Instructables user wramey writes: This cheap and easy addition to our dining room chairs prevents kids legs from dangling uncomfortably. It won’t get all their wiggles out, but it will help them sit more comfortably… and now that our kids can sit more comfortably facing the table, they get less food in their laps and […]
A Russian firm is selling a system of ship-mountable auto-targeting water-pumping robots with the dual purpose of fighting fires and repelling pirates. BotJunkie’s Evan Ackerman explains:
The robotic water cannons (six on each side of the ship) are controlled by a central computer, using TV cameras to target pirates approaching the ship. The robots shoot streams of water at 40 liters per second out to a range of 70 meters, and can wash away potential boarders and even sink small boats. This is a defensive technique that is already used against pirates, but having robots do the shooting helps keep the people who would otherwise be wielding the fire hoses safe.
My biggest concern with this system would be that the pirates could use their Electro-Bolt plasmids to temporarily short out the automated turrets, then hack them to turn against their masters. I mean, just looking at them, it’s pretty clear these things are based on Rapture-style hydro-tube technology.
Christy at Instructables has a recipe for these delightful cranberry cookies, which appear to be perfect in every way: Cranberry cookies make great Christmas cookies, but are also a great way to use up leftover fresh cranberries after the holidays. These are my favorite cranberry nut swirl cookies – they’re well worth freezing cranberries so […]
These are lovely. Recycled bicycle parts by julienjaborska.
These are concept shots of a hearing aid based out of a gauged ear piercing plug. From Core77: The Deafinite Style is a concept from Munich-based Designaffairs STUDIO that turns a hearing aid into a piece of jewelry, provided you’re up for a bit of lobe stretching to get started. The main advantage they propose […]
Kristy of Craftastica makes a great point in her post about this fun Valentine gingerbread house she made with her children. This year the girls and I decided to make gingerbread houses. Well, the holidays can sort of sneak up on a person, so we didn’t make them until after Christmas. That got me thinking, […]
Wolfgang Baur, former editor of the immortal D&D magazine DRAGON and current publisher of a new, independent D&D magazine Kobold Quarterly had a chance to play around with the second edition of MS Surface-based SurfaceScapes D&D game. There are a lot of cool developments, like being able to load your character sheet onto a smartphone […]
