Tag: GEEKCHIC

'Super Mario Bros.' recently turned 25-years old, and the birthday gifts keep coming in. One Spanish neighborhood has given the iconic hero an impressively geeky present that may be the first of its kind: an entire street. During an elaborate public ceremony, the planned community of Arcosur, Spain officially unveiled the 'Avenida de Super Mario Bros.' Along with the expected costumed spectators, ...

Last year, John Savio became the envy of trick-or-treating Apple fanboys everywhere, with his human-size, fully functional iPhone Halloween costume. At the time, we were convinced that he'd reached the zenith of Halloween geekdom. We were wrong. This year, Savio's upped the costume ante once again, with his latest human-size, jailbroken iPhone 4. With a touchscreen. To create his masterpiece, ...

Geeky gamers regularly create 8-bit tributes to classic video games. The steady progression of pixellated masterpieces makes it increasingly difficult for 8-bit artisans to consistently produce desirable and impressive works, though. Somehow, game developer Jeff Swenty has overcome those now-cliched wedding invitations and wall posters by tapping into a deep pit of retro inspiration and ...

The iPod Nano wristwatch has arrived, and it's probably the best use for the Nano these days. Even Steve Jobs mentioned the Nano's potential as a watch when unveiling it to the world. So, grab a slim-enough wristband, loop it through the clip on the back, and see your fellow Apple fanboys get green with envy. Also, as a disclaimer, you may want to invest in some Bluetooth headphones, or at least ...

Who needs a clutch purse to hold a cell phone when you could just slip into the cell phone itself? Design outfit CuteCircuit has recently announced the M-Dress, a crepe silk-looking affair with soft telephony electronics. While most of the electronic womenswear we've seen has tended toward the dramatic (including CuteCircuit's own Galaxy Dress), this cell-phone-cum-sheath brings a sophisticated, ...

Twitter's new recruiting video may not make you feel like working, but, if you're in your 20s, are sort of nerdy and remember the time you snuck into the indie-cinema to see 'Rushmore,' you will feel a nostalgic twinge. In the video (after the break), Twitter headquarters are transformed into something of a yearbook, with various teams of employees posing for the film as you would a picture. ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/07/06/back-to-the-future-inspired-shoes-really-tie-themselves/'; 'Back to the Future,' like America, just had a birthday (although it only turned 25), and our feeds are blowing up with McFly-related memorabilia. Back in 2008, Nike released a pair of special edition 'Back to the Future II' inspired high-tops, but, as badass as the Marty McFly 2015 Nike ...

Imagine you've discovered the secret to time travel. What world-changing (or, possibly, destroying) shenanigans would you get up to? Apparently, if you were Alex Varanese, you'd carry modern-day technology back to 1977 and dominate the personal electronics market. (Personally, Alex, we think that's a brilliant idea.) Varanese's latest art project imagines what ads for modern gadgets might look ...

Share We don't really need to reminisce about how direly and viscerally we pined for the day when we would get to rock our very own Hoverboards, á la 'Back to The Future Part II,' because we know that you all wanted one, too. Now, in an expression of '80s nostalgia, tech experimentation, and nerdy fandom of the most extreme order, French artist Nils Guadagnin has created an actual ...

We've seen some pretty nerdy marriage proposals before, but a Zynga employee might have just topped them all. According to Joystiq, Anders Howard and his friends created a video game, called 'Dinner Love and the Quest for Soup,' to help him propose to his beloved. Now, he's not the first gamer that has proposed in this manner. However, Howard set up a special event to go along with the game, which ...

As you probably know, computers were once solely the purview of nerds. Those with pocket protectors, glasses, and very few friends spent the '80s sitting in front of bulky beige boxes named PC Jr. or Apple II. 'How I Met Your Motherboard' celebrates those heady days by collecting stories and photos of people's earliest computing memories. The tales collected speak of love affairs started with now ...

Share Jennifer Darmour, a Seattle based designer, has designed the perfect piece of e-apparel for the fashionably conscious Facebook obsessive. The Ping hoody, which looks a bit like a Jedi robe, uses intuitive, natural actions to both provide Facebook alerts and allow the wearer to respond accordingly. For instance, the hoody "taps" the wearer on the shoulder to indicate that a comment has ...

There are geek t-shirts and ridiculous wearable gadgets, and then there is this, occupying some weird middle ground. This t-shirt boasts an embedded micro-controller that communicates with an Android smartphone via Bluetooth in order to alert you of incoming e-mails. The shirt has LEDs that light up, telling you exactly how many messages are currently waiting for your discerning delete finger -- ...

Having a highly smudged screen on your PDA or smartphone is like having a small stain on your your brand new shirt; no matter how nice, the whole package ends up tainted. Carrying around screen-cleaning wipes isn't an attractive option, so that's where Japanese design company FIFT comes into the picture. Piloted by the husband and wife team of Katsunari and Ami Igarashi, FIFT has created the ...

The LEGO phenomenon encroaches on all aspects of daily life. As is the case with the unofficial 'Simpsons Already Did It' law, when considering possible LEGO designs, you'll inevitably find that someone has already built it. Plastic bricklayers have engineered robots, gadgets, fashion accessories, vehicles, and even full-scale homes out of the classic toy pieces. An entire line of LEGO-based ...