This amazing creation by a user at the Bit Fix Gaming boards is both a functional electric guitar and a working Game Boy emulator. Not only do the buttons control the game, but A and B also act as dials to control the tone and volume of the guitar.
LOTR Fire Pit Is Epic
Etsy store ImagineMetalArt is selling this five-foot high fire pit that lets you recreate the destruction of Barad-dur in spectacular fashion.
Buy from Etsy.
[Via: Nerd Approved]
Princess Problems: Well THAT Would Have Saved A LOT Of Time
Real Life Excalibur from Fate/stay Night
The Man At Arms Team are back with another real-life forging of a fictional weapon. This time they turn their attention to Excalibur from the Fate/stay night universe.
Einstein & Tesla In New Action Figure Range
Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla are among five “real life heroes” in an action figure range looking for Kickstarter funding. Along with Mahatma Ghandi, Sigmund Freud and Andy Warhol, they’ve been chosen by the makers for an attempt to re-release a line of figures that was previously available before manufacturing costs rose.
Millennium Falcon Multi-Tool
Insane Keyboard Covers 1,000+ Emoji [Video]
YouTube video presenter Tom Scott has made a keyboard — or rather a network of 14 keyboards — that has individual keys for every emoji in Unicode 8. Why? Because he could.
Drones Build Rope Bridge [Video]
Building a temporary bridge is a task that perfectly matches the skillset of a group of fit, well-disciplined military staff — which is why they are often called to help out in disaster relief — but in the field the operation is still time-consuming and exposes troops to the enemy. Now a Swiss university has successfully tested a plan for three quadcopters to build a rope bridge that can support the weight of a human.
iPhone Gets Physical Game Cartridges
A Japanese company is producing console-style miniature game cartridges that plug in to an iPhone. It seems to be aimed largely at nostalgia fans as there’s virtually no practical benefit in the system.
Beatrobo has recently demonstrated a proof of concept of the Pico Cassette, a tiny cartridge that plugs into the headphone socket. Unlike with consoles, there’s no actual content on the cartridge itself. Instead it emits a sound through the socket that is recognised by a pre-installed app on the phone. The sound acts as authentication to let the player access the game.
Each Pico Cassette is linked to a particular user’s online account, meaning you can unplug it, attach it to another device, and then access your games, saved state and high scores. Of course, that’s perfectly possible to do with many online games anyway, without the extra hardware.
It seems Beatrobo is simply trying out a quirky way to repurpose one of its existing products, the PlugAir. That works in a similar way but for digital music and videos. It’s used in a Japanese music store chain as a way to sell albums and movies for people to access immediately (subject to a decent data connection) rather than have to play or rip via a computer or disk player.
[Via: The Verge]
Disney Goes Art Deco
Artist David G Ferrero has put together a great collection of Art Deco-style movie posters for Disney films. Check out all 12 at his website.
[Via: NerdApproved]