Let’s face it – babies are difficult to dress for Halloween. Costumes end up either looking goofy or being way too uncomfortable for the little one. Vickie Howell has some clever ideas to remedy that in her new Craft Apparent column over at PBS Parents. She’s given instructions for four different infant costumes with baby […]
Wow! iRobot’s soft, shape-shifting robot blob can roll around and change shape, and it will be able to squeeze through tiny cracks in a wall when the project is finished…. via jwz.
Turn a Halloween pumpkin into a penguin with this tutorial by Jane of Wyldhare’s Hollow. A cute way to decorate for Halloween that’s not the typical ghosts, witches, or goblins!
Ars Technica has an awesome piece detailing 100 years worth of “Big Content’s” reaction to emerging media technologies (in its own words). Here’s John Philip Sousa, writing in Appleton’s Magazine, on “The Menace of Mechanical Music” (aka the gramophone): “From the days when the mathematical and mechanical were paramount in music, the struggle has been […]
Instructables user jtigermask13 has posted a tutorial on making these working children’s iPod costumes.
I can’t claim to be hip to the latest in wedding technology, however I like the idea behind these ultra-personalized fingerprint wedding bands by Etsy seller fabuluster. Besides being a cute way to stay connected to your significant other and yada yada, they are also a great way to identify a would be romantic impostor. […]
One day I decided to put away all my deadlines and all my unfinished projects, and to instead design something just for fun, to please only the fiber-artist-fashionista within me. I dug around in a bin of wool sweaters and found a truly hideous gray knit poncho. I plugged in my sewing machine and started […]
