Archive for April 2016

I very much liked Deadpool. I thought it was one of the best Marvel movies I have ever seen and I hope the character shows up in lots more movies in the future. With all the loot Pool raked in, you can bet more movies will be coming with larger budgets. 

If you ask me, garden gnomes are creepy; their little concrete eyes follow you around as you walk through the yard. Deep down we all know that one foggy summer night they will finally come alive, creep into the house and eat all the Bagel Bites.

Birds are like deer. They symbolize nature, freedom and all those heartwarming concepts, but in truth they can be annoying and cause a lot of damage. They eat crops, interfere at airports, hang out at harbors etc. 

You might not know it, but for years fans have wanted to combine their love of Star Wars with their love of hockey. Alas, there have been no Star Wars hockey accessories as far as I know.

Feudal Japan would have been way different if samurais ran around wearing hoodies. Sure, swords would just go through them like a knife through butter, but they would have looked damn good. Modern samurais however, can wear these cool hoodies and stay safe… or at least warm. These hoodies are designed to look like the kozane armor that samurais wore way back in the day.

Last week we checked out Ben Heck’s keyboard and display in a box that he made to test dev kits. I mentioned that it should be a gadget that already exists. It turns out it does, and it’s called the NexDock. The NexDock is basically the old Motorola Atrix lapdock except you connect devices to it via its mini-HDMI and USB ports, which means it works with a variety of smartphones, single-board computers, PCs-on-a-stick and media streaming devices.

A few years ago, we saw a coffee table that looked like the N64 logo. Redditor Edgemeredrive made a furniture based on Nintendo’s other illusive logo. The cube measures 35″x 35″, or nearly 3ft. on each side.

We all know Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker and we all know after that last scene in The Force Awakens that Hamill has aged a lot. We also all know deep down that he will train Rey, played by Daisy Ridley, to be a Jedi.

In the past couple of years, a number of PC enthusiasts have been removing the lid – aka the Integrated Heat Spreader – on their Intel CPUs to replace the stock thermal paste with third party ones that do a better job of siphoning heat off of the chip itself.

HP takes on rivals Microsoft and Dell with its latest 2-in-1, and it looks like they’ve got a winner on their hands. The HP Elite x2 1012 G1 combines style, functionality, build quality and versatility in a single package.

Normally, people hold seashells up to their ear to hear the ocean, but that’s not the case with these seashells. To celebrate 90 years of radio in Japan, Japanese radio station BayFM has collected 100 sazae shells and outfitted them with radio equipment.

Ewoks. They are the bane of the Empire’s existence. These furry little creatures have been known to take on elite Imperial soldiers and win. They will crush you with logs, set traps and catch you – even poke you with a stick.

Scare the filling out of your friends’ doughnuts with Ben Spear Makes Swords’ cool non-functioning replicas of Marceline’s ax bass and her gender-swapped counterpart’s six-string. They’re made of pine with nylon strings and steel knobs. Each guitar is about 49″ long and weighs 5lb.,

Why just buy a drone, when you can make your own? The FlexBot includes everything you need to make your own quadcopter, complete with an on-board camera. The kit includes the circuit board, motors, propellers, rechargeable battery, and outer shell parts you need to build your drone.

Michael Rick came up with a brilliant mod for the Power Mac G5 Quad’s handsome metal chassis. He spent between 150 to 250 hours sanding, polishing and waxing the exterior by hand to give it a mirror finish. But the case is just part of this revived PC, which Michael rechristened as “Fookushima.”

Curious to see what’s going on inside of your Etch A Sketch? Curiosity is a good thing, but be warned, if you take apart that Etch A Sketch, you will have metal shavings everywhere, and probably fill your lungs with toxic dust.