I must admit that most external hard drive enclosures today resemble nothing more than a melted hunk of plastic or metal. Why not get a little creative and rip off Etsy user NES Box. He shoves external hard drives inside of old NES cartridges which give your computer a real retro feel. Need to back up right now? This Super Mario Brothers 3 hard drive can be had for $180 on Etsy and it runs from USB power. Not bad, but we’d recommend trying to make your own. An old Duck Hunt cartridge and a Dremel is all it takes to whip one up. That and a hard disk of course.

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While not as tasty as Apple pie or a Mac Pro, these cufflinks are sufficient enough to pick up even the dorkiest of women. Designed by Etsy user Beaujangles (what a great semi-racist pun!), these go for $50 a set. While you might find that expensive, consider what a good pair of cufflinks would cost you from Nordstrom or a similar store. Plus, this way you get to help out the DIY community and you get a pair of cufflinks that’s unrivaled in unique quality. Hurry up and get a pair before Jobs sues the living shit out of this dude.

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I’m all about Spock. Which is the main reason why I was attracted to these LEGO mosaics. They come in many different flavors including Star Wars, Mad magazine’s Alfred E. Neuman and even Adam West as Batman. Etsy member Motion5 sells these works of art for prices ranging from $50 to $400.

He also takes high resolution shots of his work that any idiot with half a brain could duplicate. Don’t get me wrong, the art is impressive but these screenshots are so detailed that I have the schematics for the art right in front of me. Hell, I could probably make one in Bricksmith.

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Never get caught eating at a French restaurant without a mustache again. With this $16 handkerchief from Avril Loreti, a designer on Etsy, you’ll have four stunning mustaches to choose from whilst you wipe your punim. The ’staches were inspired by Dali and Tom Selleck, among others.

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Any avid World of Warcraft player knows that getting your hands on a Mooncloth bag means BIG storage space, which is necessary when you’re grinding 100s of Primal Waters like a big douche. If you are said douche or you have a girlfriend who plays WoW, you need to head on over to Etsy immediately.

You should probably bring $180 with you when visiting Etsy. See, there’s a real-life Mooncloth (messenger) bag there for the taking and only one is left in stock. In fact, if you don’t buy it by the time you’re done reading this post, it’ll most likely be sold out. The bag itself features all kinds of lush fabrics like blue corduroy, gold polka dot cotton and plenty of zippers and velcro. Hold your beef jerky or your Warcraft laptop.

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If you live in NJ or NYC and have some free time tonight, be sure to stop by the Etsy/MAKE/Create Digital Music Handmade Music Night event. It starts at 7PM and is being held at Etsy Labs in Brooklyn, NY. It’s easily accessible from the subway and yours truly will be attending and checking out some of the best DIY music around!

Handmade Music Night will include the following goods:
• Chiptune game-music
• Wireless sensor driven sound
• Wii balance board instrumentation
• Custom software for sound-mutation
• Experimental MIDI controllers of oddity

If you have a DIY instrument, be sure to bring it along with you. I’ll be digging through my old boxes and possibly dragging my beat up M-Audio Oxygen8 around, searching for that perfect mod that’ll let me create the sounds I want to hear.

Here’s the deets. Hope to see you there!
Handmade Music Night

7/8/08 - 7pm

Etsy Labs

325 Gold St., 3rd floor? Brooklyn, NY

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Tetris might be my all-time favorite game. No matter how detailed graphics become, there is no beating the complicated task of organizing geometric shapes into complete rows. This wallet from Etsy’s KMC Designs is not only Tetris-themed, but made of duct tape!

Theoretically, you can remove the individual Tetris pieces on the face of the wallet and make your own design, but the maker of the wallet says that’s probably not a good idea since the pieces lose their stickiness if you play with them too much. — Andrew Dobrow

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