Best warning sign ever
Accidental blindness has never been so funny! You can download a high-res version from the always-entertaining Mike’s Electric Stuff. [via Boing, which is to say Boing]
Science
DIY science is the perfect way to use your creative skills and learn something new. With the right supplies, some determination, and a curious mind, you can create amazing experiments that open up a whole world of possibilities. At home-made laboratories or tech workshops, makers from all backgrounds can explore new ideas by finding ways to study their environment in novel ways – allowing them to make breathtaking discoveries!
Relief: 3D interactive maps
Called a “scalable actuated shape display”, this project by Daniel Leithinger, Adam Kumpf, and Hiroshi Ishii of MIT’s Tangible Media Group seems especially suited for displaying terrain. Relief is an actuated tabletop display, which is able to render and animate three-dimensional shapes with a malleable surface. It allows users to experience and form digital models […]
How-To: Reusable Bowl Covers
Add this to your list of must-try projects for cutting down on waste in your home. Carrie McBride of re-nest shares how to make handy reusable bowl covers to take the place of saran wrap in the kitchen.
Hello, gorgeous! “Spectacular” views from ISS Cupola
Image courtesy of NASA Last night’s third and final spacewalk for the STS-130 crew resulted in the opening of the Cupola’s seven shutters, revealing what Station commander, Jeff Williams, called “spectacular” views of the earth below. The seven-window Cupola offers 360 degree views of Earth as well as the outside of the station, giving crew […]
Waste oil foundry furnace — complete!
Jake von Slatt gives us a video tour of his finished propane and waste oil foundry furnace. I love the lamp post and lights. SO von Slatty! Final test of Jake von Slatt’s Waste Oil Foundry Furnace
Spokeless bicycle
Nine enterprising seniors in Yale’s Mechanical Engineering program built this rad spokeless bicycle for their mechanical design class.
Waterless sterilizer “washes” hands with room temperature plasma
Before you protest, as I initially did, that some things are so simple and fundamental that they don’t really need high-tech “improvements,” realize that this device is being developed for and targeted at medical professionals, who, per this New York Times article covering the developing technology, “often have to wash their hands dozens of times a day — and may need a minute or more to do the process right, by scrubbing with soap and water.”
