When we got our first Walkman for Christmas we were so damn excited. We slipped in our Green Day Insomniac cassette, maybe followed with a little Ace Of Base, and just listened for hours in our Grandma’s rocking chair. A cool mod project can retrofy your modern gadgets to experience the same excitement as you had with the ancient ones, ...
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To-Do Tattoo: Hardcore Productivity
What would you do if you were to lose your moleskin notebook or PDA as you scrambled around from errand to errand, desperately trying to finish all of your plans? You’d be totally clueless to what you had left to accomplish. The To-Do Tattoo literally adds a to-do list to the palm of your hand. Your very own “palm” pilot. ...
Read More »Guerrilla Plumbing: How To Save The Earth By Sneaking Around
So you’re at a party, perhaps you have a few alcoholic beverages floating through your bloodstream and you’re feeling like an eco-friendly vigilante. All the beer in your belly makes you have to piss worse than a scared schoolgirl. You take a trip to the bathroom, only to your horror, you see that your buddy is still using a toilet ...
Read More »Monster Attack Effect At Tokyo Harbor, Real Loch Ness Monster Jealous
In an effort to promote the new flick, The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, a spectacle effect is being played at Tokyo Harbor. Using a system based around water projection screen techniques and some water fountains, the water of Tokyo Harbor has been turned into one big promotional device for the film. The Water Horse film itself revolves around ...
Read More »A House For Jedi Worship, Coming To A Street Corner Near You
Father Yoda would be very happy to know that his teachings a long, long time ago at a galaxy far, far away have not gone unnoticed. Two Star Wars fan boys in the UK are working on erecting a full-on Jedi church. Barney, 26 – or Master Jonba Hehol – and Daniel, 21 – Master Morda Hehol, are the head ...
Read More »EXTREME NERDY SPOILER: Real Cloverfield Monster Screenshot Animation!
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 ...
Read More »The Real Firefox
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 ...
Read More »Sharp 904SH, Toshiba 911T both unlocked but far from perfect
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 ...
Read More »Rubik’s Cube Speaker Is Extremely Retro Looking
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 ...
Read More »Clerks Wii Case Mod: I’m Not Even Supposed To Be Here Today
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 ...
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