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Black Friday: Sennheiser Pro Headphones

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:25:56 +0000

Just excellent time to buy the Sennheiser headphones. Amazon has dropped the price of professional Sennheiser HD 202 model to $19 from $59. It is a rare Black Friday opportunity for headphones. Usually, this model will not be less than $39 even after discounts on other stores. So, buy now before the deal ends.

Top 10 Lego Books

admin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:47:41 +0000

LEGO Harry Potter Building the Magical World

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$21.99

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$11.25

The magic of Harry Potter™ and the fun of the LEGO® world, now in one incredible book!Since it was first introduced in 2001, LEGO® Harry Potter™ has been one of the LEGO Group’s most popular themes. This incredible guide gives readers an up-close look at the bricks, constructions, and minifigures of the LEGO® Harry Potter™ universe – from Hogwarts Castle to Hagrid’s hut. This all inclusive book wouldn’t be complete without an exclusive LEGO® Harry Potter™ minifigure! Who will it be?

You won’t want to miss out on the exclusive interviews with the LEGO® Harry Potter™ team, and special sections allowing you to see, first-hand, how the bricks and figures come to be the toys we love today! The book will also feature a timeline that shows the evolution of the LEGO® Harry Potter™ construction sets, video game and board game.

LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Brick configuration and the Minifigure are trademarks of the LEGO Group. ©2011 The LEGO Group.
Produced by DK Publishing under license from the LEGO Group.
™©Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Harry Potter Publishing Rights ©JKR. (s11)

LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary

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$21.99

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$9.25

In true DK style, LEGO® Star Wars™: The Visual Dictionaryelucidates, illuminates, and excites even the most discerning LEGO Group, Star Wars™, and minifigure fans around the world.

Are you interested in Lego chess sets

Darth Vader, Boba Fett, Yoda, Luke Skywalker, and more are brought to life with dozens of little-known facts and hundreds of photos of accessories, vehicles, weapons, and even the Death Star! Learn about the history, manufacturing, and construction of the minifigures of the Star Wars galaxy, and come away a LEGO® Jedi Master.

Lego Ninjago: Official Guide

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$12.99

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$10.39

Masters of Spinjitzu: a new force to save the world! (More lego games are here)

Ninjago is funny. Ninjago is action-packed. Ninjago is Lego’s biggest new initiative since Bionicle!

This handbook is a comprehensive and detailed guide to all the characters and statistics in the first Ninjago story arc: giving readers all the basic info they’ll need to follow the narrative and play the game! Includes exclusive information fans won’t be able to get anywhere else.

The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Discovery Book: A Beginner’s Guide to Building and Programming Robots

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$29.95

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$17.62

Discover the many features of the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 set. The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Discovery Book is the complete, illustrated, beginner’s guide to MINDSTORMS that you’ve been looking for.

The crystal clear instructions in the Discovery Bookwill show you how to harness the capabilities of the NXT 2.0 set to build and program your own robots. Author and robotics instructor Laurens Valk walks you through the set, showing you how to use its various pieces, and how to use the NXT software to program robots. Interactive tutorials make it easy for you to reach an advanced level of programming as you learn to build robots that move, monitor sensors, and use advanced programming techniques like data wires and variables. You’ll build eight increasingly sophisticated robots like the Strider (a six-legged walking creature), the CCC (a climbing vehicle), the Hybrid Brick Sorter (a robot that sorts by color and size), and the Snatcher (an autonomous robotic arm). Numerous building and programming challenges throughout encourage you to think creatively and to apply what you’ve learned as you develop the skills essential to creating your own robots.

Requirements: One LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 set (#8547)

Features

A complete introduction to LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0
Building and programming instructions for eight innovative robots
50 sample programs and 72 programming challenges (ranging from easy to hard) encourage you to explore newly learned programming techniques
15 building challenges expand on the robot designs and help you develop ideas for new robots

Who is this book for?

This is a perfect introduction for those new to building and programming with the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 set. The book also includes intriguing robot designs and useful programming tips for more seasoned MINDSTORMS builders.

The LEGO Book

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$40.00

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$24.72

Reveal, explore, and celebrate the fascinating LEGO® story in The LEGO® Book. From its beginnings in a carpenter’s workshop and the development of the first plastic brick, to the group’s current position as an international brand, a timeline highlights key moments in LEGO® history.

