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Real-Life Tetris: Items Fit Perfectly in Street Sculptures

Those of us who grew up playing Tetris credit the game with teaching us everything from patience to time management to packing skills. For Swedish artist Michael Johansson, Tetris also seems to ...

The Real Deal: 13 Geeky Playing Card Decks

This baker's dozen of geek-themed playing cards may be old school in concept but their sci-fi and Internet-savvy themes will suit most any game-lovin' fanboy. ...

Street Art Olympics: Banksy Works on 2012 London Games

When the games are in town, street art abounds, with locals and visitors alike responding to the huge city-shifting influx of infrastructure and viewers. For his part, UK-native (but ...

Games Off: Artistic Echoes of the Lost Olympic Games

Three Summer Olympic Games and two Winter Olympic Games have been canceled since Athens hosted the inaugural games of the modern Olympiad in 1896. Few visual records of these “lost Olympics” ...

Good Clean Fun: Interactive Games Tidy Urban Spaces

It doesn't matter where you go in the world: it seems like litter is always an unwelcome part of the scenery. The Swiss city of Lucerne decided to do something about their litter problem by ...

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

Remember SimCity 2000? It was so easy to waste hours and hours planning and building cities, then watching disasters befall the unfortunate citizens. But the problem was always that you had to ...

Jail-Safe Tagging: Spray Up Buildings in Augmented Reality

Graffiti is one of those art forms that really is only for the brave. It takes a fair amount of courage to risk arrest just to put your mark on the world. For everyone who has always wanted to ...

Parkour for Lazies: The Bizarre British Lying Down Game

It's happening all around the world: people are taking pictures of their friends awkwardly lying face-down in all sorts of unlikely places. On top of statues, in the middle of roads, in front of ...

Geek Orthodox: Stained Glass Windows To The Nerd Soul

Stained glass... this ancient and ethereal medium combining art with engineering has long been associated with churches, cathedrals and other such houses of the holy. Times have changed, however, ...

Geek Evolution: Histories of 10 Essential Gaming Systems

Game systems have come a long, long way since the first video gaming arcades put pinball out to pasture. This loving look at geek game systems charts their course from Pong to beyond! ...

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