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Everyone loves gadgets and all good geeks appreciate the intersection of geeky art and design, from memes turned into living works to technology scrap turned into new design objects. From innovative light art to unique drawing techniques, here are our favorite works of art that will inspire the geek in anyone – as well as our top gadgets for everyone who wants to have their very own piece of future tech.

Alarming Technology: 18 Weird New Ways to Wake

Are you the owner of a digital waking assistant? Modern designers are working hard to find the perfect alarm clock for you, as these 18 examples show.

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Light Graffiti Meets Performance Art & Photography

German duo Jan Wöllert and Jörg Miedza of LAPP create incredible light graffiti using complex choreography, light sources and photography.

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Steampunk Futuristic Cities: Homes and Factories

The retro-futuristic architecture art of David Trautrimas makes something completely new of common household items: cool residential and industrial buildings.

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Insane Prisoner Inventions: 24 DIY Prison Tools & Weapons

Nowhere is there more inventiveness than the gadgets made in prisons. These DIY tools and weapons and upcycled or recycled art show the ingenuity of prisoners.

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12 Video Games That Help You Get A Life

Gaming has always struggled with a reputation for stunting our growth, so here is the oter side of the coin: 8 games that might make you a better human being.

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Bricks and Scones: British House Built Entirely of Legos

Have you ever wished you could build a Lego house big enough to walk into? UK TV presenter James May and a team of volunteers and builders are doing just that.

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42 Fantastic Fusions of Tech and Art in Geek Jewelry

When recycled tech parts become jewelry to help save the planet and look great, it's flat out sexy. Here are 42 fantastic fusions of tech art in geek jewelry.

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25 Hardware Hacks: Old Tech Turned into New Gadgets

Repurposed gadgets let your inner eco-geek blossom. Here are 25 hardware hacks and magnificent manipulations of e-waste repurposed to functional geeky gadgets.

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Kool Skool: 15 Examples Of Awesome Bus Mod Art

The words Bus and Boring share more than just their initial letter but that hasn't stopped an assortment of visionary artists from jazzing up this most utilitarian form of transport. These 15 examples epitomize the height of slick transit glorious!

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Semi Pros: 15 Examples Of Awesome Truck Mod Art

Trucks are cool fresh off the assembly line but such huge, mobile canvasses just naturally invite artists to add to their awesomeness. Here are 15 examples of awesome art made for, with and upon trucks.

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Edible Art: 32 Amazing Food Designs

What if food was used as a medium for art? Could you still eat it? Here are 32 incredible examples of creative food design, food sculpture, and edible art.

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From Vinyl To Divinyl: 12 Groovy Ways to Upcycle Vinyl Records

Vinyl records were THE way to listen to music in the decades before CDs, MP3s and online storage made them virtually obsolete. Now artists, hobbyists and environmentalists are making vinyl "sing" in a whole new way. Here are a dozen groovy examples.

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Paint Your Wagons: 15 Examples Of Awesome Automotive Art

Our cars, ourselves - and if tattooing our bodies is desirable, arting up our cars is as well. These 15 artistic automotive expressions illustrate how some are driven to put a personal stamp on the steel skins of the 4-wheeled objects of our affection.

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Two Wheels Good: Awesome Bicycle Mod Art

Pimp my bike? It's more common then you think. Artistically modified bikes are the coolest things on two wheels these days. Here are 15 of the weirdest, wildest, most outrageous bikes ever to pop a sweet jump.

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Future Computing: 15 Cool & Crazy Concept Computers

The ash heap of tech history is littered with flubs, flops and FUBAR fiascos designed to fly high but destined to fail. Every so often, though, a diamond emerges from the dung heap and everything changes. Here are 15 of the coolest, craziest computer concepts you'll see today!

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