Miniature tape recorder collection
Check out Roland Schellin’s incredible miniature tape recorder collection from 50s/60s – [via] – Link (German) & translated.
Made On Earth
HOW TO – Make an inflatable Moai
Bill writes “Here’s a build log of our Inflatable Moai project. We converted two Halloween lawn decorations into 9′ Moai for the Tiki Invasion show this past weekend @ the Mission Tiki Drive-in in Montclair, CA.” – Link. Wikipedia – Moai are statues carved from compressed volcanic ash on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). The statues […]
Match museum
The Match museum in Japan has a detailed history of matches, the science of matches and galleries of current (and old) match book art – “Japan Match Manufacturers Association and Japan Match Lateral Corporation operate this Match Museum. The biggest feature of this museum is superior match labels, which are specially selected from Rankei Library’s […]
Glasses made from vinyl records
Remeber Scott Urban’s eyeglass frames made out of wood? He now has a new series made from vinyl LPs (records) – [via] – Link. Related: Wood glasses – Link. HOW TO – Make emergency eyeglasses – Link. Eyeglasses Through the Ages – Link.
HOW TO – Raising cockroaches (intentionally)
Leevonk shows you how to make a nice habitat for raising cockroaches – “…simple instructions on how to make a happy habitat for cockroaches to thrive. Taking a look around my kitchen, it seems that a lack of work is involved in this task. This is pretty much true. But in case anyone wants to […]
Air acoustics
The museum “Waalsdorp” in the Netherlands has a ton of amazing gear designed for military purposes from the 30’s, check out the listening equipment section – “From the first world war until the 30’s air acoustics played an important role in the air defence. Air vehicles carrying a weapon could not be located from the […]
Tongue controlled Gameboy Advance
Here’s a tongue controlled Gameboy advance using a Charmed Labs XPort 2.0 cartridge with a custom game program – “Simmunity has created the world’s first tongue-controlled Nintendo Game Boy AdvanceSP console and Game Cube controller for quadriplegic youth and adults…” [via] – Link.
