Sweater bike!
It’s too hot in NYC for a sweater bike, but it exists – no one knows who/why yet. Update: Some clues in the comments on CRAFT! Thanks Rachel!
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Superhero Mask
Putting on something unusual that you don’t normally wear makes you feel different, and that’s good. Masks are great for achieving this different feeling. Jacqui has a tutorial for a child’s superhero mask on her blog Hazelnuts. Star-framed eyes: Rad.
This is not a real butterfly…
…but non-lepidopterists will probably be hard-pressed to figure that out just by looking at it. The video rates high on the jaw-dropping scale. The ChouChou electric butterfly is, in fact, a lepidoteroid robot, of sorts, from Japanese firm Tenyo Magic. It perches, flexes and flaps its wings, and flutters around its jar when disturbed. Preorderable now from JapanTrends.com. [via NOTCOT]
How-To: Bike Tubes for Trees
Avid gardener Lenore Edman at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories writes: Even after one too many flats, a used bike inner tube has plenty of uses. One more to add to the list: it can be used as a cushion between a tree trunk and a staking wire. More: How-To: Bike Tube Headband (CRAFT Video)
How-To: Restore the color of old Lego bricks
Turns out the yellowing of old ABS plastic is due to degradation of bromine-containing fire retardants which are added to the plastic during manufacture, which release elemental bromine, causing the yellow color. Shining UV light on the gel accelerates the decomposition of the fragile oxygen-oxygen bond in the peroxides it contains, generating reactive hydroxyl radicals which scavenge the free or loosely-bound bromine in the plastic that causes discoloration.
Magnetic Putty
If ferrofluid and silly putty had a kid, it would be this, super paramagnetic silicone putty. Watch above as it swallows a magnet. Hit the jump for another video. [via Geekologie] More: Morpho Towers – Two Standing Spirals (Ferrofluid sculptures)
Open Retail Panel Tonight at Eyebeam in NYC
Tonight some CRAFT friends will participate in a panel discussion called Open Retail at Eyebeam’s Summer School series in New York City. The event will also be live streamed, for all you out-of-towners. Moderated by Dustyn Roberts, Eyebeam Disscussants: Bre Pettis, MakerBot; Giana González, Hacking Couture; Becky Stern, CRAFT and MAKE Magazines, Sternlab Using Re:Group […]