Now, how cool is this, a a full size, drivable Star Wars landspeeder. It has blue underlighting to simulate levitation. “We built this fiberglass replica landspeeder from the ground up on a custom aluminum chassis. The electric drive system is capable of a top speed around 25 mph. The speeder is the same size as the original, and can travel several miles on a single battery charge”,said builder Daniel Deutsch. Other cool features included are an audio system which features over 52 R2D2 sounds, smoke machines and a projector. This is the ultimate geek dream.

Okay America, just because we now have the !st serious, official African – American candidate for the highest office of this land, doesn’t mean its over. And by over, I mean an end to racism. So hats off to Jay Smooth of illdoctrine.com for keepin’ it real with this video comment.

“The Virtual Shoe Museum was initiated by Liza Snook in 2004. Once the idea was born, a long search began for designers, photographers and publishers connected to shoes. New friendships developed and our mailbox filled with loads of material on fantastic shoes, art and design on shoes”…

“A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner”…Thomas Carlyle

“Oh boy. As if having an internet boyfriend wasn’t embarrassing enough, a North Carolina woman is facing attempted kidnapping charges for driving to Delaware and trying to take her former Second Life companion at gunpoint”…g4tv.com

Deviant Art user Amoebabloke made this super-cool retro  steampunk beer-barrel R2-D2 sculpture.

“A reflective T-800 skull — stolen from Cyberdyne, Brilloed clean of synthetic Austrian musculature and goop — makes an excellent DVD player, as it turns out. Simply insert your DVD in the brainpan and allow re-functioned Terminator MDK processors to upscale and play while its eyes eerily glow. Sadly, the T-800 DVD player is not Blu-Ray compatible… which certainly seems to indicate that Sony will not be the ultimate winner in the HD media wars, at least by the time Judgement Day rolls around”…boingboing.net

Smoke art by Irene Muller…

For that LEGO geek that has way too much time (and money) on his hands. For $300 you can be the proud owner of the largest LEGO set created, The TaJ Mahal. It measures over 20 inches wide and over i6 inches tall with almost 6000 pieces. Be the ist kid on your block to own one.

Plan59.com is a family-friendly Web site dedicated to the commercial art of mid-century America. It has a large gallery of retro illustrations of life in the 50′s including cars, decor, ads and space art. Out of sight, man out of sight!

Daisy and her bicycle built for two doesn’t have anything on this monster quadcycle. Built not exactly for comfort or speed,  The Dogsled  is one cool green machine nonetheless. Read the rest of this entry »