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No Lightsaber Required: DIY Jar Jar Binks Salad

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:00:00 GMT

Yum, geekdom fun. A Jar Jar salad. Wonderfully silly How-To from Only Knives:

"A side dish from the Dark Side: Sculpt Jar Jar Binks out of a root vegetable."

You'll need some serious sculpting skills, jicama and various salad ingredients. Click through for the entire How-To, process images below. ...more

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Sculpt Melted Cassette Tape Puddles Into Skulls

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:30:00 GMT

Cool cassette tape art by Atlanta based artist Brian Dettmer.

From Design Boom:

"...Dettmer was walking down the street he spotted a dead bird and an idea hit him. ‘here was this thing that used to live, its used to fly around and play a vital role, and now it is dead and all that remains is the solid material.’ Dettmer was quick to extrapolate this idea linking the bird’s life to that of the cassette... all the pieces are made using only cassettes tapes with no glue, tape or other outside materials. Dettmer heats the plastic up so he can literally form and weld them with
his wet hands and ...more

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This Dude Builds Glaciers. Here's How.

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:00:00 GMT

Most DIY freaks do-it-themselves because they love it. Because
they're curious, creative, and like to take the long road (or figure out an ingenious short cut).

In the case of Chewang Norphel (aka the Ice Man), the need to do-it-himself was a little more dire: the survival of small Indian villages has been severely threatened by global warming.

According to the Christian Science Monitor:

"Chewang Norphel makes artificial glaciers. The reason: The real glaciers have rapidly receded up the Himalayan slopes in his home district of Ladakh in northern most India.

Himalayan communities like ...more

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DIY Contortionist-Cycle

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:30:00 GMT

Finally, a well designed solution to studio-style living. The Contortionist bicycle.

London-native Dominic Hargreaves, unhappy with the available options, designed this folding bike himself (true DIY spirit).

“I couldn’t find a folding bicycle I liked. I wanted something that could take a bit of punishment and that you could have fun with. So I made one myself.”

Dominic's bike is the ultimate bender and can survive quite a bit of punishment. It's rugged enough for the road and compact enough for the abode. ...more

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Flickr Photos Reveal Harvard's True Colors

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Cartograms are usually pretty mundane, but throw in Flickr, Photoshop, and a well-known public place and you have an artistic representation of popular colors. Much more eye-grabbing than your common map.

The colors represent what people on the ground are looking at in the specific physical-cultural landscape. Based off the most recent 2,000 Flickr geotagged photos, Cartogrammar found the average color in each photo, plotted it on the map, and interpolated them into a vivid diagrammatic rendering of our most favorite colors in that area.

The following photos show the process of color coding ...more

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Gyroscope Steadies Super Duper 3-Vertical-Camera-Rig for Nat Geo

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:00:00 GMT

California Redwoods are some of the oldest and tallest trees on Earth, so snapping a single photograph couldn't possibly capture their majestic entirety.

Nick Nichols built a custom camera rig for the sole purpose of capturing the pure beauty and essence of those magnificent Redwood trees. The rig consists of three cameras in a row with a gyroscope to keep them steady. The rig then glides down the tree, taking picture after picture, for an 84-photo composite.

The finished stitched-together photo was featured in National Geographic. ...more

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Japanese Dog Learns to Squat Like Owner-San

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMT

Japan loves their pets. This dog owner loves his border collie, named Kirin. He loves Kirin enough to make sure he gets his exercise. All it takes is a little dog training after all. More squats in the park: ...more

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The Splinter: Car Woven Out of Wood

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:30:00 GMT

When you think about car customization, you think about installing a stereo or a turbocharger or something like that, but Joe Harmon and gang have gone a step further and built their own custom car - literally woven out of wood.

The high-performance Splinter is made almost entirely of wood composites and is bonded with professional strength polyvinyl alcohol, urethanes, and epoxies. The body itself is cherry strips weaved together by a homemade "wooden loom".

With even the wheels made of wood, you'd think we were back in the Stone Age, but that's definitely not the case. Multiple videos ...more

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Insanely GINORMOUS Treehouse

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Whoa, presenting the world's hugest, tallest, largest
Treehouse built by Horace Burgess of Crossville, Tennessee.

