Real Job, Much?: Designers Build Analog Video Game Powered by Elaborate RC Car Race Track
Thursday, August 5th, 2010I’m not sure exactly what it means to be in a German design collective called “sputnic”, but it apparently involves: Dressing up like a contemporary version of the Sprockets guys from Saturday Night Live. Committing hours and hours to frivolous projects with no apparent commercial value, but with plenty of appeal to geeks with a taste [...]
Slave Leia PB&J, Please: Star Wars Sandwich Cutters
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010Do you know how it is that Star Wars sandwich cutters weren’t conceived until just now, in 2010? Well, I figured it out. Because, clearly, my mother didn’t love me enough when I was a kid in the 1980s. Which is when these should have been invented. By someone who cared about my well-being. Which depended [...]
Oh, Look, Someone Made Something Obvious: The Boba Fett Backpack
Friday, July 2nd, 2010Good thing the Boba Fett backpack isn’t being released until August, because if I saw one of you wearing this thing at Comic-Con later this month, I would demolish you with the power of my judgment. I would set my Phaser of Contempt to “withering.” No offense. I mean, I’d go back to appreciating you* [...]
Cuddle Monster: Homemade Cylon Teddy Bear
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010Rather than give your sweetheart a teddy bear for your next special occasion, why not give her a Cylon teddy bear, the gift that says, “You give me warm and fuzzies which make me want to serve you like a mindless death bot so please, please, please just give me something to kill”…? Because your [...]
Snow-Blowers Are for Wussies: Snow-Melting Fire-Breathing Dragon [Video]
Thursday, February 18th, 2010Nick and Anna B. of Bel Air, Maryland, don’t screw around when it comes to battling the Snowpocalypse. Nick, an engineer, handmade everything on this fire-breathing dragon, “including his fiery red eyes and his ferocious roaring.” It’s not often a geek can out-badass the neighborhood’s Johnny Power Tool, so cheers to Nick. Via Gizmodo, who [...]
Not Much More Than Meets The Eye: Autobot Transformers Watches
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009I have seen some poor excuses for Transformers toys before, but the digital Transformers Bumblebee Watch and Optimus Watch take the three-layer cake of shiftless design. You know the one: it’s frosted with laziness and tastes of powedered silicon from a factory floor in Shenzhen, China. For $9.99, I guess you get what you pay [...]
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