Star’s pillow hands
Star Simpson came up with this awesome plane-sleeping “hack.” She outfitted a pair of kid’s water wings with sheaths sewn from old T-shirt fabric. Looks comfy to me! Sound Sleep on a Long Flight
Hacks
The Zeer pot
The Zeer pot is an African cooling gadget which, for less than $2US in local materials and without electricity, can extend the storage lifetime of fresh produce by as much as 18 days. It is of staggeringly simple design: Two clay pots are nested with a relatively thin layer of sand between them. The sand […]
DIY tilt-shift lens
Maker Bhautik Joshi built this excellent tilt-shift lens using a T-mount adapter, rubber plumbing coupling, and a medium format lens found on eBay. It may not be as precise as a conventional tilt-shift lens, but it does produce an excellent image at a fraction of the cost.
Infrared baseball cap
Are you constantly hounded by the paparazzi when your bodyguard detail takes PTO? Well, you can rest easy the next time you want to duck out for a pint of Häagen-Dazs at 3AM. Follow this excellent step-by-step instructional video by Minimak and you, too, can have a blindingly awesome infrared LED sombrero.
Tweetster – Wireless tweets display
David Nichols made this lovely Asus Wireless Router WL-520-GU-based Twitter client. OpenWRT runs Python off of a USB thumb drive. The script fetches the 20 most recent tweets from his followers and displays them using a Sparkfun serial based LCD. The laser parts were fabbed at Ponoko.com. Tweetser
Long distance camera shutter trigger
Nature photographer and maker Marco Jetti wanted a device that would allow him to shoot pictures of animals from a distance. Using a pair of walkie-talkies and a custom circuit, Marco fashioned a long distance wireless shutter trigger capable of releasing the shutter from, reportedly, almost a kilometer away.
Android on dual-boot Nokia N95
Munch from Belgrade seems to have shoehorned Google’s Android OS onto a dual-boot Nokia N95. The demo videos are rather grainy, but you can make out Android booting up and Google Maps running fullscreen. Munch vows to release the code for installation October 5th on his blog.
