Power-generating wearable tech couture
Dandelion is a wearable kinetic sculpture that generates electricity through small, flower-like windmills. [via Fashioning Technology]
Month: February 2010
Heart Balloon Planter
This heart planter is just too cute. Well, not too cute, just right cute. PrettyRandomObjects is on the front page of etsy today, and I’m not surprised.
Fairytale Fashion Show in NYC February 24
CRAFT friend Diana Eng is “using technology to turn make-believe into reality” at her Fairytale Fashion Show later this month at Eyebeam in NYC. RVSP early to claim a spot! I’ll be there checking out all the fashion tech on the runway. Keep an eye out, Diana is going to be reporting on the process […]
VOIP ideal for hiding secret messages?
The 50-cent word here is “steganography,” which per Wikipedia is “the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, suspects the existence of the message.” You may have heard, for instance, that you can encode a hidden message in, say, an image file, in such a way that no one who wasn’t looking for it would know that it’s there.
Well, this morning Danger Room linked to a post at IEEE Spectrum to the effect that Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) is particularly susceptible to steganographic hijinks. Wired’s David Pierce put it this way:
Fire breathing snowman is standing contradiction
We’re not sure how, but this family has managed to combine two opposite forces to create this giant chimera of a fire-breathing snowman.
Inside Blip, the Digital Game
EMSL writes: After our Tabletop Pong project, someone suggested that we should check out the Tomy Blip, a handheld game dating to 1977. And so we did. We snagged one on eBay, and here it is: “Blip, the digital game.” Blip is unlike any other handheld that I’ve played, and (as you’ll see) it’s quite […]
How-To: Edible Cupcake Stands
These fully-edible cupcake stands from Giver’s Log would be so much fun at a Valentine’s Day party or special occasion. I like the idea that you can make them in different colors and shapes and sizes, too.