Group and family costumes are fun, but can sometimes be hard to come up with or harder still to execute. These space-themed group costumes from Martha Stewart could not be simpler, and would work for a family with small kids or a group of older friends. It would be really cool to create a group […]
Amisha Gadani made this “Blowfish Dress,” a kinetic interactive outfit that inflates like a blowfish. While browsing through a book of marine images, I was inspired by the sudden and quite comical defense system of blowfish. I began to muse of ways in which humans could benefit from and appropriate these behaviors and so came […]
Minneapolis hacker sigFLUP designed this cool box for managing her passwords. This automatically stores generated and types all my usernames and passwords. It’s a pretty simple system. It’s a bitsy at89s5131 atmel 8051-ish microcontroller. This is a usb microcontroller and I’ve programmed it to look like a standard usb-keyboard. it has eeprom to store our […]
The detail and delicacy of these cut leaves from Nature’s Art is stunning. Natural leaf carving is actual manual cutting and removal of a leaf’s surface to produce an art work on a leaf. The process of carving is performed by artists using tools to carefully remove the surface without cutting or removing the veins. […]
Check out the original Super Soaker, the world’s first push-button and cellular telephones, the Moog synthesizer prototype, and the first Atari and Apple computers in this annotated photo gallery over at Wired. [via Boing Boing]
Think Reactable from Björk’s Volta tour meets Revenge of the Nerds jam band meets a steel drum playing organ grinder. That about sums up this fabulous technobusker apparatus that’s sure to attract numerous patrons.
When I mentioned to Chris Hackett, director of Madagascar Institute, that I’d have a bum knee during World Maker Faire NY, he offered to “get the Rascal Cycle working” for me. He did indeed, and I rode it from my station in the CRAFT booth to my demo performances on the opposite side of the […]
