Playing cards

January 21st 2013

Here’s a Simple Card Trick You Can Learn in a Minute

Our friends at BoingBoing put together a video to show you a simple and fun card trick that anyone can learn in no time: Using a deck of playing cards, make three piles of three cards each. Flip a pile over to note the bottom card and then combine all three piles into one, making…

Tech News Casey Chan Jan 21

January 12th 2012

A Toy That Turns Your Playing Cards Into a TIE Fighter

E&M labs, which raised $96,000 on Kickstarter last year for their Trebuchette, has built a new toy: Skallops. They’re wooden clips that transform a regular deck of cards into a set of building blocks. The idea for Skallops has been lying dormant in Marshall Grinstead‘s brain since he was 8. Now he’s finally gotten his…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski Jan 12

November 16th 2011

Daily Desired: Typography Makes These Playing Cards Beautiful

You know what playing cards need? Better typography. Thus Heleviticards. The deck o’cards hasn’t gotten a design upgrade this significant since the introduction of the nudie deck lord know when in the history of gambling and pornography. It’s fitting that these cards designed by Ryan Myers are laid out in Helvetica: the poker face of…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Nov 16

December 23rd 2009

The Ladies of Star Wars, Playing Cards

I know what you’re thinking right now. “Who in the hell is Koyi Matei?” We haven’t the slightest clue, but she was probably the chief protagonist in Episode 2, or something. [ThinkGeek via ChipChick]

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 23

August 11th 2009

iPhone Playing Cards See Your Fanboyism, Raise You $25

A truly committed novelty design house would’ve changed the face cards—star Apple employees, perhaps?—but if you’re seriously in the market for iPhone-themed playing cards, this $25 set will have to do. [Craziest Gadgets via BBG]

Tech News John Herrman Aug 11

August 18th 2008

Guy Builds Olympic Village Replica with 140,000 Playing Cards

This Olympics Village model made by an expert card-stacker makes the Lego Olympics look just naff in comparison. I mean, that model’s just a lot of plastic parts snapped together: This guy had to avoid shaky hands, sneezing and stepping incautiously for a whole 20 days while he put the card model together, detailing even…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Aug 18

August 16th 2008

Dark Knight Inspires Copycat Crimes, Over-reactions

Click to viewIt’s taken four weeks, but it’s finally happened – Fans of The Dark Knight have started to take some of the Joker’s methods into the real world, and are paying the price. But, considering what was actually done in the Joker’s name, the price being paid may be far too high.According to the…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 16

November 23rd 2007

World Record House of Cards Stands Up to Leafblower

Bryan Berg, cardstacker extraordinaire, tries to take down his world-record setting card tower with a leafblower. But it’s made up of so many damn cards he barely puts a dent in it before the blower flames out. So he resorts to the most destructive tools around: his hands, crushing himself in a sweet avalanche of…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Nov 23

August 18th 2006

Commodore Amiga Novelty Playing Cards

Sure, having naked ladies and Hooters girls are always nice, how about tickling that inner geek bone? These cards just may be able to do it. This is a standard 52 card deck that features a variety of different models of the Commodore Amiga. The jokers even feature the classic, BoingBall. Nevermind the naked ladies,…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Aug 18

Here’s a Simple Card Trick You Can Learn in a Minute

A Toy That Turns Your Playing Cards Into a TIE Fighter

Daily Desired: Typography Makes These Playing Cards Beautiful

The Ladies of Star Wars, Playing Cards

iPhone Playing Cards See Your Fanboyism, Raise You $25

Guy Builds Olympic Village Replica with 140,000 Playing Cards

Dark Knight Inspires Copycat Crimes, Over-reactions

World Record House of Cards Stands Up to Leafblower

Commodore Amiga Novelty Playing Cards

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