So he’s rid himself of remorse. What about disgust? Damn that Jar Jar is UGLY. Ugly ugly ugly. Anyway. Are you ready to make an ugly alien out of a root crop? The Jar Jar bust was carved out of jicama (quite a popular root crop here in the Philippines) and then painted with Chefmaster food color. You also need Chefmaster Carving & Coloring Skills. Not sold anywhere.

The original tuber was way more handsome. Poor tuber. After doing that, you can prepare the other salad stuff, and then drop the monster into the midst of all those other salad stuff. Then try to eat it. Force yourself to eat it. Force Eat it.

For more detailed instructions, head on to Cooksden. Their Jar Jar pics are bigger though, so watch out.

[via Geek Crafts]

UK modder HoopsOnToast was shopping at his local IKEA store when he realized the potential to make some nifty orb-shaped speakers by gluing together pairs of 8″ Blanda Matt solid birch hardwood bowls.

The speakers get their sweet sound from a pair of full range (100Hz – 20kHz) Bandor 50mm drivers, mounted into the sliced-off face of one of the bowls.

Word is that the cabinets sound simply brilliant, and they only took about 3 hours to put together. And since IKEA offers the bowls in multiple sizes, you could build a full surround sound system using these (front speakers in the 8″ bowls, surrounds in the 5″ bowls, and subwoofer in the 11″ bowls).

…croutons not included.

[HiFi WigWam via IKEA Hacker]