Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Gadgets
DIY LED Chandelier From Xmas Lights
11:21PM Brian Lam | Xmas is almost over. Use this tutorial to make an LED lamp from Christmas lights, which is a good way to get use out of them the other 11 months of the year. I’d hang it upside down as a DIY geek chandelier. Be Warned: The tutorial has some mind-numbing steps, like stripping out the LEDs from the Xmas light strand, and some complex wiring and soldering. Much like a professionally made chandelier, making something this ornate is going to be labor intensive. And maybe electrocute you. [Instructables] More »
Gadgets
Kitty Corner Shot Rifle: If You See Toonces With an Unusual Glint In His Eye, Run
10:00PM Brian Lam | Weapon tech fans or Ghost Recon fanatics will remember the corner shot rifle. This mod has the same camera, LCD and hinge that lets a soldier shoot around building edges without getting in the line of fire. But this one is wrapped up in a cat suit, just like the one that used to drive the car in Saturday Night Live. It makes a somewhat cowardly weapon even more pussy. So if you see an unusually tall cat peeking around corners in your local war zone with what looks like a muzzle coming out of his mouth, I’d say catnip is not going to get you very far. [Geekologie] More »
Announcements
Question of the Day: What Presents Did You Score?
6:31PM Jason Chen | The folks in Europe and Asia have already gotten their presents, and the rest of us in the States will be joining them very soon. So, what did you guys score? New gadgets? Clothes? Movies? DVDs? Games? A coupon for one free sexy time with Jesus Diaz? Let everyone know and we’ll see who made off like a ninja and who’s crying under their tree. More »
Computers
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Wish Good Will to All Men
5:45PM Mark Wilson | Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, along with their Apple commercial alter egos, have enjoyed their share of repressed sexual tension hostility/rage. Today, through the help of everyone’s favourite online elf dancing tool, they put all the cheap geek jabs aside in honor of the season. More »
Gadgets
Hello Kitty Waist Slenderer
2:00PM Jason Chen | Everybody loves a slender waist, and what better way to get one than with the world’s most whored out cat? Just slip on the Slender Shaper, flip the switch to “Svelte,” and you’ll go from a size 6 to a size 2 in no time. Or not, since these things don’t actually work. [Tokyo Times] More »
Games
MadCatz HDMI Conversion Kit Brings HDMI to Premium, Core Xbox 360s
12:15PM Jason Chen | The last time we saw HDMI cables for the Xbox 360 it was from the now out-of-business Lik-Sang. This HDMI Conversion Kit however, is from MadCatz, who have brought interesting and innovative products to market without going arse up. More »
Peripherals
JediPad May Be Coolest and/or Fugliest Pointy-Clicky Thing Ever
11:30AM Wilson Rothman | Our hats go off to Sam aka SunFish7, inventor of the JediPad, the most original rethinking of a handheld computer interface since the Wiimote. It’s got seven pressure sensitive ThinkPad-style trackpoints plus internal gyros, so you can move the cursor by waving but change the speed and accuracy of the movement as needed, by pressing down on a trackpoint. There’s a more intuitive circular pop-up menu system to go along with it for faster navigation. Sam’s even built a crazy orange gyro hat for additional motion tracking (or else some high-tech form of “big pimpin’”). You can see a video, more pics and some of the JediPad’s backstory from our e-mail interview with Sam after the jump. More »
Gadgets
Guitar Hero + Office Christmas Lights = Crazy Ridiculous
10:45AM Jason Chen | One of the developers at NI (we think this is National Instruments) took a guitar hero guitar, a copy of Frets on Fire (the open source PC version of Guitar Hero) and the office Christmas lights and rigged the three up to a cacophonous symphony of light and sound. More »
Vehicles
Helicopter for One Can Be Folded Up, Carried By One Person
10:00AM Adam Frucci | This wee helicopter is the Ka-56 “Wasp,” a flying vehicle for one that can be folded down and carried by just one person. Designed and created in Soviet Russia in 1971, it doesn’t seem to have really gotten beyond the prototype stage. I’m assuming that’s because it’s horribly dangerous, but it could be for any number of reasons. Guesses, dear commenters? Oh, and the first person to make a “In Soviet Russia, helicopter flies you!” joke gets banned as a Christmas present to me. More »
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