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  • CrunchDeals: One plane in salvage condition, small bird strike to the engines, some water damage.

    CrunchDeals: One plane in salvage condition, small bird strike to the engines, some water damage.

    Posted on January 22, 2010 | No Comments
    That’s right: you can own the plane that “Sully” Sullenberger dropped ever-so-gently into the Hudson on January 15, 2009, a little over a year ago. It looks like it’s still in pretty good condition – maybe it would make a nice playhouse for the kids? – with most of the gear intact. The plane is out [...]

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  • Introducing a program to produce all valid Ikea Train set configurations

    Introducing a program to produce all valid Ikea Train set configurations

    Posted on January 20, 2010 | No Comments
    If you're a parent, you know that kids love them some wooden tracks. I'm serious. Kids could would totally spend hours whining about tracks and then, when they get them, refuse to play with them. That's why I love Ikea's wooden train set which costs like $10 and can make a few nice configurations. But how many configurations can you make? According to this dude you can make nine permutations, shown above. In fact, with four extra curved pieces you could create 130 permutations which is quite a treat.

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  • DIY: The Ikea camera dolly

    DIY: The Ikea camera dolly

    Posted on January 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Here's one of the easier projects I've seen on Make in a while. Take an Ikea "Ivar" ladder, lay it on the floor, and use it as a camera dolly. Just the thing for shooting video, I could have used one of these while we were in Vegas. The best part about this project? It's cheap. You're looking at roughly $30 worth of parts to build this.

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  • Steve Jobs would be proud of this Ikea hack

    Steve Jobs would be proud of this Ikea hack

    Posted on October 30, 2009 | No Comments
    I'm a sucker for clever desks and organization objects. Sometimes you don't need a massive Pottery Barn desk to email your parents pics of the kids. All you need is a place to sit and two little shelves from Ikea. (and some handyman skills)

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  • Review: Waterfield Designs 13-inch Muzetto laptop bag

    Review: Waterfield Designs 13-inch Muzetto laptop bag

    Posted on July 14, 2009 | No Comments
    The $239 13-inch Muzetto bag by Waterfield Designs is a nice bag, that much is sure. It's well built, nicely styled, and comfortable to wear. But friends I'm loathe to admit that I carry too much crap for this poor little bag and it deserves better than me. I'm too much man for this bag. That is not to say this isn't a bag for a man. It's a bag for a man who knows about the good things in life - a nice piece of leather, a smooth inner sanctum, enough space for a netbook and a bottle of Vitamin Water. You see, the Muzetto is clad in smooth leather and an even smoother nylon lining. It has five pockets - one main area for the laptop, a zipper pocket, two front pockets lined with soft material, and a rear bag for glasses and the like. In all I should had more than enough room for all my crap. For example, last night I went into the city with a Kindle and some magazines. Then I bought three hardback books. And I had a bunch of other headphones and crap. And the bag was fit to burst. Or on Saturday I went to a Bachelor Party to a BYOB restaurant (sorry, Fu Suhsi! We were REALLY LOUD) and we went to the Turkish baths on 10th Street before that (don't ask) and I had swim trunks and a bottle of Woodford Reserve (surprisingly smooth) in there and it was OK but if I had stuck a laptop in there it would have been too much. There's a tipping point with this bag. If you put too much into it it becomes distended and wild and just too much. You have to care for it and feed it like a baby bird.

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  • Secret Passage Hides Shame of Messy Office

    Secret Passage Hides Shame of Messy Office

    Posted on July 6, 2009 | No Comments
    Problem: You have a messy room in your house, a home office in which, even when the rest of the house is neatly squared-away, the clutter nags at the edge of your mind, taunting you. The solution? For normal people, a few minutes of tidying would do the trick. For Alpha Nerd Agmak, the answer was [...]

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  • Ikea strainer turned into super Wi-Fi antenna

    Ikea strainer turned into super Wi-Fi antenna

    Posted on June 22, 2009 | No Comments
    ikeaAn enterprising young man studying abroad in Russia has turned a run-of-the-mill strainer from Ikea into a Wi-Fi super antenna using little more than the aforementioned strainer, a marker, and SKOTCH tape.

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  • Daily Crunch: Keep Your Eye on the Sammich Edition

    Daily Crunch: Keep Your Eye on the Sammich Edition

    Posted on May 29, 2009 | No Comments
    49-port USB hub is just plain practical Weekend Project: Build an electric guitar from an IKEA cutting board Of Course: ToastIt Toaster Bags

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  • Weekend Project: Build an electric guitar from an IKEA cutting board

    Weekend Project: Build an electric guitar from an IKEA cutting board

    Posted on May 28, 2009 | No Comments
    guitarAfter hearing Brad Paisley say that a Fender Telecaster "is nothing more than a cutting board, a baseball bat, and strings," Zachary Custom Guitars decided to put that idea to the test -- minus the part about the baseball bat.

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  • Liquid-cooled desk contains full-fledged PC, won’t be sold at Ikea

    Liquid-cooled desk contains full-fledged PC, won’t be sold at Ikea

    Posted on May 24, 2009 | No Comments

    We've heard of productive work spaces, but this thing has feng shui written all over it. The geeks and gurus over at Popular Mechanics were able to mix their construction and PC building skills in order to create the rather astounding desk that you see above. Aside from serving a purpose as a desk, looking fantastic and being next to impossible to keep clean, it's also a full-fledged computer. Packed within is a half-gallon of glycol, twin 300GB VelociRaptor hard drives, a GeForce GTX 280 GPU, seven fans, a Sony Blu-ray drive, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a 3GHz Core 2 Quad processor and copious amounts of "win." Check the read link for a how-to guide... if you dare.

    [Thanks, Jay]

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