WorldEar is a device that would be installed at the head-height of seated passengers in trains around the world. Because of its low volume, users must turn their heads to listen to other worlds. Scrolling through a list of cities users would hear ambient sound from the city shown, transmitted using the wireless network in place in many of the subway systems around the world. Link.
Starvin’ With Louis is the show that focuses on easy to cook recipes, money saving tips, and ways to live “on the cheap”. So let us walk you through the cooking process step by step and make your mouth water or maybe just make you cringe, but either way you are going to laugh. Link.
One Free Minute is a mobile sculpture designed to allow for instances of anonymous public speech. When you call the cellphone inside One Free Minute, you get connected for exactly a minute to a 200 watt amplifier and speaker. The speech produced by the speaker can be heard clearly more than 150 feet away from the sculpture. See the links below to learn more or listen to some of our callers. Link.
Access all of your archived photos from your living room. The perfect addition to Xbox Media Center: flickr. Now you have one more place to show off all of your photos: your living room. Flickr is a natural addition to one of the best media centers available. Its one more reason to hop on the Xbmc train. [via] Link.
MAKE Flickr pool member lepow is making an LCD belt buckle from a DMTech personal video player. I think it’s like the kid’s JuiceBox and other low-cost tiny video player-like toys. This should be cool, can’t wait to see the finished project! Link.
Complete with rooftop garden, solar water-distillery, a single container ship can deliver 25,000 units anywhere in the world in 20-30 days. Huck Finn of the future. We based the visual style of our designs on IKEA instruction booklets. The whole thing folds up into a quarter of a shipping container, and assembles on site in under an hour. Dishes and silverware included. Thanks Jeff! Link.
Curiously Strong mimics the movement of a typical domino chain through 250 sequentially actuated Altoids™ boxes. Each box is equipped with a solenoid that opens and closes the lid when it receives an electric pulse. This results in a continual wave of motion as the pulse cascades through the chain of boxes. Link.
