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Category: Gadgets & Geekery

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.

Sleeves Are For Nerds: Geeky iPad, Tablet & eReader Covers

Tablets, iPads and eReaders are so ubiquitous, nerdy owners are employing extreme acts of graphic personalization to imbue their devices with unique geek chic. Faaaalkooorr!! Almost ...

Selective Hearing: These Earplugs Let You Turn Down Sounds of the World

We’ve all had moments where we wished we could tune out a particular person or muffle loud music without losing the ability to hear a friend’s voice, but standard earplugs don’t exactly ...

Guitar for Modern Nomads: This Digital Instrument is Designed to Travel

What if you were to eliminate the unwieldy parts of a guitar but maintain its resonant sound and the same exact way of playing, in order to make the instrument are more convenient traveling ...

Not So Sci-Fi: 12 Real Tech Innovations That Are Actually Pretty Creepy

Not so long ago, we made horror movies about invasive technology that was theoretical at the time, like RoboCop, Christine, Demon Seed and Videodrome. The 2002 sci-fi film Minority Report seemed ...

Robot Home Companion: 12 High-Tech Assistants Making Life Easier

They can't quite measure up to R2D2, but a new array of consumer robots offer all sorts of practical advantages, including companionship, soothing babies back to sleep, playing with pets, folding ...

Whatever You Need, On Demand: 10 Apps That Streamline Urban Life

If you're that person who's always asking for a ride or help moving, or you're just too crazy busy to go grocery shopping or clean your own house, there's a range of apps that could make your ...

Daredevil Santa: Human Flying Drone Enables Sky-High Snowboarding Tricks

“This isn’t fake, I promise,” said filmmaker Casey Neistat as he announced the impending debut of his ‘Human Flying Drone Holiday Movie’ on Twitter with a dubious-looking graphic. ...

Gifts for Star Wars Geeks: Millenium Falcon Multi-Tool & Death Star Waffles

It may not slip into your pocket with quite the ease of a Leatherman, but this Millennium Falcon multi-tool is a lot more fun to use when the hyperdrive breaks down and R2 isn’t around to fix ...

The ‘90s Are Calling: How to Hack a Payphone into a Boombox

When you pick up this bright yellow receiver, you won’t hear a dial tone on the other end - what’s waiting for you instead is some of the worst music the 1990s had to offer. The ‘90s are ...

How to Be Invisible: 15 Anti-Surveillance Gadgets & Wearables

We don’t have to wait for a dystopian future in which our faces are scanned as we walk down the sidewalk and our every movement is logged - we willingly carry personally identifiable tracking ...

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