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animals with lightsabers: rawesome

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What happens when animals get their hands on deadly energy swords? This.

Over at AnimalsWithLightsabers they do one thing, and one thing only. They put dangerous lightsabers in the hands of woodland creatures, pets and other animals. Actually, they don’t. You do. All of the wacky photos and videos are contributed by people just like…

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September 19th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: geek art + craft just plain fun

robots do the limbo and dance the hula

Robot Dance Hawaii Hula Limbo

What happens when a couple of robots have one to many Mai Tais? They do the Limbo and Hula, of course.

Designed and choreographed by custom robot builder Sumy Family, the bots were clad in grass skirts and native garb, and programmed to do some traditional Hawaiian dance as part of the final round of…

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January 11th, 2008 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: just plain fun robots

ipod catches fire

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For those of us in Northern climates, there’s not much worse than standing outside waiting for the bus in the freezing cold. Sometimes your coat, scarf and gloves just aren’t enough to keep you warm. So I’m pleased to tell you about the latest in portable fireplace technology, the iYule.

While it actually won’t keep…

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November 27th, 2007 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: just plain fun media players

creative zen stone, made out of wood

Captain Odegard’s Giant Wooden Zen Stone

Somebody sure likes their Creative Zen Stone media player. In fact, this guy loves his enough that he created a mammoth wooden version of his portable media player.

Captain Ødegård’s giant-sized wood media player measures in at 8.25″ x 5.5″ x 2″, giving it about 90-times the volume of a regular Zen Stone player. He…

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August 23rd, 2007 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: hacks + mods just plain fun media players

useless wii hack of the day: ds wii

Why anyone would want to do this, I don’t know… Some guy with a lot of time on his hands decided to set up their Nintendo DS Lite so it could run Wii games on its tiny little screen.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8428393713999279735
I suppose they just wanted to be able to say it could be done. Go…

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January 12th, 2007 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: strange + wonderful video games

usb bowling ball?

USB Bowing Ball

A day doesn’t seem to go by without another silly USB device. Today’s useless invention: The USB Bowling Ball.

Just try and lug one of these around the next time you need to store something on a flash drive. As a matter of fact, I’d think it would be impossible to use this without a…

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November 26th, 2006 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: gadgets strange + wonderful