Many of us have dealt with the question of what to do with our electronics after they’ve become broken, boring or obsolete. Spencer Shepard of Blue World Aquariums decided the best course of action was to gut his old Xbox 360 console and convert it into a fully functional salt-water aquarium.
After removing the innards of the Xbox, Spencer cut a viewing window, and inserted a custom built tank. Wiring was hooked up for the lighting using the existing power cable and connection, while the low-voltage power supply and controller are hidden inside the external power supply box. The tank also features a color-changing LED strip controlled by a wireless remote.
Hit the jump to check out a video of the finished product.
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Power A controllers has unveiled Batarang controllers for the Xbox 360 and PS3 that will coincide with the release of Batman: Arkham City on October 18th.
Both controllers feature bat-buttons, soft bat-grips, and bat-LEDs that light up in seven different colors. The PS3 version is wireless, but you’ll be tethered with a 10-foot cord on the Xbox 360 version. A wired controller may seem dated, but to the sharp crime-fighting mind that just means it doubles as a grappling hook.
(Power A via Superhero Hype)
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The following video is the result of an experiment with the Kinect and Processing. People stand in front of the Kinect and they can be virtually frozen in carbonite. Apparently, the people behind the project are exporting the models for 3D printing and they plan to release the open source software soon.
A little crude but promising. Check out the video after the break.
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This gorgeous casemod from Mark Bongo crams in an Xbox 360, speaker system, LED lights and a projector into everyone’s favorite droid.
The projector can display images from 15-50-inches and it features HDMI out and optical audio out. See it in action after the break.
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Perhaps as a way of acknowledging the high temperatures older Xbox 360 systems could reach during game play, some clever soul decided to gut a toaster and put the system inside.
See it in action on That’s Nerdalicious…
Photographer Dan Saelinger and others were commissioned to do a photo shoot for Fortune Magazine about the demise of console gaming. Naturally, they thought blowing up a bunch of Xbox 360s real good would be just the ticket. They couldn’t be more right.
Check out the video after the break.
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We certainly saw our fair share of broken TVs when the Wii came out, but the Wii has a controller. You would have thought the problem would have been all but eliminated with the Microsoft Kinect. Well, you would have thought wrong—and here is the proof.
Blogger Phil Villarreal explains:
A public service announcement: Do not under any circumstances play Kinect Sports Volleyball at 1:30 a.m. while standing under a ceiling fan with a dangling chain for a light switch. You could conceivably spike it into your year-old amazing TV, causing it to die with a rainbow LCD teardrop dripping down from the impact wound.
Plus you’ll lose the match by forfeit.
Phil, you are a true champion. Let’s see how long it takes before someone tops him by breaking the TV with their own body.
(BITYS via The Consumerist)
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Watch as Marines blow off a little steam and blow away their RRoD issues.
Seems to me that sand might have been a factor.
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When you use your imagination, the Xbox 360 can do anything! 3D graphics, virtual reality…gaming is whatever you want it to be. Isn’t that better than owning the real thing?
And the best part is that it is definitely not sad or depressing in any way.
(epicponyz via Gamefreaks)
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From Geek Girl Diva: I just sat in rapt, gleeful, bloodthirsty, breathless wonder for 10 minutes.
This…
…is amazing.
This is 10 minutes of (sexy, Steampunk, nihilistic, exquisite) gameplay from the new Bioshock: Infinite.
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