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While it only has three strings and could use something stronger than a spit shine to clean it up, our unabated Dreamcast love completely blinds us to the Dreamcast guitar's flaws. If someone could magically transform it into a wireless controller for Guitar Hero 3, it would probably be the greatest peripheral ever. At least until someone makes an SNES guitar. [Destructoid via Neatorama]
Sega Dreamcast Guitar (Verdict: Pretty Much the Most Awesome Instrument Ever Crafted)
While it only has three strings and could use something stronger than a spit shine to clean it up, our unabated Dreamcast love completely blinds us to the Dreamcast guitar's flaws. If someone could magically transform it into a wireless controller for Guitar Hero 3, it would probably be the greatest peripheral ever. At least until someone makes an SNES guitar. [Destructoid via Neatorama]
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Christie's Auctioning Off 40 Years of Star Trek Memorabilia
CBS Paramount cleaned out the Star Trek garage and is putting its finds up for sale at Christie's New York this October, putting 4,000 lots of over 1,000 items on the block in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the Star Trek original series tv show. Captain Kirk's leisure suit (photo above—and no, we don't know if Shatner's girdle is included) is expected to go for five to seven thousand dollars, which puts it in the middle range for costumes but still in the low range overall, but if you're broke, not to despair: More »
home entertainment
Arcade In A Box
Ed Farias wrote in to tell us about his product, Arcade in a Box, an all-in-one arcade console with computer guts built directly in the controller that can be plugged directly into external video sources. It's a great idea if you like the feel of proper controllers but you want to utilize your big new plasma or fancy projector as the display, or if you don't want or have room for an arcade cabinet. More »
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Back to the Future DeLorean Flux Capacitor on eBay
If you've got a DeLorean and a few extra hundred bucks lying around, get your bad self over to eBay and bid on this gorgeous flux capacitor. The seller/builder used real glass tubes, accurate to the one that appeared in Back to the Future and long out of production (i.e. rare), and the gold bases were machined out of aluminum to match the movie prop. It plugs into any car battery and is guaranteed to fit into a DeLorean. Oh, and there are no nasty strobe lights in this baby, only white LEDs that chase to the center. More »
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Dr Sbaitso Will Listen To You
Those of you born in the 80s—or the 90s! You zygotes!—should probably feel free to just skip this post, but everyone else, if you had a Creative Labs Soundblaster card in the early 90s you probably spent more than a few hours in conversation with Dr Sbaitso, a program meant to show off the sound card's then-impressive range of digitized voices. Matt of X-Entertainment remembers the good doctor: More »
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Plexiglass Moog Modular
If you've ever wondered what would happen if you took a 1967 Moog Modular Series III and rehoused all the modules in backlit plexiglass, now you know! The groovy gentleman in the photo above is Don Preston, and his plexiglass Moog was previously owned and custom-built by Pat Gleeson. The Moog was used on the synth-heavy soundtrack of Apocalypse Now in 1979. More »
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ReFrederator, The Free Daily Cartoon Podcast
If we could have a crush on a podcast, we would be totally crushing out right now all over the recently launched ReFrederator, which puts out a classic cartoon every single day. Some of them star the likes of Bugs Bunny, Mighty Mouse, Daffy Duck, Betty Boop, Porky Pig, Donald Duck and Felix the Cat—ah, the beauty of things returning to the public domain—and others feature fairy tales and musicals. More »
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Macintosh Ads Circa 1984
Apple purchased every last bit of advertising space in Newsweek's November/December 1984 special election issue and used all 39 pages to promote the Macintosh; GUIdebook not only scanned in every single page but went and transcribed all the text, a great read if you're in the grip of Mac nostalgia as we always are. This bit from page 14 cracked us up: More »
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Replica Guide to KITT and KARR
If, as a young impressionable child, you always wanted to grow up to be just like Michael Knight, only to find years later that fate had dealt you a cruel hand and you were unable to croon in German or grow luxurious chest hair, perhaps you will find some solace in the fact that while you may never be half the man the Hoff was in the 80s, you can totally still have his car. More »
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Enigma 3 Machine On eBay
Too lazy to build yourself an Enigma machine from a DIY kit? If you've got enough money, say, fifteen thousand dollars or so, why not just buy this original Enigma 3 machine off of eBay? The seller is in Germany and the auction ends on April 3rd. Frankly, we don't know how anyone is expected to resist this item when the owner makes sweet, sweet promises like: "ORIGINAL!!! KEIN NACHBAU!!! VOLL FUNKTIONSTUCHTIG!!!!". More »
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Happy Tenth Anniversary, Pilot
Did you know yesterday was the tenth anniversary of the Pilot, Palm's very first device? More »
cellphones
Alcatel OT-C850 Music Phone
Alcatel's new OT-C850 Music Phone has a 1.3 megapixel camera, a 65K color 176 220 screen, plays MP3s (256 MB of memory onboard, plus a MicroSD slot) and EDGE, blah blah blah. Let's be honest now: the most interesting thing about this phone that it looks like it was designed by Knight Industries. More »
home entertainment
Dualit Digital Radio
British company Dualit are famous for making gorgeously-styled appliances, most notably their Vario line of toasters, and their new DAB digital radio is no exception to tradition. Pricey at £200 and only for use in the UK, its retro chrome good looks make that Sony radio we cooed over just the other day look like a chump. More »
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Enigma-E Cypher Machine DIY Building Kit
If you're not a cryptography or World War II nerd and you know anything about the Enigma machine, chances are you've read Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon, in which fictional characters work alongside historical figures like Alan Turing to crack the Axis codes and sink Nazi submarines. More »
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Minox LX Special Edition Walter Zapp
Engineer Walter Zapp invented the Minox sub-miniature camera in 1936. It subsequently went on to be marketed both as a luxury camera and as a spy camera—it was used by real spies the Falcon and the Snowman, and fictional spies like James Bond in You Only Live Twice. More »
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