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Action figure customizer Sillof has made everything from steampunk versions of Ironman to Star Wars characters circa World War II. We've featured his sets several times on this site, but what we've covered are only bits and pieces of an amazing body of work. The master model maker himself gives us the goods on why, and how, he does what he does after the jump.
Zoltan is a 33-year-old guy from Georgia. Average height, average looks, and not a rich man. He works in an arcade, where he fixes video games for a living, and still lives with his elderly parents. No wonder he was nervous about asking his slim redheaded girlfriend Alice to marry him. To make things more tense, she had split up with Zoltan at the beginning of the relationship because she thought he was taking things too fast. Since they got back together, though, Alice has been good for Zoltan—he's started attending church again, and cut out watching porn. His parents' initial rejection of her had turned to respect, and the four of them seemed to be living together happily enough. So Zoltan had confidence when he popped the question to Alice—his beloved, who just happens to be a robot.
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BrickArms can help you build your private army with everything you need, from the superadvanced Colonial Marines' Xeno Pulse Rifles to NATO's G36 Assault Rifles to vintage German Rocket Propeller Grenade launchers, PPK pistols with Brausch silencers and Magnum revolvers. If your private army is a bunch of LEGO minifigs, that is. We talked with the arms dealer himself, Will Chapman, and he spilt the beans on his Brickarms operation. Interview and amazing full gallery after the jump.
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Nobody really knows what the future of human interfaces and gaming will look like, but Andrew Fentem—who went from working on classified missile systems to developing multi-touch human interfaces, kinetic surfaces and motion sensing technologies before almost anyone else in the planet—gave us a fascinating vision on where we are headed in this exclusive interview. Work like his Fentix Cube, a motion- and touch-sensing cube which can play Pac-Man among other games, have all the big companies taking notes. The videos speak for themselves.
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"Babble" (Froslie, 2006)
Interview/Article by Jonah Brucker-Cohen
In the technologically advancing world of consumer electronics and toys, it seems that manufacturers are attempting to pack more features into devices without any regard for their emotional and nostalgic appeal. Playfully examining the toys and games from his childhood, artist Pete Froslie attempts to bring out the human side to digital and analog toys by giving them the ability to sense and play off their users input to create new forms of interaction and intuition. From adding a nervous side to "Speak and Spell" games with his "Babble" project to making a novel self-aware with "Anxiety Book," Froslie's projects not only speak to the characteristics of their intended users, but also carry their own sense of bewilderment and charm. Gizmodo caught up with Froslie to discuss his work and exactly why our devices should become less plastic and more intuitive like us.
Images and Interview after the jump.
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Computer Choppers has finished their custom 24-carat gold Macbook Pro modification. And it looks just...golden...other than the Apple logo, of course, which houses more diamonds than will allow us to ever send this link to our wife. We actually gave creator Alex Wiley a quick call today to get the lowdown on pricing...and maybe even placed an order of our own. (OK, we totally didn't place an order, but we did get some interesting info).
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"Your uncle Invented the Camera Phone!?" is what I said before a friend introduced me to Philippe Kahn. Back in 1997, Kahn hacked together a camera phone to easily send photos of his newborn daughter to family and friends. That piece of lore is gadget history 101. What many people don't realize is that Philippe is also a fanatic sailor. We're not talking cushy megayachts: Kahn engages in top level competitive racing, in 2003 beating Roy Disney to win the Transpac race from Long Beach to Hawaii. As we speak, he's on the same journey in a smaller, lithe, double-handed (two man) on the Team Pegasus Open 50, making a play for the speed record. We just emailed him...and mid race, he wrote back.
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