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I’ve been following “Square” it’s a MEGA VC’ed company that has a dongle that accepts credit cards on devices like iPhones. It seems there is some type of dispute over who invented or something… Square, a new company that makes a small device to let anyone make a credit card payment from their mobile phone, has […]
From the Design Media Lab at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, this “crystal zoetrope” technology involves spinning a cylinder of acrylic with internally etched 3D designs. The disk is surrounded by an array of LEDs that can flash in time with the rotation, or slightly asynchronously, to make the designs appear to move in space, and, additionally, to gradually rotate around the center of the cylinder in one direction or another. The direction and speed of rotation can be controlled by gestural movements on the tabletop. [via Dude Craft]
What Matters Now: free ebook from Seth Godin – Dale (publisher of MAKE) in there! Seth writes – Now, more than ever, we need a different way of thinking, a useful way to focus and the energy to turn the game around. I hope a new ebook I’ve organized will get you started on that […]
Synaptics’ Fuse prototype demonstrates novel input methods for mobile devices. Squeeze, grip, flex, or tilt to interact with the device using various Synaptics technologies.
It’s been out less than a week and the Barnes & Noble Nook eBook reader has already been rooted. Interestingly enough, it would seem that the eBook reader’s default custom Android system is installed on a MicroSD card.
What do you get when you hang up a bunch of outdated cell phones, and hook them up to the Internet? Well, you are in luck! James Theophane writes in to share his group’s latest project, the Mobile Mobile.
Make: Online pal/guest writer Paul Overton, of Dude Craft fame, just launched a new blog in collaboration with Craftypod’s Diane Gilleland called Make & Meaning, which seems to focus more on the process of creation than on particular products thereof. I feel like blogging in general, and particularly blogging in the DIY community, needs more of this “long view” type analysis. Make & Meaning seems like a step in the right direction.
