Sleep remaining indicator is minimalist clock
The Sleep Remaining Indicator by Nirav Patel is about the simplest alarm clock that I can think of.
Year: 2010
Build a Periodic Table of Elements Collection Cabinet
Create this cool spice rack-like periodic table display for your elements collection. You do have an elements collection, don’t you?
Plug n’ play hospital
Over at Boing Boing, MAKE bud Xeni Jardin has an interview with MSF (aka “Doctors without Borders”) Logistics Supervisor Laurent Dedieu in New York, and Hocine Bouhabib in Haiti, about the inflatable hospitals they’re setting up in Port-au-Prince. How do you create a surgery center in a disaster zone in the shortest amount of time […]
Gouge a drill press table, hurt a kitten
Gabriel Hargrove, Lynn Lim and William Newhouse at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Architecture, Interior Architecture and Designed Objects department found the perfect way to keep students from drilling through the drill press table: hold a kitten hostage. [via Core 77]
Make Your Own Crafty Storage Boxes
By Diane Gilleland If you have a lot of stuff, and you want a custom-sized, custom-crafted way to store it, look no further than plastic canvas. Here, I’ll show you how to build a simple lidded box, and give it your own unique spin.
Beautiful ‘silk frost’ fibrous ice formations
Dr. James Carter is a professor in the Department of Geography-Geology at the University of Illinois. One of his many interesting pages collects photos and other reports (dating back to 1884) of so-called “hair ice,” “haareis,” or (my fav) “silk frost.” The fibrous ice crystals seem to be caused by the pore structure of certain woods, and only forms where the bark has been removed. Reportedly, the phenomenon is reproducible: if you find a piece of wood growing hair ice, you can warm it up, then re-freeze it, and it will grow hair ice again. [via Neatorama]
Flat-pack cubicle
I have no idea what need there is for a folding workstation, especially one that looks profoundly uncomfortable. Still, it’s a fun idea that might spawn an idea or two. Design firm Kapteinbolt explains: We like to introduce FLKS (flex), a flexible workplace. Just open the panels unfold the table and the chair and put […]