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more about #model Alfisted: Came here hoping to find number 1 on my Christmas list. Leaving disappointed. more » logruszed: That anchor isn't going to be terribly useful, and the oars are probably too buoyant as well. more » kagekiri: This greatly increases my desire to go home and build a Gunpla model. more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: . more » Kaiser-Machead: We're gonna need a bigger X-acto knife. more » Arken: Needs decals. more » OMG! Ponies!: More mock-ups should be done like this. Renders are all well and good but there is no substitute for good old-fashioned physical models. Also, this i... more » TheWerewolf - Sotto voce: Wow... too much free time or what. Not to mention a kind of creepy attachment to a commercial product. Kind of one step before tattooing an Apple logo... more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Do your little turn on the cat-walk Mrs. Roboto.. more » Abraham Rudo: Anyone else find it odd that its name sounds/looks remarkably like Herpes C? more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: I get it! These are war robots for the Middle East. The first two didn't get the reaction they wanted, so they made one with a exposed female face t... more » TheCrudMan: Most of the fun from lego comes from designing and building your own stuff IMO. I used to always destroy the normal model after enjoying it for a few... more » AdmNaismith: A lot of you may already know this, but you can built Lego stuff in software and have Logo ship you the pieces to build them in the real world. You c... more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: So the picture of the completed Lego set on the actual box isn't good enough anymore? more » scarbrtj: ONE. Grab that box off the shelf.TWO. Find the bar code on that box.THREE. Scan the code on that box. ... it's a DIGITAL BOX! more » -
#art
A 1:1 Model Kit Boat
This is not a plastic model. It's a real boat, ready to be assembled and painted like you would do with a real dinghy, but full scale. Knowing my story with models, mine would end up oozing with glue. More » -
#apple
"Apple Netbook" Student Project Is a Pencil-Drawn Beauty
This little project has been making the rounds as the "new Apple netbook," which, unfortunately, is way off. But the truth is pretty cool anyway: It's a beautiful pencil-drawn, wooden model. -
#robots
The HRP-4C Model Robot Is Programmed to Work...It
The HRP-4C robot was not programmed to please families like Asimo. Nor will she save/destroy humanity like a Terminator. Rather, she's taking the fashion world by storm as Tokyo's next top model. UPDATE VIDEO: More » -
#lego
Lego's Digital Box Shows Completed 3D Models With No Construction Needed
Imagine mulling over two new Lego sets, wondering which one would look more impressive on your parents' mantle. To help you out, Lego's Digital Box shows a 3D model right there in the store. More » -
#helicopters
Indoor R-C Helicopters Go DIY, Use Spare Electronics Parts
Forget the Picoo Z's, no matter how much fun they are they can't be as cool as making and flying your own indoor remote-control 'copter. And over at this site there's a set of instructions that'll help you DIY, assuming you have some spare CD drive motors and servos lying around, and are happy with soldering and detailed rotor-carving. The instructions even say how to add a wireless cam beneath the fuselage... useful for, um, imaging the precise moment you crash it into your cat? I suspect more nefarious purposes. Still, it's a full cyclic-control aircraft, so it should be extremely flyable. [Heliproject via Hacknmod] -
#architecture
Biggest City Model in the World Waiting for Guy in Godzilla Costume
This is a model of Shanghai as projected for 2020 by Chinese authorities. At 1,000 square feet, it's perhaps the biggest model of a city in the world, and—for sure—the best place ever for two grown men to wear their Gamera and Godzilla latex costumes and fight to death. The gigantic dimensions and the detail shown in the photographs are just mind-blowing. More » -
#starwars
Modded Millennium Falcon Can Pass for Real Movie Prop
Giz reader Peter Clute saw the impressive Hasbro Millennium Falcon and instead of just buying it to play and go all pew-pew with it, he decided to make it better, painting new wear and tear details, and adding a motion sensor and infrared sensor, and a load of extra LEDs. The results are impressive: More » -
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#3dcnchexapodrobot
DIY Robot Does 3D Carving: Self-Replication Still Far-Off
Robots robots robots... from sexy ones to fighting ones, we love them here at Giz. But this amazing project by Matt Denton over at Robosavvy has me in two minds. It's a modified DIY hexapod robot with a motorised Dremel-tool nose, and Matt's written some code that lets the robot move the cutting tool with precision, so it acts like a little precision CNC mill. And it's amazing: wait til you see the video of it in action, carving out a model. But is this project a scary step towards self-replicating 'bots? More » -
#weirdcombooftheday
Weird Combo of the Day: Microsoft Surface Model is Also an American Gladiators Contestant
Has it really been that long since we've had a Weird Combo of the Day? Well, it's back, and we've got an especially weird Weird Combo of the Day for you today. Do you remember Monica, the woman that's in all the press photos and web videos for Microsoft's Surface table? Turns out she's a contestant on American Gladiators as well. Don't believe us? Hit the jump. More »
