How-To: Appetizing lemon flashlight
Learn to make the Lemon Flashlight, reukpower’s electro-culinary dish.
Gadgets
Walking table
The quintessentially Dutch, singularly functional, aesthetically innovative, and yet alluringly strange table in question is by designer Wouter Scheublin. “Walking Table,” as it is cleverly named, is human-powered, incorporating a mechanical linkage that converts gentle lifting and pushing of the top into oscillations of the legs that move the table across the floor with little effort. [via NOTCOT]
Airsoft minigun
Made almost entirely from machined aluminum by Kuba_T1000. It feeds plastic BBs from an electric ammo pack that holds 16,000 rounds. [via Hack a Day]
Post-apocalyptic tanker truck home concept
From designer Aristide Antonas. More pictures in his Flickr set. [Thanks, Billy Baque!]
Make 23: Most Useless Machine: Simplest and Easiest Ever
The latest issue of MAKE, Volume 23, has the easiest plans yet for a machine that turns itself off, and does nothing else (except inspire a cult following). Flip the device’s toggle switch on and a wooden arm emerges, switches it back off, and then disappears inside again. The article was based on a runaway […]
Robotic ball rolls via phone control
Gearbox’s smartphone-controlled ball looks quite cool, offers much potential for creative game ideas – So basically how HTC/Android/Apple make smart phones, we make smart toys. Our first smart toy is a robotic ball that you can move by tilting your phone in the direction you want the ball to roll. We are then leveraging the […]
Gadget Freak Design Contest winners!
Thanks to everyone who entered the Gadget Freak Design Contest sponsored by. We had lots of great entries and were really splitting hairs among the top five or so, but after careful deliberation we are now pleased to announce the winners:
