iPhone 4 Polaroid decal
You might not fool anybody with this campy iPhone 4 Polaroid camera decal, but you’ll at least insight a double-take or two, and those are always the best moments to capture, right?
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Snail mail push alerts
Getting iPhone push notifications from objects in your physical world is possible using an Arduino with an Ethernet Shield, a PHP-enabled web server and an iPhone app called Prowl. In this video, I show how to set up a mailbox so that it pings your phone when snail mail is delivered, but it’s very easy […]
Android controlled RGB rope lights
The iGloLED programmable RGB rope light kit falls somewhere between your garden variety X-mas tree lights and professional grade carnival ride lights. At $300 for a 16.4′ set of 120 lights, they’re one of the more expensive options out there, but if you’re looking for a novelty lighting effect that’s fun to operate, the iGloLED set has to be one of the cooler options out there. They’ve been out for a while now, but have been an iPhone-only option until now.
Huge iPhone display made using 56 iPads
For around $30k you, too, could have your very own iPhone display built using 56 iPads. Though comprised of interactive displays, I’d be surprised if the display itself was interactive. Now I’m just curious how many of these it would take to build a ginormous iPod Nano display.
Stainless steel sharpie iPad stylus
Folks looking for a good looking stylus for their tablet/smartphone will love this variation on the standard capacitive touch stylus. Designer and mobile UX pro Craig Villamor whipped together this handsome stainless steel sharpie mod by gutting the refill housing with a drill bit and cramming a Pogo Sketch stylus in the remaining cavity. Conceivably one could forego the additional stylus and just use some conductive foam.
How Glif iPhone 4 tripod mounts are made
The Glif folks are about to ship the first round of their cleverly designed and crowd source-funded tripod mount for the iPhone 4. Check out this short video they made detailing some of the back-end processes that occur when setting up an injection molding job.
Smartphone binder clip tripod mount
Thanks to maker DannyBR, with the addition of a quarter-inch hole, the ever useful binder clip has acquired a new talent: smartphone tripod mount.
