Xray Console Awesomeness

Sometimes its really impressive how much stuff they cram into a little console. I probably don't have to tell you which picture above is the Xbox 360 and which is the Atari 2600. Here's a hint, the older one is mostly empty space. Oh, and one of them is labeled. Flickr member Reintji got these pictures somehow, the method to which I can only assume was highly illegal. But hey, you don't have to worry about that, you just get to see neat computer guts. Enjoy

[via Gizmodo and Flickr]

Nintendo's Entry in the great Bong Race

Alright, Alright, lets not get carried away now. I realize I just posted on the awesomeness of a bong made out of a 360, but Gizmodo just made a post of another gaming bong, this time made out of a classic NES Zapper. If there were a community out there dedicated to making bongs out of random crap, well, that would be 6 secret spices of awesome. I guess I'll keep posting on these things. They make me happy.

But, but... it was an Xbox....

Its really kind of astonishing the lengths that some people will go to to make bongs out of ordinary objects. the thing pictured above? the cheapest it could have been was $200, and I hope that it was broken before hand. On the other side it's really rather inventive, and maybe a little cool. If you're in to that thing. The full story on the Xbox bong can be found here from Gizmodo. hehehe, I approve lol.

70's book covers

So I have been noticing the resurgence of 70's style book covers. over at http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/ they have a nice article of some movies that have been made into covers (Highlander pictured above). Also there has been a big move to make these things for video games too (like the Left 4 Dead pictured above). This is pretty impressive stuff, I love anything that combines retro style with modern concepts. Some of the video game covers can be found here.

[via FSR and geekologie]

Leonardo da Vinci designs are all the rage

It seems to me that taking things and making them into Leonardo da Vinci designs is incredibly popular these days, especially for t-shirts. two examples would be the iPhone drawings above and the blue turtle shell from mario kart. Honestly I can't complain, these things blend old world style (16th century) with modern pop culture. Plus they look really cool. Now someone just needs to take a stab at the transformers franchise. My fanboy heart would sing.

[via Gizmodo and shirt woot]

Thank god someone was this crafty...

What we have here ladies and gentlemen, is a portal gun. Some of you may not play video games, and I respect that, but everyone should at least play portal. It's this cheeky little puzzle game in which a test subject is forced to run through a series of puzzles with nothing but a gun that can make two portals at different locations. Go in one, come out the other. For a better synopsis of the whole thing you can watch this video. its towards the end, but its all pretty hilarious. Long story short I want one. It may not work, But its still monstrously cool. I wish we had this kind of technology for public use. More images can be found at the flickr gallery here.

Hopefully soon we will.
Well, unless its just physically impossible.

[via Joystiq]