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May 12, 2008 9:02 AM PDT

Giant NES controller as coffee table, storage

by Justin Yu
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20-year-old Australian Kyle Downes just finished building his most recent Ultra Awesome project: A massive working Nintendo controller that doubles as a coffee table and triples as a storage chest.

Built from a desire to improve G4TV's similar design, Kyle printed out a picture of an NES controller on A4 sized paper for the measurements and cut the whole thing out of 4mm Medium Density Fiberboard.

The result is every gamer's dream. It's another tribute to retro tech and the perfect piece of furniture to match your race car bed and sofa cushion forts.

Justin Yu covers desktop computers, printers, and peripherals for CNET. When he's not scouring eBay for useless ephemera or eating hot dogs for breakfast, he spends his time making fun of Internet culture every morning on The 404 podcast. E-mail Justin.
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by jeremyes May 12, 2008 9:18 AM PDT
So, this has been bugging me for a while: Crave reposts stories found on other sites for days. Then, in the RSS feed, the majority of the story is cut off, meaning one had to click through to read the story. What a piece of **** way to run a 'news' site.
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by jeremyes May 12, 2008 9:20 AM PDT
This has been bugging me for a while: Crave looks at other sites, reposts their stories, and then makes readers click through to read the full story, if they are using an RSS reader feed. What a piece-of-crap way to run a website. Anyways, I am creating a site where Crave stories are reposted, maybe a week later, as a proper tribute to this 'journalism'.
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by mr_gouda May 12, 2008 3:29 PM PDT
I want one.... Bad.
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by C433Z May 13, 2008 7:18 PM PDT
oh yeah... pillow forts.
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by stlrfrk2 May 17, 2008 4:05 AM PDT
how is this every gamer's dream again?
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