Month: January 2009

Ball Pendulum

eklux writes – This video shows a self oscillating ball pendulum, that feeds a ten counter balance. If I’ve had enough time, Meccano and balls, the idea was to built a complete clock, with a set of sequential balances, that together would display the current time. Also, it would have been nice to fall a […]

Clickjacking Twitter

Clickjacking is a technique that’s sometimes used by various internet nasties to get users to unwittingly click on something they didn’t intend to. Javascript is used to carefully position an invisible frame under the mouse pointer. When the user attempts to click on something visible on the page, the click is transmitted to the contents […]

Creative misuse of technology event in NYC

Creative misuse of technology event in NYC

Dorkbot NYC is hosting a special event: You’re Doing it Wrong: Creative Misuse of Technology. Douglas Repetto writes: Please join us at 92YTribeca for a selection of historical and contemporary short videos and live performances featuring inappropriate, inadvisable, and occasionally disastrous creative uses of technology. Program (subject to change) Jeremy Bailey: live demonstration of the […]

Shake and turn to advance the MP3 track

Here’s an interesting MP3 player concept. Move the cube in a specific direction to advance the track through a built-in accelerometer detecting force. Similar to Apple’s iPod shake function in their new Nano, we like the DIY sensibilities and industrial design of this little guy. Motion Controlled MP3 Player via Hacked Gadgets