I’m a little late to the party, on this one; wish I’d heard about the 2010 Zombie Safe House Competition before the deadline back in August. There were only four entries, overall, but I think the winning SS Huckleberry, shown above, would’ve been hard to beat regardless. Looks like they’re planning another contest for 2011. [Thanks, Mel!]
Prosthetics with style… Bespoke Innovations is a San-Francisco-based firm founded by industrial designer Scott Summit and orthopedic surgeon/engineer Dr. Kenneth Trauner. Bespoke is using rapid prototyping to make a product with surprisingly little competition in the marketplace: Personalized prosthetics that not only work well, but look freaking cool.
Not much detail, but I love the look of this handmade TV-B-Gone Flickr user nausk! submitted to the MAKE Flickr pool.
Artist Chris Burden and a crew of eight assistants are in the midst of erecting his latest work, titled “Metropolis II”. Consisting of 1,200 custom die cast cars cycling across 18 lanes, Burden claims that 100,000 cars circulate through the miniature cityscape every hour.
Typophile Shaun Chung created this Rubik’s cube stamp featuring Chinese characters that combine to form verses from a traditional children’s poem. He laser-etched the characters from wood and affixed them to the cube. Shaun writes: Chinese has a long history with the printing. In 105 AD, Cai Lun invented the paper. In 200 AD, the […]
Dirk Vander Kooij is taking 3d printing to a whole new scale with his series of chairs made from recycled fridge plastic.
The Bell House in Gowanus, Brooklyn his hosting the 5th annual Carnivorous Nights Taxidermy Contest next Tuesday: Calling all science geeks, nature freaks, and rogue geniuses! Your stuffed squirrel got game? Got a beaver in your brownstone? Bring your beloved beast to the Bell House and enter it to win! The contest will be judged […]
