One Free Minute is a mobile sculpture designed to allow for instances of anonymous public speech. When you call the cellphone inside One Free Minute, you get connected for exactly a minute to a 200 watt amplifier and speaker. The speech produced by the speaker can be heard clearly more than 150 feet away from the sculpture. See the links below to learn more or listen to some of our callers. Link.
Access all of your archived photos from your living room. The perfect addition to Xbox Media Center: flickr. Now you have one more place to show off all of your photos: your living room. Flickr is a natural addition to one of the best media centers available. Its one more reason to hop on the Xbmc train. [via] Link.
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.
