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Tomas Carrillo designed this cardboard laptop stand: I wanted something that could raise my laptop screen by 8″ and not show too much cardboard. The final result is a stand that is partially hidden by the laptop’s keyboard and takes up a small amount of desktop space. Although this stand has held up well under […]
Here is another great idea form James Li. This time he used some scrap cardboard and an old case fan to make a laptop cooler. Let’s just hope his laptop does get too hot, cardboard ignites easily. My laptop needs to be slightly elevated to cool it down, so here is a laptop cooler (unfortunately, […]
In search of smooth-spinning hardware to use as a rotary input device, nvillar made use of an old hard drive – resulting in a sweet controller with excellent aesthetics – We admired the quality of the bearings in the motor that drives the disk plates, enjoyed the fact that even a soft flick would get […]
iOscilloscope displays the iPhone’s mic in as waveform with fast fourier transform or Sonogram modes – iOscilloscope For a more advanced view check out SignalScope – Analyze signals coming from the iPhone’s built-in or headset microphone, or from the built-in accelerometer. Zoom in or out on spectrum and waveform displays with two-finger expand/pinch gestures, even […]
Perry Hung @ MIT made this great Linux boot sequence visualization, he writes- This is a visualization of a linux boot sequence where each function is a node and each edge represents a function call, direct branch, or indirect branch. Nodes are laid out using an unweighted force-directed layout algorithm, where each node is simulated […]
Switthoft’s text message bottles via NOTCOT. The maker writes – Each bottle contains a text message that I have avoided deleting from my selfoan. The messages are printed in braille on used 1/2-inch Ampex audio tape. The end of each message is wound and adhered to the respective leather corks.
“C3 Loops” by Swedish researcher Rikard Lindell is a single-point touch screen that allows users to navigate around a virtual plane playing audio and video clips. Check out the video to watch the interface in action running on a Macbook. Rikard Lindell via Pete’s Sonic Art Research
