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With the new LEGO Photo iPhone app you can convert snapshots into a LEGO photo mosaic. Just take a picture, press a button, and watch the app build the image out of LEGO. Use the resulting image on your favorite social networking site or as a guide for your own layout.
Check out this build video of a Dell Inspiron netbook modded to resemble a gigantic Dell Mini 3i Android smartphone.
Your one-stop shop for chocolate guns, chocolate bullets, and chocolate grenades is ChocolateWeapons.com. I’m holding out for the chocolate suitcase nuke. [via Boing Boing]
iLove this lamp! On January 7, 2002 Steve Jobs introduced a beautifully redesigned iMac loaded with an 800 MHz PowerPC 7445 (G4) processor and 15″ Flat Panel LCD screen. The new iMac was nicknamed the “iLamp, since Apple advertised it as having the flexibility of a desk lamp. Almost eight years since the official launch, […]
Teemu shares a quick & easy method for improving signal reception with a 3G modem using nothing but a USB extension cord + cookware. Makes sense considering similar methods employed for use with wifi adapters – mayhaps something a bit more parabolic may be in order?[via Slashdot] Related: HOW TO – Uni-Directional WIFI Range Extender
Artist Christopher Locke makes these cool “fossilized” versions of obsolete techno-artifacts. Shown above is Asportatio acroamatis or the common cassette tape. Christopher explains the paleontology:
Make: Online guest contributor and all-around pal Paul Overton, of Dude Craft fame, has kindly solicited an article from me for his new creative-process blog Make & Meaning. My piece is called On The Care and Feeding of Ideas. Thanks, Paul!
