If you are in the Chicago area May 19 – June 10, don’t miss the upcoming art show “Message to Pretty” at the Juniortown! Gallery. Featuring the work (left to right, top to bottom) of Erinn Kennedy (paintings), Elisabeth Doherty (amigurumi), Julie Smith (amigurumi), and Olivia Ortega (paintings), the show will address the issues of […]
LEGO isn’t messing around, they’re open sourcing their firmware for their processor – “The LEGO Group today announced that for the first time it will release as open source the firmware of the LEGO MINDSTORMS microprocessor – the new NXT brick – the core component of its next generation robotics toolset. Additionally, the company announced […]
Our crafty friend Bonnie over at starwars.com has done it again. Bonnie says, “When you need a little notebook to jot down an idea or write a to-do list, there never seems to be one handy. Now you can make your own pocket-sized notebooks out of scrap paper and Star Wars trading cards. These tiny […]
Bf5man writes “Here’s a homemade and low tech refrigerator without moving parts. Would be cool for a cabin without electricity.” – Link.
As part of her Social Defense Mechanisms: Tools for Reclaiming our Personal Space research, Limor Fried (creator of the Wave Bubble and the Minty MP3) developed the Media-Sensitive Glasses that automatically darken whenever a television is in view, so as to protect the wearer from television’s “hypnotic” effect. Link.
Gross web server. Experiments in Galvanism is the culmination of studio and gallery experiments in which a miniature computer is implanted into the dead body of a frog specimen. Akin to Damien Hirst’s bodies in formaldehyde, the frog is suspended in clear liquid contained in a glass cube, with a blue ethernet cable leading into its splayed abdomen. The computer stores a website that enables users to trigger physical movement in the corpse: the resulting movement can be seen in gallery, and through a live streaming webcamera. Link.
Wow- this looks great, new Google Mapping- Google Earth. Integrated Google searches and a large number of landmarks that can be turned on and off. 3D Buildings, Public Transit, Land Rendering, Coverage, Animations, GPS, Road directions, screenshot savings and a lot more. [