but I’m sure they will be reasonable.

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These papercraft toys are just like the real things, only if you aren’t careful, you will get tons of paper cuts. Also, they don’t actually work. Both of these little toys are anthropomorphic of course, making them extra cute.

They were created by Marshall Alexander, a “paper engineer” in the Netherlands, in tribute to his favorite childhood toys. I would say that he did an excellent job.

If you want to download these and make them yourself, just go here. Then once they are assembled, display them proudly.

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The piece was created by Spanish designer Lobulo, who has a reputation for his intricate papercraft creations. He works for a few different agencies in Barcelona, and he recently created this awesome papercraft Darth Vader for Argentina’s Göoo Magazine. This astounding piece of Star Wars fan art uses lots of cut bits and strips of paper, carefully layered together, as you can see in the video below:

This video was filmed by Sebastian Baptista and the music is by Hola a Todo el Mundo.

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This project cost Mike $1.00 in cardboard, $54.60 in servos, and $29.95 in servo controllers. In the video he does a simple motion test and it would appear that it is looking pretty good, judging by how the bot is shaking it’s thang.

He already has his eye on some improvements that he can make now that this one is underway. You can find instructions and materials over at Mike’s website. Who doesn’t want to make a cheap robot?

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They were designed by Randy Padama (aka randyfivesix) and are ready for you to download and assemble. Display them on your desk, or play with them like action figures and make them fight. This gives you the opportunity to act out the crossover event that never was, but should have been. The Voltron and Fallout crossover that would have either been amazing or totally sucked.

The Fallout guy is especially neat since he has a removable paper helmet. If you have the spare time and want to make something cool, you can download them here. There’s also a TRON guy, but he’s actually the least interesting of the bunch, but maybe that’s just my taste.

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This particular piñata was made by Etsy seller Fuzzy Lollipop, and looks just like a retro ghetto blaster – minus the actual speakers, cassette player and zillion D-cell batteries to weigh it down. Instead, you fill this one with delicious candies, then proceed to beat on it with a large stick.

I suppose you could just go buy an old thrift shop boombox, rip its innards out, fill it with candy and take a crack, but the flying plastic shards might cause additional injuries beyond just the blunt-force trauma risks of the baseball bat. So if you’d like to go the safer route with this cardboard and crepe paper boombox piñata, you can grab it over on Etsy for $65(USD) now.

When you push the button on top of the Little Printer, the printer gathers up all the information that it has received and prints it out into a kind of tiny personal newspaper.

You’ll set up your personal preferences and subscriptions on a companion app for your smartphone.

I thought we were shunning paper in favor of Kindles and the like, I guess now we like it again.

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This is the first in a planned family of products that will be called Berg Cloud. Each will wirelessly connect to a box that plugs into your router, and they can communicate with other web-enabled services. Just configure them all with your phone.

The Tiny Printer will be available sometime in 2012, for an unknown price. If you’re interested in one, you can sign up for their e-mail list now.

[via Wired]

Actually, the original Apple I didn’t even come with a case, but the papercraft design is based roughly on some of the handmade wooden cases which resellers made for the granddaddy of personal computers. I like how the Apple II includes the old 5-1/4″ floppy drive and one of those crappy old 9-inch black and white CRT monitors that I had almost entirely blocked out of my memory.

Sure, the details aren’t precise on these models, but they’re good enough to embody the spirit of these classic computing dinosaurs. If you’d like to make these for yourself, you can grab the hi-res PDF templates over at Paper Replika.

Papercraft master Daumier Smith of Longtail’s Cafe previously built some awesome paper models of the V8 Interceptor from Mad Max, so it was only natural that he’d do another movie car as his next model.

The police spinner model is incredibly detailed, and even has a full cockpit and seating, as well as clear windows and roof, which are cut out of sheets of acetate.

The best thing about this thing is that you can make one for yourself. Sure, it’ll take some precision work with an X-Acto knife to cut out all the tiny components and then carefully glue them together, but when it’s done, it’ll look great.

You can grab a full set of PDFs of the spinner car paper model, along with construction diagrams, over at Longtail’s Cafe.

The Max Force Maximizer 60 can fire up to 8 bits of harmless paper ammo between reloads, and can shoot them up to 60 feet away. The moistened paper pellet ammo is designed to break up on impact, so you can see where you hit, but they don’t cause any real damage. Stepping up the rung is the Shadowhawk 100, which looks like a sniper rifle. It’s even got a folding stand and a scope for getting the most accurate shot off. Plus, the Shadowhawk can fire its paper payload at your victims up to 100 feet away.

And if you’d rather go with something a little less intense, you could always go for the Max Force Blow Gun 35, which uses your breath to fire, instead of a spring-loaded firing mechanism. The Blow Gun can only fire 35 feet, but you can probably use it much more stealthily than the Maximizer. I like to think of it like the world’s fanciest spitball cannon. Just don’t suck instead of blow, or else you might end up with a stomach full of paper.

The Maximizer 60 gun will set you back £19.99 (~$32 USD), the Shadowhawk 100 sells for £39.99 (~$64 USD), and the Blow Gun 35 goes for £12.99 (~$21 USD) over at Firebox. Additional ammo pellets sell in packs of 500 for £4.99 (~$8 USD).

Paper artist Bryan Peele (a.k.a. Crackpot Papercraft) managed to build a recreation of Escher’s classic Relativity illustration. You know, the one with a series of impossible staircases? I’ve been staring at this thing for a while now, and Crackpot definitely did a great job recreating Escher’s twisted space. All that’s missing are a few paper people walking upstairs, downstairs and sidestairs(?) to complete the effect.

