Deep dives into niche interests, curiosities, experiments, hardware, software, science, and ideas that appeal to technically curious and enthusiast audiences.
The Toaster NES Mod: Suddenly Mornings Are Way Better
If you have an NES sitting around your house, it's probably collecting dust underneath the bed or on the top shelf of your bedroom closet, right? It's definitely one of those things you can't get rid of, even though it was replaced long ago with a fancier, flashier console. For those of us who grew ...
Life-Size LEGO Go-Kart Is The Epicenter Of Epic
When we were young, pretty much all of us dreamed at some point about building something epic out of LEGO. The thing is, usually people don't have that many blocks. This ultimately results in smaller and less epic builds with less possibilities, but for some people, the dream never goes away. It sta ...
Etch-A-Sketch Belt Buckle Provides A Different Kind Of Fun
My theory is - Why carry something around in your hands if you can attach it to your body in another way? It makes sense to me. This Etch-A-Sketch belt buckle was created with that in mind, and I could totally get into this. My only question is, if your friend wants to play with it, doesn't that mea ...
Shakespeare Insult Generator: Thou Shall Say It Like Shakespeare
How would you like to be able to whip out a Shakespeare insult on the fly whenever necessary? This is such an oldie but a goodie. I remember seeing this make the rounds on the Internet a few years ago, and I didn't write about it back then. Now it's picking up a little steam again, so I had to share ...
R2-D2 Keg Mod Tutorial Just Reinvented The Party
Even though it's not Friday, I thought I'd kick this day off by pushing the party mode button. What could be more geeky than throwing a party with all custom made kegs worthy of the most hardcore geeks? Not much, right? When it comes to kegs, nothing will clock you in quite like the R2-D2 keg mod th ...
Plush Zombie Animals Will Keep Haunting You In Your Sleep
It seems humanity can't get over the fact that a zombie apocalypse is highly improbable. The way we are used to seeing zombies in movies and comics just isn't medically supported. However, what could happen is that with the help of drugs we could put people in a state that resembles a zombie state, ...
Iron Man LEGO Build Is An Epic Life-Size Brick Marvel
Usually when people start out using LEGO either for play or to visualize something, they start getting grand ideas. These are ideas that might not be possible unless you spend months on one single build. As we all know, the secret to success is knowing that the longer you can keep your attention on ...
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Live With Less: How To Prune Your “Things” Down [Chart]
By now, you've probably heard of Dave Bruno. He's the blogger who decided to live with less, and he's pruned his life down to only owning 100 things (give or take a few things that he says "don't count"). People started taking notice of him several years ago when he started working towards this life ...
Death Star & Tie Fighter Tea Ball For Star Wars Tea Fanatics
Most people know that I am a heavy tea drinker. I basically live on the stuff. I think my addiction to it started when I was just about to begin high school. My friend and I used to go for a cup of tea on our lunch breaks and talk about games, coding and pretty much everything around it. That stuck ...
Retro Table Created Out Of Old Mac G4 Computers
What do you do with old gadgets and computers? Some people just send them off to be recycled when they purchase a new one. It doesn't really matter if they are working or not, they are just finished with them. Some hand their old computers down to someone else, and some people even store them for fu ...
Hipster Style: Alphabet Design & Language Translator Chart
It seems like hipsters have gotten a bit of a bad rap lately. Even the urban dictionary, which is a place where trends are usually celebrated, talks about hipsters like they are sub-humans. One definition describes them as "a shallow subculture of teens and young adults that shows how the worst of h ...
Perfect Eyebrow Shaving Template For Men
It's once again time to open the infamous box of WTF items of the day. There are a lot of them on the Internet, and there seems to be no stop to them. People come up with the most ridiculous things sometimes. I mean, some of the things people email us are not only ridiculously geeky, but also uneart ...
Sexy Satin Black Batman Mask Cufflinks For Men
Cufflinks for men are such a subtle way for a guy to express his style. Since I normally think a guy in a retro t-shirt and faded blue jeans is way hotter than a man in a suit, I don't have much personal experience with cufflinks. Besides, cufflinks aren't normally very geeky. When I saw these cuffl ...
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Star Wars vs. Star Trek: The Starships Compared [Infographic]
Here we go again on a topic that never gets old. Which is better, Star Wars or Star Trek? The Star Wars vs. Star Trek debate has been going on for years. I know to some people, it may seem ridiculous to even ask the question. To non-geeks, those two seem either too similar or too different to even c ...
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Top 10 Smartest People Alive Today [Infographic]
As we all know, there are some pretty clever people in the world. There are people who have been able to redefine physics, chemistry, biology and our entire outlook on life itself with seemingly no instruments at all. There's no doubt Einstein is one of these people, and his name has become synonymo ...