Star Wars super fan Kevin “CorellianCustoms” Glenn created these two custom console mods consisting of a Rebel Snowspeeder SNES and a TIE Fighter Nintendo 64 – each including their respective controllers, A/V cables and power bricks. If you’ve just fallen in love, you’ll be thrilled to know that you can actually buy these mods from CorrellianCustom’s Etsy page. They may be a little steep at $185 and $210, but my guess is that won’t deter many.
Check out some additional photos after the break.
Remember the classic arcade game OutRun? Well Garnet Hertz, an informatics researcher at the University of California Irvine with a really cool science-y name, wondered what it would be like to take the game on the road…literally. So he combined the cabinet with an electric golf cart and added cameras and fancy software that reproduces the terrain in front of you on the display in 8-bit OutRun rendering.
Unfortunately, you won’t be able to “OutRun” anything in this cart as it only has a maximum speed of 13 mph (consider drag racing with a Segway), but the augmented reality technology could have applications in medicine as therapy for the disabled or for developing futuristic wheelchairs.
Check out the OutRun cart in action after the break.
Nerd Approved reader Robert aka “creatorofdestruction” sent us some pics of 2007 Dodge Magnums he decked out to look like an Umbrella Corporation police car and the Ecto-1. Both come complete with working lights and sirens.
Check out more pics of these awesome rides after the break.
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This Cylon/KITT John Deere snowplow modification is pathetic in a amusingly nerdy way. Basically, he just slapped a Larson Scanner from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories on there and called it a day. Only in ‘merica!! Woooooooo!
Check out the video after the break.
This case-mod masterpiece from modder pinchillo was inspired by the Dreadnoughts from Warhammer 40,000. As you will see in the video after the break, the damn thing actually talks, has a spinning chain gun and working LED lights. Oh, and there’s a PC in there somewhere…whatever.
Specs include the latest THC OS with integrated Bong search, and the superfast Doritos Cool Ranch chipset. Unfortunately, its short on memory and tends to forget the information after a short amount of time. Check out instructables to learn how to build one yourself.
(via Instructables)
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