Year: 2007

Trossen’s latest contest winner

Trossen’s latest contest winner

Trossen Robotics has announced the winner of their latest TR Community contest. The winner is Otto. Well, Otto is the bot, Kdwyer is the builder and actual winner. Trossen writes: Otto is a humanoid/track hybrid droid with an incredible range of capabilities. Kdwyer’s mission was to make an autonomous robot that could avoid obstacles, track […]

Soviet-era Bluetooth-ified phone

Soviet-era Bluetooth-ified phone

Brano Meres, a Slovakian industrial designer and engineer says of his Bluetooth-equipped Red Army phone: This is the first Soviet army phone from the 1960’s to be equipped with Bluetooth technology. It was intended for use as a Bluetooth headset with my mobile phones. To redesign this phone, Titanium and high quality wires from dismantled […]

Office-Inspired Art

I know I’m not the only one out there who misses seeing her “stories” and hopes that the Writer’s Strike ends amicably (and soon!). So I loved stumbling across Elloh’s Etsy shop, where she sells canvas prints from her original paintings, which are inspired by a variety of fun TV shows and movies. These Pam […]

Buy Handmade Takes off in Brazil

Claudia at Superziper writes: In one week, more than 80 brazilian crafty girls submitted their pictures and creations to support the “I Buy Handmade” campaign. Basically, the campaign was not popular in Brazil, so we decided to promote it in our blog, Superziper. Suddenly, this became a very popular topic among brazilians in their blogs […]