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These gorgeous computer mice are made from exotic woods, and are truly stunning. Created by Russia’s AlestRukov, each one is handcrafted using cultivated sustainable woods and carved, sanded and polished to a shiny finish using linseed oil and carnuba wax.
Each one is built from the finest electronic components, with an optical resolution of 1600…
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November 19th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: computing design geek art + craft technology
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In Soviet Russia, you don’t wait for ASUS to release – no. In Soviet Russia, you make do with an old – no. In Soviet Russia, my jokes work. Anyway… A Russian geek stuffed the innards of an Eee PC 900 into a Sven Multimedia EL 4002 (pdf) keyboard.
If you’ve seen the real ASUS…
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August 4th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: computing gadgets hacks + mods mobile tech strange + wonderful technology
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Ever wonder what classic arcade games might have looked like in an alternate dimension? From the looks of it, the arcades of the Cold War era Soviet Union were definitely not what you’d find anywhere else on the planet. Isolated from western gaming, the nation developed their own unique games to keep minds occupied back…
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June 21st, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: design retro strange + wonderful video games

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If you’re looking to make a real statement at your next dinner party, you might want to set the centerpiece of your table with these candles instead of the boring old beeswax jobs you picked up at Pier One.
The guys at Russian design shop Mystake have created these candles that look just like bombs…
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June 17th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: design just plain fun quickpix
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Here’s a great way to dress up your office or apartment with some 80s retro-geek style.
Designed by Daniil Dadiomov for Russia’s Art Lebedev Studio, these Digitus address numbers get their chunky, funky shapes from the classic bitmap computer fonts of days gone bye.
I’m pretty sure this was the same font that my old…
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May 18th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: design retro
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Russian graphic designer iunewind cooked up this cool concept for a robot. Modeled after a mosquito, iunewind calls it Night Watch. His work is so detailed, I can almost believe that it’s a shot of an actual invention. There is one problem though: iunewind’s English isn’t that good, so I’m not sure as to what…
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May 6th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: design just plain fun robots strange + wonderful
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Can a city full of people be wrong? The residents of Chita in Siberia (population 300,000) claim that at around 6pm last February 15 they saw a giant UFO cross their city at a speed of about 25.2 kph (15.66 mph) and then “disappear over the horizon.” Michael Cohen of all news web says that…
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February 25th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: future tech strange + wonderful
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The word Matryoshka isn’t exactly a part of the English vernacular, but once you realize that it’s really just the Russian name for those little nesting dolls your grandmother has sitting on her mantle, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about.
This concept for a set of speakers the designer calls “Audiomatryoshka” is definitely bold,…
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February 3rd, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: audio design technology
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Tens of thousands of years from now when robots and ninjas rule the earth, they will find all sorts of man-made stuff which will surely baffle them, such as toilets. And poo. Maybe archeologist ninjas and robo-historians will be scratching their heads when they find this strange collection of shaped stones in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
Upon…
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February 2nd, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: geek art + craft just plain fun strange + wonderful
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When I first spotted this dot-matrix numbers on this clock I thought it was a modern-day blue LED display. But lurking beneath the surface of this timepiece is something far more interesting.
What we actually have here is a very rare Russian relic from the early 1980s. The Elektronika-7 (Электроника-7) clock was built using vacuum…
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November 5th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: retro timepieces
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These candy apple red cylinders started out life innocently enough as a couple of fire extinguishers. But after they ran out of foam, they got a second life as a pair of speakers.
While it may seem like a simple idea, Russian modder Strannik put a tremendous amount of effort into the construction of these…
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October 30th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: audio hacks + mods
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How’d you like a mouse like this connected to your PC? Looking like a mix between an electric shaver and some sort of mini tank, this Steampunk pointer definitely stands out from the pack (or more accurately in the case of mice, it’s actually known as a “mischief” – go figure).
The Russian-built contraption got…
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July 16th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: computing hacks + mods strange + wonderful
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