Many people don’t know this, but before Mario settled on his now classic mustache he went through a phase which lasted years of constantly switching up his facial hair style. All video game characters go through it. The search for their own identity. Mario went through 10 mustache styles alone during his year in technical college. Hell, there was even ...

The great outdoors is typically not a friend of us geeks. First off, there’s no electricity, which means no internet, no phone charging, no morning cartoons and most importantly, no charging of our vibrating butt plug. And if that’s not enough to deter you from a camping trip, there’s the fact that geeks seem to be bug magnets. It must ...

Vitruvius Pollio, the man who inspired Leonardo da Vinci’s work on his iconic Vitruvian Man, once described the human body as being “the principal source of proportion among the Classical orders of architecture.” Maybe that’s true when you’re dealing with a perfectly proportioned male specimen, such as myself, but Inspector Gadget’s form is more akin to that of a fun ...

For everyone with aspirations of shooting first, the Han Solo Papercraft Greedo Killer is the cheapest way to ensure you’re not laying dead in some exotic cantina, the victim of bounty scum. Or you can just make sure you’re never in debt to a Hutt. Your choice, really. Grab a stack of the highest quality paper you can find and ...

Though it might not seem like it, Jabba the Hut does take the�occasional�sponge bath. His only requirements are that the bathing slaves pay extra heed to his Hutnesses wiener�and that they do so only with Han Solo in Carbonite Soap. For only $6.50 a pop you and the Hut can have at least one thing in common – the ownership ...

You’ve finally got the iPad and the novelty of playing around with it has sort of worn off. Understandable. That new gadget�excitement can only last so long, but there are ways to extend that excitement. Check out this project which teaches you how to integrate your iPad right into the dashboard of your car. Using the Toyota Tacoma as an ...

Catch a wave, I will. Check out this�creatively�geeky sculpture mashing up the universal symbol for “surf’s up!” with Yoda’s oblong head. This might just be an image I’ll never be able to unsee. Link [via]

Instructables user noahw put together this insanely awesome DIY project, teaching us how to create our very own Wooly Willy Table. Those of us who remember playing with Wooly Willy or similar incarnations in our childhood know that even though the concept of moving around iron flakes with a magic magnet wand might seem too simple, it’s strangely addicting. While ...

Inspired by the AT-TE Walkers from the Star Wars universe, this iPhone dock is composed of an assortment of LEGO bricks. Creator Chris Harrison’s obsession with his iPhone, Star Wars and caffeine led to the creation of one of the coolest iPhone docks we’ve seen yet (though any dock is going to be hard pressed to beat the Dinosaur Dock). ...

If tubes, wires and air data isn’t enough to wrap your fleshy human mass around, Researchers at Korea University in Seoul have�successfully�accomplished something that might change the world, but probably won’t. They’ve successfully transmitted broadband data through a human arm at speeds up to 10 mb/s. The data is transferred using two electrodes placed on their skin 30 centimetres apart, ...