Make friend Chrissa Banner recently relocated to Somerville, MA where she fell in love with the hip crafts store Magpie. Seems the store stocks some way cute handmade iPod cozies and cases. Featured here are Meomi knitted cozies that come in a variety of colors to give you and your digital goods constant lovin’. Link
On the flight to Amsterdam, for Euro OSCON and the Make Faire, there were entertainment devices in each seat, music, movies, games, etc…all on demand and all quite nice. Turns out, if you try hard, or if the system happens to crash at your seat, you can spot that it runs Linux and you might also get a free premium movie…On the way back, I’ll try and write up how to repeat it. Here’s a photo of the shell, wohoo! Link.
NovySan sent in this list of winners from the designboom’s RE-think + RE-cycle contest earlier this year. There were 2418 designers from 82 different countries that participated. I could spend the entire day looking at these to get project ideas. The winner was a very nice watering add-on for a discarded water bottle. Link.
First there was Modern Marvels and here comes another invention reality show, you know – I’ll watch these, I hope everyone gets excited about people making things and reality TV still attracts a lot of people. American Inventor is an exciting new primetime reality show for ABC from Simon Cowell and the producers of American Idol . Set to premiere in early 2006, the show will undertake the biggest search ever for America’s best new invention. An embodiment of the ultimate American dream, the show will uncover the hottest new product and make some struggling inventor’s dream come true. [via] Link. If anyone knows anyone at either Modern Marvels or American Inventor, we’d love to chat with them!
Ok Makers, start your soldering irons – The History Channel announced they are in search of the nation’s next great invention idea. Inventors throughout time have shared one common attribute – a unique gift for seeing a reality that does not yet exist. The Modern Marvels Invent Now Challenge provides an opportunity for independent inventors to be discovered and to influence the ever-changing face of invention. Link. I read the terms and FAQ, you’d own everything you enter, which is good.
Makers, everyone, welcome Natalie Zee to the MAKE blog! Natalie is an all around gadget geek and crafter. She will be posting here on the MAKE site as well as working on some fun projects with us, welcome Nat! Check out her personal site here, her Flickr photos and her del.icio.us links!
Gizmodo has a nice round up of what’s been shaking over at Treehugger, an excellent site devoted to Earth friendly things – indoor solar project, hand cranked iPod, power assist bikes and glass that can product electricity. And on that note, here’s the winner of the DIY Eco-tech Contest: the solar-powered hydrofoil sent in by Terrence Breitsameter and built by the Marquette Solar Energy Society. In addition to the solar backpack, MAKE is giving them a 2 year subscription to MAKE and our limited edition T-Shirt!
