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Now where did I put that sock? This clever table and chairs and drawers combo furniture called T@tris by Pedro Machado is inspired by a certain madly addictive videogame of the 80s.
I’ve always fancied myself a pretty good Tetris player, but even at my prime I don’t think I could make art with the blocks while playing the game. This takes some major skills.
Via Geekosystem
Sam Q. Kim, a guy with a lot of time on his hands (and great willpower to not just om nom all of those gummies) made a stop motion video of the little bears representing Tetris, Pac-Man, Breakout and more. It’s really cute, but now I have a sugar craving.
Link via Geekologie
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Inspired by the xkcd comic “Heaven,” GUD magazine made a playable version of Tetris that occasionally sends a piece “from heaven” that’s exactly what you need to fit in with the rest of your blocks. Link -via Blame It On The Voices
Comments Off What do you get when you combine Tetris with Rubik’s Cube? I can only imagine how long this clever YouTube clip by BananaNeil must’ve taken him to make!
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via Have You Seen This?
Russian artist Danil Zdorov has a great idea — Tetris Sugar! These little sugar cubes could bring an 80s flavor to the tea making experience.
At first it looks as if the Tetris L block has messed up your game in this Czech building. However, upon further investigation, the block was planned to fall this way in order to keep the bottom floors of the building from being wiped out. See more views with Google Street View. Link -via reddit
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Tetris, the game, is the star of a new action film coming to a theater not necessarily near you. Starring la barre! et la croix! It’s in French, but from the looks of the trailer, you won’t have to understand the language to enjoy the action! See the preview at Technabob. Link
The second I laid eyes on these configurable Tetris Couch, that infernal 8-bit earworm of a music popped in my head!
The Tetris Couch designed by Stefano Grasselli is basically a set of several small couches of different dimensions and the set comprises of 8 different members. [...] Each couch has got 4 legs and can be arranged any how you like.
Walyou has more examples of the geekiest sofas you’ll see today: Link
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This music video relates the history of the Soviet Union with a clever song set to the Tetris theme (Korobeiniki), both the music and the game itself. Music by Pig With The Face Of A Boy. Honestly, it’s awesome. Link
What happens when our hero from the classic Contra video game finds himself trapped inside a Tetris game? Be sure to watch for the surprise ending – via Everlasting Blort
If you like this sort of stuff, then NeatoGeek is the Neatoblog for you!
More "versus" animations? Visit Tvigle.ru [in Russian, but you don't need to know the language to appreciate the clips]
Photo: abrinsky [Flickr]
Flickr pool Tetris Tetris Everywhere is dedicated to things in real life that look like the falling blocks from insanely popular video game. Do you hear a certain background music when you read this post?
Link – via Things I Think Are Kinda Cool
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This concept of hell is brought to you by the webcomic xkcd. Only a couple of days after this particular comic went viral, there is a playable version. Understand, I said a playable version, not a winnable version. Link -via b3ta
The French graphic design duo Zim & Zou made a papercraft version of a Nintendo Game Boy. It even has an insertable game cartridge. At the link, you can view more pictures, as well as a papercraft Tetris game.
Link via Albotas | Photo: Zim & Zou
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In First Person Tetris, when you rotate a block, you rotate the entire game! By the time you think you’ve figured it out, the dizziness begins to set in. It’s quite addicting. Link -via Boing Boing
What do you get when you cross a pixel-y Italian plumber with some rapidly-falling tetrominoes? Tuper Tario Tros., of course. It’s like regular Mario, except you’ll encounter some obstacles that you’re going to need help surmounting. That’s when you’ll need to toggle to Tetris and use the shapes to help. Have fun!
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Greg Pattillo flute beatbox If you’ve never heard flute beatboxing, or “fluteboxing” before – now’s your chance to see and hear the amazing Greg Pattillo. It’s much, much better than you may assume. Link |
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The Tetris God A very funny video that explains a lot about how the ordering of blocks in Tetris really works. |
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Food Ad Tricks – Making A Commercial Burger Ever wonder why the squeezed up, compressed piece of mystery meat you get doesn’t look like the ads? This is why. Link |
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Coolest Clock ever This clock does not actually have a man inside but a flatscreen that plays a 24 hour loop of this video by the artist watching his own clock somewhere and painstakingly erasing and re-writing each minute. This video was taken at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009. Link |
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Home is Where the Food Is. From the post: My dear and talented friend Jody wrote and animated this fantastic homage to the concept of the 100 mile diet. Enjoy! Link |
Erin McKean is a Chicago-based lexicographer who writes at the blog A Dress A Day. There she opines on various dresses that she sees and makes. Her most recent creation is a dress inspired by the classic video game Tetris. You can view more pictures at the link.
Link via Geekologie | Interview with McKean
Mexican industrial designer Gabriel Cañas created this fiberglass Tetris-inspired chair. So far, it’s one-of-a-kind, so it’s not yet available for retail. Follow the link to Cañas’ portfolio for more odd furniture.
Link via GearFuse | Previously on Neatorama: Tetris Furniture
This ad for Freebord skateboards has skateboarders flying down the streets of San Francisco in the dark to connect glowing Tetris shapes. I have to wonder where the awesome outtakes are!-via Digg
If you recall the Tetris Shower and wanted one of your own, you’re going to love this. A tile supplier in England makes ceramic tiles in Tetris shapes! Pick up to seven colors for the six shapes and design your own video game bathroom or kitchen. For faster installation, they also offer sheets of mosaic tiles with preset patterns. Link -via Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
Research shows that playing the video game Tetris can improve your brain’s efficiency and will thicken some areas of the cortex. Neuroscientist Richard Haier had adolescent girls play Tetris for three months and looked for changes in their brain scans.
Three months of Tetris playing had two distinct effects on the brains of research subjects: Some areas in the brain showed greater efficiency (the blue areas in the diagram above), and different areas showed thicker cortexes, which is a sign of more grey matter (red). This, says the doctors who undertook the study, shows that focusing on a “challenging visuospatial task” like a videogame can actually alter the structure of the brain, not just increase brain activity [Wired.com]. But surprisingly, there was no overlap between the regions that became more efficient and those that thickened. Haier says more research must be done to determine how different areas of the brain interact during game playing
As Tetris turns 25 this week, the Geeks are sexy blog compiled a list of ten interesting facts you probably didn’t know about the game.
1- The game was completed on June 6th 1984 by Alexander Pajitnov, a programmer at the Moscow Academy of Sciences who worked on the game in his spare time [...]
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Swedish photographer Erik Johansson of alltelleringet created this fantastic image of what Tetris would look like in real life.
See the rest of his creations here: Link – via Super Punch
If you love the game, chances are you’ll also love the furniture! Here’s a Tetris-inspired line of furniture, by designers Diego Silvério and Helder Filipov.
Just don’t stack ‘em right – they’ll go poof and disappear into thin air!
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This post started when I saw The 40 Greatest Uses of the Mario Brothers theme article at Rock the List. I figured I’d play one of the videos and link you guys to the rest. But when I searched for the original Tesla Coil video to share, all of these other video game themes appeared. Who knew?!
Here’s the theme that started it all – Mario:
And here we have Tetris, of course.
Zelda:
Amazing. I still recommend you check out the 40 Greatest Uses of the Mario Theme, though. It’s got everything from the banjo, which I think sounds pretty good, to a dude with a remote control car that drives by a line of glass bottles and hits them to make the appropriate noise for each note.
