Hasta La Gadget!

Damn. We see plenty of amazing things here at Technabob, but this has to be the best LEGO ship in the universe. This amazing reproduction of Serenity in LEGO bricks measures 7 feet-long. It’s also 135 pounds, is made of 70,000 bricks, and it took 475 hours (spread over 21 months) to complete.

Adrian Drake, its builder, is my new LEGO God. I will build an altar with LEGO bricks and worship him. Seriously. I’ll try to do it tonight if I have time. Drake used the Serenity Blueprints Reference Pack from QMx as a starting point. He converted it to LEGO and tried to make it as accurate as possible. It looks pretty darn great to me.

Inara’s shuttle even detaches so she can go meet her clients. And the wings actually swing and move. The cargo bay and drive both light up. Shall I go on? There are also custom minifigs of the crew. I can’t stop WANTING this. Check out many more images of the LEGO Serenity over on Flickr.

[via io9 via Nerd Approved]

If you’ve ever wanted a xenomorph skull to hang on your wall, but are too wimpy to hunt one yourself or in the company of some predators, check out this sweet skull.

This 4 pound xenomorph replica is about 32 inches long and will make it appear as if you are a galactic big game hunter. This is a badass replica of the alien skull that appeared only very briefly in a scene from Predator 2. The detail is simply striking and scary.

The skull was crafted by Wataru from PSYCHO MONSTERZ in Japan. Why hunt one and surely end up dead and drooled on, when you can buy one for $875 (USD) instead. It’s money well spent in order to creep out your house guests.

[via Obvious Winner]

Prop maker and hobbyist Mike Senna has been working on a remote-controlled, life-size replica of Disney-Pixar‘s WALL-E since 2010. It is now complete and we have a real, functional WALL-E on our planet.
Senna is no stranger to building robots. He previously built a perfect R2-D2 replica in 2003, which he took to events organized by City of Hope. He saw the effect it had on the children and so being the good guy that he is, he wanted to build a robot that had “more emotion.”

This project took about 3,200 to 3,800 hours to build from scratch. He averaged 25 hours a week on the project while working as a computer programmer at the same time. You can find more pictures and background on Senna’s WALL-E build over on his blog. Honestly, isn’t this is the best Wall-E replica you’ve ever seen?

[via Geekosystem]

The Stone Spray robot was created as a 3D printer to produce architecture out of soil. While technically speaking, this robot wasn’t designed to create art, the results of its efforts and the research project sure look like some interesting sculptural works.

Stone Spray was created by Anna Kulik, Inder Shergill and Petr Novikov as a way to produce eco-friendly, efficient and innovative systems to “print” architecture in 3D. The device collects sand and dirt which is then sprayed from a nozzle with a binding component. This mixture solidifies and creates forms that look like they were sculpted.

The movements of the ‘bot are controlled by a computer, so it can allow designers to have a direct input in the resulting shape, unlike other 3D printers. The spray is multi directional, and can even be sprayed vertically. While the prototype only produces pretty rudimentary small structures, here’s a rendering of the sort of thing a larger version might be able to produce:

While I’m not sure of the practical applications for the Stone Spray robot, it sure produces some unique artistic output. Check it out in action in the video below:

[via designboom]

Cookies are one of life’s great treats. Star Wars cookies are even better. Given the way he ate, maybe Jabba the Hutt would have been satisfied with some cookies featuring Han frozen in carbonite instead of the real deal hanging on his wall. Boba Fett really should have tried this tactic first. It would have been much easier than following the Millenium Falcon around. But then Return of the Jedi would have been a whole different story.

If you want to make some of your own Han Solo in Carbonite cookies, you just need a Han Solo in Carbonite ice cube tray, some chocolate and some sugar cookie dough. You can find the recipe here.

It’s a chocolate bar and cookie in one – an awesome treat for that Star Wars marathon you watch every other week.

[via Geeks Are Sexy]