Archive for August 2015

A few years ago we found out that you can obscure the content of your laptop to everyone but you by making specially polarized sunglasses. A startup called NoonWear is working on a pair of sunglasses that work similarly, but are designed to reduce glare from sunlight and other bright light sources.

Sorry to all you middle-aged dudes I see wearing Crocs, but your shoes are pretty darned ugly. I wouldn’t be caught dead in them. What you see here may be the only way that Crocs could even approach looking cool, yet even Chewbacca’s fur and bandolier detailing somehow fail to make these ugly shoes hip.

The closest I could come to spreadable bacon until today was a can of bacon-flavored squeeze cheese. That stuff is hard to find, so I usually have to fry up some real bacon if I have a hankering for salty, tasty pork.

If you prefer to draw or write on the screen of your tablet with a stylus instead of a fingertip, then you’ll definitely want to check out the AluPen. This sturdy aluminum stylus has a precision tip and works with the vast majority of capacitive touch screens, including iPads and iPhones.

Etsy shop MiraCrafts not only makes chocobos, it also has bounty from Pandora. Shop owner Marika can hand sculpt – or at least she’ll try to – any character, weapon or item from the Borderlands series into a 3D pendant.

Electric skateboards typically go for at least $600 (USD). But with his maker skills Instructables member comsa42 was able to convert a normal skateboard for around $350. That said, his project will give you an idea why these things cost a lot.

Redditor mrdeepimmersion wanted to apply for a game design job at Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeons & Dragons team. Thinking that his electrical and computer engineering background put him at a disadvantage, he decided to show off his creativity by making a 70lb.

Famous LEGO MOCer Alex Jones aka OrionPax submitted this whale of a proposal for an official LEGO set. It’s a fantastic scale model of the Nautilus, Captain Nemo’s submarine in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The prototype is 4’7″ long, about 10″ wide and has several LEDs.

Mr. Potato Head is one of those toys that we have all played with at one time or another. I can remember my mom blowing my mind as a kid when she told me when she was little you used a real potato, and Mr.

Back in the day, like most kids, I didn’t look forward to going back to school. What I did look forward to was finding the most awesome lunch box possible for the return to the classroom.

If you want a bionic hand, but don’t have the six million dollars to become Steve Austin (it would actually cost you a lot more these days), check out this fun project and learn to build a simple one for yourself.

A few days back, I talked a bit about some cool Vinyl Idols’ Back to the Future action figures with the crazy eyes. At the time, I wished there was a DeLorean to go with them.

There are lots of photo apps and online services that can perform one-click enhancements. But these user-friendly shortcuts usually tweak a photo’s general quality, such as color or sharpness. Two Princeton University Computer Science students worked with Adobe Research to create a program that automatically detects and removes distracting elements from photos.

We really haven’t had any major upgrade to shoe tech in a long time. There have been some ergonomic improvements, but mostly our shoes are how they have always been. They look the same, feel the same and we wear them in the same way.

You might look at this Sonic Screwdriver universal remote control and feel like you have seen it before. It looks virtually identical to the 11th doctor universal remote we talked about back in 2012. The only real difference I see is that the claw thingies on the 12th Doc’s screwdriver are open.

An Optimus Prime cake that transforms? That is something very awesome right there. It’s like a toy and a cake in one. Now all that’s left to do is for Hasbro to package Prime Cakes and sell them in the grocery store so I can devour them.