Heatswell via NOTCOT. Pour a hot beverage like coffee, tea, hot chocolate or soup into this thin stackable coffee cup and watch its midsection swell to form a cool insulating collar – a 100% genuine endothermic reaction.
Hannah Perner-Wilson writes about her embroidered potentiometers: Made using the zig-zag stitch on the sewing machine to sew/embroider a conductive and a resistive trace side by side. Then any conductive object can be used to bridge the contact between the traces and measure the position/distance from measuring point through the change in resistance. In the […]
This fabric folder portfolio from Niesz Vintage Home is a great way to keep your notepad covered and have some handy pockets available for stashing notes and other pieces of paper.
Zurich-based Myriad has announced a new tool called J2Android that converts Java MIDlet apps to run on Android.
Check out this fabulous 50w 500 LED flashlight from maker ledcreations.
Want to fling some small objects around the office? This perfectly tuned miniature trebuchet from the Maker Shed is a beautiful addition to any desktop, and it really works! It takes up only 4″x9″ of desktop space and stands just 14″ tall.
I’m having a hard time figuring out how to affix these things to my outgoing e-mails, but this tutorial from Derek & Kim at Ragehaus on how to make a monogram signet from a piece of closet-rod is pretty cool, anyway. It’s well-written, has great photography, and the process it describes is inexpensive, easy, and produces good-looking results. [Thanks, Billy Baque!]