According to USA Today,

"It rises 97 feet into the sky, the support provided by a live, 80-foot-tall white oak 12 feet in diameter at its base. Six other trees brace the tower-like fortress...

The treehouse has 10 floors, averaging nine to 11 feet in height byBurgess's reckoning. He has never measured its size but estimates it tobe about 8,000 to 10,000 square feet. He did count the nails that hehas hammered into the wood — 258,000, give or take a few hundred. Andhe guesses he ...more

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Slackline Record Holder Very Nearly Buys the Farm

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:30:00 GMT

Slacklining is an *extreme-nut* sport of balance. It is a version of "tightrope walking" across great heights (note: distinct difference from tightrope: the rope is not as taut, but more elastic, trampoline-like).

Christian Schou currently holds the Guinness World Record title for the highest slackline (or tightrope walk). He accomplished this feat in Kjerag, Norway at 3,280 feet or 1000 meters (that is 3 times the height of the Eiffel towers!).

The painful to watch video is unfortunately not in English. Skip ahead to 2:19 for his insanely-close-to-death balancing act: Death seems like a ...more

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Dexterous Bot Kicks Human-Butt at Pen Spinning

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:30:00 GMT

You can try and try, but all the practice in the world can't compete with this robotic hand's pen spinning skills.

Ishikawa Komuro Lab's dexterous, high-speed robotic hand is lightning fast. It can close its fingers in less than 1/10th of a second and uses breakneck actuators with harmonic drive gears along with 1000 FPS cameras.

In addition to pen spinning, it can dribble ping-pong balls, tie knots, throw balls, grasp falling objects, and pick up rice grains with a pair of tweezers. Soon, humans won't be the ones getting cheered on at sports events… it'll be these guys. Multiple videos in ...more

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Freaky Cornstarch Speakers Explained

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The beautiful ectoplasmic dance of the cornstarch speaker monster is finally elucidated. In addition to being captivated by its eerily vibrant dance, you can now understand exactly why it happens, thanks to Collin Cunningham from MAKE. He gives a great explanation of cymatics - the study of visible sound and vibration. Check out this amazing hi-def sonic cornstarch sculpture from WonderHowTo's very own WonderDude Mike: ...more

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DIY Fancy-Ass Potato Chips

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:00:00 GMT

Luxirare, my very favorite, over-the-top, superfluous (in the best possible sense) recipe blog. We've witnessed the Pie-On-a-Stick, and marveled the beautiful Jell-O shots. Now Luxirare demonstrates how to make some fancy-ass chips. These aren't your typical store bought snacks.

Interested in achieving this kind of artistry with good ol' potato chips? Click through to read about the process. ...more

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Japanese Guitar Prodigy Performs With Ozzy Osbourne

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:30:00 GMT

Yuto Miyazawa kicks ass at electric guitar. Seriously, this kid is out of
this world. What other nine-year-old is invited to perform Crazy Train, on stage, with Rock-n-Roll God Ozzy Osbourne?

Named the "youngest professional guitarist" by the Guinness Book of World Records, Yuto is a true child prodigy. Yuto has played with numerous world renown musicians, including electric guitar pioneer Les Paul.

First video below shows Yuto's on stage performance with Ozzy, click on the second video to see him on the Ellen DeGeneres show.

Inspired? Learn how to play Crazy Train yourself. Ozzy + Yuto ...more

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World's Fastest Clapper

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:00:00 GMT

Behold, Kent "Toast" French, the Guinness World Record holder for fastest clapping. You might say, fast clapping? What kind of feat is that? Well, just watch. The video below gets pretty intense... Kent can clap 721 times in 60 seconds. That's 12 claps per second. ...more

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YUMmmy Cheeseburger Cupcakes

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Grossly-yummy DIY cheeseburger cupcakes by KateDW:

"My boyfriend surprised me on my birthdaywith these amazing little cupcakes. They were a huge hit so we decided to make a how-to page for everyone that always asks about them. "

Images below. For entire process, click through.

