Trotify your Bike, Monty Python Style
Trotify is a coconut-clopping bicycle attachment.
Bicycles
Google Glass: Wearable Tech’s Killer App?
Will Google Glass become wearable technology’s killer app?
Very Special Effect Makeup at the 2012 Makey Awards
We’ve received a lot of questions about the amazing special effects makeup at the Makeys. Here’s some background on the incredible crew and the amazing looks they created for us.
Very Special Effect Makeup at the 2012 Makey Awards
We’ve received a lot of questions about the amazing special effects makeup at the Makeys. Here’s some background on the incredible crew and the amazing looks they created for us.
Heatit Brings More Amps to Microcontroller Projects
We all know the Arduino as a versatile electronics prototyping tool, but it is often lacking in applications that require higher amperage. Enter Heatit.
Finger-mounted Device Creates Its Own Touch Interface
Flipping the touch screen paradigm on its ear, a group from Autodesk Research, the University of Toronto, and the University of Alberta have created a new method and apparatus for user interaction. Dubbed Magic Finger, the system consists of a micro NanEye RGB camera, an optical mouse sensor, and an LED attached to the index finger with hook and loop.
A Cardboard Bike?
Israeli inventor Izhar Gafni says he ready to mass-produce a 20-pound bicycle made of cardboard that’s waterproof and even fireproof. There are no metal parts. The chain is actually a car’s timing belt and the tires are made from reconstituted rubber. The cost? Twenty bucks.