Margaux Lange, a jewelry maker that makes amzing jewelry using parts from Barbies, just completed these two anatomical focused necklaces as a commission for a medical student. I was already a big fan of her work, but I really like these pieces that incorporate organs.
Vtolus put a voice changer to work in this standalone device, decked out with circular light show – my new diy synth based on voice changer chip. This small box can produce thousands variations of bleeps, noises, feedbacks, ring-mod sounds and drons. It can also process external signal – than it works like ring modulator, […]
Flip video cameras are a good choice for quick and simple video recording but don’t offer much in the expandability/department. This article runs through relatively easy methods for macro & micro lens add-ons, achieving some nice results (see macro vid above) – DIY: A Macro Lens and Microscope for Your Flip Mino [via Hack a […]
Ryan Sit sent in a link to Swurl, a Web 2.0 application/startup he’s been working on that attempts to collect all of the artifacts of your digital life and assemble them into a sensible whole. You could call it an aggregation tool—which, deep down, it is—but it does a little more than other things I’ve […]
“PIO: meet / greet” by the artist group / collective, Finishing School, is a semi-autonomous drone that moves through public spaces to send salutations to people in the six official languages of the United Nations. Built from what looks like the innards of an RC car, portable megaphone, distance sensors to detect pedestrians in order […]
Although this project is considered old by blog standards (2002), we still like the simplicity of this device. The “Transparent Headphones” are a custom built pair of headphones with a microphone attached to the outside of each ear piece. The device detects nearby sounds and fades the sound out of the corresponding ear that detects […]
This project, entitled “Viva Las Vegas” by Danish artist Alexander Laner is a kinetic light installation built from recycled hardware, neon lights, extension cables, and is all perched on a motorized stand that sends the electronics heap into a nifty POV output device. The play on words is pretty dead on, and it will definitely […]
