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Why putt golf balls into a paper cup when you can have your own variable-terrain putting green? This course…offers players three cups and three skill levels. The most advanced level raises two platforms that change the terrain of the course – and the challenge that golfers face.
Pretty sweet concept design from Damjan Stanković. The triangular prism shape saves your place in a book, while the weight of the book keeps the lamp turned off. Lift the book to read, and the light comes on. [Thanks, Billy Baque!]
trialex from Sydney, Australia sent in this interesting article on how to create a customized chainring for your bike. Now, to get some CNC time…
This is eye candy at its best. CoolHunter posted a great roundup of bold color in modern design. I think that even the way the blogger put together the images for the post shows sharp color skills. Very inspiring!
I love these vintage zipper earrings; they’re are amazingly mod and elegant at the same time. What a fantastic thing to do with old broken zippers! There’s also a cool and futuristic-looking ring. (From my friend Fiona’s very funny, no-holds-barred blog; she usually writes about everything from science to surfing, and public policy to baby […]
When I was still living in Dallas, our local recycling center included a giant steel dumpster, open at only one end, with an elevated platform you could climb up to chuck your glass bottles in. I was in high school, then, and it was pretty common, when we were bored, to go down there on the weekend and pass an hour or so smashing glass bottles into the dumpster just for the fun of it. You’d see “grown-ups” there doing the same thing, and more than once perfectly “respectable” suburban adults would see what we were up to and join in, which inevitably put a big grin on everybody’s face. I’m sure this kind of impromptu bottle-breaking game happens naturally at recycling centers all over the world.
14-year-old blogger and LEGO fan Joey Kelly of Stayton, OR lucked into a pressure sensor from Dexter Industries, and wrote up a detailed report. The dPressure is a very interesting sensor. It has two nozzles: the first on can sense pressure in both PSI (Pounds per Square Inch), and kPa (Kilopascals). The second nozzle can […]
