Developed by Taiwan’s ITRI, fleXpeaker technology produces arrays of tiny speakers that can be joined together to make high-quality speakers of almost any size – meaning they could be the perfect companion for that unlimited-size OLED display you just covered your entire house with. While its frequency response doesn’t go below 500Hz, at least the fleXpeaker can reach highs up to 20 KHz.

The technology is designed to allow embedding of speaker elements into anything from everyday consumer electronics devices to massive posters and banner ads with built-in sound. fleXpeakers also consume very little power so could be perfect for other portable applications. Check out the video clip below to see (and hear) an early prototype of the fleXpeaker in action:

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Now if only they made some flat subwoofers to go with these…

Each Notepod is a pad of 100 pages of paper with a simulated iPhone screen on the front, and a handy grid of graph paper on the back. While a Notepod pad is a bit thicker than a real iPhone, it eventually gets super thin as you use up sheets.

They’re also perfect for going completely old school and cut out all technology from your life. Heck, you can even draw yourself a couple of paper fart apps if you want.

Notepods come in sets of 3 pads for $17.95 (USD) each, and are shipped from Australia – so they may take some time to get to you, depending on where you live. You can order a set here.

(P.S.: Notepods work great when combined with Design Commissions’ metal iPhone UI template).

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Thanks to the fine folks at Korea’s Neolux, we’ll soon be staring at blinking badges that use the same E-Ink technology you might find in a book reader, or a superfluous ad in Esquire.

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No word at this point when the E-Ink name badges will be available for purchase, and I suppose that’s a good thing. If anyone can think of a good use for these, let me know.

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Each one of these miniature speaker kits from Japan’s Princeton is a DIY papercraft project. You’ll need glue, scissors, and X-Acto to assemble these models for yourself (assembly manual here). There’s three different designs to choose from, including a red boom box, a bookshelf stereo and an old cabinet hi-fi system.

Each one has a compact USB-powered NXT (mono) speaker module that sits inside to give you decent quality sound out of a paper box. To give you a sense of the size of these things, the old fashioned stereo console measures about 6-inches wide, and it’s the largest kit.

For those of you in Japan, you can order from Princeton Direct for ¥1980 each. Worldwide orders are available from the Japan Trend Shop for $35 (USD) each.

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The handmade WALL-E pinata comes from Etsy seller victorof1980s, complete with predetermined weak spots to make sure that your candy comes tumbling to the ground when beaten. It’s perfect for giving your kids a momentary sugar high, then smacking them with the blues when the reality that they smashed their sweet little robo-friend into smithereens in their candy-rage-induced stupor. It’s enough to make EVE self-destruct.

Of course, since the pinata was completely handcrafted, it looks like it was way too much work to be something you’d want to smash into pieces anyway – especially when you realize that it’s selling for $200 bucks. It would probably be cheaper to go buy one of those interactive WALL-E toys, fill it up with candy, smash it with a hammer, then pay for the hospital bills from the flying shards of plastic that ensue.

Handmade by Etsy paper artist Cadiz Cards, the iCard comes in sets of three, including classic blueberry, indigo and key lime iBooks, each one with a tiny screen that comes blank for you to fill in your own greeting, and a miniature keyboard that is way too small for my fat fingers.

Custom colors are also available if you’re longing for a tangerine or graphite iBook/iCard. You can grab a set over at Cadiz Cards’ Etsy shop for $12 bucks.

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The model’s head could be a tad bigger in my opinion, but overall crzisme did a great job. Want one – or four – papercraft Castle Crashers of your own?

You’re in luck, because crzisme was generous enough to post the ready-to-print templates – along with assembly instructions – that he made on his deviantart page. Because that’s what the internet is about: sharing. And Nigerian Scams.

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Have some old concert or train tickets lying around? With a little folding, some X-Acto knife skill and a whole lot of patience, you can turn those old tix into some tiny little X-Wing Fighters. Paper-master Hubert de Lartigue shows you how-to do it with a Paris METRO ticket here.

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These teeny-weeny computers, consoles and consumer electronics are actually made out of paper. Created by papercraft artist Sonicscape Jun (the same guy who gave us the microscopic Nintendo DS Lite), these iconic paper models are amazingly detailed.

The tiny PlayStation 3 is stunningly precise, but I just love how the Xbox 360 model comes complete with an obsolete HD-DVD drive. Perfect for playing those miniature King Kong discs you’ve got lying around.

While I love the current-gen console models, it’s nice to see a shout-out to classic gaming too, with what could well be the smallest Atari 2600 ever.

I’m pretty sure I’d lose that mini Ms. Pac-Man cartridge in about 10 seconds.

