Gadgets

I missed out on the original NES and SNES systems during their heyday, but at least I got to fool around with the Sega Genesis when new games were still being released on a regular basis. And boy did I play the hell out of my system. NHL ’94 and Sonic, baby. Hours of fun. Increasingly, more kids from Gen-Y ...

Man, if I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard THAT, I might have around 10 cents or so. But seriously, you know it’s bad when your housemates have to wear noise-canceling headphones when you go to the bathroom. Not that there’s much you can do about it. You just happened to be born with a powerful stream. But ...

The hottest thing since Stuffed Animals with Vaginas. Above, Stormtrooper striptease Courtney Cruz in a Star Wars-themed burlesque show at the Los Angeles club Bordello (a sexy bar which opened at the site of a notorious, historic LA whorehouse). Hit the jump for several more geekalicious photos.

No, R2-D2 didn’t get stuck outside overnight on the planet Hoth. This snow droid was hand crafted by one clever winter-y geek. And lord knows this winter has already spilled a crap load of snowy art material in my neck of the woods. Maybe the next snowstorm we can see a Snow Vader? Link

While the iconic fail whale was already the willing victim of a full-on LEGO brick barrage, the Twitter bird had stealthy avoided the brick treatment. But no longer thanks to brick designer Fredo Houben, who took the Twitter bird design to the next logical level — LEGO sculpture. Link [via]

You’d think a computer, with all of is modern technology, would be able to boil down at least a bit of the ambiguity which constantly surrounds the Mona Lisa. A computer designed to do so might be able to shed some light on the woman, but when we’re talking a recreation made out of only computer folders, Lisa is even ...

Sudoku has had a major surge in popularity over the last several years, taking the place of crossword puzzles as the geeky geekier equivalent of Solitaire. But you know us geeks, we always have to take things a step further than necessary. Just when we thought everything was in its right place, we throw an Italian-inspired curve ball. If you ...

You bought this beautiful Christmas tree for the holidays and after a month of display its time to dump the damn thing. But there’s gotta be a more valuable purpose than just laying in a dumpster somewhere. This family decided to recycle their Christmas tree into a rocket powered projectile. Strap 32 rocket engines to a tree and see what ...

If you haven’t checked out or even heard of Barbie Massacre, you’ve gotta check out the site. If you have any sort of morbid curiosity for violence and crime mixed with the cultural phenomenon of Barbie dolls, it’s a must see.

You know the feeling. Its three a.m. and your running on fumes courtesy of that Coke-filled Big Gulp you just slurped down. What if your cellphone ran on the same stuff that kept you up for those all-nighters. Designer Daizi Zheng designed a cellphone to run off of the sugar cells in Coca-Cola. Well, any sugary beverage will do, even ...