Previously, In-N-Out Cheeseburger...Cake! ...more

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Architecture With a 720º Panaramic View

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:30:00 GMT

Evolver is a fun little piece of architecture with an incredible 720º panoramic view of Zermatt, Switzerland. The structure was built by second year students of the ALICE Studio at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

"A continuous opening follows and turns around a 720 degrees circulation, offering the user a evolving perception of the usual Zermatt area..."

How'd they construct it? Watch the video below for the fast-forward idea, scroll down for additional images. To view the complete gallery of construction images, click through. ...more

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Solar Race Car Reaches 93MPH

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:30:00 GMT

If you saw this so-called automobile out on the street, you'd probably think a UFO had landed, but sure enough, it's a car - a solar powered race car.

Japan's Tokai Challenger solar vehicle won the 2009 Global Green Challenge, with speeds of up to 93MPH, running at only 1.8KW (half the power of standard tea kettle).

The losing solar cars:

The Endeavour (Cambridge University, Britain)

Infinium (University of Michigan) ...more

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Human-Scale Soccer Video Game

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:30:00 GMT

Replace that flimsy, plastic Guitar Hero axe with a soccer ball.

These DIY freestyle-footballers play their full-sized, wall-mounted "Football Hero" with skill, achieving a 76 percent accuracy rating after only 17 games.

They kick soccer balls at the control pads (pressure sensitive piezo sensors) on the fretboard projection, controlled by the Arduino platform.

Sure beats soccer practice.
Football Hero Demo.

Football Hero - Behind the Scenes. ...more

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DIY Musical Maven Cannot Stop Creating Instruments

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:30:00 GMT

Musical instruments are lots of fun but boy, they sure ain't cheap.

Dennis Havlena (the internet's true DIY instrument king) demonstrates some dedicated yankee ingenuity with his homemade alternatives (aka poor man's instruments). Dennis has created hundreds of hybrid, folksy instruments including bagpipes, banjos, psalteries, didgeridoos, hang drums, and dulcimers.

Don't miss his demonstration video below. There's no limit to what this guy can construct. Oh.. and the best part? Dennis was generous enough to load his site with multiple How-To's, just in case you want to try-it-yourself ...more

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Japan's Thomas Edison Sets Patent Guinness Record (Including Super Viagra)

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Talk about yankee ingenuity... zany Japanese inventor, Dr. Nakamats, has lead a life propelled by curiosity and inventiveness. Nakamats boasts that he has Thomas Edison beat by a mile (compare Edison's measly 1,093 patents to Nakamats' 3,357).

From Wikipedia:

"Dr. NakaMats is a Japanese inventor claiming to hold the world record for number of inventions with over 3,000, including "PyonPyon" spring shoes and the basic technology for the floppy disk, the CD, the DVD, the karaoke machine, the digital watch, CinemaScope, armchair "Cerebrex", sauce pump, and the taxicab meter…"

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Artist With Waaay Too Much Time and Money, Paints Pointless Optical Illusion

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:00:01 GMT

Artist Felice Varini has been playing with the art of illusion since 1979. This piece takes on the incredible scale of an entire Swiss village.

From Core77:

"In Cercle et suite d'éclats, Varini...superimposes perfect circles on the town of Vercorin in the Swiss Alps. From inside the village, the graphic is fragmented and impossible to read, but from a nearby vantage point, the lines come together to form a series of rings."

If you dig Varini's work, you might also enjoy Richard Wilson's Turning The Place Over...

More optical illusions... ...more

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Happy Halloween Brain-Cake!

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:00:00 GMT

Scrambling for a last minute disgustingly-yummy Halloween party idea? Looking for a dessert to go with your gruesome meat hands?

Try out Instructables member kiffakitty's totally gnarly Brain Cake. Images below, click through for full instructions on how to make it. ...more

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LED Graffiti In a Can

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Remember the magical LED graffiti video "paint"? Here's another cool LED graffiti design by Aissa Logerot.

"Halo is a handy light-writing tool, preserving the techniques and gestures that graffiti artists use with spray cans. It is possible to change the color and the brightness of the led to change the graffiti’s styles. If the light doesn’t have enough battery, users simply have to shake it to have energy again."

Scroll all the way down for a How-To employing a similar technique.
Video: Make dripping ink street art. ...more

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Yummy: Mutilated Hands...Edible

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Ew.

