Pitagora Suitch devices…
Sleepdog sent in this series of intricate Rube Goldberg-type devices from a Japanese show named “Pitagora Suitch” which means Pythagorean Device.
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AC/DC Shifter allows you to mix AC/DC tracks in real time
Ned Troide became famous for scoring 72,999,975 points on the video game Defender. It was the highest score ever recorded for the game in a single session lasting 62 1/2 hours. What is less known is that he also makes really interesting furniture. This “AC/DC” shifter device plays six songs of the band AC/DC simultaneously […]
Faux fur LED coat
Janet Hansen’s AWESOME fake fur LED jacket! – Here’s a recent addition to our collection of faux fur coats lighted with LEDs. This mid-thigh length unisex coat is made with a black and white polka dot pattern, and we’ve inserted a color-changing RGB LED into the center of each of the spots (over 400 of […]
Left over die cutting cupboards
This are really nice left over die cutting cupboards – The panelling of the cupboards for this kitchen is made out laser-cut plywood, an industrial leftover from a company specialized in die-cutting cardboard for the packaging of luxury-goods. The wooden boards were used as punching-plates for punching out the shape of unfolded boxes from larger […]
Autonomous foosball table
Shane writes – Our senior design project (at Georgia Tech) was an open ended design. We chose to create an autonomous foosball table. The ball as well as the opponent players are tracked in a vision system — a downward looking webcam. All the main processing is done on an 800 MHz pentium 3 PC […]
LEDs light up sustainable traffic island
“CO2LED”, an installation by artists Jack Sanders, Robert Gay, and Butch Anthony connects up 522 solar-powered LEDs on tall rods with plastic bottles at the top to light up a traffic island in northern Virginia. Built to promote sustainable urban luminance and recycling, all of the materials were reused after the project came down this […]
Fish get a new home in unused phone booths
Let’s face it, the public phone booth is quickly becoming a relic of the past. Now that everyone has a cell phone, there’s not really any need for these things. Seeing this eventuality, French artists Benoit Deseille and Benedetto Bufalino created an “Aquarium Phone Booth” to remind us of these technological artifacts from the not […]
