“Hybrid Sound” is a large-scale sculpture that doubles as a high-powered speaker system that distorts and causes a large echo effect. Interesting build and check out the project page link for a Quicktime movie of this thing in action. Hybrid Sound via VVORK
Using a mixture of titanium dioxide, drywall plaster, aluminium powder and ground fluorite, Theo Grey of PopSci.com was able to smelt his own titanium, via a thermite reaction. The results are not pretty, and you probably don’t want to try this at home, but hey, DIY titanium! Yet I was able to make titanium using […]
This holiday video card installation by AKQA uses 49 microwave ovens stacked in a dark space and timed to sequentially turn off so that the only thing left is their blinking, unset clocks which resembles twinkling stars in the night sky (you need to watch the video until the end to see the full effect). […]
Last week, Mister Jalopy started out to write another one of is fine entries on D+R about “shackitecture” and ended up penning a proposal for an “Urban Homesteading Act,” a new generation of homesteading laws. As discussed on D+R previously, the local zoning and building departments represent an impregnable, byzantine bureaucracy so difficult to navigate […]
Dear Cat elevator cat… Meet the cat treadmill feeder cat… It’s cat day here today it seems…
Now instead of having the birthday and trying to capture the best photos, you can do two things at once. This birthday cake was made in the shape of a Nikon D700 SLR camera. Best of all, it looks like the cake is a red velvet, which would make it even more tempting to both […]
This fellow makes chainsaw bayonet rifles and will make your one for about $300 via BuzzFeed. As seen in Gears of War?
