Recently Dymo sent me one of the label makers to review. The LabelManager 260P is a handheld unit that tries its hardest to include as many options as it can. First, let’s talk about the unit’s core function of printing labels. You can choose between three font styles: Basic (sans serif), Serif, and Fun, which […]
I blogged Sara’s Petri-dish-culture-soaps back in March, and then again a couple of weeks ago when she started selling them through Makers Market. Now she’s just added a couple of awesome new versions with glow-in-the-dark colonies. You can get GITD green or GITD violet. They ship in a real Petri dish and will set you back nine bucks.
Can’t afford a plane ticket this year, so I’m having to leave way early. Gonna stop at a gas station every mile, along the way, and buy fresh C-cells. See ya in five days!
Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood of CraftSanity shares a video and pattern for how to make a fleece iPad cozy that protects your iPad while you read with it in your lap, and includes a flap that can be folded up to create a slightly elevated view.
In Russia and other post Soviet countries there were a real craze on independence after they finally got it with USSR collapse. Sometimes this took some weird forms like, for example, making the globes of their own country. Yes, those were just like regular globes we used to see on geography classes but instead the whole world only their own country was mapped on it.
This proof-of-concept from DS_Labs hints at a what could be possible with a mobile physical-digital interface using a knob to control Google Earth.
Check out this DIY tablet mod from Chinese modster pandepig (google translation). Tear apart a plain vanilla 12″ laptop and stuff it in a clear polycarbonate laptop cover. Then add a touchscreen, controller, secure everything with some spacers, and you’ve got yourself a pretty decent frankenpad. It’s running Windows 7, but I’m sure you could run just about anything on it.
