January 2015 - Technabob

Nintendo 64 Coffee Table Base: Insert Glass Top

A few years ago, we saw a beautifully made coffee table based on the Nintendo 64 logo. If you’ve ever wanted one but can’t tell a hammer from a, uh, from another woodworking… stuff, Geeks With Wood is your man.

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18-inch Pacific Rim Cherno Alpha Action Figure Kicks Kaiju Butt

A new Pacific Rim action figure has landed on ThinkGeek and it’s a very cool collectible indeed. It’s an 18-inch reproduction of the Cherno Alpha Jaeger. Every time I see this Jaeger, I wonder if the creators of the movie meant for it to look like the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail or if it was an accident.

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Pizza Condoms Come in a Pizza Box: It’s Not Delivery, It’s a Condom

This may be the best combination of pizza and sex that I have ever seen. Whether your girlfriend ordered up pepperoni or sausage, she will be happy that you came prepared.

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PS Vita Case with L2 R2 Triggers is Only for Second Gen Vita: DAMMIT

Even though many PS4 games have or will have support for Remote Play on the PS Vita, the handheld’s lack of actual L2 and R2 triggers severely gimps the experience. Now we have some good news and bad news.

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LEGO Interstellar Model Looks Fantastic

I never got around to seeing Interstellar when it was in theaters. The main reason I didn’t go see it was that some of the previews made it look terrible while some made it look cool.

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Karate Guy Plays Electric Guitar, Chops Flaming Boards

This is not new, but it’s super fun. Watch this guy’s mad skills as he alternates between playing the guitar and chopping stacks of flaming boards. I can’t decide whether this is awesome or completely idiotic.

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Comic Book Chess Pieces Look MARVELous

If you are a chess player, you may like to play with a set that is more than traditional looking, especially if you are a comic book geek. Entertainment Earth has enough chess pieces to build an entire set using characters from various Marvel and DC comics.

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Smell The Game with These Gamer Candles

If you want to set the mood when you’re gaming, don’t just get the Cheetos and 2-liter bottle of Mountain Dew. Use these candles as well. They’re gamer candles from Gametee. They smell like your games.

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The Power of the Force is Strong in These Star Wars PowerTube Batteries

If you are out of the office a lot with your gadgets and running out of power is a concern, you’ll want to carry an external battery pack to juice up. There’s no shortage of portable batteries on the market today.

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LEGO UCS SHIELD Helicarrier Will Soon Be Yours to Assemble

Last year we saw a ridiculously complex concept for a LEGO scale model of the SHIELD Helicarrier. Fortunately, LEGO has unveiled its official take on the flying fortress. It’s a manageable kit that comes with many unique parts.

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This Inflatable Night Sky Looks Awesome

A London event called “Light Night” is all about bringing together dreamers, artists and engineers to build installations based which involve light. That’s always a recipe for awesomeness, but this year one team kicked things up a notch, by putting people among the stars.

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Farmer Herds Cattle to Make Cow Art

Farmer Derek Klingenberg of Klingenberg Farms Studios, clearly enjoys making art as much as farming. He recently gained a YouTube following when he called his cows with trombone covers of “Jingle Bells” and Lorde songs. Now he is using his truck to herd cattle and make art.

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Thou Shalt Bring us a Shrubbery T-Shirt

One of my all time favorite movies is the Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Growing up, we had a very early pay TV service that played one or two movies per month between 7 and 10pm each night and for a month straight all they seemed to play was that film.

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Dasung 13.3″ E-ink Monitor: Everything Reader

Last year we saw a couple of 13.3″ E-ink readers. Chinese company Dasung Tech used E Ink’s similarly-sized Fina electronic paper display (EPD) module to create a 1600×1200 USB monitor. It’s meant to be a secondary display and even has a detachable stand.

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Wishbone Thermometer Lets you be a Temperature Checking Ninja

When my son was an infant, he had constant ear infections, and we had to check his temperature roughly every 15 seconds or we felt like terrible parents and were convinced he had brain damage. The problem was he was also the lightest sleeper in the history of babies and would wake up at the sound me turning the thermometer on.

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DIY LEGO Creation Station: Imagination on Wheels

Like millions of children around the world, Instructables member Tez_Gelmir’s son is a big LEGO fan. And like millions of families around the world the father and son often end up spending a lot of time sorting through their piles of LEGO just to get the parts they want to use.

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Archive for January 2015

Nintendo 64 Coffee Table Base: Insert Glass Top

18-inch Pacific Rim Cherno Alpha Action Figure Kicks Kaiju Butt

Pizza Condoms Come in a Pizza Box: It’s Not Delivery, It’s a Condom

PS Vita Case with L2 R2 Triggers is Only for Second Gen Vita: DAMMIT

LEGO Interstellar Model Looks Fantastic

Karate Guy Plays Electric Guitar, Chops Flaming Boards

Comic Book Chess Pieces Look MARVELous

Smell The Game with These Gamer Candles

The Power of the Force is Strong in These Star Wars PowerTube Batteries

LEGO UCS SHIELD Helicarrier Will Soon Be Yours to Assemble

This Inflatable Night Sky Looks Awesome

Farmer Herds Cattle to Make Cow Art

Thou Shalt Bring us a Shrubbery T-Shirt

Dasung 13.3″ E-ink Monitor: Everything Reader

Wishbone Thermometer Lets you be a Temperature Checking Ninja

DIY LEGO Creation Station: Imagination on Wheels

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