If you can stomach it, if you can even imagine yourself eating it, Not Martha (they really live up to their name with this one... this is definitely not a Martha Stewart project) has posted a tutorial on making a "Meat Hand".

Meat Hand = meatloaf with cheese on top, dressed with bloody ketchup, and detailed with disgusting onion fingernails, lying in a gooey bed of mashed potatoes.

There ya go, Halloween dinner. Click through to learn about the entire process, gallery of images are posted below.

The process: ...more

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This Week, Harvard Scientists Have Just Discovered Dirt!

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT

No more alkaline batteries. No more NiCad's. No NiMH's. No Lithium. Forget all of those hazardous chemical reactions in the batteries and think eco-friendly. Professor David Edwards did.

Edward's group Lebônê, incubated at Harvard, has developed a way to make batteries from nature. Microbial fuel cell (MFC) batteries generate energy from bacteria in the soil and consist of a graphite-cloth anode, a chicken-wire cathode, manure and mud, a sand ion barrier, and salt water as electrolytes.

Save developing nations, save the planet, in one word: revolutionary.

Popular Mechanics named the Harvard ...more

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Shoot Lasers Ghostbusters-Style

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Send the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man back to the world of s'mores and hot cocoa this Halloween.

This complete Ghostbusters costume from Instructables user Depot Devoid is like the real-life movie prop. You can shoot "laser" particle beams at ghosts with the Proton Pack, and capture them with the Muon Ghost Trap. There's even a set of Ecto Goggles to complete the outfit.

The basic controls of the Proton Pack are controlled via an Arduino, creating flashing and fading lights. Though non-functional, these gadgets look like the real deal.

Click through to Instructables to build-it-yourself. ...more

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Va Voom: Real Life Comic-Book-Girl for Halloween

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:00:00 GMT

The subject at hand takes the prize for the best girl-costume of the year. Classy, pretty & comic book related. Check out this Roy Lichtenstein-esque makeup job. Amazing. ...more

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High as a Kite - Stunning Aerial Photos

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT

Make Magazine presents UC Berkeley's professor
of architecture, Cris Benton.

From Make, "Cris is a leader in the aerial kite photography community, constantly developing new ways to rig remotely controlled cameras to customized kites for stunning results."

Kite aerial photography is the technique of using kites to lift cameras to take photographs. The process is a lot of fun and yields beautiful results.

Click on the second video in the gallery to learn how to do-it-yourself. Scroll further down to see some of Benton's work.
Video: Make a kite aerial photography rig. ...more

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Ultra Slo-Mo Fire Breathing

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:00:01 GMT

Napalm Dragon has an incredible video of super slo-mo fire breathing.

"There is no super imposing. This is 'as is' (Low Res) footage captured at 1,000 fps and 2,000 fps
The Camera used was the Weisscam HS-2."

Whoahhh..... Try-it-yourself:
Video: Breathe fire. ...more

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Hack Together Creepy Arduino Shifty-Eyeballs For Halloween

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:30:00 GMT

Todbot offers instructions for making your own Arduino shifty-googly Halloween eyeballs. Perfect to pop inside a pumpkin or skull.

All you need is "3 servo motors, some scary eyes, a few Popsicle sticks and an Arduino". Click through for a detailed How-To, as well as a video demonstration of the servo controlled eyes.

Learn more about Arduino on WonderHowTo, or check out Ladyada's thorough primer tutorial. ...more

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On EBAY: Mario Mania + LEGOs = Ultimate Fanboy Idol

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT

To Mario enthusiasts everywhere: Mario mania has been lovingly expressed all over the web for some time now (including How-To). The most recent accomplishment brings together two classic favorites: Mario plus LEGOs.

