While perusing the BellJar blog yesterday I came across these enchanting cephalopod chandeliers by Adam Wallacavage, a Philadelphia artist who made his start photographing for skate magazines like Thrasher. The chandeliers were born of a maritime infatuation, and sport awesome names such as Miss Fede, Dixie LaRue, and Fenicologia. Inspired by an obsession with the […]
Continue ReadingVanessa Sorenson made the Tweet Sleeve, a wearable display to express your mood, at least according to Twitter. It looks for keywords in your tweets and lights up the sleeve in an according color. [Thanks, Greg Leuch!]
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The Pocket Piano Synth kit makes your Arduino into a portable stand-alone music synthesizer.
Continue ReadingCute this Yoda Amigurumi pattern from Happy Together is. Crochet him you must. Thanks, Heather!
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I attended the Parsons Design & Technology thesis symposium opening last night, great stuff! Above is an installation by Christina Speligene. Below: Zach Gage’s “Data” counts visitors. The show is open all weekend in NYC. OneZero: MFA Design and Technology Thesis Symposium Exhibition April 30, 2010 – May 2, 2010 Sheila C. Johnson Design Center […]
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Those of you who, like me, just recently managed to score the digital camera of your dreams will be very excited to learn that it’s possibly going to be obsolete real soon. Based on technology developed by University of Toronto professor Ted Sargent, who is now CTO at start-up InVisage, the new image sensor uses a matrix of nanoparticles embedded in a polymer film which can be simply “painted” onto the top of a low-cost wafer at room temperature. If the hype is to be believed, the new sensor offers four times the sensitivity of conventional CMOS image sensors at a dramatically reduced cost per chip. [Thanks, Glen!]
Continue ReadingOur crafty buddies at Purl Soho have opened a new shop! They’re combining their awesome yarn store, Purl, with Purl Patchwork to create one crafty mega-store (OK, as mega- as a storefront in lower Manhattan can be). I stopped by last night to help celebrate the occasion, and the place was jumping. Congrats, ladies! More […]
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