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Simple, yet effective. With a few artistic talents and some old junk you likely have laying around the house anyway, you can create your own Nintendo Mii costume. This guy used some spare cardboard to fashion a tennis racket and little red rubber buffers as peg hands. The solid red t-shirt seals the deal. I imagine the mask is simple enough to make in Photoshop or Illustrator. The faces themselves are rather basic, strictly geometric, so not much of an... Continue reading

Whatever your preferred breed of evil might be, whether you enjoy desert living or the advantages of blending into a crowd, there are ways to purchase a helmet solution for any path you desire to take. But never before has there been such an easy way to create your very own Stormtrooper Helmet, using only two empty gallon milk jugs, some elastic and a little bit of creativity. Filth Wizardry created these Stormtrooper Helmets as a budget Halloween idea. The... Continue reading

Just as they did for AT&T’s Galaxy S release, the Samsung Captivate, Amazon.com is offering Verizon’s adaptation of the Android device, the Samsung Fascinate, for only $0.01, yes, one-cent, with a two-year contract. No other strings attached. I ordered a Captivate thorough Amazon when that sale was going on and saved myself a few hundred bucks. The Fascinate is equipped with Samsung’s TouchWiz interface, complete with Swype keyboard, 4 inch touch display and a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash,... Continue reading

There is surely a large percentage of you who have been holding out on the iPhone not out of spite, but because you just don’t have the extra cash laying around. In these times of financial strife, sacrifice is essential. If you still want to at least LOOK like you can afford an iPhone, iPhoneDummy.net is selling non-working display models for only $20. So while you won’t be surfing the App Store anytime soon, you can still appear to be... Continue reading

Hey y’all. InvisibleSkinz.com, the largest online dealer of Invisible Shield cellphone covers, are awesome enough to be offering a 20% discount on all Invisible Shield covers for all Gearfuse readers! To receive 20% off of your order just enter coupon code “Gearfuse21330” on the shopping cart page as you check out. Invisible Shield is available for most major mobile devices including the iPhone 3G and 3GS, Blackberry Storm and even the Macbook Pro!

The next time you head off to a baseball game, concert or event in a park, try bringing one of these nifty disposable flasks. They cost a mere $2.55 each, so they won’t break your wallet. The best part is that they initially come flat and grow bigger with more liquid, making it easier to stuff into your crotch right before the security checkpoint. Link [via]

Have you ever dreamed of finally owning a PC that could play the uber-popular Crysis? Of course you have. Luckily, Maximum PC threw together a guide on how to build a computer using quality parts for about $500. The end result is a machine that can handle Crysis at 40 frames-per-second, ensuring that nearly any game can be installed and enjoyed on it. The caveat? They didn’t include an OS but everyone knows Windows is free. Link

You probably wouldn’t believe us if we didn’t have the photographic proof to back it up, but empty soda bottles actually make pretty effective tripods on-the-cheap. While there are gadgets actually made to turn soda bottles into functioning tripods, there is an even easier and cheaper way just to do it yourself, which is so much more fun anyway. You’ll need a few tools and supplies, but the total cost of the construction supplies makes this DIY extremely appealing. You’ll... Continue reading

Huge Chavez and his wacky regime have a plan for the people of Venezuela. Instead of investing capital, time and effort into low-cost laptops, similar to that of the OLPC, Chavez is betting on the cellphone. Reports claim that the handset will be called El Vergatario and will feature a camera, an MP3 player and a radio. Hey, you gotta get your propaganda somehow. Still, costing about $14, a cellphone of this caliber at such a low price will allow... Continue reading

It’s 11:30pm on a Friday night and you’ve just been put on bar-tending duty at the Kappa Phi house. A new keg has just been tapped and the girls over to the right are screaming for another pitcher of Natty Ice for the beer pong table. You snap out of it and realize you have a job to do. The Pitcher. It can hold up to 60 ounces of frothy goodness. You quickly fill it full of beer and the... Continue reading