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more about #cool Dick Socrates: Someone should point out there is really no reason to ever play the Atari 2600 again. Even when it was new, it was terrible. I know, I had one. more » LucasReis: This is exactly the kind of mod that I wanted to do with all of my older consoles to preserve their memory intact and be able to play lots of games in... more » Karlott: I'd say this is one of the five greatest mods I've ever seen pretty easily. more » SgtSergio786: I love these modders. They keep it fresh. If its up for sale, I'm buying. =] more » Knoxximus ver. 5.66: That is cooooooooooool! more » kicking222: This is like an anti-Ben Heck console; instead of keeping the same functionality but making it smaller, the modder put more functionality into the sam... more » deanbmmv: See now this is the kind of mod I can appreciate. Unlike my disdain for the crappy "look ma i put my ipod in the cart bay of a megadrive" 'mod'. See t... more » hamster78: Wow, an interactive display. For technicality definately top notch. However for pure aesthetics I still give Richard Holdman's 2007 Music Box Da... more » DugDawg: The Griswolds would be jealous. more » Zeix36: You'd think with all that knowledge of special effects Mr. Turner could have programmed in the Blue and Orange buttons. more » Orionsaint: This makes me smile. more » Bialia: Where I am, it's so cold there is no way that kid could be standing outside with no gloves on. And the plastic guitar would shatter into a million pi... more » LilSpitfire: I think this guy gets "Coolest Dad Award" this holiday season. more » PeteyCoco: Lame. Why doesn't he learn a real Christmas Light Guitar? more » fozfan33: thats incredibly cool... wish i had the talent. more » Sobersean: aka Doctor Aquafresh: Since I'm at a loss for words I guess I'll just say what I said in real life sitting here watching this. Oh crap. more » Xelmon: Very cool! #roomba more » Hiphopopotamus: How does the narrator make something so awesome sound so awfully boring? #roomba more » mintycrys is HOT for Bayonetta: Holy damn. The coolest thing I've seen on Kotaku in a couple of weeks, and it's about Roombas. I'm beside myself. #roomba more » ShaggE: Cracking Eggs Of Wisdom: This further cements my belief that the Roomba is man's greatest invention to date. #roomba more » -
#cool
The Atari 2600 'Jukebox'
Not content with just stuffing a card full of ROMs inside the old-school Atari VCS case, one modder installed an LED screen in the cartridge bay that allows the operator to cycle through and select games. More » -
#holidays
Christmas Lights Hero 100 Percents the Holidays
Ric Turner, a former special effects specialist with Disney Imagineering built this, a 21,268-bulb Guitar Hero holiday display that plays "Cliffs of Dover" by Eric Johnson. More » -
#oddities
Dustbusting Blinky's Got Pac-Roomba on the Run
Roomba Pac-Man? Done before, but mostly as a cosmetic enhancement. Here it's taken to the next level - five Roombas (Roombi?Roombae, thanks Greentrace) engaged in a contest of Pac-Man with programmed "chase" and "escape" AI. More » -
#mods
And Now ... the 'NEStickle'
Reader Osama D's French friend built him this fighting stick out of a Nintendo Entertainment System, before leaving for his home country for good. You know, when I say goodbye to folks, I usually just buy a card or something. More » -
#mods
Awesome Custom Mario Costume Packs Its Own Soundtrack
Perhaps a little late for Halloween, but you can use this modded Mario costume for inspiration and get to work on yours for next year. Certain motions while wearing the suit trigger fireball, jumping and 1Up sounds, among others. More » -
#mods
NES Controller Flash Drive Secured by Konami Code
The list of NES case- and controller-mods we've seen covers just about everything imaginable, but Joe from the modder site Proto Dojo goes one better - making a USB drive unlockable by the Konami Code. More » -
#oddities
Street Fighter, Rendered in 15 Pixels
What? Don't tell me you can't see it, too? The U.K. games festival Gamecity recently commissioned this and two other works - iconic games animated with just 15 pixels. More » -
#toys
Custom Figures Have Lotsa Gut(s)
Homebrew action figure designer Donald "KodyKoala" Kennedy is working on a theme here - guts. As in Guts-Dozer, of Mega Man 2. And as in King Hippo's dunlop spare tire. More » -
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#brutallegend
Brütal Bus Sets Soapbox Derby Record
Remember the Brütal Bus Soapbox? Not only did it finish this weekend's Los Angeles Red Bull Soapbox Race intact, it set a top speed record of 46.1 mph. More » -
#mods
How Come Nobody Ever Does This to 'Friday the 13th'?
I'm no foe of the hard drive/cartridge mod craze, but it strikes me that they're never ripping the guts out of games that deserve the trashing. Instead, modders only hurt the ones you love ... More » -
#brutallegend
Brütal Bus will Race in Soap Box Derby
A team of three college friends is building one bad-assed model of Brütal Legend's Ironheade Tour Bus, and will race it in a soap box derby in Los Angeles. Holy catfish, they have actually cast molten metal for this thing. More » -
#wow
A Mindblowing Stop-Motion Lego Homage to Games
"8-Bit Trip," according to its Swedish creators took 1,500 hours to animate. They pay respect to everything from International Karate on a tape drive to Tetris on the NES, with Pong and Pac-Man in between. More » -
#tea
Afternoon Tea Now Includes Space Invaders
In an inverse Coors-Blue-Mountains way, this tea vessel shows blue pixelated Space Invaders when the contents are, of course, the hottest-tastingbeertea in the world. More » -
#ncaafootball10
Keeping a Promise to Joe
Earlier this year, EA Sports made an open call for names to add to its roster in NCAA Football 10. I put in for a guy to whom I felt I owed one. More » -
#warcraft
London, Mapped in Warcraft Style
A programmer showcasing the capabilities of an open-source, dynamic mapping framework has rendered the entire world - in a Warcraft II motif. More » -
#bigfreead
Custom Make "Any Game" as an NES Cart Necklace Charm
We do a lot of free ads for Etsy craftspersons, yeah, but this is pretty good: Old school NES carts are available as mini-sized necklace charms, in hypoallergenic silver if you want to upgrade. More » -
#cool
The Complete Set of Team Fortress 2 Achievement Icons
Would Team Fortress 2 icons add functionality to anything? No. Would a wallpaper of them be damned cool anyway? Yes. A user on the Steam forums has put them together for you to download. More » -
#cool
Old Atari Cart Remade Into Wallet
It is $55, however, the maker of this fine conversation piece says all of an Atari 2600 cartridge's parts, except for one screw, are repurposed to help make it into a wallet. More » -
#mods
Pip-Berry 3000
This is where BlackBerry's got it over Apple - user defined homescreens. A modder skinned up a Pip-Boy theme for the device, which actually functions - as opposed to the for-show-only iPod Touch mod. More » -
#dsi
Play the Piano with Your DSi
Who knew the photo-graffiti mode of the DSi could turn into a poor man's KORG DS-10? Dover, from the site/webcomic Monday Night Crew, found a genius way to compose piano tunes. Watch. More »
