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Archive for March 2009

Dell Deal: Buy an Xps Desktop, Get the Mini 9 for $99

Dell Deal: Buy an Xps Desktop, Get the Mini 9 for $99

If you’ve been planning on buying both a desktop PC and a netbook, you might want to check out Dell’s Studio XPS deal: if you purchase the $1, 380 USD Studio XPS desktop, Dell will give you the option to get their Mini 9 netbook for only $99 USD. I’m…

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Sony Releases Three DVD Home Theater Systems: Can You Spot the Differences?

Sony Releases Three DVD Home Theater Systems: Can You Spot the Differences?

Sony unveiled three new “DVD-integrated home theater solutions” this week, the DAV-HDX587WC, the DAV-HDX589W and the DAV-HDX285. No, I did not make those names up. Now I’m sitting here, going back and forth between the 587WC’s and the 589W’s product spec sheets, truly, deeply, sincerely wishing that I made this…

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Electro Art Works Makes Ray Guns a Reality

Electro Art Works Makes Ray Guns a Reality

When I was a kid, I really wanted to be Marvin the Martin. No, not because of his stylish scrub-brush headgear or his oversize clown shoes. Nope, it was the awesome destructive power of his ACME Ray Gun that I envied. Now, thanks to sculptor Andy Hill of Electro Art…

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Octopus Trap Speakers May Only Look Versatile

Octopus Trap Speakers May Only Look Versatile

In what has to be one of the oddest trends I’ve seen, Japanese company Bird Electron has produced a set of speakers built to resemble octopus traps. As you might have guessed, octopus traps are used to catch octopi. These speakers, apparently, are designed to catch attention instead of 8-legged…

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Twisted Crafter Creates Horrible Gingerbread Creatures

Twisted Crafter Creates Horrible Gingerbread Creatures

Crafter/felt baker/goth pastry master ckrolczyk probably got tired of seeing lookalike gingerbread men and set out to redeem the great Gingerbread name with these wacky, felt gingerbread…beings. I would expect no less from someone with a username like ckrolczyk. First up, Gingerbread Cthulhu: And then we have Gingerbread Zombie: Gingerbread…

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I Love Those Toyota Priora: Origins of Popular Hi-Tech Names

I Love Those Toyota Priora: Origins of Popular Hi-Tech Names

If you happen to meet an Indonesian man and you tell him that you like watching TV programs at Hulu, he may tell you that he just likes staring at Hulus. That’s because “Hulu” means “butt” in Indonesian. So…we’ve been watching videos from a butt. I knew it. Mentalfloss has…

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Batman Full Image Hoodie Scares Criminals (and Me Too)

Batman Full Image Hoodie Scares Criminals (and Me Too)

Lot 29 Urban Wear’s Batman hooded sweatshirt is covered with the likeness of not just every ripple of muscle on the BatSuit, but even has a masked face when you zip up the hood all the way. It’s just a little freaky looking, but isn’t Batman kind of a freak…

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Breath-Controlled Kick Pedal for Guitar Heroes

Breath-Controlled Kick Pedal for Guitar Heroes

Mods and hacks aren’t always about looking good; often the more clever and crafty individuals among us will bend their minds to making something more versatile in order to fill a need. In this case, a wheelchair-bound Guitar Hero enthusiast needed to find a way to circumvent the kick pedal…

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Band Uses Iphones, Vocal Cords to Cover Mgmt Song

Band Uses Iphones, Vocal Cords to Cover Mgmt Song

Sure, the iPhone looks good, but can it make a sandwich? Wash the car? Serve as instruments for an entire band? Mark that last item off the list of outrageous demands, because British band The Mentalists have managed to perform an entire song using only the power of several iPhones…

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Alien PS3 Casemod: Ripley, Believe It or Not.

Alien PS3 Casemod: Ripley, Believe It or Not.

In this case, no one can hear you scream. The Alien Assimilation Playstation 3 casemod is definitely going to give me nightmares tonight. I’m not really sure what’s going on in there, but it couldn’t possibly be good. Tattoo artist / casemodder GivinTats, created this creepy looking case by hand-sculpting…

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Giant Plush Microbes: Cute, Huggable and Possibly Lethal

Giant Plush Microbes: Cute, Huggable and Possibly Lethal

Ever wanted to hug an accurate representation of the Black Death bacterium? Or punt an Athlete’s Foot fungus for all those embarrassing years in high school? Or play house with a sperm cell and an egg cell? Or stage a play featuring a cast of microbes? Rejoice, you nerd: the…

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R2-D2’S Bleeps and Beeps Decoded. It’S Not for Kids. It’S Funny as Hell.

R2-D2’S Bleeps and Beeps Decoded. It’S Not for Kids. It’S Funny as Hell.

Star Wars geeks claim that R2-D2 was inspired by a character in a Kurosawa film plus the robots in Silent Running plus an overheard request from a sound editor. Riiiight. Here’s the real score: In 1975 George Lucas invented a Time Machine and fast forwarded himself to 1999. Then he…

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Revolver Tv Remote Changes Channels With a Bang

Revolver Tv Remote Changes Channels With a Bang

The concept behind the TV remote control gun is simple: Boring task + gun = fun! Pull the trigger and it’ll change the channel on your TV with a satisfying gunshot sound. Okay, so it’s fun for like 5 minutes. Unless you have a kid, in which case the little…

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Amphibious Lamborghini Takes to the High Seas

Amphibious Lamborghini Takes to the High Seas

At first glance, I thought this seafaring sports car was the underwater Lotus Esprit from The Spy Who Loved Me. Much to my amazement, it’s a real amphibious Lamborghini Countach built by Mike Ryan of SeaRoader. Price: unknown, but if you have to ask, you probably can’t afford one.…

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World of Warcraft Beer Steins for When the Raid Goes Badly

World of Warcraft Beer Steins for When the Raid Goes Badly

This is it, folks. The final piece. Now you can cosplay as a World of Warcraft character while eating WoW-themed snacks at a WoW-themed computer in a room painted to resemble something from WoW, and you can do it all while drinking from one of these (very expensive) steins. It’s…

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A Casemod Straight From Steeler Nation

A Casemod Straight From Steeler Nation

It’s been a good few years for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Not many teams have racked up two Super Bowl victories in such a short time. So what can we do to celebrate the team? Ogle a Steelers casemod, of course. Someone really likes shiny things. The casemod was designed with…

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