Topps, the company famous for their baseball cards, released in 1983 a series of awesome “Video Arcade Gum’. The boxes were shaped like video arcade games. If these were still available they would be on the shelves among the Pockies, Wispas and Pot Noodles in the indie coffeeshop I _also_ manage. Via Jason Liebig who does an awesome job archiving pictures 80s packages on his Flickr. Read more »
Our favourite gadget designers at Art.Lebedev were at it again. This time they created a new barbecue grid aimed at office nerds. If you’re a fan of spreadsheets and would run the country on spreadsheets this barbecue grill is exactly what you need. Read more »
Car enthusiasts will certainly scoff at this idea, but hear me out. We already have how some people rely heavily on alternative means of transportation. Take wonder geek The Woz, for example. He has become associated with the Segway. Now, what if someone comes up with something like the Segway but still closely resembling the traditional car? That is what the makers of Segway and General Motors were thinking of when they came up with the concept of the PUMA, which is short for Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility. By the way, I love the acronym. Read more »
There is that saying that goes “the only constant thing in this world is change,” and in the case of gadgets and other electronic products, I would have to say that change is indeed the only constant thing! Think about it, how many often do you change your mobile phone? Your laptop? Read more »
During a live performance Amanda Palmer, of Dresden Dolls fame, asked her label Roadrunner Records to “drop her”. Please drop me, what do I have to do, I’m tired of sucking corporate dick. You don’t get me, you won’t let me continue my career in peace and it’s making me sad. Too late now to fix this fucking mess, so please just let me go, I swear: You won’t miss me, you don’t love me, I’m not making you any money, plus you still have Slipknot, and Annihilator and Machine Head, and Cradle of Filth, and Megadeath… Read more »
A guy has created a thermal lance, built out of bacon, to cut metal. Bacon is fattening because it contains a lot of chemical energy tied up in its proteins, and especially in its fat. You can release that energy either by digesting it or by burning it with a healthy supply of oxygen. The challenge isn’t creating the heat; it’s engineering a bacon structure strong enough to withstand the stress of a 5,000F bacon plasma flame. I used prosciutto (Italian for “expensive bacon”) because it is a superior engineering grade of meat. I wrapped slices of it into thin tubes and baked them overnight in a warm oven to Read more »
Does Kenwood make washing machines, because when I first saw these speakers that’s what I thought they were modelled on. These are glass speakers with white and blue LEDs, and they can even be supplied with some stands that also have lights built in. Trouble is, they cost close to $1,000 and yet they only offer 10W of output per channel, which is pretty pathetic. Read more »
Khyrin, member of the Fallout 3 Nexus community has released this awesome GreenWorld mod for Fallout 3.If you would love to see the landscape with a little less grey tones, this is a mod with plenty of green. GreenWorld adds plants, trees to the dark world that Fallout 3 is. Read more »
Some guy went ahead and prepared his Camaro for a Mad Max apocalyptic scenario. Read more »
Charles and Marie have released customizable message tape. The tape comes in the form of LCD digits and you can black out the dots to display any message you want. At $15 for 50m of tape this seems a great accessory to customize package for a present. From Charles and Marie. On another note we are now posting many gadgets entries in the forums. Quick & dirty posts of cool new gadgets, accesories we discover. Recently we added the Rubik’s salt&pepper mill, the Rubik’s card reader, Tetris furniture, Skull bread and laser etched dollars. We hope to geekify FG more in the near future and post less about gadgets. Visit Read more »
