Although we tend to shy away from anyone calling their project a “first”, this video claims to be the “first music video shot entirely with an iPhone” using a jailbroken phone and the “Cycorder” application which lets you record video directly to the flash drive of the phone. In any case, we still don’t understand […]
Turn a spent AA battery into a secret USB data stash.
Now instead of having the birthday and trying to capture the best photos, you can do two things at once. This birthday cake was made in the shape of a Nikon D700 SLR camera. Best of all, it looks like the cake is a red velvet, which would make it even more tempting to both […]
James “Dr. Krazy X” McCracken III sent us pictures of his steampunk-y take on the Gakken Mini-Theremin kit build. Mini-Theremin The theremin, invented in 1919 by Russian scientist Leon Theremin, is one of the world’s earliest fully electronic instruments, and is also unique in that it was the first musical instrument designed to be played […]
The Netherlands based company, Royal Boon Edam Group Holding, has created the world’s first energy generating revolving door that is currently installed at the Driebergen-Zeist railway station in Holland. The door stores power generated in a capicitor bank and illuminates LED lights in its ceiling, while a large scale display outside the building shows pedestrians […]
The Chaos Communication Congress recently highlighted some of the projects you can build at their upcoming (12/27 – 12/30) event: Even if you’ve never touched a soldering iron, you can drop by the Hardware Hacking Area and get into doing cool things with microcontrollers! Build something that relaxes your brain, turns off annoying tvs with […]
We’ve just painted the entire downstairs in our house, and I’m looking for all kinds of cool (and affordable!) ways to adorn the walls. This Modern Grass Painting from Cathie Fillan caught my eye. It’s an interesting technique, and is beautiful as is or could be modified to match specific decor.
