High performing rope takes weight off
MAKE pals Squid Labs hit CNN! High-tech is not a word often used to describe a piece of rope, but add a data sensor to its fibers and you have what its creators call electronic rope technology. The intelligent rope is the brainchild of California-based Squid Labs, an “early stage research and development company” made up of mostly MIT Media Lab graduates. Link.
Nice interview on Gizmodo…Artist Jonathon Keats is taking one long photo. His project, a pinhole camera that is taking one continuous picture of a room in the Hotel des Arts in San Francisco, is a mixture of uber-low-tech and ultra-high concept geekiness.