We’ve seen iPhone binder clip tripod mounts before, but this new version by Imgur user playstationfire is novel in that rather than clamping the phone, it uses the wire handles of two opposing clips to cradle the device. [via Lifehacker]
It may be some time before we start to see mainstream adoption of Project Glass-like augmented reality, but in the meantime, that’s not stoping folks like AR hacker Will Powell from rolling their own solution from off the shelf components.
Folks who are deafblind traditionally focus on physical contact to communicate and use a verbose form of signing called Lorm. In an attempt to facilitate fast, casual conversation, and general mobility, researchers at Berlin’s Design Research Lab built the Mobile Lorm Glove to facilitate two-way digital communication.
Folks have been speculating about Google’s foray into wearable computing for some time now. The wait is over. Google has released details about Project Glass, their super-secret augmented reality project that packs a rich visual interface inside a sleek wrap-around heads-up display unit.
Using a web-based phone controller, Steffest controls an array of fourteen percussive instruments that are packed into a setup so tightly I can’t help but use the word “cute.” Despite the amount of instruments, the bot uses only eight servos, six of which play different instruments depending on which direction they swing towards.
Manchester-based design and advertising firm LOVE Labs created a real-time collaborative digital-drawing game, called Doodlr.
Jon Danforth, organizer of the Mini Maker Faire North Carolina, wrote in to let us know about a cool project, a QR Code Quilt, from one of Mini Maker Faire North Carolina’s sponsors, Spoonflower: A QR code, or Quick Response code is a somewhat new technology that, when scanned by a smart phone or iPad […]
