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How could you be a true gamer and not know what Peach’s Castle looks like from Super Mario Bros? It happens to be one of the most prominent landmarks of Mushroomland, thank you very much. Here it is immortalized through the wonders of playing card architecture. And to our knowledge, Goomba free. This build happens to be a rendition of ...

Vroom, vroom. Gentleman, start your search engines! This V8-inspired (and no, it’s not the healthy yet delectable vegetable juice) Case Mod is one fast looking machine. Packed with eight valved madness, the Engine PC is a true original. Complete with neon blue LEDs and racing flags, the V8 Case Mod is chromed out in phantasmal geekery. It looks as though ...

Would you mind living in a house that more resembles a black hole than a place of residence? This Tunnel House looks like you’ll be sucked in at any second into a dark void. Sculptors Dan Havel and Dean Ruck present these two tunnel houses in a Montrose suburb in Texas. It would be a pain in the ass we ...

Hey, it’s a miracle. For once a phone design that isn’t a cellphone! The Quartz Tele concept uses large quartz crystals instead of the traditional button pad. Each quartz stands as its own number key with embedded LEDs, and illuminates when pressed. All of the quartz stand on a base with a central screen displaying all of the caller ID ...

New advances on the production of photovoltaic solar panels allow for them to be made in the style of roofing shingles. Instead of just a big clunky block of solar capturing, the solar cells can be integrated to look like normal roof tiles, making your choice of power not only inconspicuous, but more pleasing to the eye. The National Institute ...

The bond between a human and their tea is among the strongest that life has to offer. Whether it be herbal or leaf, if tea had a soul, we’d most likely marry it. For those who don’t care about your mug’s contents not carrying a single ounce of respiration capability, the Ring Mug unites you and your beverage in the ...

Not only electronics are moving fast into the future, even simple home utilities are moving ahead. The Fedora radiator concept makes the radiator more than just a radiator. Using a special built-in cubby, you can lay your feet right inside of Fedora, for an ultimate foot warming experience. Which is really great for people without a fireplace. Not only can ...

� While we don’t think we’d accept a mixed drink from someone named “Dirty Don”, we can’t help but love his creation of the Margarita Maker. Built over a trailer, the Dirty Don customed himself a 6 inch tall blender blade, mixed it with a small block 400 and other assorted parts, and created the fastest Margarita mixer ever created. ...

EADS Astrium is a new jet being designed that could make space tourism very possible by 2012. It would cost a staggering �200,000 per ticket for only three minutes of weightlessness. The four-passenger jet looks like a pretty conventional airplane from the outside, but will make take you all that much higher. The Astrium will take off from conventional airports ...

German programmer Bernd Hopfeng�rtner (say that 3 times fast) is one weird geeky cat. Using the visual code, data matrix (which was originally confused as Semacode), Bernd spells out “Hello, World” for all passerbys to see. As long as those passerbys happen to be flying. The 160 square meter coding artwork is encoded with a URL using the SDK provided ...