UK luxury firm Luvaglio has released some pictures of its Million Dollar Laptop. Honestly, I wouldn’t care if this thing was covered in diamonds. For a million bucks, this thing better have a mind control device or some shit. The Million Dollar Laptop comes with a diamond encrusted power button, a 17-in backlit screen with a special non-reflecive coating, a ...
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Geek culture at its geekiest: A visual journey
Here’s a cool little image gallery we found showing a bunch of images which show geek culture at its, well, geekiest. There’s a ton more pics over at the site, but here are a few of our favorites. Some of the pictures have been seen before, but a lot of them are new to us. Check it out. You won’t ...
Read More »USB Humping Dogs gone wild
Those of you who are fans of useless USB gadgets and the hardware inside of them might get a kick out of this. Remember the USB Humping Dog? Here it is again, but this time, naked and uncensored. Oh, how kinky!
Read More »DIY: PS360 Sixaxis Controller hack
Gamer-mod scientist Ben Hack is at it again, this time with a mod that slightly pains us. You might remember his mod in which he connected a PS2 controller into a PSP. In this venture, he strays slightly from the Sony gaming realm and takes the innards of a PS3 Sixaxis controller, and transplants it into the casing of a ...
Read More »Smell-o-phone is right under our nose
A scent-emitting phone might not be the top priority in a iPhone-ruled world, though Motorola officially submitted a patent in 2005, just recently released, for a Smell-o-phone that would do exactly that. The patent states: A communication device, comprising: a heat-generating device; and a scent package having a scented substance located in thermal proximity to the heat-generating device. wherein the ...
Read More »So that’s what the inside of a SanDisk SD Card looks like!
If pictures of ravaged, dismantled gadgets makes you feel squeamish, you might want to go to another, more tame post. This poor SD card was ravaged by the owners dog after it was spooked by a pet parrot flying out of its cage. In a disastorous turn of events, the owners SD Card fell to the ground, at which time ...
Read More »DIY: How to fix your defective Guitar Hero controller
So you just realized that your Guitar Hero controller is one of the two models that were recently announced by RedOctane as defective. Never fear, fellow gamer. There is a moderately simple way to fix this problem if your willing to put in a little hand work. This step by step DIY will show you how you can take the ...
Read More »New Intel Core 2 Extreme Processor will rock your enthusiastic world, possibly faster than animated mouse
Intel announced today their plans for a third Extreme processor, geared towards the enthusiast-user. The Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6800 is Intel’s fastest enthusiast featured processor yet, running with a clock speed of 2.93 GHz. According to the press release by Intel, the QX6800 is focused specifically for gamers, digital designers, and those who strive for maximum computing power. Critics ...
Read More »Xbox QWERTY controller seen in the wild
Nothing is ever concrete until you see it in this world of Photoshop renderings. Now that we can see the recently announced Xbox 360 QWERTY Controller in the wild, we can offer a full confirmation on Microsoft’s announcement. This is the first public viewing of the QWERTY text input device for Xbox. The announcement coincides with Microsoft’s announcement that MSN ...
Read More »M.A.R.S. Floating Wind Power Generator
Speaking of R2-D2, this M.A.R.S. Floating Wind Generator looks a lot like a flying R2 droid on its side. This helium-filled, horizontal-rotating M.A.R.S. (Magenn Power Air Rotor System) will go into production with its 4.0 kw unit this year with 7 more models planned for release in the next 4 years. The 2010 and 2011 planned models will be able ...
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