Bicycles

Bike seat bottle opener

Bike seat bottle opener

Get your own copy of this 3D printed bike saddle-mountable bottle opener by Shapeways user Pick: The Road Popper is a bike-mounted bottle opener that we developed for our own use and decided afterward to share. We designed it to fasten discreetly to the rails on the underside of the saddle to help keep your […]

Driving to work on solar panels?

I love that, for many of us here at MAKE, our families and friends get actively involved in sending us possible material for the magazine and site. Today, we ran a piece on some repair and maintenance tips from editorial assistant Laura Cochrane’s dad. And tonight, our creative director, Daniel Carter, sent along this video, […]

Epic-scale anthropomorphic electrical pylon concept

Who hasn’t driven past a high-voltage power line and thought that the pylons looked like Wagnerian giants? This concept design from Boston architects Choi + Shine would take that romantic notion and turn it into what might be, if actually completed, the world’s largest sculptural art installation. Unfortunately, it looks like the concept, called “The Land of Giants,” only took honorable mention in the pylon design competition for which it was conceived, and will probably remain a dream. It’s getting so much attention online I can’t seem to find any info about the design that actually won. Anybody know who/what it was?

Print books while you wait

Print books while you wait

McNally Jackson Will Soon Be Printing Books While You Wait @ The New York Observer… By the time 2011 rolls around, Nolita’s McNally Jackson Books will have an Espresso Book Machine, the Xerox-like on-demand device that prints a fully bound book in mere minutes. Currently McNally will order a book for a customer if a […]