Nate True figured out a quick way to add speed dial icons to your iPhone 1.1.3 home screen: So the new iPhone 1.1.3 firmware allows you to put icons on your home screen for websites, but I know many of us want to put phone numbers on there for a Speed Dial screen. I’ve put […]
Now this would certainly get me up in the morning: this PIC-based alarm clock makes you solve arithmetic operations before it will turn off. Source and schematic included. – [via] Link. Related: Photos from MAKE NYC meet up! – Link.
Ansley of Bleu Arts has made a new knitting pattern to make these super cute and easy fingerless gloves. Just $6.95 in her Etsy shop. Link.
From Hackszine: Ryan Culy designed a single-handed, combination Wiimote and Nunchuck (motechuck?), making Nunchuck-enabled Wii games accessible to a friend who is missing a hand. It’s a solid concept and a nice looking custom acrylic execution. Benheck named this one his Hack Pick of the Wii-k: The basic idea is that you strap the nunchuck […]
Core77 writes: The ‘Honeycomb Vase’ by Tomas Gabzdil Libertiny debuted in Milan last year as part of Droog’s exhibition. The vase is literally made by bees. Libertiny constructed the piece by making a vase-shaped beehive scaffold which was removed after one week, and the efforts of approximately 40,000 bees. The designer coined the term ‘slow […]
@The NYC Toy fair 2008 there was a sort of bizarre station, in a good way. A sculptor was working on a clay skeleton, another artist was making something in 3D (figures, a giant gun) and I think it all had something to do with Jailbreak toys, the makers of historical figures (they gave me […]
@The NYC Toy fair 2008 was a favorite – Innovation first. They make the VEX robots as well as the HEX bugs. The big news, they announced the Vex-Mini and Vex Wi-Fi… both of these are good additions to their robotics / learning line up. Here are the details… The VEX RCR Mini, like the […]
