Stained Glass d20

Posted by John Farrier in Arts & Crafts on November 21, 2009 at 9:35 pm

John F. Talarico of the podcast show Bloodthirsty Vegetarians created two 20-sided dice out of stained glass and black and copper patina. The orange one is called “Fire.” There are more detailed images in the flickr photostream.

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Wii Anatomy

Posted by Queuebot in Toy & Video Games on September 9, 2009 at 9:39 am

Artist Angela Moramarco has a very odd belief about the innards of video game controllers.

I bet you didn’t know that the average Wii controller has all kinds of guts like this. Guts. I’ve seen a lot of guts projects lately. That one with the lego guy turning around and around, those KAWS Dissected Companions from a few years ago. It’s no longer a joke! But that’s ok, that’s not what this is about anyway. It’s about how physical therapists are using the Wii to help their patients gain muscle strength by playing games! Yay Nintendo!

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Video Game Boosts Learning

Posted by Queuebot in Baby & Kids, Gadget, Toy & Video Games on February 5, 2009 at 11:29 am

Remember when video games were bad for you? Mom and Dad would complain about how they tied up the television, kept you from playing outdoors, ruined your eyesight and wasted your time. That’s a thing of the past. Re-tooled videogames are now helping children and teens boost basic skills in reading, writing and math.

At West Nottinghamshire College in the U.K., computer science teachers were struggling to get teenage students into literacy and numeracy classes. The college needed to take drastic measures to assist “disaffected students”.

The resolution came in the form of Neverwinter Nights, Atari’s popular computer game. Teachers rebuilt the game to deliver educational challenges players must tackle in order to progress.

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DIY Atari Lamp

Posted by Stacy in Arts & Crafts on January 24, 2009 at 11:19 am

There are instructions to create your own, but honestly… it looks pretty hard. Maybe it’s not if you have all of the right tools, though. Difficult to make or not, dude deserves props for ingenuity.

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