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An admittedly bored ( but highly skilled ) audiophile named Adam McCall managed to entertain himself by pulling off this beautiful 3-Way Tower Speaker project using all Hi-Vi drivers – and now you can too thanks to his detailed instructions. According to Adam the goal was to “design a loudspeaker that sounds and performs beautifully across the whole bandwidth. I ...

Is there any better way to show your undying love for a TV show than do etch a design for the show into your skin? We think not. Some of these are pure genius. 100% of them are absolute fanboy nerdiness. So…technically this is a wearable right? Check out more after the jump.

The Cocoon is a survival shelter concept by designer John Moriarty that promises to keep you warm “no matter what the conditions are like outside.” Features include warming interior colors and insulated material that would prove useful from both a physical and mental standpoint when stuck in a survival situation. My question is where did John get his inspiration for ...

I am a total geek. There are many obvious reasons why one would come to that conclusion, but the fact that I took one look at this 12 sided speaker system from Elemental Designs and thought “Dungeons and Dragons” makes my inherent geekness abundantly clear. The Dodecasub features, you guessed it, a dodecagon casing (a 12-sided polygon) with 10 impressive ...

For one reason or another Brian Dettmer decided to make a skull out of melted 80’s metal band cassettes from the likes of Motley Cr�e and Judas Priest. So what is the deal here? Is it a commentary on the death of metal? Does it celebrate the genre? Is it a commentary on how aging rock stars should stay the ...

SmartUSA has just announced that two Mercedes produced “smart fortwo” models will be available in the US for under $12k. That, combined with its minuscule 8.8-ft length and 5.1-ft height, make it one of the smallest, cheapest cars around. The base model doesn’t have much in the way of features (not even air conditioning), but there is a wide range ...

A team of scientists from the University Of Bolton and the Hong Kong Productivity Council (and hopefully Victoria’s Secret) have developed a Smart Bra that could act as an early warning system for breast cancer for women at high-risk. Built into the bra’s inner structure (image not related) is a microwave antennae device which with the help of micro computer ...

Yamaha and media artist Toshio Iwai team up to create the Tenori-On, a new musical instrument for the 21st century. The new instrument creates an intuitive visual music interface using a 16 x 16 matrix grid of LEDs. Using a mixture of input and LED interaction, anyone can create a visual musical piece as they play around with Tenori-On’s sound ...

Amusingly enough, artist Argentinian C�sar S�ez is in the midst of developing a Geostationary Banana that will float over the state of Texas for approximately one month — and it’s all in the name of art. S�ez’s website justifies the banana thusly: “a banana in the sky is an odd celebration to spectacle, to the advertisement industries; and to the ...

If you live in a town that has water restrictions during the summer, or you just like the idea of being eco-friendly, you will be glad that you have this Butt Butt rainwater collection container to help keep your plants looking great. Features include: three different skin tones, a flat front, which will allow you to place it against a ...