Motorola’s high-end Atrix 4G Android smartphone swept the awards at CES 2011, where it was introduced, taking home media awards from CrunchGear, IGN, Laptop Magazine, Maximum PC, MSN, Notebooks.com, Popular Mechanics, and Popular Science, as well as CNET’s prestigious Best of CES 2011 in the “Smartphones” category. At the time it was introduced, the Atrix was the most powerful smartphone on the market.
S’more recipes are always a huge hit around here, and this new quickie recipe from Jessie of CakeSpy takes the classic treat to a whole new level. Consider it s’mores … squared. If your impulse is to protest “too much!”, I must gently correct you: “just enough”. The usual S’more is bookended by even more […]
Gulp, the world’s largest stop-motion animation, was shot using a crane-mounted array of three Nokia N8 smartphones on location at Pendine Beach in South Wales by Sumo Science at Aardman. Capturing the record breaking 11,000 square foot set was a piece of cake for the N8’s 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics.
From Popular Science, 1931 (Via Mostly Forbidden Zone)
Lew Frauenfelder had dreamed of owning a classic Whizzer motorbike since he was a young maker. Now retired, when he came across a link to bikemotorkits.com, he decided it was time to realize his dream and build a knockoff. Lew shares his build tale with us in MAKE Volume 26, the Karts and Wheels issue. […]
Just with any event, I’m always amazed how quickly it comes and goes. This year’s Maker Faire in Detroit was no exception. We had a great turnout and some amazing attendees who braved the 95-degree-temps to visit the makers at the Henry Ford. Here are some of my favorite images from the weekend. You know […]
In response to our Robotics theme on the site, several parents have written me to ask about entry-level robotics projects for little kids, and what’s the appropriate age of entry. Of course, the latter part of that is hard to answer. It depends very much on the child. The obvious entry point is Lego Mindstorms. But in thinking of other product lines or building sets that can scale well with age and growing technical sophistication, the Hexbug line came to mind.
