How-To: Dinosaur Photo Stand
Grownup or kid, who can resist the awesomeness that is the plastic plastic dinosaur? Turn your prehistoric toys into useful pieces of home decor with dinosaur photo stands!
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How-To: Paperclay Bust Jewelry Display
Project photos or craft fair booths in need of a little visual enhancement? Dress up those lackluster displays with a vintage-inspired paperclay bust jewelry display!
Flexible “Willow Glass” Sheeting
Launched this summer, Corning’s Willow Glass is an ultra-thin (0.1mm), flexible, roll-processable glass sheet intended for use in next-generation display devices. From an applications point of view, it offers the possibility of curved displays and/or interfaces that wrap around object or devices, and from a manufacturing point of view, the possibility of producing display devices using continuous “roll-to-roll” assembly, kind of like how bulk paper goods are processed.
Pyramidal Prisms Over a Flat Panel Display
Interesting, unusual concept from artist Kit Webster, who has covered the surface of a flat panel display with a grid of square pyramidal prisms of various sizes.ย The image displayed on the underlying screen is designed to interact optically with the prisms, bringing patterns of light and color up out of the screen into the […]
Project: Lego Display Case
By Lish Dorset When I was in elementary school reading The Indian in the Cupboard, I was fascinated with the book’s cover art. I stared – probably when I should have been reading in class – for hours at the cupboard the figurines lived in and wondered which of my toys I’d put in there. […]
How-To: Ping pong ball display
Nice original content from our pals over at Hack a Day. Great project, guys!
Designing the smallest legible screen font
Legibility, of course, is a matter of degree, but given that NYU computer science professor Ken Perlin’s tiny font can fit 500 words into a 320 x 240 pixel rectangle, I am surprised at how readable it remains. “My design,” he explains, “assumes that screen pixels are horizontal striped as RGBRGB, as are most LCD screens these days.”
