The perfect accessory for zoning out to Netflix with, this oddly appropriate iPad dock modeled after an early ’80s CRT television set was designed by Jonas Damon, creative director for Frog Design’s New York office. It comes complete with grainy television snow screensaver, though a scrambled pay TV signal would add a touch more realism if I recall correctly.
Inspired by the classic spherical speaker array Instructable from user mzed, Charles Visnic created these cool wireless speakers by transplanting the guts of a pair of RocketFish speakers into some of birch bowls from Ikea, mounted rim-to-rim. It’s a very cool build, but I have to say I’m just as impressed with this clever little working tip from Charles’ write-up:
Daryl Brach created this excellent Cray-1 scale model that serves as a computer case. It’s about 36″ wide by 25″ high, and houses 2 motherboards in the base. [Thanks, Dave!]
Emperor be praised! Holy Machine God! Priests of Mars, eat your steam-powered hearts out! Via Kotaku (by way of DudeCraft) comes this unreal Warhammer 40,000 Dreadnought casemod — yes, there’s a PC in there somewhere. I love the way the assault cannon actually spins up. In the future there are only incredible case mods
Swapping out Palm Pixi Wi-Fi modules in this video from gitit20 is pretty straight-forward. Just pop out the old and plug in the new. No pesky serial numbers or setting required.
Check out this Nexus One Wii Remote mod from YouTuber baza210.
This is a viral marketing campaign for some kind of extra-fine point Pilot pen. I love the minifigs themselves, but the campaign bugs me for a couple of reasons: 1) I’ve been Googling around pretty hard and can’t seem to figure out exactly which of Pilot’s many pens these photos are promoting, and 2) nowhere does it explicitly state that the art on the minifigs was actually done with whatever pen they are advertising. So even if I could figure out which one that was, it’s not at all clear that I could actually use it to tattoo my own minifigs. In any case, any kind of super-fine-point permanent maker would probably work. [via Boing Boing]
