How would Super Mario look if he had Asterix’, Hercule Poirot’s or George Michael’s mustache? Or even with the mustache of Burt Reynolds or Clark Gable? Read more »
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Myvic Electronic Cigarettes
Smoking is such a dirty habit, and I have heard one smoker too many say that they wish they’d never started picked up the habit in the first place. Then again, smoking is not that easy to drop. Many have tried and many have failed as well. In spite of the fact that we all know that smoking is bad for our health, it simple is hard to give the habit up. If you’re almost at the end of your rope looking for some alternative to cigarette, there’s this gadget that a UK company is promoting. Dubbed Myvic Electronic Cigarette, the gadget offers smokers a healthier alternative. Compared to the Read more »
Lego Jesus
Again, we are not religious here at FG HQ, but we already expressed our love for the New Testament narrated with Lego and this is no exception. How could we not love a Jesus made out of 30.000 Lego blocks? 40 Swedish parishioners needed 18 months to build the statue and unveiled it on Eastern in front of around 400 people. The statue is all white, many of the donated colored Lego blocks have been used for the inside of the sculpture. Read more »
SNES Netbook Mod
Awesome mod: an Acer Aspire One A150 netbook in a Super Nintendo case. Dubbed aaSNES1 Read more »
Play Guitar Hero with a real guitar
Sounds trivial doesn’t it? Of course everyone loves to play guitar with a real guitar. But what when it comes to Guitar Hero? There are many Guitar Hero aces among us, but we all play on those pesky plastic guitars. Well the guys from OpenChord have modded a genuine guitar to also function in Guitar Hero. Best of all is that the guitar still functions as a _normal guitar_. Read more »
iPhone 3.0 OS GM pictures
Now the iPhone 3.0 Operating system has been released for developers, we can provide you with screenshots from the new OS. Note the new Voice recorder app. More pics after the jump. Read more »
Youtube find: Post-It stop motion video
Post-its, again. Read more »
Rubik's Cube Post-it
Rubik’s Cube is one of our favourite toys ever here at FG HQ. This makes the surprise of us wanting the Rubik’s inspired Colorblock Note Cube rather unsurprising. Just a note block, but with ace design. 680 Pages Approx. 3.5″x3.1″ Available from Fred Flare for $12. Further picture after the jump. Read more »
Chinese bike with polygonal wheels: would you ride it?
Take a look at this rather bizarre bike. Apart from the fact that its wheels don’t have spokes, they’re not round either. The front wheel is a rounded off pentagon while the back one is a reuleaux triangle (yeah, I went to Wikipedia too). Read more »
Block Elements Art: eye straining coolness!
I can’t make much of a story out of this one, but whoa it’s cool in a “ouch my eyes hurt” kind of way. Sure, anyone could’ve created this piece of HTML markup for the web, but in fact Marc Kremers did. Read more »














