Handmade metal USB skull rings
Handmade metal USB skull rings, nice but pricey — so might be a nice remake.
Gadgets
Electronic labels will remember your stuff so you don’t have to
TouchCounters are interactive electronic labels consisting of modular electronic devices with an integrated communication and sensing system. They are attached to physical storage containers in order for someone to get a better idea of what is inside these objects. The project also has a Java component that will relay a container’s status and contents to […]
Making MacBooks from giant sheets of aluminum
Today is a big day on the gadget sites, new Apple MacBooks – the cool thing (I think) is Apple showed videos of how their new laptops are made from carving them out of sheets of aluminum – how things are made (and why) is becoming more important and the lead story once everything else […]
Status: Stinky – Web-enabled deodorant docking station
Want someone to know how many times you applied deodorant today? Neither do the creators of Zero Privacy. Bridging the gap between real-world hygiene and the social networks taking over the virtual world, iamclean.org offers up an intriguing way to keep tabs on someone’s level of body odor. Laurier Rochon and Marc Beaulieu built a […]
Form and Functions – Awesome homemade calculator watch (make your own too!)
David Jones really liked his old Casio CFX-400 scientific calculator watch. As a professional electronics design engineer, he appreciated the greater functionality it had over other calculator watches, which typically support only the four basic functions. He was saddened when his 20-year-old Casio finally bit the dust, so when he looked around and realized there […]
Installation uses the sound of old record players to make noise
This installation, entitled “Without Records” by Japanese experimental musicians Otomo Yoshihide and Yasutomo Aoyama employs over 100 record-free turntables to create a sound piece dedicated to the result of the dissappearing technology of LPs. Each turntable is augmented with some form of object to create a different effect on the needle arm as it passes […]
Assign Internet radio stations to individual plugs
The “Plug Radio” from 2004 is a peripheral for a computer that uses each feed cable fom the main speaker as a tuner for individual Internet radio stations that you predetermine ahead of time. Interesting idea, although we think the cords might get a big tangled while trying to find your favorite station in a […]
