The Touched Echo public art installation uses bone conduction to memorialize the bombing of Dresden – The visitors of the Brühl’s Terrace (Dresden, Germany) are taken back in time to the night of the terrible air raid on 13th February 1945. In their role as a performer they put themselves into the place of the […]
Students at the University of Adelaide Australia have created a foosball force to be reckoned with – Engineering students from The University of Adelaide have taken out the top award in their final-year mechatronics project competition, with an automated foosball table capable of kicking human opposition ‘off the park’. Comprising a motion sensor system, software […]
It’s a promotional video but interesting all the same – Ben Burtt, famed sound designer of the Star Wars series, created the sonic world of Pixar’s Wall-E. The video even shares a bit of his acoustic sources @ 1.5min in.
Martin Fussen tipped us off to PlaceSpotting, a user-contributed geo quiz map mashup. The idea is to create puzzles for your friends to solve by picking an obscure landmark and supplying them with a few hints. Your friends can then zoom around on the map to find the location. If they position the map at […]
Apartment Therapy LA shares tips and links on how to attract bees to your garden–especially important since the numbers of these pollinators are rapidly declining.
Oh Fransson shares a great step-by-step tutorial for making a fresh and colorful workbasket using vintage sheets. There’s even a matching pincushion!
Instructables slide show of a bicycle trailer made out of PVC pipe and wire rack material. PVC Bike trailer
