Welcome to the police state! Please print out this handy mock CCTV camera, build it, and place it prominently in your bedroom in order to acclimate yourself to the 24/7 surveillance you will experience outside – and soon, inside – your domicile. Should you feel disconcerted or angry, this is natural. Now, more than ever, security means never having to say you’re sorry.

True Braid fanboys are going to have a little Tim papercraft on their cubicle by the end of the day.

David Hellman via Kotaku

I remember playing my SNES for hours and hours when I was in middle school. I should have been doing homework. And look at me now, slaving away at home to bring you pictures of cool papercraft SNESes when I could have a real job.

via Boing Boing

When I was first learning about encryption and encoding, I was fascinated by the Nazi’s Enigma Machine. This device confounded Allied forces in the early days of World War II and is considered by some to be an ancestor of the modern computer.

It was a complex device with many dials and knobs, as well as a keyboards. A soldier had to be trained to use the device, and when used correctly it would encrypt a message in a manner that could only be decrypted by another machine.

Today, the concept can fit in your pocket. Mike Koss, local to me here in Seattle, makes these neat papercraft Enigma Machines. Using paper columns and slots to replicate the rotors of the original machine, users can encrypt and decrypt messages on the fly.

Not for everyone, sure, but our geekier readers are already downloading the PDFs.

If you’re in a repressive Communist country and have a little time to kill, what are you going to do? I mean, the Internet’s all censored, TV as well. You need a hobby, and this young man’s is papercraft, the art of sculpting complex and/or beautiful items out of paper and glue.

But this guy’s gone to the next level, and we love it. Using nothing but cardboard from Chinese KFC buckets (they have KFC in China?), he’s built a fully-posable replica of Bumblebee from last year’s Transformers movie. And it’s badassery at its finest. Hit the jump to see the final product. Then make sure to hit the guys blog at the link provided for tons more photos and a rough how to. Warning: wonderful Engrish abounds.

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