Presenting the ultimate nerd idol: World's Largest LEGO Mario. Currently for sale on Ebay:

"Biggest Lego-Mario in the World - (Size over 5 ft 9 / 70.8 in)

Game Mania Started the build of this statue with aid of a professional Lego builder 2 weeks before officially revealing it at the LEGO WORLD fair 22nd October 2009. This statue measures 70.87 inch (5.9 ft / 180 cm), contains ...more

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1:35,000 Scale: World's Absolute Tiniest Working Model Train

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:00:00 GMT

35,000 times smaller than an actual train, David Smith has likely roped in the world record for tiniest model train. Unfortunately the train's motor does operate externally, but very cool nonetheless. More images below the video. Previously, World's (ex) Tiniest Electric Train Set. ...more

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Gruesomely-Awesome Star Wars Wedding Cake

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Exquisitely detailed Star Wars wedding cake! Amazing sugar art representation of Luke Skywalker lying in dead tauntaun innards, made for Star Wars artist Chris Trevas and his wife Julie.

"Julie and I had Courtney Clark from Cake Nouveau of Food Network Challenge (and TLC Ultimate Cake-Off) fame do our wedding cakes including a special cake request from me — Luke Skywalker stuffed inside a dead Tauntaun!"

Previously, Who's Behind This Obsessively Realistic Baby Cake? ...more

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Just Released! Freaky Human-Soldier-Bot: PETMAN

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Remember Big Dog? Or Big Dog's counterpart, Little Dog? Well, Boston Dynamics has added a new member to their creepily-moving-calvary.

Boston Dynamics mission statement:

"PETMAN is an anthropomorphic robot for testing chemical protection clothing used by the US Army. Unlike previous suit testers, which had to be supported mechanically and had a limited repertoire of motion, PETMAN will balance itself and move freely; walking, crawling and doing a variety of suit-stressing calisthenics during exposure to chemical warfare agents. PETMAN will also simulate human physiology within the protective ...more

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Bloodless Virtual Autopsies Nab Criminals

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Virtual autopsies are the wave of the future in forensic medicine, using three-dimensional x-ray techniques instead of hacking through a mess of blood and guts. The Virtual Autopsy Table allows the cause of death to be determined quickly to aid in criminal investigations. Amazing - straight out of Bones or CSI.

If you prefer the blood and guts method over advanced technology, here's a great autopsy how-to and lots of educational dissection and human anatomy tutorials. ...more

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Battling Wii Soccer Robots

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:00:01 GMT

These soccer playing robots from TU Freiberg Robotics are programmed using Knesthetic Bootstrapping, which control the Bioloid's motions. Players can send commands to the soccer bots via Wii Remotes, and users abroad can control them directly online. If soccer's not your game, robots can play chess, too. ...more

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Shoot Deadly Darts Amazon-Style

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:30:00 GMT

Before the invention of the bow and arrow, there was the atlatl - a spear-thrower capable of hurling large darts at over 100 mph. It was used long ago to pierce the thick hides of mammoths, and today it's still used in the Amazon Basin, as well as sports competitions. KipKay has an easy at-home solution for the atlatl deadly dart shooter. This homemade atlatl was first conceived by Daryl Hrdlicka. You can see his design in MAKE, Volume 12 and in the photos below. ...more

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Auto-Unicycle Trumps Segway

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:00:00 GMT

Forget the Segway, you don't even have to stand anymore thanks to Honda's U3-X. This self-balancing unicycle relies on an inclinometer instead of gyroscopes to keep the rider balanced. The personal transporter even allows the user to travel forward, back, left, and right thanks to the Honda Omni Traction (HOT) drive system. This automatic unicycle gives a whole new meaning to taking it easy. Check out this CNN video for a further demonstration of the Honda U3-X. ...more

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DIY Gigantic Nintendo Coffee Table Controller

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:30:00 GMT

Playing Super Mario Bros 3 with a giant controller on a projection screen = nerd nirvana. Giant NES controller/coffee table/storage box made by Kyle Downes. This piece of furniture actually connects to the system, and works as a real controller. Scroll down for video demonstration and images.

If you're interested in making one yourself, Kyle was kind enough to post detailed entries on his process (scroll down to the bottom of this page for index of posts). ...more

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Play Foosball With LEGOs

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Stretta considered investing in a foosball table for his son, and ultimately decided to go the (much more fun) DIY route: a LEGO foosball table. Very nice work: Previously, Obsessively Authentic LEGO V-8.
Swede Concocts Rubik's and Sudoku Brainiac LEGO-bots.
4500 Brick LEGO Pop-Up. ...more

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Magical LED Graffiti "Paints" With Video

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:00:00 GMT

Just like magic - incredible new project from Sweatshoppe in which video is "painted" onto a wall. Video demonstration below, (don't miss it! absolutely visually amazing).

