Stalacpipe organ in action
A brief yet interesting video featuring Luray Caverns Stalacpipe Organ we wrote about a while back. More: Luray’s cave-strument
Made On Earth
Fishing net calls when it’s full
From AfriGadget: Pascal Katana, a Fourth Year student at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, developed an electronic device that ‘automates’ fishing. The trap employs amplification of the sound made by fish while feeding. The acoustic signals are radiated and attract other fish who head toward the direction […]
A homemade toaster … built from scratch!
Amazing! Thomas Thwaites created this handmade toaster from 100% raw materials, most of which he mined from the earth himself – even smelting the iron ore via microwave. The project’s description from the Royal College of Art’s Design Interactions Show – For nine months I’ve been trying to make an electric toaster, myself, starting from […]
Continue time clock
The artist (Sander Mulder) made 20 limited edition of these clocks and 1 artist proof… On this Continue Time clock, two out of the three pointers rotate around another pointer, instead of the central point on the clock face, as with traditional clocks. The resulting kinetic artwork, and functional clock, is continuously changing its shape […]
Lost Knowledge: Timbrel Vaulting
A 14th century method for creating vaulted ceilings with tiles getting some modern love.
Scottish rotary boat lift – The Falkirk Wheel
This amazing machine transfers boats between the Forth and Clyde and Union Canals of central Scotland, which are some 80 feet apart vertically. It was opened in 2002. Gareth wrote last year about artist Andy Scott’s proposal to install a pair of titanic mythical sea-horse heads as part of the lock mechanism below the wheel. […]
MADE ON EARTH: Real-Life Concept Cars
Photograph by Sally Myers Like many people of his generation, Baron Margo was dazzled by the futuristic concept cars Detroit trotted out year after year. And, like many people, he was disappointed that those streamlined vehicles remained unobtainable concepts to the average motorist. But unlike many people, Margo did something about it. He, as he […]
