Wii Fanboys have a new king. He is a researcher at Carnegie Mellon by the name of Johnny Chung Lee and what he has done is nothing short of inspiring. I have seen some pretty cool hardware hacks in my time, but nothing this much fun or this accessible. He asks on the video if Nintendo is watching, my bet is they will be. Nintendo, you had better give this guy a job, imagine what [...]
The SNES represents a break in my console education. I jumped straight from NES to N64 and then went on to Playstation. The thing is, I always had a PC in my house growing up so there was never any need to rush out for the consoles and the NES filled all of my console gaming needs for so long. That is not to say that I didn’t dig the SNES, because I did, just [...]
It takes a really big fan to make a 10 foot Optimus Prime costume, especially if you need 2 other people to help put it on. The outfit is so big it would probably take an hour just to make it up the driveway. It’s unfortunate that it actually doesn’t transform like these previous costumes featured here before. Even if it doesn’t transform, I think it could still win a couple of Halloween contests next [...]
This is without a doubt the coolest home theater setup I have seen in a long, long time. Electronic House featured this Terminator inspired home theater recently. I have got to say, Darren Mortenson, the man behind this particular piece of theater magic, is a genius. It is designed to look like a sci-fi set and includes a bunch of cool little props and pieces of memorabilia. The project was put together on a reasonable [...]
The $100 DIY iPhone holder is also available in a $99 cheaper version. Just hit play below to learn how to make your own iPhone holder .
I am and always have been a sucker for DIY projects. This latest trend that they call duct tape-gami is pretty cool. I don’t care much for the decorative stuff that they make, but the functional things are quirky in the best possible way. This is being sold at Etsy, but considering that there is only one in stock and it is going for the low, low price of $16, I would not hold my [...]
If you have an old monitor around and you feel like spoiling kitty, you can try to transform that old monitor into his very own cat abode. If you prefer to have someone else do the work for you, head on over here. From the artist: It’s been painted, and had a custom fitting pillow made from flannel and new stuffing. The themes are clearly totally cat.. fish, paw prints adorn this piece. There is [...]
Need a 12 hour lantern, but all you have are some glow sticks and a Blendtec Total Blender? Well look no further MacGyver, that’s all you need. Video after the break.
Want to know what happens when a pc mod loving guitar freak named Ben Lewry gets ideas? Check out the pics of the LCDetar. It features a kaleidoscopic screen that jams along with your riffs. What could be cooler than that? Nothing, you say… that is exactly right. This is the coolest Laptop mod on the planet bar none. He jammed the guts of a laptop into an electric guitar, flipped the screen around and [...]
What on this planet can be more incredibly awesome than building your own floating island. Seriously, this idea has so much potential it is not funny. You could go hog wild with one of these things, providing you have the budget, the patience and live somewhere that it won’t get sunk like Spiral Island did. Spiral Island was the brainchild of Rishi Sowa, who built his first artificial island in 1998. Plastic bottles were netted [...]
Here is an example of a good idea that could use a little tweaking. Someone has disguised a subwoofer as an innocuous carton of Miller Lite. This unit is actually designed for home use, but I see potential for it to work out as a great type of stealth security for a car audio system; except if you are using it to hide your electronics then you might want to go with something that does [...]
There are flight simulators and then there is the 747 Simulator that John Davis built. This story has been doing the rounds recently but the reviews of the 747 flight simulator really did not do it justice. John is a 47-year-old Englishman that seems to have quite an eye for detail. He has recreated a 747 cockpit in the second room of his two-bedroom terrace house in Coventry. His attention to detail is mind-blowing and [...]
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