DIYs & Mods

While we haven’t covered anything involving the massive internet hysteria that has been caused by the J.J. Abrams produced Cloverfield, we’ve been following the viral stuff and all of the hype behind the scenes. Today, we bring to you a very real screenshot animation of the Cloverfield monster. Let the blogosphere unleash its wrath! Hit the jump for the full ...

If your home is frequented by children who love climbing your furnishings and eating paint chips and other odd fixtures, or by obese friends or family who are known to munch on anything they can get their fingers on, the Melted LEGO Lamp is probably not the best lighting fixture to showcase in your home. The melted LEGO pieces look ...

With inspiration clearly drawn from the Terminator, this Evil Lego Machine Head was made by a Lego fanboy. While it might not be much competition to Nathan Sawaya’s incredible brick art, the Machine Head is actually pretty haunting looking. We wonder if it’s like one of those paintings that is looking at you no matter what angle you are looking ...

Carrie Fisher’s iconic hairstyle as Princess Leia in Star Wars has become a status symbol for any true member of sci-fi royalty. A crafty lady designed a Princess Leia Wig (which also looks like it operates equally well as a winter hat and ear warmers) which you can get from Etsy. Available for only $7.95, the choice is yours. The ...

How big of a fanboy do you have to be to put your dog through the hassle of shaving a mohawk strip down the center of its back and then painting it Firefox orange. Can’t the ASPCA do something about this? Come on, animal cops, this is clearly animal cruelty. Now, if only the doggy’s little bed was a little ...

For those who remember the all-awesome Sharp 903 launched years ago, we all miss the sweet 3.2MP CCD camera with 2x optical zoom. Since it was able to be unlocked at that time, we expected all Sharp phones to be unlockable as well… Wrong! Those who had paid $500 for the unusable Sharp 904SH started re-selling them at $250 on ...

This 20.75″ squared speaker is not cube shaped just for the hell of it. The Rubik’s Cube Speaker is a very large model of the original geek puzzle toy, but is actually capable, well, very capable of amplifying your music to be almost as loud as the voices in your head. Weighing in at a massive 144 lbs., the speaker ...

We’ve seen our share of awesome Wii-themed mods, including the Bloodstained Manhunt 2 Wii Case Mod, and even a mod for the Wii’s peripherals, like the Power Glove Wiimote mod. This case mod was commissioned for Kevin Smith himself, based around the ultra-geeky cult following of the movie Clerks. Featuring figurines of the four main characters of the movie on ...

Metro-Wardrive is a game that adapts to your location, providing a map based on a user’s location in a urban center. All the local SSIDs are integrated into the game as enemies which try to capture your “wardrive-cristal”. As long as you move around, you’ll never get the same game map twice, allowing for a complete new experience everytime you ...

Those of you who like to bust-a-groove to Huey Lewis while snapping shots with your non-digital camera, we’ve got a little project that might inspire some creativty within your traditional minds. We’re sure you’ve got a shit load of old film canisters laying around. Bird-Electron has put together a Kodak Film Speaker system, recycling old canisters. Using empty film canisters, ...