How-To: Homemade iPad case
Instructables user Blackdog Barker constructed this personalized iPad case from a piece of wood, an old leather jacket, and some other various bits. Looks great!
Gadgets
Roger Linn’s newest music interface victim of tablet wars
Neither Roger nor myself is interested in making Amazon out as the bad guy. They’ve invested a lot in the Kindle and they’re within their rights to try to protect that investment. And I’m betting the folks who ran TouchCo were more than happy with the terms of their buyout. Still, watching this video, I have a nigh-irresistible urge to play with a LinnStrument, myself, and it irks me that I can’t get one.
Flash videophone on Android
With Android videophone options looking a little slim, it’s nice to know that if you really wanted to cobble something together with Flash it would probably work. Evangelist Mark Doherty whipped up this proof of concept that shows what’s possible with the platform.
QR-code p8tches back in stock
Besides the velcro-backed patch itself, each p8tch comes with a unique user ID and password that lets you redirect its hard-coded URL to any personal URL you want, whenever you want, as many times as you want.
iPhone controlled elevator shoes
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11496831&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Adi Marom’s Short++ project put iPhone controlled robotic platform shoes on your feet, for when you need to be a few inches taller. [via core77]
“Balloon accelerator” from Dyson bladeless fans
I haven’t much use for those fancy new “Air Multiplier” bladeless fans by British entrepreneur James Dyson, but this publicity stunt, in which dozens of the units are used to guide a neutral-buoyancy balloon around a complex warehouse “race track,” is admittedly pretty cool.
Crossroads (what to do) by Garvin Nolte
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12748440&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=ff0179&fullscreen=1 Crossroads (what not to do) is a video installation with GPS devices by artist Garvin Nolte: The video installation “crossroads (what to do)” deals with the influence of others onto one’s own path of life in an abstract way. [via Core77]
