In Real Life

The Entire Universe And Other Things That Are Awesome

People aren’t very big at all. But at least we’re bigger than ants, cells, the X chromosome and all the empty space between particles. On the other hand, we get tiny awfully fast. Even dinky little Rhode Island looks huge in comparison to us. At least, until you keep scrolling out…


April 16, 2012
In Real Life

Can You Name All 20 Planets In This Video Game Solar System?

This weirdly engrossing three-minute video delivers 20 stylised worlds evocative of some very familiar video gaming franchises. Like trivia night at a bar, they slowly reveal themselves, with the final clue basically giving everything away. Can you name all 20 on sight before the last tipoff?


January 17, 2012
In Real Life

Check Out This Amazing Gears Of War Pistol Made Entirely Of Paper

Some time ago we shared the papercraft wonder that was Leo Firebrand’s Fallout 3 homage: the laser pistol. Paper (and some papier-mâché for the gun handle) alone yielded a believable piece of the post-apocalypse.


September 18, 2011
In Real Life

How Tall Is Link? If This Life-Size Papercraft Is Any Indication, He’s 5’5″

Requiring more than 200 pages, 12 hours of work per day for a solid month, and what must have been gallons of printer ink, is this jaw-dropping life-size papercraft Link that the artist Michaela M. completed this week. Yes, she has a template for those with the time and the patience to try to re-create her masterpiece.


August 28, 2011
In Real Life

Here’s A Real-Life Minecraft Block You Can Actually ‘Mine’

Ben Purdy is a designer and technology artist who was working on a projection-mapping project when his brother mentioned that a projection sample looked a little like a Minecraft block. Inspiration thus hit Ben.


August 21, 2011
PC

Minecraft-Inspired Shoes To Help A PC That Went SSSSS-Bang [Update]

KyozoKicks, a custom shoe designer featured recently in Official PlayStation Magazine (and before on Kotaku), intended to wear these Creeper Vans to Gamescom this week. Instead, as his PC up and died, he’ll be selling them to raise money toward a new one.


August 7, 2011
In Real Life

Not Only Does This Nerf Lancer Fire Darts, It’s Fully Automatic

Sure, Nerf Lancers have been done before, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be done better. This one, from reader Nick G, is also for sale on eBay.


May 20, 2011
In Real Life

Your Face On An Action Figure? Badass

Based in Tokyo geek mecca Akihabara, Clone Factory is just that: a factory that makes clones.


May 14, 2011
Nintendo

Windowed AR Cards Reveal 3DS’ Secret

When the Nintendo 3DS is looking for an AR Card to start a game, it isn’t searching for or recognising its specific image-it’s recognising a colour, and then spawning whatever comes next off of that. To prove this, AR enthusiast Super Jezmerelda created cards with the question-box design cut out, then framed certain colours within that window.


April 18, 2011
Nintendo

How To Stuff A 3DS Inside A Game Boy

Let’s say you have a loved one sent to a prison, and you need to smuggle them a 3DS inside a Game Boy. (Look, just go with it). Goteking, who gave us the iPod-in-a-Dreamcast-VMU, now supplies a 3DS case made from a Game Boy.