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MAKE Flickr pool member lepow is making an LCD belt buckle from a DMTech personal video player. I think it’s like the kid’s JuiceBox and other low-cost tiny video player-like toys. This should be cool, can’t wait to see the finished project! Link.

Complete with rooftop garden, solar water-distillery, a single container ship can deliver 25,000 units anywhere in the world in 20-30 days. Huck Finn of the future. We based the visual style of our designs on IKEA instruction booklets. The whole thing folds up into a quarter of a shipping container, and assembles on site in under an hour. Dishes and silverware included. Thanks Jeff! Link.

Curiously Strong mimics the movement of a typical domino chain through 250 sequentially actuated Altoids™ boxes. Each box is equipped with a solenoid that opens and closes the lid when it receives an electric pulse. This results in a continual wave of motion as the pulse cascades through the chain of boxes. Link.

David writes “I built and installed a power monitoring system in my house to monitor every branch circuit with 3 second resolution with over a year worth of history. I did a short writeup of the installation at the url above. Thought you might find it interesting”. Link.

Web show from Robert X. Cringely coming this fall. NerdTV is pretty much as I described it back in 2002: a downloadable video show that features long-form interviews with notable nerds. I was definitely ahead of the curve with that download feature. What has changed about the show is just the episode length, which is now about an hour up from 20 or so minutes, and the bandwidth required, now 183 kilobits-per-second up from 128. [via] Link.

Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Tim O’Reilly, the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media. Just to give you a new project or two to build over your next free weekend, we’ll hear about their new magazine “Make.” They also talk about the Where 2.0 conference. Link.