"Long before the Pixar movie hits the big screen this summer, a group of German modders have been inspired by Wall-E's cuteness to take an old and unloved Nintendo GameCube and some scraps of metal and acrylic, and put together a sweet mod that looks just like the little robot himself. It even has tank treads and a flip-down shutter..."
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Friday, July 11, 2008
Wall-E GameCube Mod is Awesome [PICS]
22-foot tall robot crafted entirely from excess styrofoam
The creature you see standing before you is a 22-foot tall Styrobot constructed entirely from spare polystyrene packing materials, and no, each piece didn't just show up that way. Michael Salter managed to whittle away on this beast until its completion
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Saturday, June 28, 2008
Creative Goes After Driver Modder
The back story: Since the release of Windows Vista, Creative has promised their Sound Cards as being "Vista Ready". Unfortunately, as many unlucky customers did discover, this is not true. What the users actually found were buggy, feature crippled drivers.
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Lifehacker's Top 10 Office Supply Hacks
Given some spare time and a few neglected items in the office supply closet, anyone can make their workspace more functional, create a cool tools for their home and office, and even rescue seemingly ruined stuff. Today we'll take a look at some unexpected ways to use objects you probably have readily available.
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Thursday, May 1, 2008
Parent of a Dead Child? We CAN Clone Him!
A new form of cloning has been developed that is easier to carry out than the technique used to create Dolly the sheep, raising fears that it may one day be used on human embryos to produce "designer" babies.
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How To: Wifi Predator
The predator is a modified wireless router connected to a high-powered antenna and running custom firmware to actively seek out open wireless connections. Once they are found, it will test them for internet connectivity and then join and repeat the one with the strongest signal to secured wireless connection that YOU control.
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How to make a Sawed-off USB Key
Holy crap-- somebody just went and TORE MY FREAKING USB CABLE IN HALF while it was still attached to my laptop!!! (No-- wait-- sorry. That's just my USB drive.)
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
Around 40 of the Worlds Strangest Tanks
My fav: Landships describes the Biggest Tank Ever Built! It is also the Most Strange Armored Fighting vehicle ever constructed.“Lebedenko Tank”, or Tzar tank (after tsar Nikolaj, who helped finance it) . Its history starts in 1914 with the engineer N. Lebedenko, who came up with the idea of a 40-ton battle machine.
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Give an Old Laptop New Life with Cheap (or Free) Projects
Like a famed race horse or a classic book, you don't just throw away a laptop because it's banged up a little. With some free software, a little know-how and some creative thinking about your home network, nearly any old laptop can find its second wind, and today I'll run through some of the best ways to get it there.
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