Craftzine reader Helena was at the hairdressers and flipped through a recent Lucky magazine to find this bizarre and fun site, Net Granny. If you are nana-less, can choose your own Swiss grandmother to custom-knit you a pair of socks! I love that they will also let you know the sock-waiting queue for each grandmother. […]
“Electric MoOns” creates the world’s largest physical 3D display using 100 white balloons floating in a dark room that slowly move vertically arranged as pixels in a 10×10 grid. When music is played, the balloons synchronize their movements and their interiors are illuminated bv dimmable super-bright LEDs. Now if only there was a way to […]
Sleepdog sent in this series of intricate Rube Goldberg-type devices from a Japanese show named “Pitagora Suitch” which means Pythagorean Device.
Jason writes – The Touchmods team recently released a working version of their iPod Touch VoIP app, making it possible for Touch owners to place outgoing calls on the device. The Touch doesn’t come with a built-in mic, so part of the hack involves either modifying a Walmart iVoice III mic, buying a Touchmods designed […]
Creepy cool video of a Pleo’s “brain surgery” from Pleo Dreams.
WowWee unleashed a whole slew of new robots which we’ll see hacked up and modded soon, here’s a round up of coverage/videos/images from Engadget and Gizmodo on the ground at CES now (Consumer Electronics Show). Bots: Alive White Tiger Cub, Alive Lion, Alive Panda Cub and Alive Polar Bear Cub – Link. Femisapien – Link. […]
Gever Tulley’s 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do (video) – Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, talks about our new wave of overprotected kids — and spells out 5 (and really, he’s got 6) dangerous things you should let your kids do. Allowing kids the freedom to explore, he says, will […]
