Sew, Mama, Sew! tips us off to Craft Schmaft’s Tag Monster project, a handmade stuffy who was created because the stitcher’s son is obsessed with tags and labels. “I created a little softie for my baby boy, Oscar, earlier this year called the Tag Monster. Oscar is obsessed with labels. You know those little tags […]
The “first quantitative, scientific evaluation of the proposed, major, energy-related solutions” came out this month. Via Worldchanging: Here is how Jacobson ranks the renewables, from best to worst: 1. Wind power 2. concentrated solar power (CSP) 3. geothermal power 4. tidal power 5. solar photovoltaics (PV) 6. wave power 7. hydroelectric power 8. a tie […]
Whisper Jars by Kacie Kinzer and Michael Rosenthal is one of the first things I checked out at the ITP Winter Show 2008 in NYC. It allows the user to leave a secret, which in turn can be heard by the next user. It’s a great combination of art and electronics that works perfectly. A […]
Fortified with electronic combination lock, motion-sensing alarm and motorized lock/door mechanisms – this LEGO safe will keep that marble collection nice and secure (well relatively, anyway). Nice piece of work from mostly LEGO NXT parts! Check out the video to see it in action – LEGO safe
Craftster user Ragstorichesart made these fun knitting-inspired wreaths that remind me of the holiday decorations hanging at Starbucks right now–except that these are even better!
Zakka Life provides the pattern and instructions for making this great embroidered birdcage ornament. How nice would this look tied to a present for the holidays?
This is a really nice passive multitouch input by Randall Jones. It was designed to be an inexpensive, and extremely expressive, musical interface. I really like the simplicity, and it only cost about $50 to build. [Thanks Dan] Physical modeling synthesis has proven to be a successful method of synthesizing realistic sounds, but providing expressive […]
