Valentine’s Day is almost here. Threadbanger writes: Valentine’s Day is just around the corner….. have you thought of something special to do for your loved ones? No worries if you’re still slackin’….. On today’s episode of Threadbanger, we’re mentioning the unmentionables. We’ll show you how to make a lace up corset! (ooooooh!) and a pair […]
Mats writes – This is a simple clock that shows the time (hours/minutes) in binary using leds hidden beneath glass marbles. For an average person it looks just like a bunch of lights, but you will be able to tell the time by just a quick glance at this clock. It might take you a […]
Here’s a video of using a blow torch to heat up a bottle and then using a microwave to actually melt it, according to the experimenter the glass becomes an ionic conductor and absorbs the microwave energy.
Frank Lloyd Wright, Oil Heat and Bolivian Cults – The origins of some great retro toys. I like the story behind the erector set – Because of the market pressures of World War I, the United States Council of National Defense was considering a ban on toy manufacturing. Amazingly, one man’s impassioned speech successfully stopped […]
If you haven’t already started building your own electric vehicle, why not add this project to your gas guzzling, turbo-charged, super car. If you are going to drive a fossil fuel burning car, it might as well be fast, and cool. – Link
If you’re a web designer, here’s a tool that’s going to make your life a lot better. Seriously, in no time you’ll be dropping shadows like Galileo dropped the orange. Transparent GIFs only have a single bit of transparency—a pixel is either totally transparent, or it’s completely opaque. 24 bit PNG images, on the other […]
The Space Channel in Toronto, Canada is featuring Eccentric Cubicle author Kaden Harris this weekend. Catch him on the Space Channel’s HypaSpace Weekly, a weekly entertainment news program about the world of science fiction and fantasy with “insightful features on movies, television, books, comics, video games and community events.” It airs Saturday, February 9th at […]
