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The 12 Geek Trees of Christmas

by Robin Parrish
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The 12 Geek Trees of Christmas

The modern Christmas tree is more than a thing to put presents under. It’s a representation of your tastes, your hobbies, even your personality. Mash up some wildly outside-the-box creativity with the kind of devotion that only a geek can have, and you get some amazingly awesome Christmas trees. Like these. Dalek Tree Such a perfect marriage, it’s a wonder no one’s done it before. It’s all the more impressive when you zoom in and see just how simple it was to make out of ordinary household items like a laundry basket and a plunger. By Lindsay Testolin. Lightsaber Tree Okay, so technically these aren’t lightsabers — they’re flourescent light Read more »

Car guts

by Robin Parrish
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Car guts

My 2-year-old son is obsessed with the movie Cars. Obsessed, I tell you! While surfing the net for pictures of Lightning McQueen, I stumbled across this little oddity. An illustrator named Jake Parker wondered how the insides of one of Pixar’s cars might work, considering that these vehicles are “strange machine/flesh hybrids,” in Parker’s own words. So to satisfy his own curiosity, he drew up this cross-section of Lightning McQueen, imagining what the “internal structures” might look like that would make a machine/flesh living car work. The result is both unflinchingly gross and strangely cool. I won’t be showing it to my little boy, though. Read more »

Disney Cars that Make Sure You'll Never Miss an Important Email Again

by Arnold
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Disney Cars that Make Sure You'll Never Miss an Important Email Again

How’s Lightning McQueen and the other Disney Cars that twinkle when you have a new email sounds to you? Well, you might want to get the Disney Cars USB Email Alert from USB Brando. I’m not really sure if they are the same company that sells those leather phone cases. But anyway, this USB Email Alert device supports Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook Express and those POP3 email accounts. It works in the background just like your normal browser-based email alert service. The car will emit a peculiar sound effect or twinkle everytime you receive an email or when there too many unread emails in your inbox. Here’s the fun part, the Read more »