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The fine folks over at Instructables have posted some wild mods in their time, but the musical bra you see above inhabits its own realm in terms of weirdness and lack of usefulness… unless you really want a bra that makes music of course. The speaker is on the front, with a battery pack between the shoulder blades at the back, and each cup is equipped with eight different “sounds” culled from a small keyboard, which are triggered by custom-made buttons sewn into the bra. Hit the read link for the full rundown of how to make one of your very own, but fair warning: you’re going to have to be pretty adept with needle and thread to get this project done, but the final result should be fairly priceless. After all, who doesn’t want a clunky, hideous sports bra that makes noise? Exactly.

[Via Music Radar]

Filed under: Wearables

Musical bra is not as sexy as it sounds originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We love it when you guys take our how-to posts and make them better. In fact, that’s one of the reasons we started the Gadget Lab Flickr Pool, as a place for you to show off your gadgeteering. This time, though, Gadget Lab reader Wilfurd has posted the results of his home made stealth camera bag on a forum.

Not just any forum, but our beloved MSI Wind Forum, the place to learn all about installing Mac OS X on the netbook. Wilfurd’s bag, as you might guess from this, has a slight twist: it is designed to hold his camera gear and his MSI Wind.

It looks like Wilfur used some slightly stiffer foam than we did, and was therefore able to make a semi rigid box and then insert it into the bag. You don’t see the Wind in the picture — there is a gap down the side of the bag in which to slide it.

It’s worth taking a look at the forum thread — Wifur had the same trouble as I did when it came to measuring things out, and resorted to lots of sketches and cardboard templates. He also put the whole lot into a Timbukt2 bag, which are pretty kick-ass to start with.

We love this project. To begin with, it’s a big kick for us when somebody takes a project from the Lab and makes it themselves. And its even better when they improve on the original.

A good bag for a Wind and a SLR? [MSI Wind Forums]

Gadget Lab Flickr Group [Flickr]

See Also:

• Make It: Stealth Camera Bag
• Make a Cheap Lens Case
• Three Of The Best Camera Bags You Can Buy

Casemods range from the peculiar to the spaceage, but this one — a pyramid PC case — kinda takes things to the next level of outrageousness. Weighing in at 7.5 pounds (just for the case) this 25-inch high beast is not exactly compact, with a 19 x 19-inch base. Modder polo360x made it from a customized Luxor pyramid case, and, and in our opinion, it fits in nicely with his home decor choices. Check out another two shots and hit the read link for many, many more, plus a full specsheet.

[Via Geeky Gadgets]

Continue reading Pyramid PC casemod will look really cool on your desk next to your Crysis poster

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Pyramid PC casemod will look really cool on your desk next to your Crysis poster originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 07 Mar 2009 11:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Before you click the play button, take a second to consider the idea behind this video. The project consists of a big screen HDTV laid flat on its back with smaller LCD display at the back. The whole shebang is showing a pinball simulation running the Future Pinball engine. In effect, you have a life-sized pinball game.

It sounds great. But wait til you see the video — it is actually awesome. Awesome, that is, until the maker BadBoyBill gets rather distracted and starts dicking around with both the tables and the video camera. In fact, it kind of reminds us of that guy at the house party who sits by the stereo, playing the first few seconds of a song before deciding he’ll play you something even better. Result: total frustration. Learn to edit, BadBoyBill, and better still, learn to sit still for five seconds.

Other than that, it’s an amazing mod, man.

Announcing HyperPin Digital Pinball Frontend [Hyperspin forum via RAW Feed]

Not that we haven’t seen cooking robots before, but there’s just something distinctly awesome about one that whips up a sandwich. Particularly one that kvetches first, and then gives in and makes a sandwich. Bre Pettis’ Sudo robot isn’t exactly sophisticated — anything more than a simple grilled cheese is asking a bit much — but even that should be plenty for the average college student. Check the read link to see it in action, and don’t be surprised to see Subway pick this up and tweak it for use with multiple toppings and condiments.

[Via Digg]

Filed under: Robots

Sudo robot begrudgingly makes sandwiches on command originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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