So it’s November 1, and you’re likely surrounded by piles of candy and are suffering a huge sugar crash. If you’re not ready to just toss the candy out, Aplha Mom has some clever ways to work the candy into your craftiness. The tear-open candy cup calendar and turkey piñata are especially charming.
Nice how-to @ Instructables on how to make a wall clock from old hard drives.
@ Technology Review Color “E-paper” from Freestyle audio and Qualcomm… A waterproof MP3 player built for bright beach days is the first device with a color “e-paper” display, meaning it has no backlighting and thus can be read in direct sunlight. The display, from Qualcomm, consists of two layers of a reflective material. Some wavelengths […]
OK OK, I know Halloween is technically over (at least, as of about 30 seconds ago) but these werewolf cupcakes made by blogger Tofu and Cupcakes are just too flippin’ awesome not to share. They were inspired by the book Hello, Cupcake. Via Cupcakes Take the Cake.
After so many years of successively bigger, faster, hotter, less reliable, power hungry computer hardware, I’m really tickled to see that a lot of manufacturers are testing the waters with something altogether different. There’s the OLPC, the Asus EeePC, and now the Aleutia E1, a little mini desktop that sips 8 watts and is packaged […]
Shannon writes: Jennie painted and decorated five years worth from Altoids, Velamints, Penguins, travel candles, and loose tea to create a lovely modern advent calendar. Check out this fresh minty advent calendar for yourself on Flickr. – Link.
Brooklyn crafters are representing in the new City Sampler: Brooklyn! From The Sampler: This particular City Sampler was curated by Brooklyn Based, “an essential supplement to the best food, art, services, shops and people the borough has to offer: Brooklyn distilled.” We’ve put together 100 City Samplers: Brooklyn, each one featuring a selection of at […]
