Joe Saavedra writes: The concept is a wearable version of Conway’s Game of Life, that is controlled by the current state of your life. Essentially, a wearable extension of your heart, externalized in the form of Conway’s Life. A custom circuit includes an infrared EKG monitor that resets the Game each time a heartbeat is […]
ur very own inimitable Becky Stern makes and sells these beautiful custom scarves featuring the atomic emission spectrum of your favorite element. Shown above is the “silicon” version (as modeled by AdaFruit’s likewise inimitable Limor Fried) but you can choose whichever element/spectrum you like. And here’s a handy-dandy Java applet from The University of Oregon that makes it easy to browse for your selection. Minimalists may prefer hydrogen or helium, but for my money it’s hard to pass up the rainbow-y goodness of, say, iron or tantalum. Want!
To help keep her dog Tucker warm and visible at night, Hack Pittsburgh member Val made him this awesome light-up dog hoodie.
A lenticular image (Wikipedia) is really a set of two or more images printed on a sawtooth surface so that one image appears to change to another as an observer passes by. Flickr user Reasonably Clever Chris created a Lego version of the effect with a mosaic composed mostly of element number 50746, known among blockheads as “The Cheese Slope.” Check the vid to watch the transition, which happens about 35 seconds in. [via The Brothers Brick]
This art installation, originally designed by Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi, allows Twitter-users to tweet instructions to web site that replies with an example output. Upon approval it sends the design to a bank of industrial sewing machines which then embroider the resulting pattern onto a t-shirt. The web site still works, but not sure […]
Dandelion is a wearable kinetic sculpture that generates electricity through small, flower-like windmills. [via Fashioning Technology]
Insructables user murphtron writes: My son started riding a 16″ bike at 4 years old without training wheels. (He was first on a push bike without training wheels or pedals at about 3 1/2.) One day he decided to build a jump in the back yard. So he found a piece of 2 x 12 […]
