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Sonic The Hedgehog Bike Rack

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Sonic The Hedgehog by Dave Delisle

Here is a bike rack design based on Sonic The Hedgehog losing a bunch of gold rings to injury. Sonic’s misfortune would be a great place to park your bicycle!

This rack would give the illusion that Sonic was running along the nearby sidewalk or pathway just prior to running into trouble here. Also a few Sonic games had levels set in a city environment, so this would be replicating a game level in real life somewhat.

All the rings are perfectly round, however they would be placed at an angle to look like their oval-shaped video game counterparts. Also they would be aligned in rows to help with accessibility.

Sonic The Hedgehog by Dave Delisle

This design features only ten rings, but you could easily scatter 2 or 3 dozen around our hero. As long as a few rings are raised off the ground (at varying heights) for a dynamic scene that is true to the video games. Sonic himself would be a standee, but if you want to get really fancy a statue could be used instead.

If no bikes are present this would function nicely as an art installation too, something that is becoming more and more commonplace.

James Bond Car Cigarette Lighter Covers

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James Bond Seat Eject Car Lighter Cover Dave Delisle 2013

This is pretty simple: a car lighter cover (or replacement car lighter plug) that looks like a whimsical button you’d see in a James Bond car. The button would be labelled “Passenger Seat Eject” or “Missiles” or “Machine Guns” or what have you. Personally I would go with the Seat Eject one to intimidate passengers. It being plugged-in the cigarette lighter this could also illuminate (repeatedly blinking on and off) for a more authentic look.

James Bond Cigarette Lighter cover by Dave's Geeky Ideas

Much like my Spy Hunter car stereo design, I always thought it would be fun to add a bunch of fake buttons to the console of your car for that “double-0 agent” feel. Maybe something can be done along the lines of a USB charger that plugs into the lighter (I might have to tackle that design one day).

Ghostbusters Nightlight

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Ghostbusters sign nite lite nightlight design 2013 dave delisle davesgeekyideas

Earlier today Gizmodo featured these cool Avengers-themed nightlights. They look great, fully earning their “wall art” nickname. Better yet they run on batteries, so you can place them anywhere on the wall (instead of plugging into a power outlet, which is often the norm for a nightlight).

And that brings me to the design seen above. A nightlight based on the Ghostbusters sign seen in the films, in the exact same vein as those neat Avengers nightlights. This would be a very affordable way for GB fans to procure an illuminated sign.

Beware Of Chain Chomp Sign

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Chain-Chomp-Mario-Sign-by-Daves-Geeky-Ideas

Once in a while I like to make things people can print, and today I am offering this geek version of a standard “Beware Of Dog” sign. Perfect for the office or home habitat, or anywhere you might feel jokingly territorial.

You can find a few sized for an 8.5″ x 11″ sheet of paper after the jump.

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Jurassic Park Wallpaper: Fences Are Failing

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Jurassic Park Wallpaper Desktop Fence Security Unarmed Failure 2012 Dave Delisle davesgeekyideas
Fullscreen 4:3 Wallpaper 1920 x 1440 Click To Enlarge

UPDATE: You can now buy a high-res poster of this image here.

It’s been a while since I’ve done a Jurassic Park post, and even longer since I released a geeky wallpaper (not counting train maps), so this fits the bill nicely. This wallpaper recreates the desktop seen in the first film.

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Traffic Light Idea

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Traffic Light design by Dave Delisle davesgeekyideas dave's geeky ideas

The green light conveys motion using an animated sequence, the yellow light is shaped like a caution triangle, and the red light is shaped like a stop sign, but with an animated white border to show more urgency and danger.

This might be ideal for color-blind folks, who might appreciate the different shapes.