Archived Articles from Gaming & Computing

You do not have to be a hardcore gamer to appreciate these creative gaming advertisements, game-inspired art and other offbeat art and design related to games - you just have to be able to remember back to grabbing mushrooms in Mario Brothers or busting your wrist trying to pull off a finishing move in Mortal Kombat. For serious gamers and amateur gaming fans alike here are some strange games brought to live in creative ways.

Rendering the Digital Physical: 10 Bitcoin Designs & Ideas

Bitcoin breaks its virtual boundaries, begging the question - from coins to wallets, how does the world's first widespread digital currency manifest in visual or physical form?

E-Ink Keyboard: Letter Keys Morph into Custom Symbols

Electronic ink is energy efficient and easy on the eyes, so why not adapt it to the keyboard? Think of it like the Apple version of a colorful but bulky Windows equivalent.

WebUrbanist Update: 5 Years & 50 Million Visitors Later

Five years ago, who would have thought that what started as an offbeat visual culture weblog would turn into a full-fledged cosmopolitan online magazine?

Magic Plan App Makes Amazing Automatic Floor Plans

A high-tech new app can create floor plans of any building from a series of iPhone pictures, letting you easily envision your living or working space.

MapAttack App Turns Any City into a Virtual Gameboard

The MapAttack! app for Android and iPhones turns a city, park or college campus into a virtual gameboard, conquered physically using the phone as a map.

Lifebook: Single Device that Combines Every Gadget

Tired of keeping track of all of your little gadgets? This concept would let them all come together into one super-functional super-device.

Real Life Sim City: 3D Printers Turn Virtual to Reality

SimCity gets real in this fun 3D printing project that brings the virtual buildings to life. Who's up for playing Godzilla?

Text, Translated: 11 Nifty Lorem Ipsum Generators

Whether you are a designer in need of dummy text or just a bored Web citizen, these 11 random text generators will keep you occupied and amused.

Sink Different: Macquarium Gives Used iMacs New Life

The Macquarium is a Mac and a “P Sea”. It's an aquarium well worth monitoring and the only floppy drives included are the tails of your finny friends.

Horror Prisons: Top 13 Most Terrifying Fictional Facilities

The scariest prisons in the world involve mental manipulation, monsters and cannibalism - and they're impossible to escape. Luckily these ones are fictional.

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