Microphone Light Pendant

What looks like a mini disco ball, this Microphone Light Pendant from Etsy is a cool ambient light fixture for and music lovers living space. The mesh of the microphone produces an interesting light pattern and some serious mood setting glow. The pendant comes in 2 flavors: The Star, which has a white base and gold mesh, and The Classic, ...

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Park to Play: Use Your Car as a Game Controller

Why screw around with some flimsy racing wheel when you can use your own car to control the game? This concept has been utilized before, but a new system called Park to Play could make it possible for the average consumer to bring the experience home. In addition to using the steering wheel and the pedals, opening and closing the ...

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For Those About To Game: Battle-Rig Pro Gamer Desk

This multi-functional furniture/personal workstation is a perfect piece of gear for a gamer’s home (compared to the best piece of head-to-head gaming system or this gaming system for quadriplegics). The Battle-Rig Pro allows you to sit in the center of the action, with all you need right around you. The Battle-Rig provides plenty of space for all your equipment and ...

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DIY: Mac Classic To Mac Mini Mod

Here’s a way for you to gut your Mac Classic and hook it up to a Mac Mini. In 11 moderately easy steps, this mod is one that most novice computer builders can handle on their own. Just make sure you didn’t already make your Mac into a backpack. The mod allows the innards of a Mac Classic to run ...

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Atomizing Electronic Cigarette: No Smoke, All Nicotine

No doubt about it. Smoking is a harmful, and more importantly, expensive habit. This Atomizing Electronic Cigarette at least makes it less harmful to those around you. The cigarette contains no tar or other polluting substance and you don’t even need to ignite it. The emitted “smoke” is an atomized mist from a tobacco alkaloid; meaning it produces no harmful ...

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WoW Lich King Expansion Release Date Leaked?

As I was browsing around Amazon, I came across an interesting entry when I searched for World of Warcraft. The page in question is a pre-order page for the WoW expansion Wrath Of The Lich King. Amazon says the shipping date is November 30th, 2008, with the game retailing for $39.99 on the online superstore. Now, we know Amazon sometimes ...

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One Dead, One Dying: CD / Vinyl Format Made Into New Media

Here’s another cool new design hybrid, using old technology as the basis. VinylDisc is a dual sided format with one side featuring three-minutes of vinyl goodness, with the other side featuring a standard 70 minute CD. Other than posing a great way to compare digital and analog technologies, VinylDisc is a stroke of genius on the face of two endangered ...

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Super Smash Bros. Adds Even More Ways To Control The Wii

Super Smash Bros. for the Nintendo Wii console is playable with four-different types of controls. The first three are the standard nunchuck, classic controller, and game cube controller, though the new game adds a new method to the mayhem. Super Smash Bros. can also be controlled by turning your Wii Remote on its side, giving it a classic controller feel. ...

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Samsung KDDI Japan to launch AMOLED phones

Samsung has announced plans to release a line of phones through KDDI Japan which will have AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode) displays. This technology has been in the works by various companies, yet this is the first of these phones being mass-produced, going beyond the concept stage. Japan always gets lucky with this cool new technology, though once ...

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