In our house, we haven’t had cable tv for about 6 years. When we moved in, there was an antenna on the roof and coax cable to a bunch of locations where tvs could go. In the basement is a signal amplifier that seems to help all the equipment find the signal. It took some […]
The sensor module for BugBases is out! – The BUGvonHippel. BUGvonHippel is a breakout board module which includes a female USB 2.0 port… BUGvonHippel - We’ve talked about it before, but it’s finally here! Named after Prof. Eric von Hippel at MIT who inspired it’s creation, the BUGvonHippel further enables developers to create new and […]
Interesting article @ The NYTimes, are consumers are choosing simpler electronic gadgets? Pictured here a taken apart Flip camera. THE National Bureau of Economic Research hardly stunned the nation this month when it announced that the United States had been in recession since December 2007. And, as it turns out, the buyers of consumer electronics […]
Today’s Cool Tool mailing reminded me about one of my favorite year-end publications: the Uncle Mark 2009 Gift Guide and Almanac. Put out yearly (this year and last, anyway) by Mark Hurst, who runs the Gel Conference, this guide is tremendously unglamourous (in a great way). It’s laid out (and spelled out) in a rather […]
It’s that time of year again so why not start it off with a guide to the greenest gadgets this holiday season! MAKE intern Peter Horvath and Jill Fehrenbacher of Inhabitat.com and Greenergadgets put together an amazing list! Wind Up Phone Charger Should you need to charge your mobile phone turn this vigorously for a […]
Lovely and functional wall antlers for your outlets via Crunchgear. Would make a fun remake… These electrical outlet covers let you put your mobile phone on the wall as it recharges. The antlers for all three types of deer are already the perfect shape to hold things, so we hardly had to modify the forms […]
“Control Structure” by Australian artist Sam Smith is a sculpture and interactive installation built from hoop pine plywood, maple plywood, polyester resin, fiberglass, an LCD monitor and other materials. From the description: “A large digital video zoom lens extrudes from one eye socket like a bionic appendage, while the other eye is caved in and […]
