Hasta La Gadget!

If you’re a Whovian and need some cool art for your front yard, do what Dulcet’s husband did and build some for yourself. You don’t have to be Davros to build a neat Dalek for your neighbors to admire.

Apparently, he only just learned to weld, and made this Dalek lawn ornament from found pieces of metal, except for the half-spheres. You can’t really find those just anywhere. I’ll let her tell it:

Every time he rides his bike to work, he brings home metal stuff from the side of the road. We’ve been talking about him making something from them for quite a while. A few months ago, he got a crash course on welding from our neighbor who just happens to have a mig welder…The only things he purchased were the half-spheres, which are pipe caps. The eye-stalk in mounted in part of a truck hitch, and swivels up and down. The arm without the laser is made from a jack, and telescopes out. The head is a propane tank sliced up, with pieces of our broken garage-door-opener spring on top. The whole thing is four and a half feet tall.

It looks pretty sweet. I’m surprised the neighborhood kids haven’t made it an altar yet, where they can kneel and wish for the 50th anniversary Doctor Who trailer to show up online.

[via geekcrafts]

I love all things Space Invaders. I’m just a sucker for anything featuring those 8-bit aliens. I also love to read, so these adorable Book Invaders are perfect.

These fun bookmarks were created by Elod Beregszaszi and they are ready to land inside your favorite books, with you in charge of the invasion and giving orders about which page to assault.

Sadly they are out of stock at the moment, but they were too cool not to share. Hopefully they will be back in stock soon and we can buy some. I would buy one of each. Space Invaders are no good unless you have a small army.

[via it8bit]

Grumpy Cat has been entertaining men and women, young and old, with his stone-faced expression ever since he hit the web. You’ve seen his memes and parody videos. You’ve seen the busts and sculptures that he’s inspired artists to create. You’ve probably already seen the Grumpy Cat-themed nail art and shirts all over the web.

And now you’re going to be seeing him on your mail pretty soon, too!

The postage stamp is available in three sizes and was created at  Zazzle. It’s available in a bunch of denominations, and you can choose the stamp value you want from a drop-down menu. Values start at $0.33 for mailing postcards, with the highest value at $5.60 for priority mail.

Now your mail can look just as grumpy as the postal workers delivering it.

[via Laughing Squid]

LEGO creations never cease to amaze me. You can do so much with these little plastic bricks. Is there anything they can’t do? Is there anything they can’t replicate? LEGO is all powerful!

This has to be one of the neatest LEGO creations that I have seen in some time. It’s an amazing reproduction of the classic Nintendo Entertainment System, done up in stunning detail by weltall1028. It has the power button, the reset button, the A/V hookups. It’s all here. It even lights up when powered on.

The detail is so nice that you wonder if it can actually play games. It obviously can’t, but it makes you wonder.

[Flickr via Neatorama]

Artist and cosplayer Casy Kovach chose to go as Nightmare from SoulCalibur 5 for this year’s Dragon Con. Short of hiring Tony Swatton, Kovach went to great lengths to create a Soul Edge replica worthy of its videogame counterpart.

The base of the sword’s blade was carved from a board of insulating foam. Casy carved the board to match the shape of Soul Edge’s blade then added fiberglass to its outer edge. Then he used lots of Model Magic as well as hot glue to replicate the muscles and flesh covering the blade. He used a plastic sphere from a toy for Soul Edge’s eyes. Finally he painstakingly painted and buffed the blade. He worked on it on and off over 7 months, but the result is worth it.

Casy estimates that the blade alone weighs about 15lbs, but it sure looks like it weighs more than that. He used plumbing pipes as the sword’s handle but eventually he had to add a few ankle weights as well to give the sword a more sensible center of gravity. This is just the sword; imagine when he’s wearing Nightmare’s armor. He’s going to be a statue at Dragon Con.

[via For All Intense Porpoises via Obvious Winner]