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We’ve missed our buddy I-Wei Huang, aka Crabfu, who’s been busy getting the hang of raising ShrimpFu (aka his adorable baby son). While he hasn’t been building any bots (at least that he’s showing us), he’s been keeping busy between diaper changes with painting on his iPhone. I love that you can see the painting […]
In this BBC piece, an IBM engineer on the Isle of Wight, shows off the 16th century thatched cottage that he’s wired with sensors and connected to Twitter. In the article that accompanies the video, he uses a term he’s apparently coined for objects that tweet: “tweetjects.” I’m here to try and stage a lexicographical […]
Besides being darn cute, ogutti’s iPhone-headed Robochan features the following abilities – change its face dance with playing music wake up alarm with body motion interaction with its body teach and playback – and let’s not forget the above-seen leek shaking prowess! (ok, I guess that counts as dancing) [via Pink Tentacle]
From AfriGadget: Pascal Katana, a Fourth Year student at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, developed an electronic device that ‘automates’ fishing. The trap employs amplification of the sound made by fish while feeding. The acoustic signals are radiated and attract other fish who head toward the direction […]
Josh Sulkin, of FlyOnTime.us, has created this interesting little Twitter crowdsourcing experiment: I’d like to announce some major changes to the Apps For America 2 entry FlyOnTime.us, as well as ask for your help in a “crowdsourcing” experiment I’m conducting. First the experiment…I originally wanted to incorporate the data from the TSA’s airport security line […]
John Rausch’s Puzzle World website showcases some incredible and ingenious objects from Rausch’s own puzzle collection, and from those of others. The site is divided into categories like interlocking solid puzzles, impossible object puzzles, sequential movement puzzles, etc. It’s a nearly inescapable click-trap. Shown here are two of my favorites, so far. Above is Stewart […]
Back in March of 2008 we mentioned a class project from a group of UC Berkeley students working to develop a microscope extension for cameraphones. Led by Daniel Fletcher, the team has since updated their prototype, which is capable of acquiring objects at 1.2 micrometers across.
