While not your typical “mod” (usually depicting some sort of computerized machine) the LED light hack “Mathias” whipped up with his fish tank and new LED lighting shows that being green can actually be pretty geeky and cost effective. By replacing the old fluorescent bulb over his massive fish tank and swapping it with an LED, he garnered quite a bit of savings up front. Next, he routed heating tubes through the light mounts to suck up any excess...

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...

As Apple transitions more towards actual desktop processors in the iMac line, heat is going to be an issue. The next logical step would be to add water cooling. But such setups take up pretty generous amounts of room — something the iMac doesn’t really have much of. But when there’s a will, there’s a way. A patent filed way back in ’06 showed Apple to be working on a type of iMac water cooled dock. While a dock and an actual iMac...

Typically when someone mentions the word “boat”, the general human population will think of a nice little row boat of some sort or other human powered “machine”. But again, we are far from normal. The makers of the Amphibious Bus are just like us — albeit with an extreme case of addiction. The bus is pretty much your standard run of the mill people mover. On the inside however, the bus is heavily tweaked with two jets sticking out of the...

I can see it now. You’re chugging along the channel at a leisurely 50mph in your boat when all of a sudden you get the urge to go under the water for a closer look at all that hides beneath the blue waters (or whatever color the water is your vacation in). If you’re on a normal boat, the obvious solution is to jump in. Conversely, if you’re in a submarine and want to get closer to what your see out of your little peep hole window, you’re out of...