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Got an old busted iPod at home? Are you a smoker or a spy? Then why not gut out the non-working electronic innards of the device and use it to store a few cigarettes. It’s a crush-proof stealthy casing. Personally, I use a hollowed out boombox for my huge Cuban cigars.


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The humble dish towel is one household object that doesn’t get much geek love these days. But if you want the complete geek kitchen, you’re going to have to geek out your dish towel. And without many commercial options out there, one craftster has taken it upon herself to embroider her own motherboard dish towel with a pattern just like a computer’s motherboard. Now if only we could get geeks to actually use plates instead of ordering takeout Chinese food and eating out of styrofoam 7 days a week, this dish towel might actually come in handy.

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We’ve all played a little tailpipe trumpet, particularly after certain meals like fast food and beans (the magical fruit!) if you know what I mean. But someone has taken it upon themselves to literally hook up a trumpet to a motorcycle’s tailpipe. It looks like it’s functional as a tailpipe but the musical sounds this tailpipe trumpet puts out while probably somewhat better than a regular motorcycle tailpipe rumbling, is not going to make anyone think it’s the next Miles Davis anytime soon.

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“The Idea Of A Tree” by Thomas Traxler is a piece of art that creates itself. Powered by solar panels, the artwork uses that energy to weave itself into intricate designs. The machine produces one object per day and it varies depending upon the intensity of the sun on that day. The name comes from a comparison to a tree, whereas both are three dimensional objects that will grow dependent upon the sun.
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Check out this awesome Lego safe! You would think that breaking into a Lego safe would just mean taking a few bricks off but this one is quite a bit more complex. The safe weighs 14 pounds for starters. It has a motion detecting alarm so it can’t be moved without alerting people in earshot. The lock require five double digit codes to open it, which results in over 305 billion different combinations. There’s an electronic status display showing the numbers as you turn the combination dials. When you get the combo right, the door electronically opens itself.

Here’s a video demonstrating how it works:


Wow, a very impressive piece of Lego crafting.

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The crafty modder over at Mavrinac has created the ultimate vintage gamer’s alarm clock. Is the SNES system old enough to be considered vintage? I’d say yes in the fast changing technological world we live in today- last year is vintage. But anyway, he’s basically gutted a cartridge (Paladin’s Quest) and inserted a digital alarm clock into it. That’s the easy part! He also went ahead and completely rewired up a controller so it can be used to change the settings on the alarm clock. That’s impressive! Well done sir, well done. Video of the controller in action after the jump: Read the rest of this entry »

When your watch breaks there’s really nothing you can do with it anymore, besides fix it, but seriously who’s going to do that? Fix it? This is a disposable consumer society we live in, when things break, we replace them and send the broken ones off to some landfill in China or someplace far away. But there’s not need to anymore… you can use your old watches in smart and artistic ways, like turning them into motorcycles.

Of course if you or I tried to make a motorcycle (or anything else really) out of a broken watch, it would probably just look like a disassembled broken watch with the parts haphazardly glued together into an incomprehensible mishmosh of gears and parts. So let’s leave the art to the experts and enjoy the pictures of their work.

NAWCC via Hacked Gadgets

This is an easy one to do but it looks really cool. Just paint up your pumpkins to look like Pac-Man characters. A little creative cutting, some blacklight activated acrylic paint, a dowel to mount them on and you have an instant classic video game Halloween pumpkin. The cherries are made from crab apples and some wire and the pellets are small gourds. Crafty! Happy Halloween everyone!

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