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DIY: Turn Your Gorillapod Into An iPad Stand

Gorillapod ipad stand

The search for the prefect iPad stand continues, we have already seen Julian’s cool homemade Pencil iPad stand, and now Dylan Tweney and Charlie Sorrel from Wired have come up with another cool iPad stand using a Joby Gorillapod.

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Build A Battleship With Your Business Card

The gist of this new product from Tamiya, best known for its super cool model race cars, is a calling card whose content can be disassembled and rebuilt into whatever machine you fancy…like a battleship.

The Pencil iPad Stand Reloaded

Pencil iPad Stand Reloaded

Last week Julian made a cool stand for his iPad using 6 pencils and four rubber bands, it became very popular and we have received quite a few emails from our readers with their own version of the Pencil

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Scan Negatives Using A DSLR & Toilet Tubes

DLSR Toilet Tube Negative Scanner

If you need a methods of transferring your old negatives into a digital format Claus Thiim has a great solution using a DSLR camera and a few paper toilet tubes.

DIY Chess Table Rolls Web-based and Real World Games into One

There are lots of chess players out there who only play online. These folks tend to play with people all around the world. Some prefer the feel of real world chess pieces to the virtual parts though. A new

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Hack A Mac Onto Your VirtualBox

There’s certainly a lot of folks out there who have dedicated a slice of their life to getting Mac OS X running on non-Apple hardware. It’s complicated but sure gives you that endorphin rush after you complete it. Not

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Likea is the Leica Knockoff for Photographers on a Cardboard Budget

I am sure there are many people out there who love to take pictures that would be happy to have their own Leica camera. The catch is that those fancy and retro looking Lecia cameras can run into the

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The DIY Book Lamp

The DIY Book Lamp

Here is a fun lamp for your geeky apartment, and you can easily make one yourself for about $5, the DIY Book Lamp. The DIY Book Lamp is pretty simple to make, yet it looks really cool, and would

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DIY: Mini Daytona Arcade Cabinet (Video)

Mini Daytona Arcade Cabinet

Retrovicio Forums member  pocket_lucho has recreated a mini Daytona Arcade Cabinet. The build uses a mini ATX motherboard ZOTAC 330, 2GB ram, Wi-fi, an 8″ VGA screen, four speakers, 4-speed gearshift, illuminated buttons and digital metal pedals. The Mini

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DIY: Electric Mountian Bike

Electric Mountain Bike

We’ve featured a number of different concept and production electric bikes here on Geeky Gadgets but this electric DIY mod by Jennifer Holt is fantastic. Using a 48v motor powered by a homemade battery pack made up of a

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The Pencil iPad Stand

Pencil iPad Stand

Some of our readers will remember the Pencil iPhone stand that I made last year, I have had my iPad for a few weeks now and I thought it was about time to create a similar stand for the

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$4000 Iron Man Costume

Iron Man Costume

The picture below might well look like a frame from the Iron Man 2 movie but in fact its a picture of Colorodan Anthony Le wearing his $4,000 homemade Iron Man 2 costume of  War Machine. Anthony Le, 25,

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