Daniel Pon needed to make a steampunk mouse to accompany his tricked-out keyboard and monitor, so he got to work, and perhaps a little carried away. The end result is impressive. And kind of nauseating. The so-called Paradox Mouse has everything a good steampunk mod needs: brass, bolts, gears, woods, and a distinct neo-Victorian flair. It also has a few extras, which the modder refers to as "ironic": a mouse skull, shoulder blades and spine. The skull sits as a sort of ornament on the front of the mouse, the shoulder blades as miniature cattle catchers, and the vertebrae as...
Perhaps my favorite thing about living in an age of ubiquitous online shopping is almost never having to wrap things anymore. This is not to impugn my wrapping abilities. I actually take pains to wrap things crisply and cleanly, matching the pattern at the fold and taping discreetly. This is largely a reaction against my parents, who are both somewhat sloppy wrappers, and favor gift bags in their dotage, which I utterly loathe: a Christmas gift should appear as it were generated by magic, tearing open Christmas paper is an integral part of the ritual, and besides, where does...
Type in “transfer lease” or “trade lease” into any search engine and two sites come up as the most prevalent: leasetrader.com and swapalease.com. These sites have become more commonplace as people struggle in the tough economic times to bail out of their pricey leases. Without such companies, individuals are forced to either pay off the entire contract balance or enter upside down into a new vehicle based on the unpaid balance of the previous lease. Of course, these options don’t suit many people, especially in today’s market. The end result, traffic to leasetrader.com is up 42% year-over-year. And, swapalease.com’s daily...
If you're a fan of the ultra thin All-Ett but you're on a budget, all you need to do is score a free USPS Tyvek mailing pouch and grab a pair of scissors. Over at the DIY site Instructables there is a tutorial on turning those extremely durable Tyvek pouches into equally as durable wallets. The end result is definitely more attractive than you'd assume a folded up mailing pouch would be. Additionally if you're a fan of the Hipster PDA it makes a perfect cover for your stack of 3x5 cards. If you have trouble finding a USPS mailing...
Filed under: Apple Most would-be iPhone 3G unlockers are impatiently waiting for an easy software solution that's been in the works since release day, but in some parts of the world, entrepreneurs are taking matters into their own hands. Enter Vietnam's Tuan Anh Do, who employs a team of some 30 technicians diligently tearing iPhones and iPhone 3Gs apart to remove the baseband chips, reprogram them, and solder them back into place at a charge of about $80. Considering that the end result is a totally carrier-unlocked device, the cost could be perceived as reasonable by some Vietnamese who desperately...
You may have tasted mulled wine before, especially around winter holidays, but if you're an American reader you've most likely never drank anything but ice cold beer. For the better part of history people drank beer at ambient temperatures, and from the 15th to 18th centuries it was wildly popular to drink beer hot and steeped with spices and sugar. Over at wikiHow, they have a step by step recipe for whipping up some mulled beer of your own to give chill-warding beverages a little kick. The end result is more similar in taste to a mulled cider mixed with...
If you're going to throw the gauntlet down, do it a big way and let the competition know what they're up against. That's exactly what Micron has done, who demoed a new SSD drive like no other we've seen before.Unlike standard SSDs, which come equipped for either a PATA or SATA interface, Micron's prototype drive eschews such quaint bandwidth limits and instead makes do with a PCI-E slot. The end result is a new level of benchmarking that blows every other SSD to date out of the water, including Intel's mighty X-25M.The YouTube video does a poor job of zeroing...
Check out this sweet Steampunk ray gun. It sports a pretty nice, not so over-the-top Steampunk look but still manages to have lots of nice detail. The “Power supply” consists of a vacuum tube and “brass bits” installed inside the gun. The smoky look of the vacuum tube makes it look as if it has just been fired. There’s even detail inside of the barrel. The creator added some clockwork parts inside so that it looks like the delicate clockwork mechanism is focusing the particle beam. Nice! The end result is a nice looking Ray Gun suitable for any Sci-Fi...
This Xbox 360 mod may be a little less dramatic than some we've seen, but we think that anyone who's had their nerves rattled by the incessant banging of their console's optical drive tray will really appreciate it. RDC over at the benheck.com forum has installed a slot loader into his Xbox the hard way -- by gutting the innards of his console's DVD-ROM and installing them in the case of his old iMac's slot loader. After taking everything apart, it was a simple matter of rebuilding the spindle, rigging up a tiny breadboard with a few transistors, cramming...
We all love to argue (as is evidenced by the comments on some of the topics on Listverse) but oftentimes an argument ends in a yelling match with insults flying and no conclusion being drawn. Therefore, I have put together this list of tips to help all of us in our future debates - on the site and off. If you take heed of all of my suggestions here, you will be in a much stronger position in future arguments. If you find this list useful, I also recommend you read the book How to Argue & Win Every Time,...
I’ve been using Gmail for over two years now, for a wide variety of reasons (like conversations and inbox archiving for instance). Apparently, so do a lot of domain owners, who woke up one day to find that their online properties were stolen. Here’s a summary: a hacker manages to gain access to a Gmail account, just enough to modify its Filters. The end result is that any emails sent by the domain registrar—including ones sent due to a “Forgot my Password” request—are forwarded to the hacker. This allows said hacker to grab control of the domain, and demand...
The business value of engaging one-on-one with users is… the perception of openness, increased participation and defense of and by the community, ownership of issues that simply won’t go away. The end result: instead of being part of the conversation, you are the conversation. __________ To recap. We decided to engage with the users on a one on one basis instead of using a mass push message. In this model users don’t seek us out, nor do we wait for them to find us; they don’t come to us, we go to them. Actively. We find these users using social...
Several readers have e-mailed me and asked for instructions on how to take their HD YouTube videos and embed them elsewhere. As I mentioned before, this isn't an officially sanctioned feature, and as such, the embed code you get on these video pages will still yield the lower-quality, non-widescreen clip. Needless to say, this is completely unacceptable. The good news is that you only need to make a few changes to the stock embed code get the job done. Here's what to do: Step 1: Copy this code and paste it to wherever you intend to embed the video:...
This May Yahoo! started testing an "all in one" search product called Yahoo Glue in India. It's a really cool service that tonight becomes available to US users of Yahoo. Yahoo! Glue search results include web search, images, news, blog search, Wikipedia and YouTube videos. That's right - in the India version at least Yahoo! displayed search results from both Google's YouTube and Google Blogsearch. The end result- all these links on one page - is pretty awesome. Sponsor The Indian version prioritized pages relevant to India, which is interesting, but a little unhelpful to those outside of India. Tonight's...
