Harold Hackett has created his very own old school social network by throwing 4,800 bottles inserted with paper messages into the Atlantic Ocean. Amazingly out of the 4,800 bottles launch into the ocean he has received replies from 3,100 of them. Hackett prefers to use Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice or Orange Juice bottles with bright fluorescent messages to [...]

An industrious team of volunteers from Teesdale Conservation in Durham, UK have transformed a V6 car to run on just coffee grinds. Which has now just broken the existing Guinness World Record “for vehicles run on gas from organic waste” setting a new speed record. The car has been equipped with a gasifier which burns organic material at high [...]

The whole name is HOSPI-Rimo and by “communications assistant” is meant delivering messages to other people. Wait, don’t phones do that? Correct, but if the HOSPI-Rimo’s owner is incapacitated or bedridden (think old folks) then its HOSPI-Rimo to the rescue.

Artist Dominic Wilcox has created a series of miniature sculptures using a range of vintage watches, which have been customized with tiny figures to create unique animated scenes. These tiny watch sculptures have been shown off at the Dezeen Space at the London Design Festival 2011, have a look at the gallery and video below.

The team who created the Bomberman mod for Minecraft have been at it again but this time have used the classic Tetris game to create a stop motion animation created within Minecraft. Its creators explain that they had to play badly or the animation could have gone on for quite some time. Check out the [...]

We have featured a few different coffee tables here at Geeky Gadgets, including quite a few different NES Coffee tables, and now we have this cool custom NES coffee table that you can actually buy. The custom NES coffee table measures 45 inches long by 24 inches wide by 15 inches tall, and it has [...]

Designed by Ron Arad, an Israeli industrial designer, artist, and architect, known his Well-Tempered chair series that he began in 1986. The very unique Soft Ride bike has reimagined the humble bike wheel and created a totally radical departure from tradition, using tempered steel to create a wheel with complete different characteristics. For a start you will never get a puncture using the [...]

CVPCS, has this week announced that they have been able to compile a working pre-Alpha version of VLC media player for Android devices. VLC is an open source media player which is already available on Windows, Macs, iOS devices and has been designed to enable you to watch virtually any video format. Unfortunately due to the [...]

If you can’t quite afford the $1,869 price tag of the Art Lebedev Optimus Maximus keyboard, these cool Art Lebedev Space Invader playing cards might be a little easier on your wallet priced at just $11. The pack of Space Invader playing cards include references to classic eight-bit computer games from the eighties including all your favourites [...]

The guys over at House 4 Hack have created a life sized version of the Nintendo Game & Watch, using Arduino, and some modding skills they have created a playable large scale version of the game. Have a look at the photos below, it was put together by Tobie form House 4 Hack and Chris [...]

So instead of hacking to compromise security, the next best way is call the cops. This new modus is being used to wreak havoc on the lives of XBox Live ‘enforcers’. They’re basically the men and women (Microsoft employees) who make sure cheaters on the XBox Live network are punished. Now the cheaters are fighting [...]

Awkward! To think just yesterday, the most thrilling chapter of the Samsung-Apple wars was featured here at Geeky Gadgets. It has now come to the attention of several news outlets that despite the bad blood, Samsung doesn’t mind a colorful backdrop that features the logo of Apple’s app store and other iOS icons. Seen below [...]