MSI Hackintosh tablet mod
Check out this slick tablet mod from alexbates. Chopped and channeled 1.6 GHz MSI Wind U100 sporting 120GB HDD and 2GB RAM
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DIY iPhone RFID reader
Maker Benjamin Blundell built a DIY iPhone RFID reader and documented the process on his website.
NES cartridge harmonicas
Ebay seller nes_harmonica is offering three of these old Nintendo cartridges that have been modded to contain working harmonicas. Why the heck would you do that? Turns out it’s kind of a retro in-joke for NES enthusiasts. OhGizmo’s Andrew Liszewski explains:
If you grew up in the 80’s and played video games, at one point in your childhood you had to blow on an NES cart, or inside the console itself, to get it to recognize a game. In fact I never even had an NES, but I can still remember having to do it on a friend’s system. At this point it’s almost become cliche to bring it up whenever the conversation turns to classic video games, but that didn’t stop one clever modder from attempting to turn a profit on Nintendo’s folly.
Right now Super Mario 3, Dick Tracy, and Legend of Zelda models are available. [via Geekologie]
Awesome ultra-low-tech DIY movie making method
This minute-long short by Mindfruit Studios is called “Memoirs of a Scanner,” and was made using only a scanner and software to stitch the still images together into a movie. It has characters, special effects, and a coherent plot that tells the story of an episode in the life of a business office, from the copier’s perspective. [via Neatorama]
More thoughts on “Coder Barbie”
On Mashable, math teacher Rebecca Zook weighs in on the whole Computer Engineer Barbie (aka Coder Barbie) “controversy” with “Why Computer Engineer Barbie Is Good for Women in Tech.” While some have embraced Coder Barbie, others have attacked the concept, saying that her pink laptop, sparkly leggings, and trendy glasses are “too feminine” to be […]
iPhone stand made from cutlery
Love this whimsical iPhone stand made out of forks and spoons. [via ManMade] Forked Up Art More: All of the iPhone stands on MAKE
Seasonal Flickr color cycle
This visualization of the way colors in Flickr images change over the course of the year was created by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg of IBM’s Visual Communication Lab. It’s called “Flickr Flow.”
The two of us see the world as a stream of color, and in 2009 we finally had a chance to draw the river in our heads. We began with a collection of photographs of the Boston Common taken from Flickr. Using an algorithm developed for the WIRED Anniversary visualization, our software calculated the relative proportions of different colors seen in photos taken in each month of the year, and plotted them on a wheel. The image [above] is an early sketch from the piece. Summer is at the top, with time proceeding clockwise.
The finished infographic, complete with seasonal labels and callouts of representative images, appeared in the Metric section of Boston magazine in March of 2009. You can view a low-res version of it here.