Oh, the wonders of DIY! Encased in some very detailed Galactic Empire hardware, including a Death Star, this surround sound system is essentially a Yamaha 2.1 stereo system given the benefit of an iPod dock and TIE Fighters.

If you’re an iPhone diehard, don’t miss this story. Wonder of wonders, a very prestigious university lab has come up with a neat DIY iPhone mod that produces incredible photos. Seen below are examples of the spectroscopic/microscopic iPhone camera upgrade’s pics.

I have talked about the crazy slingshots that Joerg Sprave makes on a few occasions. The last time I mentioned him was when he invented the slingshot that flings iPhones. Joerg is back with a new slingshot that has a new and very cool design. This is probably the only one of the slingshots Joerg [...]

The details! The Details! It’s really the details that puts this interstellar warship a cut above the rest. To be dreadfully honest here, Battlestar Galactica doesn’t have the sexiest spaceships around. But, it is an endearing saga and the 2003-onwards series was legendary.  

A cool RFID music table has been created using Arduino, iPod and RFID tags to make it easy to change albums by simply changing the RFID tag. Each RFID tag has an individual code number relating the album and tracks on it which is them played from a connected iPod. The design has been created for a disabled [...]

In more civilized parts of the world (ahem!), the measure of a man is his calligraphy. Sad to say this particular kind of bragging right is near extinction in this day and age. That doesn’t mean calligraphy no longer inspires, as shown by Nicholas Hanna’s massive effort to reinvent the water calligraphy genre. The Beijing-based [...]

Jerry Jaksha has created a very natural wooden iPhone stand using a bent wood laminating technique he mastered nearly 15 years ago to bend strips of wood to create a unique iPhone docking station. In his wood bending technique Jaksha uses wet wood and a couple of clamps together with Gorilla Glue to create the curved wood [...]

If you haven’t already heard about Thunderpants headphones, they are a pair of custom built headphones created using a pair of Fostex T50RPs headphones as a base. The Thunderpants headphones currently has the audio community in a frenzy to get a hold of a pair as their sound quality after the modification is awesome and “measure with some of the finest in [...]

An innovative modder Faustus70 has used an old antique wooden chair to create a working Steampunk Nerf gun which can hold up to 10 Nerf whister darts. Its powered by 3 x AA batteries and is even fitted with a scope that provides a 3 x magnification making sure you never miss your target. It was [...]

Mario Lukas has created a very unique type of printer that uses toilet rolls for its printing paper rather than traditional A4 sheets. Lukas created the unique printer as an entry into a hardware hacking contest “Mach flott den Schrott” run by German technology magazine c’t. Lukas build his Toilet Paper Printer using old printer parts and has [...]

An inventive modder has been able to use a rooted Droid Bionic to integrate it into his car media system to enable Netflix streaming, Webtop and HDMI mirroring. The mod now allows Netflix and other applications to be streamed to all the displays within the car media system and even has Webtop support making it easy to surf the [...]

So there’s this artist in Ukraine who recently outed a strange S&M mask/headgear that borrows from the facehugger aesthete. More than one blogger has opined that it’s a fitting sort of tribute to H.R. Giger, who conceptualized the original xenomorphs. Ah, H.R. Giger. The man’s a national treasure.