Archive for July 2010

I just love the simplicity of these bare-bones Star Wars character posters by Sam Serling-Sutton. Each set of 6 posters boils down Luke, Vader, Han, Chewie, C-3PO and R2-D2 to their barest of essences. Best of all, the set of 11×17 posters will run you just $12 bucks, so with a few cheap frames, you can decorate an entire room for next to nothing.

These wacky iPhone cases from Japan’s iMeshi are completely impractical. Not only do they not really do much to protect your precious glass iPhone, they make them look like something you could eat, but you can’t. According to the product description, these phone cases are based on “some of the most popular Japanese food.”

While Cray Research may have only sold about eighty of it’s monstrous Cray-1 supercomputers back in the 1970s, its unusual hexadecagon design made it one of the most iconic computer systems of all time. So it was only a matter of time before somebody would do a Cray-1 inspired casemod. Lovingly crafted by modder Daryl Brach, this Cray-1 mod is built primarily out of plywood.

Lockwasher creates these amazing robotic sculptures using objects that he found. I like the BR2D2, which is also called the BeertooD2, made from an old can of Heineken back in 2008. A second model, the BeertooD3 was created last year.

Did you just break the screen of you beloved iPhone? Annoyed at paying $200 to have Apple replace the screen? Well, Morten Skogly will give you the means to repair your screen yourself, DIY style. One of the most common mishaps of having an iPhone is that sometimes they fall (klutz!)

I always wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid and go into space. Aliens were typically really hot chicks on Star Trek and you got to wear an awesome helmet so I was sold.

Spotted at SIGGRAPH 2010, this interactive art display might just look like a pile of sand, but stick your hands in it, and a variety of creepy crawly insects come to life. Thankfully, these nasty many-legged creatures aren’t real.

Everyone’s psychopathic robot in huggable, squeezable form: From left to right, that’s GlaDOS’s morality core, curiosity core, intelligence core and anger core. The plushies are made of fleece with felt and ribbon accents. They can also talk!

The largest, most unwieldy but also most awesome wedding invite I’ve ever seen: The children of the 80s, all grown up. I hope they have pixelated bouquets and jewelry as well.

Created by designer Igor Chak, this concept for a Space Invaders couch looks really awesome. But its squared-off lines look like they’d really hurt our asses. Still, I dig the way it looks, and only wish it were white instead of black – in keeping with the original game colors.

If you’ve always wanted to build your own programmable robot, price or technical complexity might have gotten in your way. But this new robot from RobotShop brings the cost down to a pricepoint that mere mortals can afford, and is easy to assemble and get started with. Priced at just $89.99

I don’t like coffee much. I like the way it smells sometimes, but I hate the way it tastes. The only way I can imagine coffee being even grosser is if it was brewed with a concrete filter.

Ever wondered what lightning strikes really looked like? Tom Warner recently captured some incredible footage in Rapid City, South Dakota. He captured over 9,000 images per second and this 1.5 minute video lasts only 2 seconds in real time! This video shows multiple lightning flashes flying up from different towers.

If you think that LEGOs rule, then look no further, because there’s a guide out there that will allow you to make your own LEGO headphones. These headphones will definitely make you stand out from the crowd.

I’ve certainly seen my share of unusual speakers over the years, but this one from designer Sylvain Gerber is one of the more offbeat designs I’ve seen in recent times. From everything I can tell, the Snowflake Speaker is just a concept design, but if it actually existed, it would work as a dock for your iPhone or iPod.

You’re stoked for the just-released StarCraft II, but haven’t played the first game, or you’re just not good at RTS games. You’ll probably get through the single player campaign after enough tries, but going against other players is an entirely different story.