With the iPad, a stand is even more of a necessity than it is with other mobile products. This low-tech iPad stand by Brett, a 10-year-old maker from New Jersey, displays the ingenuity you’re likely to see a lot more of through daily use.
From the FORM group. [Thanks, Cat Rocketship!]
Unlike the assorted electroluminescent liquor bottle labels I blogged about last year, it looks like you can, depending on where you live and your age, actually go out and buy one of these “message” bottles of Medea vodka that incorporates a scrolling LED marquee that will hold up to 6 user-programmed messages of 255 characters each. Great for attracting your kid’s attention to the liquor cabinet. Also make a thoughtful gift for the recovering alcoholic in your life, as you can program it to display some affirmations right there on the bottle.
Hello world! This 160mx160m data matrix was mowed into a field in Germany.See the Flickr set. [Thanks, Sebastian]
Combine a disposable syringe and a cheap hot glue gun into a pistol-applicator for solder flux paste.
Maker Adam Kumpf from the design firm Teague in Seattle demonstrates a DIY soft conductive stylus for use with an iPhone, iPad, or any other device with a capacitive touch screen.
Have I ever mentioned how much I love it when people post awesome stuff to the web with no background information? Like, just a picture with no annoying words about who took it or where or when? Yeah, that’s my favorite, as it enables me to commit timeless acts of journalism like this: “Somebody, somewhere, made this brilliant tearaway-teeth flyer for some lucky dentist, somewhere, and then somebody else from somewhere took a picture of it. You know, sometime.” [via Somebody-or-other]
