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Hacked IKEA Coffee Table Has A Set Of Trains
Some people find IKEA to be compulsively tacky, while others love it with a passion. The thing is, IKEA actually isn't that bad. Yeah, some things they market are pure crap. I would be considerably stupid if I didn't agree to that, but there is so much you can do with the stuff that you get from IKE ...
17 Creative Circuit Board Inspired Designs
For non-geeks, circuit boards are ugly, sharp, confusing pieces of computer hardware that really make no sense at all. On the other hand, to geeks, circuit boards are beautifully detailed designs that can do magical things. They are eco-friendly and very interesting. Sometimes geeks even collect old ...
ABC Superheroes: The Only Way Kids Should Learn The Alphabet
The really boring part about being born before the '80s is that we weren't a kid when all the cool things finally started hitting the stores. It seems when I was a kid, things were less refined and sophisticated. It's like people weren't able to think a couple years ahead of time to really start dig ...
Fully Functional Paper Origami Cell Phone Design
It's funny how we go on and on about what tomorrow will hold as far as technology. We try to predict it with infographics or try to make top 100 lists of the most possible features that might come in the next version of things. Sure, it's a heck of a lot of fun to see how many you manage to pinpoint ...
iPaw’d: The iPad Made For Tech Savvy Dogs
Let's face it; we live in a technology society. Back in the old days, it was just the man of the house who would dabble with technology. Even though that was only about 50 years ago, it seems like ancient times. Now, in a lot of homes, every person in the family is equipped with gadgets and connecte ...
Kinect Hack: The New Way To Play Space Invaders
The genius invention, Kinect, has been in the headlines for quite some time now, and we are all loving it. One hack after another goes viral, and you can really tell that the Kinect technology appeals to the minds of computer geeks. In the beginning, the hacks were somewhat basic, but they have evol ...
18 Pulp Fiction Characters Forever Pixel Immortalized
They have become a cult phenomenon, and they keep appearing at least once a week nowadays. I am of course talking about the pixelized movie characters that take us back to the 8-bit era when Commodore 64 and its peers founded the gaming landscape that we're used to today. I remember starting up a ga ...
Fascinating: The Fake Plastic Crowds You See In Movies
If you are James Cameron and have hundreds of millions of dollars budgeted to make a film, then you'd probably use real people (extras) or fancy computer generated imagery to create a crowd for a scene, right? But what about all the movies that don't have that kind of budget? Have you ever wondered ...
Hasselblad Camera: The Working Downloadable Version
If you consider yourself to be a photographer, and if you are even remotely interested in the ins and outs of different cameras, you should really know what Hasselblad is all about. It's of course the world's most sought after camera. The price tag for an old one is unbelievably high, yet the awesom ...
Geek Heaven: The Map of the Internet
I remember back in the days when I didn't have a computer at home with Internet access. My first ISP was Mindspring, and to this day, I still have my first Mindspring email address. I pay extra each month just to keep it. I'm a sucker for anything retro and nostalgic, including email addresses.
I ...
The Truth About Grandmas, Grandpas & Technology
You know I love grandmas and grandpas. I write about them a lot. The older generation has a lot of love and wisdom to share with us. We just have to take time out of our schedules to stop and listen. A while back I wrote about the oldest Facebook member alive, and of course, she was the cutest littl ...
Smart Bookrest Hopes To Bridge Digital And Printed Media
A lot of people have complained about the way that we're seeing printed media move online and become digital media. Every year there are hundreds of printed magazines that convert their publishing onto the web in order to save money and to speed up the publishing process. The blogging sensation has ...
Get Your Geek On: The Circuit Board Coffee Table
This coffee table is completely geektastic on so many levels. We've seen circuit board coffee tables before, like this one Richard wrote about called the Motherboard Coffee Table; however, we've never seen one quite like this.
This table gets the ultimate geek award because the computer parts are ...
Jumboard: Turns Your Baby Into An Internet Guru
Isn't it wonderful how the Internet just keeps spreading knowledge to everyone? The sheer amount of information you can find on the billions of useful websites around the Internet is just unprecedented. This has become a catapult for the digitization of youngsters around the world, and small childre ...
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 ...