Fascinating facts on every significant LEGO® product line, theme park, video game, artwork, competition, club, collectible and more combine with images from the LEGO Group’s photo archives-many seen here for the first time-and inspiring ideas on how to make a variety of things from just a few bricks. Packaged in a beautiful slip case with cutting-edge design, this two-volume set also features Standing Small-a 96-page book celebrating the minifigure.

The Unofficial LEGO Builder’s Guide

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$24.95

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$13.00

What exactly is a slope? What’s the difference between a tile and a plate? Why is it bad to simply stack bricks in columns to make a wall? The Unofficial LEGO Builder’s Guide is here to answer your questions.

Focusing on building actual models with real bricks,The Unofficial LEGO Builder’s Guide comes with complete instructions to build several cool models but also encourages you to use your imagination to create your own fantastic creations.

Inside, you’ll learn:

The best ways to connect bricks and creative uses for those patterns
Tricks for calculating and using scale (it’s not as hard as you think)
The step-by-step plans to create a train station on the scale of LEGO people (a.k.a. “minifigs”)
How to build spheres, jumbo-sized LEGO bricks, micro-scaled models, and a mini space shuttle
Tips for sorting and storing all of your LEGO pieces

The Unofficial LEGO Builder’s Guide also includes the Brickopedia, a visual guide to nearly 300 of the most useful and reusable elements of the LEGO system, with historical notes, common uses, part numbers, and the year each piece first appeared in a LEGO set.

The firm foundation for your LEGO hobby starts here!

The LEGO Technic Idea Book: Simple Machines

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$19.95

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$11.84

Each project uses color-coded pieces and is photographed from multiple angles, making it easy to see how the models are assembled without the need for step-by-step instructions. Every model illustrates a different principle, concept, or mechanism that will inspire your own original creations. You’re encouraged to use these elements as building blocks to create your own masterpieces.

The Technic models in Simple Machinesdemonstrate basic configurations of gears, shafts, pulleys, turntables, connectors, and the like. You’ll learn how to create small, elegant machines like cranes, operable doors, motorized cars, a rubber band-powered rocket launcher, a hand-cranked drag racer, and even musical instruments.

This visual guide, the first in the three-volume LEGO Technic Idea Bookseries, is the brainchild of master builder Yoshihito Isogawa of Tokyo, Japan. Each title is filled with photos of Isogawa’s unique models, all of which are designed to fire the imaginations of LEGO builders young and old.

Imagine. Create. Invent. Now, what will you build?

NOTE: The LEGO Technic Idea Book series uses parts from various Technic sets. If you don’t have some of the pieces shown in a particular model, experiment by substituting your own parts or visit the No Starch Press website (nostarch.com) for a list of the special parts used in the book.

LEGO Harry Potter Ultimate Sticker Collection (ULTIMATE STICKER COLLECTIONS)

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$12.99

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$6.74

Explore the magical world of Harry Potter™ with more than 1,000 full-color reusable stickers of all your favorite Harry Potter™ characters and settings in the LEGO® Harry Potter™ Ultimate Sticker Collection!LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Brick configuration and the Minifigure are trademarks of the LEGO Group. ©2011 The LEGO Group.
Produced by DK Publishing under license from the LEGO Group.
™©Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Harry Potter Publishing Rights ©JKR. (s11)

City Adventures #1: Fire Truck To The Rescue! (Lego Reader)

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$3.99

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$1.52

There’s a fire in LEGO City. The fire-fighters are in their fire truck and on their way. With their tall ladder and the very best equipment they’ll save the day!

Badass LEGO Guns: Building Instructions for Five Working Guns

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$29.95

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$17.57

Badass LEGO Guns shows you how to build five impressive weapons entirely from LEGO Technic parts. With the help of rubber bands, some sanding, and a touch of Krazy Glue, you’ll build five complex and functional guns that shoot plastic LEGO bricks or rubber bands at high speed with surprising accuracy. The easy-to-follow building instructions include complete parts lists, assembly tips, and a discussion of general design principles.

Learn to build:

Thriller, a powerful crossbow pistol with smooth cocking and chambering mechanisms
Parabella, a pint-sized, rubber-band shooting marvel
The Warbeast, a sophisticated, fully-automatic bullpup submachine gun
Liliputt, a semi-automatic pistol with a nine-brick magazine
Mini-Thriller, a folding crossbow pistol

The models range from sophisticated to simple, and builders of all ages will find something enjoyable. Toy guns have never been so much fun.

