August 2009 - Posts

Grill Starter Fishing Pole and Rifle
Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:24 PM

 

 

I think that every man needs to know how to operate a grill. I mean it’s kind of like a right of passage to get your first grill and start grilling food for your friends. What better way to start a grill than with a fishing pole lighter? I mean I like fishing and but what if fishing isn’t really your thing? That’s fine you can go with the Rifle or Shotgun Lighters. I think these are super cool and a fun little grilling gimmick. You can find these at the ever so popular Bass Pro Shops.

$9.99 each @ Bass Pro Shops

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Mac Finder Icon Pillow - Mac Geeks Unite
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 2:31 PM

 

 I have posted a bunch of products for the geek who decorates with his or her geekery. This is a prefect pillow for a couch or your bed. It's depicts the ever so popular Finder Logo from the Mac OS. I think the Finder logo hasn't changed that much since it's conception and now you can have it on a pillow thanks to a user over at etsy.

 

$14.99 @ Etsy 

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Live Action Duck Hunt Game


Wednesday, August 19, 2009 4:15 PM

 

 

Duck Hunt was a fun game wouldn’t it be fun to play it in real life. I mean without the Blood and guts and real guns. I mean with an electric inferred Gun and a mechanical flying duck. Where was this thing when I was young? Oh well!



With a 10 second charge on the gun this odd looking duck will fly for up to 30 seconds in erratic patterns until you shoot it down. The single shot mini pump action shotgun makes a loading sound each time you load it. You have to shoot the duck three times to take it down. The first two just momentarily interrupt its flight, but the third will take it down. How cool is that? 

I would have been all about this toy when I was a kid!

 





$29.99 at Hammacher Schlemmer

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The Laptop Vault – Protect your Laptop from your Roommates
Sunday, August 16, 2009 2:33 PM

 

College is a great place to have a laptop. It’s great for traveling around campus with and for taking notes in class. The only problem is when you live in the dorms you can’t control sometime who is going in and out of your dorm room. Solution? Enter the Laptop Vault. It’s a lockable plastic container that can mount to walls or furniture. Perfect for preventing your roommates from using your laptop or from a dorm room thief.

$79.99 @ ThinkGeek

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iPhone Playing Cards
Thursday, August 13, 2009 3:40 PM

Meninos does again with these unique playing cards that look like an iphone. The cards image appears in the center of the screen where you would expect the callers photo to be. The cards number and type appear in the top left and bottom right, as you would expect. The back of the cards shows the back of the iphone with an almost shiny reflective finish. I most have for the iphone fanatic.

$25 at Meninos

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Geeky Lamp Shades
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 6:26 PM

 

Shade yourself from the geeky lights with a geeky lamp shade the people over at Meninos.us always come up with awesome designs and ideas for making geeky home items. They are also behind the adobe suite pillow set and iphone app coasters I featured on my blog a couple months ago.

This Lamp shade is of course a replication of Google Maps markers. For all you Google fans out there these are a must have. There are several other designs that are offered by Meninos including a Space Invader Lamp shade. Go check out all the cool and unique items over at Meninos.us.

$60.00 Hand crafted Lamp Shades @ Meninos  

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How to Make Projectile Gadgets that Go Boom!
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 3:33 PM

I’m sure that most of you out there that like projectile gadgets have built a potato cannon at least once. What about the other fun little projectile gadgets like matchstick rockets or tennis ball mortar? There are many ways to make these gadgets and instructions can be found all over the internet, but books like these two provide a step by step instructions on how to make some of the most fun projectile gadgets you have every seen.

Backyard Ballistics $11.53 @ Amazon

Whoosh  Boom Splat $11.53 @ Amazon

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Geeky Cuff Links – Because Geeks Have to look Nice Too!
Wednesday, August 05, 2009 12:06 PM

 

There is no reason a geek can’t go undercover and wear a nice suit with a nice French cuff shirt and some nice cuff links. With these cuff links you can bring back a little bit of geekyness to the outfit with these little Macintosh cuff links. If you’re not a fan of Apple computer and gaming is more your thing then these NES game controller cuff links might just be what you’re looking for.

Mac Cuff Links $20 @ etsy
NES Cuff Links $18 @ etsy

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iphone Gorillapod – An affordable iPhone mount and Tripod Solution
Monday, August 03, 2009 2:42 PM

 

People have been making their own iphone tripods and mounts for a while now. There are some that have come out that seem a bit extreme for a casual tripod mount for your iphone. Well the solution is that Grillapod mount.

Gorillapod makes tripods with bendable and moldable legs. I have owned one of these with the standard mounting screw and it worked great. The iphone version can be mounted in two ways. You can either use the suction cup bracket to mount it to the phone or use an adhesive mounting system. Both I’m sure would work great as an affordable iphone mount solution. You could probable get a second hard case for your iphone if you want to use the adhesive mounting system that way you would have to have the mount on your everyday case.

This is a great iphone tripod solution go check out the gorillapod at their website.

$30 @ Gorillapod

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