We’ve all seen this little brown creature strewn across the web and thrown onto merchandise, but do you actually know who this character is? In reality, Domo made his debut as the mascot for the Japanese television station NHK. From there, Domo moved into the American market via Nickelodeon, where he appeared in a bunch of short skits, which eventually ...
Read More »Salvador Dali Clock Adds A Mustached Dose of Surrealism To Timekeeping
Possibly the owner of the greatest and most influential mustache in the history of art, Salvador Dali was a master of his medium. His life was the arts. One of his most famous works, The Persistance of Memory, shows a series of melting and morphing clocks. This wall timepiece is designed to invoke a similar feel of surrealism and mutated ...
Read More »DIY: SNES Game Cartridge USB Hub
So, you haven’t been able to find that perfect USB hub to extend your peripheral horizons, yet you’ve been looking for what feels like decades. Forget about the middleman. There’s no need to buy a hub from a third-party as long as you’ve got some time, around $30 and a little technical prowess. The SNES Game Cartridge USB Hub is ...
Read More »Afternoon Linkage for April 3rd, 2009
Rain rain, go away. Please, dear gosh, come back another day. Britain just doesn’t care for Google it seems The Nintendo DSi will get the Opera browser (porn!) McLaren is still working on cars Camplite is the quickest way to a cooked sausage BGR has a video walkthrough of the Palm Pre Classic arcade sounds from your past Learn to ...
Read More »35mm Camera Inside 35mm Film Canister: That’s So Meta, Dude
You know something is meta when it’s hard to determine where the meta-ness begins or ends. I mean, which came first? The camera or the film? The sperm chicken or the egg? What would really be trippy is if this 35mm camera was actually inside of a scale sized 35mm film canister. Luckily for our ever-congealing soft and mushy brains, ...
Read More »Speedy Electra Adds Sporty Electric Engine To Any Wheelchair
If you can’t move your legs, you might as well be able to look good while (not) doing it. I’m not sure if there are speeding laws for wheelchairs, but we imagine paraplegics must face the same laws as us leg-walkers. I think that’s only fair. The sporty yellow Speedy Electra adds a fully-featured, self-contained electric power drive to any ...
Read More »Behind The Scenes At Netflix: How It All Works
Did you think that all of your movies were shoved into those little red envelopes using a huge array of machines? Up until today, we thought that much of the Netflix system was ran by software and machinery, but as it turns out, a lot of manual human labor goes into the Netflix shipping cycle. At the Netflix plant in ...
Read More »Gigantic LEGO DSi
You think you’re the ultimate Nintendo fanboy? Not even close. Why don’t you spend a weekend with some LEGOs and one up Sean Kenney. After all, he’s the dude who made a 51,324 piece DSi out of LEGOs, complete with a drawing of a strange cat. Kenney spent over 200 hours on the project which will be on display at ...
Read More »Steampunk: Veritas Dovetail Gang Saw
Leave it to Joel over at BBG to find the world’s most badass hand saw. It’s called the Veritas Dovetail Gang Saw and it costs a whopping $212. But you have to think about it for a minute and analyze the need for this saw. If vampires or zombies ever come after you, you’ll be prepared with three sharp blades, ...
Read More »Care For A Glass of MILK?
Whether it’s a Oscar-winning picture featuring Sean Penn, the stuff you put in your cereal or the cream in your wife’s breasts, one thing is for sure: MILK rules. Especially when it’s being poured from a piece of literal packaging. Link
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