Super Entertainment for Boring Office Life

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:25:50 +0000

Bringing fun to your boring office life is easy with a bit cruel creativity. What you need is a bunch of dead flies. Put them drying for some time. After that, take your pencil and a few papers. Just see the photos below. They will give much inspiration to you

Top 7 WTF Weird Vintage Photos

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:42:52 +0000

Strange photos are not exclusive to our modern times. The following black & white photos show a nice weird photos vintage collection. Some are really quite funny but a few them are scary. Especially, the girls with gas masks playing on the field should be from the times of terrible WW2.

4 Phenomenal Green Architectural Designs

admin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:33:08 +0000

Some green life enthusiasts perfectly blend their obsession for eco-friendly environment with contemporary art styles. Here are 7 successful examples of creativity.

Rotating Eco Dome Home

360 degrees rotatable and built strong enough to resist natural disasters like earthquakes and hurricanes. The energy for rotation comes from solar panels. Originally from France but now available to US by Solaleya.

Hundertwasserhaus Green Architecture

Designed by Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser and finally built in 1986 by architectors after a 3 years of effort. Grass and trees are everywhere including the rooms. Now, a perfect tourist attraction and protected as a cultural heritage.

Free Spirit Sphere Tree House

One of the most successful tree house applications are located among the marvelous trees of the west coast rain forest of Vancouver Island, Canada. Free Spirit Spheres can be rented or even purchased. Suitable for elves to meditate and trolls for wild attacks.

Amazing Hobbit Home

Maybe, this home is the one which deserves the most praises. It was built by an amateur constructor in Wales spending only 1000-1500 man hours and £300o. He just got the help of his father-in-law and a few visitors. A happy Tolkien powered hobbit style home life is the essence.

Einstein without a Brain !?

admin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:36:40 +0000

It is historically true that Einstein became brainless, not in his life time but after approximately 7 hours after his death. Thomas Stoltz Harvey who made autopsy on Einstein removed his brain (without a permission from his family) for scientific study because of Einstein’s advanced thinking abilities and popularity. You can see the photo he has taken during his research.

Harvey sliced the brain into 240 blocks and made experiments with some chemical stuff. As a result, he couldn’t find something unusual but kept the pieces with him over the next four decades in two jars eventhough he was kicked from his job at the university. All this time, he just gave a tiny pieces to some researchers. Some of these researchers later claimed that Einstein Brain was working that way because of the high level of glial cells on the left part.

Funny thing is that he didn’t plan to take the brain. He was just a last minute replacement for another doctor in the morgue. In 2007 Harvey died and could kept his secret unpopular until 1978 from mass media. I will not tell where Einstein brain pieces now to motivate you doing a Google research for it, just added a few photos below

Actually, Einstein is not the first person whose brain was preserved. Our mathematical genius Gauss was also one of the most famous victims.

If you want to hear another interesting story about brain preservation, refer to Edward Rullof as well. A talented philologist, continuous criminal and who owned one of the largest brains in history.

A good read about the subject? Here is the journey of Einstein’s brain. Driving Mr. Albert, poor Albert !

Extreme Burgers for Guaranteed Heart Attack

admin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:23:24 +0000

These photos are from an interesting burger restaurant where you can ruin your health while you take a victorious taste for your stomach if you regularly eat. Actually, this concept is quite successful and similar to lung cancer and cigarette smokers dilemma where addicts continue to smoke event though they know what waits for them in the end. A man can happily die with the combination of a hot chick plus a big burger. It is a proven fact.

Cool Monsters from Independent LEGO Artists

admin — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:04:29 +0000

I had seen many interesting Lego creations including a Rubik cube solver Lego robot and full working Lego harpsichord. These monsters and aliens are really creative and ready to attack you fearlessly and brutally.

Check Monster Dino Lego at Amazon as well. Maybe, starting your creepy LEGO monster building career with this?

Obsessive Compulsive Olympics Disorder

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:25:50 +0000

Olympics special by Nonch

Cool Daggers And Swords Art

admin — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:13:44 +0000

There were a cool art exhibition in Russian city Nijni Novgorod and masters showed their creative charming daggers and swords. There were around 70 pieces and most of them were manufactured using only old techniques. Some of them are inspired by the works of the talented painters of the city. Here are some great photos.