Harry Potter fans, this one’s for you! (though I suspect a quick read of the yummy ingredients will entice even the staunchest muggle) Amy of Amy Bites created the recipe for butterbeer cupcakes after visiting the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal’s Islands of Adventure park. Even if you have no idea what butterbeer […]
The aim was to use a hubless wheel to create a compact bicycle, with the benefits of a large wheel and belt drive.Hubless wheels have appeared in bicycle concepts already, and were first invented by Sbarro. However, few concepts have made it to prototype and when only used for aesthetic purposes, the disadvantage of extra cost out weights the visual gain. Lunartic uses the hubless for a reason; to house the working parts, reducing the wheel base but not sacrificing conventional riding geometry. Lunartic is supposed to be as compact as possible without folding or being awkward to ride, however there is the potential for the front wheel to fold up into the rear or for that space to be used for a laptop back, motor or dynamo.
Using a laser diode, steering mirrors, and a non-imaging photodetector, Stéphane Perrin, Alvaro Cassinelli, Masatoshi Ishikaw from the University of Tokyo’s Ishikawa Hashimoto Laboratory have built a low-power and potentially low-cost interactive laser display called Sticky Light that projects a ball of light that interacts with the viewer in realtime. Potential uses include video games, augmented reality, cheap heads-up displays, and various forms of interactive advertising.
While most folks are gazing longingly toward summertime, some of us snow junkies are holding onto the last glimpses of winter on the mountaintops. In California, Mammoth ski area is always the last bastion of snow terrain (they close in July), and this year they boast a maker-y feature to check out: the Mammoth Art […]
Cathe Holden designed these garden bin labels for Country Living Magazine – they’re free to download, print, and paste on your trusty garden bins and buckets. Perfect just in time for spring!
Google Starts Science Fair, Pitching Products to Students @ NYTimes.com… Google is synonymous with “search engine,” and now, for students, it wants to be synonymous with “science.” The company is getting into the science fair business with its first Google Science Fair, a global competition for teenagers that spans sciences as diverse as computer engineering, space […]
I love these wooden camera iPhone cases from Etsy seller, Signimade. The camera design is laser-engraved into the wood, creating a great rustic look.
