Hasta La Gadget!

People love their smartphones, and it’s hard to remember how we actually managed to get anything done in the past with only our dumbphones. Check out this interesting digital art installation from Japan that highlights smartphones.

Japanese designer Yuri Endo developed Luminogeist as the final phase in his thesis project at IDAS. The installation uses glass prisms which reassemble 3D image components from the mobile displays below. The prisms allow the extraction what’s being shown on the smartphone’s screen, making them look almost like floating holograms. Check it out, it’s pretty cool:

I wonder if this technique could be used with tablets or flat panel TVs to display floating images inside of even larger prisms.

[via designboom]

In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire… The A-Team. If you can’t hire them, at least you could build your own A-Team LEGO R/C van.


This A-Team RC LEGO Van was made by Vimal Patel, a LEGO building maniac from New Zealand, who has created numerous other LEGO masterpieces in the past. This van is built entirely from LEGO bricks. Everything except for the battery, the circuitry and the IR sensor, that is. Check out out in action in the video clip below:

To see more images and some of his other work, you can check out Vimal’s Flickr page.

[via Walyou]

What are geeks taking to the beach this year? I have no idea, because it’s freezing cold where I am. But surfer geeks should be checking out these fun Walking Dead and R2-D2 surfboards. They’ll let you catch a wave while you fly your geek flag proudly.

I think the R2-D2 design is the best -acting as a surfboard is just one more facet of this versatile maintenance droid we weren’t aware of until now. On the other hand, I feel like the Walking Dead board would attract sharks. Zombie sharks.

These were first spotted by Katie Graef at the 2013 Surf Expo in Florida, where I’m sure they were a huge hit.

Both of these were airbrushed by Josh DelRocco of Ricky Carroll Surfboards. They do good work. If I surfed, I would buy something like this in a heartbeat.

[via Geektyrant]

We’ve all seen what could happen if humans became zombies, but what if your old Nintendo Game Boy Color returned from the dead as a zombie? The results are more cute than horrifying.

I’m not sure how you would stop a horde of zombie Game Boy Colors, but thankfully things haven’t reached plague proportions yet. This zombie handheld was created by Kody Koala, who knows how to make awesomely gory sculptures. He had already made some Game Boy zombies and wanted to see what a Game Boy Color would be like.

He used hands from a Cletus robot and feet from a Minion from Megamind. The end result is a fun Nintendo zombie ready to devour your old game cartridges instead of brains.

[via Geeknative]

Tetris is an amazing game. I have played that game for hours upon hours on the funky green screen of my old Game Boy. There have been many different versions of the game that have released over the years, but there’s something just so right about the original. The artist behind these sculptures must have felt the same way, with these clearly Tetris-inspired sculptures.

Swedish artist Michael Johansson has created a series of sculptures, which were assembled using a variety of different household items, stacked perfectly in a Tetris-like fashion. He considered form and function while putting these together. They each ended up as nearly perfect cubes, with different textures and materials.

The only thing that makes these un-Tetrislike is that in the game they would have all disappeared by now thanks to the perfectly stacked lines of stuff.

The sculptures are being shown at the Flat Gallery in Milan, Italy through February 24, 2013. So if you happen to be traveling through the area, you should go check these out.

[via designboom]