Awesome Beyond Words: Lego Freddie Mercury Statue
The greatest rock n roll frontman ever finally gets the Lego treatment thanks to a diehard fan. The resulting sculpture captures Freddie’s most iconic stance onstage when he still rocked a fearsome mustache that out-machoed the beardiest macho men anywhere (here’s looking at you Chuck Norris). While the sculpture isn’t big on detail, it perfectly [...]
Fantastic Hobbit House Built As Family Home For Just £3,000
Simon Dale a 32 year old UK man has built his very own Hobbit House for his family after becoming fed up with increasing mortgage repayments. The construction of the very unique Hobbit style house took Dale just four months and only £3,000. When Dale started the project he had no experience in building or architecture. [...]
Twin Lens Retro Camera Kit
Have you ever fancied building your very own twin lens camera? Well, if you have, or you just find the price of the modern DSLR cameras a little steep for your pocket. A new kit has been created for $20 that will provide you with everything you need to build your very own retro 35mm [...]
Cute Slice Of Pizza Sleeping Bag Costs A Bundle
But wait, before the bad news arrives let it be writ that this sure is hilarious. Sleeping in a pizza slice, imagine that! It definitely comes highly recommended to pizza eaters who order ‘zza on a weekly basis at the very least. There is, however, an origin tale behind this odd sleeping bag that appeared [...]
Air Jordans, Made From A Pizza Box Packaging
If you enjoy a little papercraft you might enjoy constructing these Nike Air Jordans which can be made using a pizza box style packaging. The box has been designed to hold and be sold with the new “XIV Blueprint” t-shirt that will be arriving in the spring of 2012. The packaging resembles the pattern that is [...]
Samsung Series 7 Slate Hacked To Run OS X Lion (video)
If you have a Samsung Series 7 Slate tablet gathering dust in your home or office, or you would simply prefer to try a slightly different OS on it rather than the intended Windows 7. You might be interested to know that a developer has now been able to install and run OS X Lion [...]
Nuclear Taco Sensor Helmet Gameshow (video)
A team at altLab in Lisbon have used a number of sensors and a little Arduino wizardry to create a very unique kind of hat which is capable of measuring the discomfort level you are currently under, whilst eating taco’s. The helmet measures your discomfort by measuring your perspiration, temperature, and the rate at which you drink [...]
920 Pencils Create Awesome Stop Motion Movie : Against The Grain (video)
I am always a fan of stop motion movies and this one created by film maker and animator Jonathan Chong is just great to watch. The complete video is a total of 5,125 frames over 3 minutes 23 seconds and uses 920 pencils to create the different effects and animations. Watch it after the jump, [...]
uWave Microwave Plays YouTube Videos Whilst Cooking Your Food (Video)
Are you one of those people who stands there watching the timer on the microwave when you are cooking something, what about watching a YouTube video instead? A group of students who were competing in the PennApps Data Hackathon have created a Microwave which will play a YouTube video that is the same length as [...]
Crimson Laser Ball is A DIY Extravaganza (Video)
For reasons definitely related to gaming, this visually absorbing tennis ball is reminiscent of those combat drones from Mass Effect 2. Remember the engineer class? They launch drones in lieu of biotic powers, right? Yeah, so appearance-wise this sort of brings to mind those drones, except it doesn’t float around and zap people. Gaming references [...]
Lego Figure Inner Anatomy Revealed
If you have ever wondered what the inside a Lego figure looks like, artist Jason Freeny has created his interpretation of what it may be. Freeny has taken a 7.5″ Lego figure dissected it and put it on show for all to see. As Freeny was creating the sculpture he constantly updated his Facebook page as each stage was completed and [...]
Awesome Carbon Fiber Stormtroopers
What could be cooler than Stormtroopers, how about some carbon fiber Stormstroopers, which were created by Leonard Carson, an engineering technician from San Diego Composites, who thought it would be a cool idea to create some create some Stormtrooper costumes out of carbon fiber. Although Lenoard Carson doesn’t say how much the carbon fiber costumes [...]