Even more amazing is the fact that this befuddling scene was cut entirely out of a single sheet of 8-1/2″ x 11″ cardstock, without any glue or other adhesives.

If you’re feeling so inspired, Crackpot has even provided a template for you to print out and make your own. I’m going out on a limb here, but I’m going to say you need some pretty mad X-Acto knife and paper-folding skills if you plan on trying this yourself.

Be sure to check out Crackpot Papercraft’s flickr photostream for a bunch of his other cool geometric papercraft creations.

It was made by graphic designer/creative director/visual spice master Taras Lesko, and it is truly an epic feast for the eyes.

Taras put together this time-lapse video of the build showing how it was assembled from 750 sheets of paper, and weighs in at about 10 pounds total. Not bad for a 7 foot-tall robot with a jet pack, eh?

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You can find many more pics and behind-the-scenes footage of the 7 foot papercraft Gundam over at VisualSpicer. Incredible work there, Taras.

I’m doing my best to not call them Post-Its, as I know 3M’s itchy-trigger lawyers will send me a nasty note if I dare refer to them as Post-Its. So I’ll just call them Whats-Its. Or sticky notes. Let’s go with sticky notes. Now why would you want eyeglasses with sticky notes on them, you might ask? Well, here’s why…

See, you can make funny faces with them – turning your face into sort of a real-life Nintendo Mii. The possibilities are endless. Well actually, they’re pretty limited, but they’re still pretty awesome.

I spotted these Memo Eyes eyeglass note pads over at Funshop, so good luck finding them outside of Korea. But even if you could, it’s not like you could see out of them anyhow, and I’m certain they’re not covered by your company’s optical insurance.

Parrster downloaded detailed images of the Clone Trooper outfit from the web, and then started working on the costume. He started with the breastplate, and moved on to the helmet. The helmet took the longest and it really does look pretty accurate. In case you plan on trying to do this yourself, the cardboard he used is called “pasted boxboard.”

Of course, it’s not 100% cardboard. There’s some clear plastic, foam, fabric, glue and Velcro in order to hold it all together, and a blue LED in the back of the helmet’s “mohawk.” With a little patience and some TLC, you can also make your own costume for next Halloween. While Clone Troopers are cool, I’d make a cardboard Jango Fett or a retro Boba Fett.

[Instructables via Make:]

I guess these notes are also for the people who usually write stuff on their hands in order to help them remember. Designed by by Dorian Favre, Post-It Note Watches work like a temporary bracelet, which will keep your hands clean of ink, no matter how many notes you write.

A pad of 100 Post-It Note Watches sells for €9,80 (~$13.60 USD) over at PA Design.

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The cases come with a lining made out of sheep’s wool and a magnetic hemp closure. Since the covers are made from paper, you can sketch or paint directly on them to give them added character.

They’ll also capture coffee stains, fingerprints, etc. while you lug them around.

The MacBook Air sleeve sells for $58 (USD) and the iPad 2 sleeve sells for $47 over at Roots. There’s also an iPod Touch sleeve for $32, which might also fit iPhones, but it might be a tight squeeze.

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These awesome invitations were created by Larry T Quach for his friends Esther and Ryan’s wedding. The invitation itself looks just like an old NES cartridge, and even has an actual circuit board incorporated along the bottom edge. I wonder if you plugged that into an NES if it actually would play. You need to blow on it first, though.

In addition to the Super Mario invitations, Larry created some fun Question Mark Block favors for guests to take home after the reception. Inside was a little keepsake of the day, as well as three gold (chocolate) coins in each box (nice touch). I wonder if anyone got lucky and had some 1-up mushrooms or Fire Flowers inside of theirs.

These blocks also contained small cards which guests had to use to ensure they got the right meal from the server, but they seem a little out of place to me, with their 16-bit veggie and cow sprites. Plus, I really wanted the one with the cow to say something about how you had died of dysentery.

[Reddit via Nerd Approved via Bit Rebels]

Artist Anja Markiewicz has taken the art of origami to new highs by making the art very small. I have no idea how the artist is able to fold things so tiny and still with such precision. I will assume it involves magnifying glasses and tweezers.

My favorites are the tiny snowflake and the purple dragon. I’d like to see instructions for origami this small to try my hand at it.

More examples can be found over on Anja’s Flickr page.

[via Colossal Art + Design]

It used to be a lot of work, trying to think of the place that she would most likely spot my note. But something that helps take the guesswork out of the entire process? Light switch sticky notes!

Light switches might not be the first thing a person notices when he or she steps into a room, but it’s definitely something that a person is bound to see sooner or later.

I mean, take me for example. I don’t really look at the light switch, but when I go to the bathroom to wash my face and brush my teeth, it’s the first thing my hand gravitates to. When I enter the kitchen to fix some breakfast, out goes my hand to flick the light switch on.

And when it grazes that small sheet of paper by the switch, then bingo! Message transmission successful!

The brainchild of the Light Switch Sticky Notes is Jihyang Lee and they’re currently available for £7.50 (~$12) from Suck UK. (I know, weird name to call a store.)

[via Craziest Gadgets]

The note pads are officially being sold as “Block Notes,” presumably so as not to offend the makers of Tetris or Post-It® notes – or at least to avoid the ire of their lawyers. Either way, I’m still gonna call them Tetris Post-Its®, because that’s what they are to me.

They come in sets of 8 pads for £7.50 (~$12 USD) , including a variety of block shapes and colors, courtesy of our friends over at SUCK UK.

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