Retro iPhone handset
This handsome iPhone handset from artist Scott Freeland would look right at home on any side table or credenza.
Computers & Mobile
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Your Comments
And we’re back with our nineteenth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. On Facebook, R. Joe Brandon had a great idea for what to do with the giant cameras: Now attach it to a kite a’la George Lawrence! 1lowlife wrote in […]
MacBook Air 11-inch teardown
Apple has done a decent job of showing off the internal structure of their new MacBook Air notebooks in their promotional videos, but if you really want to get down to bare metal, there’s nothing quite like an iFixit teardown.
OpenStreetMap: The Maker’s Map
Steve Coast, founder of OpenStreetMap, is going to doing some authoring for us on this unique, editable world map project. Steve started OSM in 2004 and has been deeply involved in it ever since. He lives in Denver with his wife, where he also enjoys hang gliding and collecting hammers. – Gareth Branwyn OpenStreetMappers in […]
Original Bucky Fuller geodesic dome home sales model ca. 1960
Man, what a cool artifact. Not $7,500 cool, IMHO, as I can appreciate it just fine from the photo over at Wright Auctions, but to each his or her own. [via Core77]
Print-and-fold vertical sundial generator
Neat! This website has a Google maps object that lets you select a particular wall of a particular building on the face of the Earth, and then generates a custom sundial accurate for that latitude and longitude that you can print, cut, fold, and attach. Haven’t tried it yet, so I can’t vouch, but a cool idea in any case. [via Hacked Gadgets]
O’Reilly author Alasdair Allan on citizen science, Perl, Arduino, and more
Amongst other emerging tools the Arduino platform has made building cheap sensor platforms within the easy reach of amateurs, and professionals, alike. One of the projects I’ll be talking about in the book is a pollution detecting hoodie which live logs geo-located level of pollutants to the Internet and alerts you to increased local pollution with embedded LEDs.