This are really nice left over die cutting cupboards – The panelling of the cupboards for this kitchen is made out laser-cut plywood, an industrial leftover from a company specialized in die-cutting cardboard for the packaging of luxury-goods. The wooden boards were used as punching-plates for punching out the shape of unfolded boxes from larger […]
Shane writes – Our senior design project (at Georgia Tech) was an open ended design. We chose to create an autonomous foosball table. The ball as well as the opponent players are tracked in a vision system — a downward looking webcam. All the main processing is done on an 800 MHz pentium 3 PC […]
“CO2LED”, an installation by artists Jack Sanders, Robert Gay, and Butch Anthony connects up 522 solar-powered LEDs on tall rods with plastic bottles at the top to light up a traffic island in northern Virginia. Built to promote sustainable urban luminance and recycling, all of the materials were reused after the project came down this […]
Let’s face it, the public phone booth is quickly becoming a relic of the past. Now that everyone has a cell phone, there’s not really any need for these things. Seeing this eventuality, French artists Benoit Deseille and Benedetto Bufalino created an “Aquarium Phone Booth” to remind us of these technological artifacts from the not […]
Wow! So far this is my favorite Xmas tree this year! Maybe next year it could be playable… – [via] Link.
Maybe a good (re)make? – YOU walk across the green-lawned, palm-hemmed park overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica, California, and climb the stairs to the little house in the picture above. Your party gathers around a circular rail in the center, the door is closed and at first all is darkness. Then, slowly and […]
Great story on Wired by Quinn Norton about “time hackers” – “If you have one clock … you are peaceful and have no worries,” says Van Baak, fingering a length of cable connecting two of his machines. “If you have two clocks … you start asking, ‘What time is it, really?’” Van Baak is in […]
