Mimi Kirchner Tattooed Doll
Design Sponge posted a round up of interesting fabric toys that included this tattooed doll by Mimi Kirchner. I can’t get a tattoo myself, but I could definitely get a tattooed doll. [via] Link.
Month: January 2008
Driving down the musical highway
Next time you are driving down the road you might have to turn down the stereo in order to listen to the soundtrack. Some engineers at the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute in Japan have developed “Melody Roads” that use cars as tuning forks to play music as they pass over them. The concept uses grooves […]
UV Panel project – recycled LCD monitors
Jared writes – So there is no hiding the fact that I have been interested in ultraviolet light lately. I also have a few dead LCD monitors laying around I have been experimenting with. It was only natural that I would combine the two to help show off my fluorescing rock collection. This is a […]
Fire alarm bell alarm clock
I could use one of these to wake me up in the morning! Alan at Hacked Gadgets made a nice tutorial video on how to hack a cheap alarm clock to ring a fire alarm bell, don’t-cha-know. – [via] Link.
Knitted frog dissection
Etsy seller CraftyHedgehog made a great knitted frog… dissected!- Wow your scientist friends and colleagues with the coolness of this piece of knitted art. The frog is hand knit from a silk/wool blend, and his little innards were needle-felted by hand out of 100% wool. He comes pinned into his black wood 8 x 10 […]
Fabaroni: a homemade 3D printer
Outstanding! – The Fabaroni is a 3D printing machine that constructs 3D models with pasta dough. Fabaroni’s gantry has a moving Z-stage and a head with pasta-extruder moving in the X-Y directions. Fabaroni takes STL files as input, processes them using Python, and prints to the machine via 6 printed circuit boards. Fabaroni was created […]
Darkest material ever
I’d like a coat made out of this stuff, but that’s just me… In the iconic movie This is Spinal Tap, lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel said of his band’s black album cover, “It’s like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.” He was wrong. A scientist at […]