You can check out more photos of Sonicscape’s mini gadget models over on Flickr. But why look at pictures, when you can make these for yourself. You can grab PDF copies of the models for you to cut out over at Fx Console.

You can grab these DIY paper cut-out Mario, Piranha Plants, question mark blocks and a variety of tasty mushrooms over at CubeeCraft – where everyone has a square head.

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Make your own Happy Meal with this origami fast food lunch imported from Japan. I’m not sure about the nutritional value of ink-covered paper and Scotch tape, but it’s got to be better than a Quarter Pounder with Cheese and a Large Fry. Available from The Curiosity Shoppe for $6 bucks.

This awesome papercraft Mushroom Kingdom board game was created by designer Ashley Buerkett. I’m not sure this was what Nintendo was thinking when they released Paper Mario.

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The Recompute computer has a case made from corrugated cardboard, glued together with non-toxic adhesive. Amazingly, it’s more heat resistant than plastic. Can I get an Xbox 360 made from cardboard?

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As always, Joe is giving away the template to the Bumblebee toy as a pdf file. You can download it here.

if you want, you can also download Optimus Prime’s template here. I want a Unicron and Cybertron toy; they should be as big as a house. I know you can do it Joe. Don’t let us down.

Don’t be intimidated; Jedi Papercraft Master Shunichi Makino has already done half of the work for you: he has the smuggler’s starship’s patterns and step-by-step instructions up on his website. And yes, the Force. It’s with you.

Unlike the Millennium Falcon sled, you can’t ride this one, but you can still have fun with it. After finishing your very own papercraft Millennium Falcon, why don’t you welcome the New Year with it: tie it to a couple of firecracker rockets and watch it fly. It’s going to be wrecked, sure, but you can always make another one. Theoretically anyway. Me? I don’t even have the patience (or the printer) to print the patterns.

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Graphic designer Marshall Alexander’s cutout characters includes a veritable menagerie fantastical creatures and critters all made from boxy paper cutouts, but his latest series, Foldskool Heroes 3, has got to be my favorite. These fun papercraft creations are anthropomorphic renditions of classic systems of our childhood. Heroes 3 includes the C64, an Atari 2600 and a loving tribute to Nolan Bushnell, Pong.

The best part is that Marshall offers up precise PDF templates for each of his paper toy designs, letting you make your own with those office supplies you stole from work. Head on over to Marshall’s site and print some out now!

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According the the Japanese maker of this plush R2-D2, it’s designed to dispense “roll tissue”, which is a nice way of saying “toilet paper”. Measuring in at (8.66″ H x 7.87″ W x 4.92″ D) it’s a little big for conventional American T.P. rolls, there’s really no reason why you can’t use it with just about any paper product that comes on a roll.

So if your Star Wars themed bathroom is just dying for the perfect new accessory, you can pre-order an R2-D2 paper caddy over at NCSX for ¥2800 (appx. $33.90 USD).

I actually tried to justify to myself this gadget’s dimension-shattering existence, thinking that it might be useful for very young kids or people with special needs, such as amputees. But look at what’s inside the box: battery box, plastic rings, nuts, wire, plastic suction cups, sticky pads, screws, plastic discs with pulley, connecting sleeves, terminal block, screw driver, base plate with guide, motors and detailed instructions. Batteries not included. Tell me, Middlesex University, which would be easier: to ask someone to assemble the motherflipping contraption, or to ask someone to launch a paper plane? Using their built-in hands?

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I don’t care if the paper planes it launches move at the speed of light. This is like someone eating your food for you. Someone that you have to purchase for $16 and build. Notice also that the box says “kits created by specialists who teach teachers”, and not “kits created by specialists who create kits”. The second one would have been so much more reassuring.

Kids: remember what happened in WALL*E? Use your limbs. For the sake of humanity.

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Photographer Dan Winters (from WIRED) saw all those cups, stirrers and other paper miscellany and was inspired to turn them into an awesome TIE Fighter model. Darth Vader would be proud. All in all, Dan used 1 tall lid, 12 small sample cups, 37 grande cups, 63 drink sleeves, 10 of those large 96oz. coffee boxes, and 216 stirrers to put his creation together.

…I’ve been looking for an excuse to dust off my Star Wars Coffee logo again, and now I finally have one.

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Now you can bring back those fond floppy memories with these clever floppy disk gift tags. Edinburgh, Scotland crafter feelfuzzy makes these gift tags from leftover retro 3.5-inch floppy disk labels, adhered to heavy card stock, and hung from a string.

They’re available over on Etsy for $5.50 a pack of 5. Of course, if you happen to have box of floppies lying around, just grab a drill, punch a hole through the corner of the disk itself, and you’ll be just that much cooler when you hand out the presents.