Old playing piano paper reborn as wallpaper.

How about some lighter reading to start the hellish of all days, Monday? The image you see on the right shows one unique bathroom decor choice originating from the Ace Hotel in Portland, Oregon. It’s pretty neat stuff. Just think of the nerdy fun someone such as myself would have if a pocketable reader could be rubbed along the wall to rehash all of the old-time piano goodness. Such a device doesn’t exist in exactly the right form however, so we’ll have to make do with oooing and aaaahing.

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LED’s are in everything — the Moonlight Cushion vies for your attention.

Much like USB flash drives, LED’s are one of those inexpensive, small, and highly versatile electronics that manage to find their way into countless projects. From computers to mp3 players to skateboards and now pillows, is there anything you can’t stuff an LED in to? The creator of the Moonlight Cushion believes in that very same ideology as there’s no functional or reasonable explanation as to why LED’s need to be crammed into a pillow. But it’s cool — very cool. As such, I need one, maybe two. At $38 they’re a bit pricey for a simple pillow. The geeks of the world should jump without even so much as a single second guess though.

The only setback? Moonlight Cushions are out of stuck until early May. Ouch. Get those thumb goin…

[Product Page: ThumbsUp UK]

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How cool is your home decor? Super Mario furniture is just the ticket.

Modders, hackers, geeks, and nerds. We’re all creative in our own ways when it comes to gadgets and electronics. But there are so many other ways we can show off and build things that aren’t exactly electrical in nature yet still have strong cues to the geek culture we so thoroughly enjoy. So how exactly do you “branch out” into other areas? By making geeky furniture of course (or in this case, having your girlfriend make it). First off, a g/f that is a serious gaming nut — hook, line, and sinker. Second, strolling around your house everyday and looking at authentic looking lightsabers and Super Mario blocks all over the place is a dream come true for just about any geek I would assume. Judging by the picture above, these people look pretty serious right?

[Everything was] created by my girlfriend Judith for her apartment. We both love video games, especially Super Mario. She’s currently studying Mechanical Engineering in Germany and has also built an incredible lightsaber for my birthday. She’s a hardcore Super Mario Land (Game Boy) gamer and we both are fans of the whole franchise.

I designed the shelf for our growing collection of videogames (almost 200 Wii games) and I thought the boxes would be perfect with the backround [of hills] and a cloud (all made of wood). Beside the shelf was a small table for the phone and the Internet and I thought it would be cool if we could have a warp pipe too. So she’s created the warp pipe based on a garbage can [that] big enough to hide all the cables.

We’ve bought the figures and the mushroom to make it perfect. I designed the Game Boy clock [to include] the Super Mario Land scene with objects as numbers, because it is her favorite game … It works very well with the wall color and it’s not too colorful …

Currently she’s working on a small Koopa shell (the same size as the mushroom) for the shelf. So I’m just the guy with the ideas and she’s my Super Judith! ;o)

Ok, I’ve got to meet these people. They would be the coolest neighbors…ever.

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Exercise your toes on the NES Controller Rug.

Any geek (or poser) can carry around an assortment of gadgets and put off the image that he is a knowledgeable techie. But only the true nerds fill their house with such affair. The NES Controller Rug will promptly let everyone know your inner being. I would have to have at least two myself. They’re simply too nice and too cool to be covered by feet and dirt. At the same time, I’d want to show such a rug off. Decisions decisions. What would you do?

[Product Page: Etsy]

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The coffee table reborn into an aquarium.

Building on your geeky streak of nerdy decor with the Floppy Disc Pillows and the Keyboard Rubik’s Cube, it’s time to go one step further. OK, several steps further with the Coffee Table Aquarium. As the name implies, this coffee table houses aquatic life in it’s completely transparent base, offering up a pretty sweet look at the little creatures swimming around in their little home. A word from manufacturer Hammacher Schlemmer perhaps?

The tank rests on a heavy-duty black acrylic base; lights in the base illuminate the tank from beneath the bed of blue glass gravel. Comes with two-stage submersible filter pump and decorative plants. Plugs into AC with a 6? cord; access panel in base allows you to reach electric parts. For freshwater fish; gap under top allows for feeding. The 25 Gallon Aquarium Coffee Table. 25-gallon aquarium with 36? sq. tabletop. Top 36? sq.; tank 15 1/2? H x 24? L x 24? W. (100 lbs.)

So it looks cool. It’ll keep your fish cool. And did we mention you can actually drop your junk on top of this fish tank? Ya, that got a lot of people right there. Save those pennies, it’s not cheap — $599 and up.

[Product Page: Hammacher Schlemmer]
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Sweet, sweet dreams with the Android Pillow.

You know, if you wanted to go out on a limb when comparing the human body to an Android device (or any gadget “smarter” gadget in general), you could draw some similarities on how humans and electronics alike can always benefit from a good shut down and reboot — and in the case of humans, a good night’s rest. Just how well is your daily reboot?

Regardless if it’s good or bad, the Android Pillow will ensure that you not only make your way into recovery mode peacefully, but that you do so in style and geeky sophistication. It’s $19.99 for a simple square 12″ x 12″ pillow though, I’m sure the more diehard Android fans and geeks like won’t even bat an eye.

We’ve already seen iPhone pillows and I’m sure there has to be a BlackBerry pillow out there somewhere (anyone care to guide me to it?). Before long, my bed is going to be full with smartphone pillows. Is that such a bad thing?

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The wall outlet of tomorrow: stylish, convenient, and functional.

Wall outlets — what exactly can we say? It’s a hole in the wall from which electrons spew forth when the appropriate (and sometimes inappropriate) material is inserted. How could technology and society actually make it better?

Enter the world transformed with the Rambler Socket. For starters, who says technology and mundane things such as wall outlets have to be ugly and unsightly? The Rambler is quite the looker.

Just because it looks good doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be functional. The Rambler excels again — offering up a fair amount of real world practicality.

The houses of tomorrow could have such a gadget pictured above and below. An outlet that stores an extension cord inside the outlet itself, allowing for more versatility and options when designing and building homes as well as giving homeowners one less thing to fret over.

I just with such concepts would come more quickly. It will easily be 15-20 years before we see any such technology implemented as “common” construction techniques in the U.S.*sigh*. Then again, they’ll have to swap out that goofy euro-connector in the pictures with a U.S. style before we could even use it anyway.

Who’s excited for wall outlets!?