The latest in a series of gaming inspired works by Lange, he’s perfectly captured such classic characters as Glass Joe, Don Flamenco, Bald Bull, Piston Honda, Great Tiger, Macho Man, King Hippo, Soda Popinski, Mac and Trainer with these collages.

Each one is made entirely from old issues of Nintendo Power magazine, so you’re assured each one is 100% recycled Nintendo.

While the originals aren’t for sale, you can get your hands on a set of nine (5″x5″) prints over on Etsy for $49 (USD). If you’re a Nintendo fan, you’ll want to order up a set for your gameroom for sure.

The duo came up with the Berlin Boombox, which is a do-it-yourself boombox that is assembled entirely from cardboard without requiring the use of any tools.

It’s not strictly a boombox in the sense that it makes use of today’s technology and is compatible with most portable music players that have a 3.5mm jack. Never mind the fact that it has just a couple of small full-range speakers and just 1 watt per channel, so it’s not exactly going to be “booming.”

The project is currently up on Kickstarter. A minimum pledge of $50(USD) will get you one Berlin Boombox that is estimated to ship by June 2012. A two-color limited-edition is available for $100, and you can get one with a custom printed design just for you for $250.

[via Oh Gizmo!]

Paper is a free app for iPads that allows you to write, sketch, and color beautiful images, preferably using a stylus. It also offers full support for the Retina display on the 3rd Gen iPad. I’ve seen quite a few different drawing and painting apps, but none of them seem as clean and fluid as Paper. The UI efficiency sort of reminds me of the Clear app. The best part of the app is the rewind feature, which lets you playback what you just created. The watercolors are also pretty nicely rendered.

The app is free and you can easily share your creations through Tumblr, Facebook and Twitter. However, in order to use all features, you’ll need to make some in-app purchases – since some of the brushes are sold as add-ons. And at $2 a piece, it can add up quickly. Still, Paper is a cool app with a beautiful UI, and you can check it out for free now over on the iTunes App Store.

[via Justin Ouellette]

reaDIYmates are described as “fun Wi-fi paper companions that move and play digital sounds depending on what’s happening in your digital life.” Basically you select the behavior of the reaDIYmate. You could animate them or have them play a special sound whenever you receive an email, get a Facebook message, a tweet, or other stuff like that. Inside the body of each toy or sculpture is a small box with a mini servo motor and a speaker. This is connected to a “brain” which has an MP3 decoder, 2GB of memory, Wi-fi connectivity, and a push-button on top.

These cute companions come in a bunch of cool designs and colors, or if you are more creative, they come in plain white so that you can customize them yourself.  They are also Arduino compatible, so that you can implement your own ideas. They can even interact with one another as shown in the demo video below:

Check out the reaDIYmate’s Kickstarter page for more details. A pledge of $130(USD) or more will get you a complete reaDIYmate brain, along with a paper toy or kinetic sculpture of your choice. $100 will get you the Barebones edition which includes the hardware, but you’ll have to make your own paper sculpture.

[via Ubergizmo]

Hitler robbed so many people of their grandparents, parents, siblings, and children. I don’t believe in that saying that went something like getting a tooth for a tooth (and like I said, he’s dead already), but I do believe that it’s okay to do whatever it takes to move on and get through a situation by coping.

And if coping means wiping your butt on Hitler’s face every day, then why not? His crimes might have been committed decades ago, but some people are still experiencing the effects of his atrocities, even until today. The Hitler Toilet Paper provides some comic relief, at least, especially during moments of despair and sadness (in the bathroom, at least.)

As you can see, the sweet spot to wipe your behind on is on his trademark mustache, just right above his lip. These rolls are available from DrawTheShitler for €4 (~$5 USD) a roll.

[via Boing Boing via Obvious Winner]

Three lucky Technabob readers will win a set of 100 custom printed MOO business cards, along with a ShowCase business card holder to carry them in. The  MOO cards themselves can be printed from either your own full color images, or from hundreds of artist-made design templates.

Cards can feature full color on both sides, and you can even have different images on each of your cards if you’d like. The process is fast and easy, and we here at Technabob can speak from experience as we’ve printed our own business cards using MOO’s service.

So on to the good part. If you’d like a chance to win these cards for yourself, simply follow the directions in the form below. You can win up to 10 entries by performing more tasks.

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In addition to business cards, MOO offers custom printed postcards, greeting cards, stickers and labels, as well as awesome mini cards.

They’re produced using a craft technique called decoupage using simple napkin paper, which gives them a colorful and durable finish. It’s hard to tell, but I’m guessing there’s a plastic base underneath the napkin layer, but I could be wrong. Either way, they look pretty nice.

The cases were created by NapPage and you can get them through their Etsy shop. They’ve got quite a few different designs that will please a lot of different styles. I have to say that the blue cloud cases are pretty cool.

Prices start at $19.90(USD). NapPage says that they’ll also make custom orders for any type of phone, so you can contact them over on Etsy for further details.

[via Swissmiss]

The material is a mix of paper – hopefully recycled – and polypropylene or PP, hence the name Paper PP Alloy. It’s main benefit is that it’s recyclable and reusable.

PEGA D&E also claims that the material is strong, sturdy and flexible and can be used in injection molding, which should make it easy for companies to switch to Paper PP Alloy without overhauling their manufacturing processes. I guess it’s safe to assume it’s water-resistant as well. I wonder if you can still write on it.

[via The Gadgeteer]

If you leave too my fingerprints behind, the keyboard eventually ends up smelling like pepperoni pizza, too. As cool as that sounds, any ladies you may lure into your lair probably won’t care for the smell. Therefore, it’s probably best to try to keep as much pizza grease off your computer that you can. This is where the awesome Paper Dish concept comes in.

Designed by Yu Kyung Ha, Won Min Jung & Kwon Young Hee, (yes it took four people to come up with this) the Paper Dish is an under-layer that you place a pizza on top of inside the box. Each slice has a little flap on top. The idea is when you reach in to grab the pizza on the top using your thumb and the bottom with your other fingers, the top flap and paper underneath keep your hands nice and grease free. The only trick is how they could get the pizza sliced and lined up onto the sections, but I’m sure they could sort that part out. They also should think about making the dish part even smaller, only surrounding the crust of the pizza, so you don’t end up chewing on paper.

I think this could be the best thing to happen to pizza since someone came up with the idea of bringing the pizza to me rather than me going to the pizza. One of the major pizza restaurants needs to buy this concept and refine it ASAP.

[via YankoDesign]

For now, they offer stands for iPad 2s, iPhones 3GS, 4 and 4S. The thinking behind these semi-durable stands is that you’ll eventually end up upgrading your smartphone, so why should your stand outlast your gadget? Often, stands aren’t compatible with the new versions of your favorite tech, so it makes sense to recycle them when necessary instead of adding more junk to our landfills.

The cardboard stands are available from Weltunit, but you’ll have to sign up for their newsletter in order to find out how to get one.

[via Bookofjoe via Likecool]

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.

[via Freshnessmag]

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.

[via Superpunch]

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.

[via Hawaiihemden Rocken via DesignYouTrust]

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?

[via Make:]

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.

[via Superpunch]

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).