The DIY LEGO Headphones.

I fancy myself a nice pair of headphones. Hell, when I was at CES I was like a kid in a candy store, There were tons of high-end personal audio manufacturers there, all with working display models which resulted in me killing several hours not reporting. But it was all good clean fun.

What I didn’t see at CES, however, were these — the LEGO headphones. As you can imagine, these DIY miniaturized music boxes are pretty easy to make as long as you can grasp the basic concept of a LEGO, have a steady hand with the glue, and have an eye for design. With the countless colors, shapes, and sizes one can find LEGOs in, building yourself a unique pair shouldn’t take too much thought.

[Instructions: Instructables]

RIM registers “blackpad.com”. Please God don’t let that be the official name…

Rumors of an iPad competitor by Canadian-based Research In Motion just got a lot more serious tonight with the discovery of “blackpad.com”. Registered by RIM on July 8th, 2010, the new domain name signals that a tablet from the longtime BlackBerry maker is in fact approaching. For now however, the hardware itself is still wrapped in a shroud of mystery. But it doesn’t take much to assume a large touchscreen, snappy processor, and some tweaked version of the BB OS will ship.

One thing that I hope does change is the name — if it is taking after the registered domain name that is. “Black Pad” sounds kind of…um…stupid. I’d hope RIM has something a bit more unique and original. But such deep thought is best left to another day. Instead, take it a bit easier, relax, kick back, and speculate the night away…

Oh yeah! Flamethrower vs. Fire Extinguisher.

I realize that music is a rather subjective thing. Everyone has their own personal taste. Whether or not the Dancing Pigeons tickle your fancy, I highly encourage you to give their music video, “Ritalin”, a look. If it’s really that irritating to you, just put it on mute. The most geeky part that has me so intrigued is the slomo flamethrower vs. fire extinguisher scene. Correction, *Super* flamethrower. You see, a typical flamethrower only casts out flaming strands of death a mere 2-3 meters. The band wanted something a bit more…cinematic. So, a new one was built from scratch. The result? A new, 10-15 meter slinging apocalypse in your hand. So step to it and hop inside. It’s pretty intense.

The Gamblers mobile storage solution: Poke Chip Flash Drive.

It seems that in todays world, everyone can have their own personalized flash drive. Whether it be in the shape of a stick, car, or decapitated teddy bear, flash drives literally come in every shape and size. And now, they come in the form of a poker chip. Gamblers make note, this is one chip you don’t want to throw away. Whataya say? $19 for 4GB worth? All you have to do is hit the link below…

[Product Page: Gadget4All]

Update: Nexus One becomes space cowboy, pays dearly for the privillage.

Matthew Reyes, self titled “Freelance scientific molecular evolutionary biological videographic NASA microgravitational & space education specialist”, decided to strap a couple N1s to a model rocket and have it capture the entire ride up…and down. The laws of physics don’t bend for anyone or anything. The first phone went up naked, unprotected by such physics defying contraptions like a parachute. The end result was a painful death. The second one however was attached to a parachute. In the end, it is the second phone that survives and brings back the sweet footage of the whole trip. Hop inside and check it out!

Update

I’d like to point out that I flubbed this one. I wasn’t careful with distinguishing two different phones and tests, resulting in a factually flawed article. For that, I apologize. The phone that was smashed and destroyed as originally posted was actually the first of two phones. The latter of which you see in the video inside, blissfully twirling down to earth compliments of its parachute.

Overclockers: Beware of Intel’s upcoming Sandy Bridge P67 chipset, limited overclocking potential?

Well if this turns out to be as serious as it sounds, it’ll be a massive blow to Intel’s image (in my book) and give plenty of people reason to switch to AMD. As the story goes, Intel’s upcoming Sandy Bridge platform will completely switch up the current Core i3/i5/i7 way of overclocking. As it stands now, overclocking enthusiasts ramp up the base clock (which starts at 133MHz) in order to speed up the processor itself and RAM — those are the two biggest goals anyway. But Sandy Bridge ties everything — And I mean everything! — into the base clock: USB, SATA, PCI, PCI-E, CPU cores, Uncore, and RAM.

“Awesome” you say? On the surface, it simplifies things by having less clocks to keep track of and in theory makes things cheaper for motherboard manufacturers. The only negative side effect is that early testing of said platform has revealed overclocking is severely neutered. So much so that even a mere 5MHz overclock can cause system instability…

New version of Fennec for Android ganked off of Mozilla’s FTP site.

Firefox 4 beta 2 may be the latest talk of the town in browser land — No joke, it’s pretty awesome! — but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other important matters to talk about. On that note, some curious Droid-Life readers started poking around Mozilla’s FTP site and found a freshly updated version of Fennec that was uploaded on July 24th 2010. I went ahead and downloaded the update myself and have found it to be more or less a crap shoot on my Moto Droid running Froyo. Looks like they haven’t really grabbed the Froyo bull by the horns yet, as plenty of FC’s wreaked havoc on my little plastic bundle of love. Of course, this is an unofficial ganked copy, so I won’t complain too much.

I’m just glad they’re still working on it. It seems like f. o. r. e. v. e. r. ago that we heard about Fennec coming to Android. Anywho, go on ahead and get the Fennec update yourself and let us know how it goes for you…