Building Hovercrafts in High School
Excellent. Benini, a technology education teacher a rural Parish Hill High School in Chaplin, Conn., thought it sounded like the perfect project to challenge his students with. He found plans to build a standard hovercraft on the Internet and purchased them for his class. “We build our first craft in just over 10 weeks,” he said. “We were never completely sure it was going to work, but we decided we were going to give this our best shot and see what would happen.” Link.
This spring we asked the Princeton University community to submit imagery produced in the course of research or incorporating tools and concepts from science. The response was overwhelming: more than 200 entries from nearly 100 individuals in 15 departments. We selected 55 of these works to appear in the 2005 Art of Science Exhibition. Here are the winners. 
Our first issue had the now classic article on outfitting digital and disposable cameras to kites- if you’re looking for a place to share or just view some of the types of photos people are taking, here’s the place to go. The photos are stunning. 
These are Barbies modded to look like celebrities. 
The Beatbox was designed and made by Andy Huntington. It is a physical programmable drum machine. It is on display as part of the RCA Interaction Design Show from the 23rd of June to the 3rd of July (excluding July 1st). They have a video of it on the site- 
You’ve heard of bubble wrap, and the boy in the bubble — now, here’s a datacenter in a bubble. I work for a government agency that, like most, is trying to cut back some costs, and one of those costs is a REAL datacenter. So, we decided to wrap the whole thing in plastic (including two 1.5 ton ACs). The room hovers about 83 degrees, however, the racks in the bubble (ok, more like a termite tent) stay about 10 degree cooler. [
The Swedish site 99Mac has a gallery of all the 