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Star Wars Cosplay Steampunk Costumes Will Leave You Baffled
I must be a true sucker for everything that has to do with science fiction cause I keep stumbling over these doggone awesome things over and over again. Star Wars of course seems to be the overall focal point for creative geeks, and I sometimes wonder which has the largest following, Star Wars or St ...
Lego Ray Gun: Insane Build With Amazing Retro Feel
When it comes to Lego guns, there are really two camps. There are those that either embrace the creativeness, or those that really hate the concept because it has to do with weapons. I can understand the concern, however there is a distinct difference between play and reality. Young kids might not b ...
Apple’s Official Playset Brings The Apple Store Home To You
Leave it to Apple to figure out a way to create lifelong customers from the moment a toddler picks up one of these little Apple Store playsets. This looks like so much fun; I want to order one for myself. I guess it's not enough that I have a MacBook Pro, iMac, iPod, iPad and iPhone. I really don't ...
Real Snail Mail: Get Your Mail Delivered By Real Snails
When I first read about this, I was like, noooooo way! As it turns out, not only is it true, but it's been around for a few years. I've written about some wild and wacky stuff before, but I think this one is at the top of the list. I was able to trace it all the way back to this Time article in 2008 ...
Original Ads: Segway Has Finally Gone Medieval On Us
Yesterday I got so tired of the way that TV commercials always go to the extreme to sound "legit" that I decided to push the power off button and started reading up on some HTML 5 and SQL database optimizing. Yeah, it wasn't the most exciting trade, but it was necessary. I found it quite interesting ...
Trexels: 235 Star Trek Characters In Awesome Pixelations
I think it's safe to say that everyone will agree when I argue that Star Trek is probably the most influential science fiction TV show ever created. Not even the Star Wars franchise can measure up to its impact on society, and the gadgets we are drooling over today. I have to admit though, as a youn ...
Muppet Fans: A Fabulous Muppet Show Theatre Design
If you are a fan of The Muppet Show, you are going to love this. Lance Cardinal, a student in Vancouver British Columbia, created this scratch built Muppet Theatre Playset that blows my mind. He was inspired by Palisades Toy Company. Palisades is a company that went bankrupt several years ago, and a ...
3 Anti-Theft Ways To Keep Your Coffee & Lunch Safe
There are a couple of annoyances that go along with working in an office with a lot of co-workers. The more people that are in the office, the greater the chance that you will not keep your lunch safe before it's time to consume the deliciousness. It's a common problem and geeks of all ages have tri ...
Star Wars Characters As Colorful Mexican Day Of The Dead Art
It was a while ago when I wrote an article that celebrated the work of a Mexican designer named Jose Pulido and his way of portraying Star Wars in the form of Mexican Traditional Art. I really thought it was the most wonderful way of combining two different geeky and awesome art forms. But as we all ...
How To: Build A Lego Ship In A Bottle
Did you know that it's really possible to build a Lego ship in a bottle? It is! I can tell you after watching this time-lapse video that it will take a very steady hand and a ton of patience. Julia Morley gets my Geek of the Week award for sure!
She says at the beginning of the video that this "p ...
Booty Call iPhone Holder: Baby Got Back
I don't know what's making me giggle more, this big iPhone booty or the fact that it even got into the Wall Street Journal two days ago. People on the Internet are saying it's straight out of the Jersey Shore. I wouldn't know since I've only seen that show once. I need to keep all the brain cells I ...
Rymdreglage: 8-Bit Retro Lego Stop Motion Music Video
When geeks get creative the most wonderful things can happen. It doesn't always happen, but it does quite often, even if I may say so myself. A geek's creativity might not speak to the overall general population, but it's evident that their brainchildren usually make a high impact on social media se ...
Pointing Stick: The IBM Approach To A Mouse In 1990
Do you ever wonder why we all started using a mouse rather than any other way of interacting with the user interface on the screen? Well, as you might have suspected, the mouse wasn't always the logical step, and it was more of a stepping stone towards something that could be more time saving and ea ...
Modern Fossils: How Our Children Will See Our Achievements
When looking at the technological revolution back in the '80s, I always get a little nostalgic and that retro feeling wraps itself around me like a blanket keeping me warm and blissful. It's like everything I have ever come to enjoy was born back in that age. But things change quickly nowadays, and ...
Multitasking And User Interface As Explained In 1982
It's quite funny how we don't reflect on the interface pretty much all of us are using on today's computers anymore. We're more focused on what has to be done during the day rather than marveling over the fact that we can actually do all that by multitasking. User interface and multitasking are word ...