Toys
(From Gizmodo) This is truly unbelievable: Lego has built a 1:1 scale model of the X-Wing fighter using an astounding 5,335,200 bricks! It’s as big as the real thing, capable of fitting the real Luke Skywalker. As you can see in these images, it reproduces the official $60 Lego 9493 X-Wing Fighter. But instead of [...]
Fashion
(From Daily Mail) At first glance, these delightful timepieces look like they could have been crafted by the very best Swiss manufacturers. But they have instead been made by a humble carpenter with no watchmaking training whatsoever. Ukrainian Valerii Danevych makes his functional wrist watches almost entirely out of wood, with the sole exception of [...]
Cartoon
Reeling from the recent cancellation of Star Wars: The Clone Wars? You may be pleased to know that Disney/Lucasfilm just announced a new animated series in the massive sci-fi universe. The series is called Star Wars Rebels, and it’s set between Star Wars: Episode III and Star Wars: Episode IV in what Disney’s press release [...]
Gadgets
(From Gizmodo) Is there anything more embarrassing than only realizing there’s a slight wrinkle in your tie once you get to work? What will your co-workers think, that you actually wear your clothing? Oh, the horror. Thankfully, you can avoid that nightmare with this compact pocket-sized iron that eradicates wrinkles like a hair straightener. Powered [...]
Fashion
(From Gizmodo) Converse’s Chuck Taylor All-Star sneakers may never go out of style, but just in case you can future-proof them with this fun hack from Adafruit that swaps out the standard star crest with a glowing logo. Presumably, just like Elroy Jetson used to wear. Unless you work in an electronics laboratory, the hack [...]