Process works as follows (Design Boom):

"Sweatshoppe...uses video mapping techniques as a means of video painting onto walls through the use of a paint roller. The only catch is, the paint roller doesn't actually paint anything onto the wall. Instead it is made from green LEDs which work in conjunction with a camera next to a projector which is programmed with software that tracks its movements. The software then outputs ...more

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Eyeballs Can Now Control a Cell Phone

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT

Yep, just what the headline says. Believe it or not, NTT DoCoMo has showed off "a set of prototype in-ear headphones that can detect and measures changes in the body's electrical state when your eyes move." Forget voice activation, eye gesture recognition is the thing of the future. Image. ...more

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Cirque Du Soleil Trampoline Ninjas

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Check out Cirque Du Soleil's Oli Lemieux, as well as other performers, training on the trampoline. Kinda blows backyard trampoline tricks out of the water... but you gotta start somewhere. Amazing. ...more

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Vortex Cannon Belches Jumbo Smoke Rings

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:00:00 GMT

What makes vortex cannons so super cool? Is it that they're the perfect blend of weaponry and science?

This cannon isn't particularly destructive, but lots of fun regardless. Read about Tesla Down Under's process on creating a huge smoke ring generator or make your own vortex cannon with Make magazine.

DIY Gear Clock

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:00:00 GMT

Alan Parekh's latest creation is a clock made from wooden gears.

Parekh says on Hacked Gadgets:

"The clock...consists of a bunch of wooden gears, a PIC microcontroller and a stepper motor. The heart of the clock is a PIC 16f628A microcontroller. This microcontroller has an internal oscillator however an external 20MHz crystal oscillator is being used since it will have to accurately keep track of time for weeks and months. The microcontroller is interfaced to two buttons and one motor...

To achieve the correct timing the 9 tooth motor gear is advanced 4 steps every 9 seconds. By moving 4 ...more

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LED Lashes: Geeky-Hot Torture

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Ok, first there's the common practice of adhering false eyelashes, and moving quite a bit further from "the norm" is the
extremely strange practice of eyelid gluing.

This latest trend can be summed up as geeky-tech-barbaric. Designer Soomi Park has come up with the idea of affixing LEDS to the eyelids, further perpetuating the "big eye obsession."

Wow. Words fail me. Like? Dislike? Uh....doesn't it hurt?!?

Swede Concocts Rubik's and Sudoku Brainiac LEGO-Bots

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Sweden's Hans Andersson, has a new way of solving both the Rubik's Cube and Sudoku puzzles... ROBOTS. That's right, memorizing lengthy algorithms or racking your brain with numbers is no longer required to solve these perplexing puzzles.

The Tilted Twister and Sudoku Solver are independent, fully automatic robots made entirely of the Lego Mindstorms NXT Retail Kit. Though solving a sudoku puzzle may be a slow process for the Sudoku Solver, the Tilted Twister can unscramble the Rubik's Cube in just under 6 minutes. Pretty impressive for a robot made of Legos. If you want to create your own ...more

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Photograph Beams of Light

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:00:00 GMT

More science-geek-art: amazing photographs by Alan Jaras.

Apparently the images have not been altered in any way (computer generated or color treated) and are true reproductions of light refraction patterns captured on film.

From Neu Black:

"A majority of the works are analogue images of the refraction patterns from a beam of light passing through a transparent object (textured glass). The image is captured directly on to 35mm film, no camera lens is used (a photogram using film instead of photographic paper), the transparent object replaces the lens. Jaras introduces color by placing ...more

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Shoot Anvils Looney Toons Style

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:00:00 GMT

Gay Wilkinson likes shooting anvils more than having sex.

That's right, he says exactly that: "People talk about the joy of sex, but it don’t last nothin’ like shootin’ anvils!”

If you love explosives (even a little bit) as much as Gay Wilkinson, don't miss the video below.

Do-It-Yourself Anvil Firing Advice. ...more

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