Archive for February 2016

This awesome custom game room sums up my childhood pretty well. I played a ton of NES game, and in my mind, this was what the room looked like. Over a period of just two weeks, imgur user tylerfulltilt hand-built this amazing NES-themed entertainment center.

Back in December, inventor Colin Furze built a motorized drift trike that was able to go about 50 MPH. So how do you follow up a cool build like that? You add a pulse jet of course.

Good Smile already released a Nendoroid figure of Pokémon‘s Red back in 2014. But it has created a second variant of the legendary trainer to celebrate the video game’s 20th anniversary. This second Red will be released in a bundle that also includes along his rival Blue and the mysterious Mew.

Get an amazing deal on a great digital stylus for your iPad. Adobe’s Ink & Slide system gives you a pressure-sensitive stylus and a physical ruler for your sketches. Originally released for $200 (and reviewed here), you can grab one for the ridiculously low price of just $29.99 for a very limited time.

We’re all fed up with telemarketers and robocallers. For Roger Anderson, the last straw was when his young son was harassed by a telemarketer. This motivated him to create the Jolly Roger Telephone Company, software that wastes the caller’s time by responding to them with recorded dialogue.

Redditor HaHaBird bought several Mac Classic shells at a surplus shop a decade ago. He never figured out what to do with them until recently, when he converted one into a trash bin. The bin’s main feature is its screen, which swings inward like the door on a normal trash bin.

Japan isn’t the only place where the populace is fascinated with Pokémon and weird food. Sure, some of the strangest of edibles hail from the land of the rising sun, but South Korea is no stranger to odd foods.

Z-target in the dark with the help of this more or less 1:1 scale Navi lamp by Etsy seller Candace aka AFK for Cosplay. Navi’s wings are made of resin while the LED is battery operated and can light up in seven different colors.

When I was about ten, my parents took my brother and I to Disney. He was about five and we got into this argument in the elevator of the Haunted Mansion about if the costumed figure standing there was real or a mannequin.

Are you having trouble finding a screencap from The Simpsons? Frinkiac is a search engine specifically for finding screencaps from the long-running cartoon. The websiite has a database containing almost 3,000,000 images. Now you can find that screencap of Barney burping easier than ever!

Ladies and gentlemen, the future of toilet technology is here! This is the Illumibowl, a motion-activated light that clips onto a toilet rim between the seat and the bowl. It illuminates the bowl with the pre-selected color of your choice when it senses you’ve entered the bathroom.

This Settlers of Catan setup is perfect for a Super Bowl party. The big game is almost here, so why not spice things up a bit and enjoy the game with your other favorite game? I wouldn’t try to play using these game boards though.

Theo Jansen’s kinetic sculptures are meant to be powered by wind – and occasionally a hamster – but YouTuber Maxime G found a way to tame a Mini Strandbeest. Maxime G used a couple of Arduino Nanos, a 3V motor and a Nordic RF transmitter to make the mechanical creature move on command.

If you ask me, Amazon Echo started off pretty lame, but it has gained several neat abilities since its launch in 2014. The gadget’s latest trick will be useful to anyone wanting a pizza who is too lazy to pick up the phone and order one.

You have to walk your dog right? But what do you do when you have to go into the store? Dogs aren’t allowed inside. You can tie your dog up, but that isn’t always safe or convenient.

I love Fallout 4 and I’m mostly too lazy to bother changing my everyday Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard for one of the hordes of gaming keyboards I have. 99% of the time when landing head shots on Supermutants from afar, everything goes swimmingly.