Made On Earth

Jeffrey writes “Whew! After a couple of late nights, we present to you the DoubleSpace Kitchenette, a combination kitchen and armchair. Yes, you heard right. When college students or SoHo residents run out of space (as they are wont to do…) this is the perfect thing to reduce your material lifestyle. Also doubles as a seat warmer. Just kidding”. Link.

Here’s a site with 1000 things made from Bamboo; once I looked at all the photos, the only thing I could think of is what can’t be made from bamboo. The gallery is pretty fun: the bike and mutli-story car park are my favorites. Link.

These are shoes, but not as we know them, Toto. Worn Again take materials like charity store coats, ex-military parachutes, prison blankets, car seat scrap leather, old towels and recycled rubber, crafting them into some funky looking trainers… Link.

Another from Shadowstitch- he picked up a wooden velociraptor skeleton model from the thrift store, sadly someone took all the parts out. But, that didn’t stop him from making, he used the pillaged toy as a template to trace the bone patterns, then made a huge version. This is a great idea…

Gas, Tires, Oil writes “A blog entry about cutting 2′ section out of the middle a metal futon frame and welding the halves back together. The original mattress still fits, but now the short way is side to side and the futon takes up much less room”. Link. The rest of the blog has a lot of great stuff too…

First this one, and now…I went to my local thrift store today to see what I could find. Every now and then I can find something really good. Today was a good day. I found this UNOPENED, still shrink-wrapped, board game called Computer Rage that is copyright 1977 by Creative Computing Magazine. It has classic, retro art on the front and the gameplay itself is so incredibly geeky! How many games do you know that have a space labelled “Output Queue”? It even uses three binary dice (so you can roll 0-7)! Link.