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If IKEA Made Geeky Furniture Part 7: Nintendo Bedroom
A few fun items for the bedroom: a duvet cover in the style of a Game Boy, a pillow case Game Boy cartridge, a lamp which looks like one that would attach to a Game Boy, and lastly a GameCube bedside table.
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If IKEA Made Geeky Furniture Part 4: Nintendo
Here is a matching couch and chair (or matching futons) that looks like the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance (the clamshell version). These would be decorated with cartridge pillows and blanket covers that would feature game screens.
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If IKEA Made Geeky Furniture Part 1: Donkey Kong
Wouldn’t it be fun to have the girders from Donkey Kong on your wall? They’d make a fine series of shelves if I may say so. I would also include some barrels for plants or to store other items.
It appears a designer named Igor Chak beat me to this idea, so kudos to him (I didn’t find any existing designs when I originally conceived this design).
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Geeky Gadget Wish List #12: Super Mario Bros. Alarm Clock
Wouldn’t you like to flatten a Goomba when you need to hit snooze? Of course you would. And this alarm clock design would give you just that opportunity.
Granted the Goomba feature would need to be durable to handle many snooze presses, so it might not be feasible. That said I feel the score UI from the bottom of Super Mario 3 would make for a neat alarm clock, so at the very minimum something that looks like a diorama with lights and sounds like above would do the trick.
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Geeky Gadget Wish List #9: Video Game Door Locks
Wouldn’t it be neat to hear a familiar video game chime when you unlock your front door? Like the sound when opening a dungeon or treasure chest in a Zelda game. Suddenly the mundane task of entering or exiting your home would sound like an adventure.
I feel that creating a deadbolt with a speaker would be the best way to accomplish this. Another way is to incorporate a sound chip into the key itself, but that would be difficult to create an electronic key fob that will fit onto any key.
Special thanks to my friend Matt Rose for suggesting the latter idea (the chime built into the key).
UPDATE: You might have noticed that Zelda chime when the door rang at the beginning of the Scott Pilgrim movie! I think an accompanying door bell would be great too.
