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Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker and tinkerer, who is spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.

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June 25th, 2015October 5th, 2015 6

Grafting living trees together over formers it can take between 4 and 8 years to grow a piece of furniture. But Gavin Munro is a furniture designer based in Derbyshire, England, is a patient man.

Porcelain Eyes Turn Tree Stumps into Forest Sentinels

By Andrew Salomone

Andrew Salomone

Artist, writer, and teacher who makes work about popular culture, technology, and traditional craft processes. http://www.andrewsalomone.com

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March 20th, 2014 0

Artist duo Dear Human noticed that the the cavities left in old Douglas fir stumps, which were made long ago by the lumberjacks who cut them down, resembled eye sockets. So they just went ahead and made some porcelain eyes to embed in those cavities, turing the ancient stumps into “sentinels of the forest.”