Leather keyboard
What will be big in 2009? Leather keyboards via Giz.
Gadgets
Texas-sized MP3 belt buckle
If you were at Maker Faire Austin, you may have seen this honky-tonky belt buckle Ryan from SparkFun built which incorporates an MP3 player. It even has an MMA7260 Triple Axis Accelerometer on it to create a hip-thruster interface (i.e. you change songs by thrusting your hips). Oh, THAT’s not going to look embarrassing on […]
Revolving door in Netherlands train station generates power per revolution
The Netherlands based company, Royal Boon Edam Group Holding, has created the world’s first energy generating revolving door that is currently installed at the Driebergen-Zeist railway station in Holland. The door stores power generated in a capicitor bank and illuminates LED lights in its ceiling, while a large scale display outside the building shows pedestrians […]
Patent model museum
Machine for Making Toy Torpedoes Machine for Sawing Shingles Life-Preserving State-Room for Navigable Vessels Lathe for Turning Shafting Machine for Cutting Diamonds The Rothschild Petersen Patent Model Museum, in Cazenovia, NY, houses an incredible collection of nearly 4,000 patent models. What’s a patent model? Between 1790 and 1880 inventors had to submit working models along […]
Solar lantern stays on 24/7
The “Solar Paper Latern” is made from 36 miniature solar panels with each connected up to an electroluminescent diode. The resulting light can remain on indefinitely, as long as the panels are near a spot of strong sun exposure. Solar Paper Lantern by Damien 0’Sullivan @ Saint Etienne Design Triennial
Reware – hack your old PDA
The problem with bleeding edge devices is that they quickly become old and irrelevant. Replaced with the latest gizmo, old smart phones and PDAs tend to find their way to a drawer or a landfill after about 2 or 3 years. It’s not that most of us want a throwaway society. It’s that most of […]
N64 crammed into a Wii will not make you nostalgic
Although we’re not really sure what the purpose of this mashup is, we like it’s ghetto style. Someone crammed an N64 console into the body of a Nintendo Wii. For those of you who want to play N64 games on your Wii, you can avoid the destruction and simply use the Virtual Console from the […]
