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Predator Helmet Could Help You Get Some Respect On The Road

By David Ponce on 04/23/13 • Leave a comment!

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This is one badass looking helmet. Based on a regular helmet structure (and thus, safe), Russian-based NLO Moto sculpts with fiberglass, carbon fiber and polycarbonate a crazy looking helmet reminiscent of the Predator. It’s complete with a dreadlock mullet and a tri-laser LED light, which can be upgraded to become a (possibly illegal) actual tri-laser. Other upgrades include carbon spearheads that attach at the tip of the dreadlocks, and “top level airbrushing”. Keep in mind that this is all on top of the base price, which stands at a hefty $780. That’s a lot of money to spend on a motorcycle helmet, so here’s hoping your ride is equally impressive.

[ NLO Moto ] VIA [ GeekAlerts ]

Here Is A $15 Million iPhone Crusted In Gold And 26 Carat Black Diamond

By David Ponce on 04/17/13 • 1 Comment

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The above is ugly. At least, we think it’s ugly. It’s ugly and ostentatious and we show it to you because we’re as amused to learn of its existence as we were when we read about the guy who made himself a $230,000 shirt out of gold. We aren’t going to start making any social commentary on why we think some rich people feel the need to show off their wealth in a tasteless manner, but clearly it happens, and the least we can do is laugh at it. So, what’s with this phone? It was commissioned to British designer Stuart Hughes by a Hong Kong businessman only known as “Joe”. It’s gold plated, crusted with 600 white diamonds, and has a 26-carat black diamond centerpiece as the home button. Joe allegedly paid $15 million for the finished product.

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Dude Makes Custom-Painted Minifig Babies

By David Ponce on 05/18/12 • 1 Comment

By David Ponce

Custom painted toys are nothing new under the sun. Very often however the paint chips off or you’re stuck with bad quality stickers. We’re told the guys at CitizenBrick offer higher quality items. More importantly, they offer some neat looking items, such as the baby minifigs you see in the picture above. Because, hey, if there aren’t babies, then why are there so many minifigs around? At $1 a pop, you better hope they’re good quality.

Hit the jump for a bunch more pictures of other custom painted LEGO figurines.

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Aerodyne Is A Pretty Hand-Made Art Deco PC

By David Ponce on 01/03/12 • Leave a comment!

By David Ponce

Jeffrey Stephenson got a Mini-ITX case recently, and decided to put a lot of pretty things around it. Made from mahogany with aluminum accents, the Aerodyne has an Intel i3 CPU, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB solid state drive. Jeffrey decided that he’d make 5 to 10 of these and sell them, only on order. So you can contact him at jeffrey at slipperyskip.com and get some details. We’re too afraid to ask the price, but we did have fun wondering if we’d ever be able to make one ourselves (the truth? Heck no!). See, Jeffrey has made available over 150 photographs of the build; this is one intricate job.

[ Project Page ] AND [ Worklog ] VIA [ BoingBoing ]

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