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PS4 DualShock 4 Light Bar Decals: Your Sign Here

We’ve featured a few skins for the PlayStation 4 and the DualShock 4 controller. But if you’re looking for an easier and more affordable way to personalize your system, check out Flaming Toast’s decals for the DualShock 4’s light bar.

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Raspberry Pi Bullet Time Rig: Frozen Pi

The folks at PiFace – makers of hardware interfaces for the Raspberry Pi – wanted to make a camera rig that could create the bullet time effect popularized by The Matrix, but they didn’t want to spend thousands of dollars on cameras.

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LEGO Power Brick External Battery: Power Functions

Chinese company Coi+ recently released a portable battery that not only works with LEGO pieces, it comes with a few bricks too. It’s called the Power Brick. It has a 4200mAh battery inside and it charges gadgets via USB.

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Mini Museum Contains Tiny Samples of Rare Objects: What is This? A Museum for Ants?

Mobile devices let us look up practically anything we want to know about anywhere and anytime, but there’s nothing like looking at the real deal. Relics and artifacts invoke a sense of wonder and fire up our imagination.

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The World’s Most Confused Handheld Gaming System

Oh, China. You’re such a great nation, but sometimes we’ve got to call you on your ridiculous reinterpretations of trademarked and copyrighted works from other parts of the world. This handheld gaming console is one such example.

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Shortcut-S Photoshop Keyboard: Optimus Primus

Art Lebedev’s Optimus keyboards are elegantly customizable, but they’re very expensive and may not have enough keys for your needs. If you’re an avid user of Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Premiere, AutoCAD and other programs that have a ton of commands, check out the Shortcut-S keyboard.

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Tango Portable Computer: Your Laptop’s Guts Squished Flat

Here’s another computer looking for a dumb terminal to mate with. Like the ICE xPC, Tango crams in the main components of a computer into a palm-sized case. It also uses a dock to connect to an HDMI display and other peripherals.

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GPOP Google Glass Skins: Looking Okay Glass!

Heads up, Google Glass Explorers! Here’s a way to make your wearable computer draw even more attention to yourself. A company called GPOP is selling vinyl skins for your Glass. The skins are 3M vinyl cut to fit the various parts of Google’s tech.

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uArm Desktop Robot Arm: Industrial Devolution

A small robotics company called UFactory is working on the uArm, a small version of the industrial robot arms we often see tirelessly moving about in modern manufacturing assembly lines. The uArm is about the size of a desk lamp and is controlled through an Arduino-compatible board.

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Jailbreak App Makes Dualshock 3 Work with iOS 7 Games that have Controller Support

Go ahead Android users, roll your eyes. But this is new territory for iOS gamers. A jailbreak app called Controllers for All makes the PlayStation 3’s Dualshock 3 controller compatible with all games use the controller support introduced in iOS 7.

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Video Game Character Tombstones: Sad Spoilers

Etsy shop Chinook Crafts is a treasure trove of geeky trinkets. I was going to feature its Pokémon Kanto gym badges by way of GoNintendo when I spotted an unusual category in the shop’s list: tombstones.

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Team Fortress 2 Sentry Gun Miniature: Ain’t That a Cute Little Gun?

Valve has a life-size model of the Sentry Gun from Team Fortress 2 to guard their office. Programmer and 3D artist Jeff Wong may not be a big shot like Gabe Newell and his employees, but he has a turret manning his house too.

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Mixee Bobblers 3D Printed Bobbleheads: Collect Yourself

3D printing shop Mixee Labs – makers of awesome geeky jewelry – will soon launch a custom bobblehead printing service called Mixee Bobblers. As with the jewelry, Mixee Bobblers will let you design your own bobblehead right from your browser.

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ICE xPC Modular Computer: Pocket PC 2.0

The past couple of years saw the launch of tiny computers meant to replace the traditional desktop setup. We have Android mobile devices that dock into larger devices, Android-on-a-stick HDMI devices, Windows 8 and its hybrid army and Canonical’s vision of a smartphone that’s also an Ubuntu desktop computer.

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InAiR Augmented HDTV Add-on: Second Screen on the Same Screen

Many of the so-called smart TVs today have built-in browsers, apps and other fancy features, but most of them can only be viewed one at a time, i.e. when you’re not watching TV. A new company called SeeSpace wants to make cable TV smarter with InAiR, a device that displays information without interrupting what you’re watching.

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Geeky Lockets: from Fiction with Love

Etsy jewelry shop ThreeTwelveTrinkets specializes in lockets. As you’d expect the pendants can be used to hold a couple of photographs or other small items. But unlike conventional lockets most of ThreeTwelveTrinkets items have geeky images in front.

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PS4 DualShock 4 Light Bar Decals: Your Sign Here

Raspberry Pi Bullet Time Rig: Frozen Pi

LEGO Power Brick External Battery: Power Functions

Mini Museum Contains Tiny Samples of Rare Objects: What is This? A Museum for Ants?

The World’s Most Confused Handheld Gaming System

Shortcut-S Photoshop Keyboard: Optimus Primus

Tango Portable Computer: Your Laptop’s Guts Squished Flat

GPOP Google Glass Skins: Looking Okay Glass!

uArm Desktop Robot Arm: Industrial Devolution

Jailbreak App Makes Dualshock 3 Work with iOS 7 Games that have Controller Support

Video Game Character Tombstones: Sad Spoilers

Team Fortress 2 Sentry Gun Miniature: Ain’t That a Cute Little Gun?

Mixee Bobblers 3D Printed Bobbleheads: Collect Yourself

ICE xPC Modular Computer: Pocket PC 2.0

InAiR Augmented HDTV Add-on: Second Screen on the Same Screen

Geeky Lockets: from Fiction with Love

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