USB pet rock
Wish I’d thought of this gag first. The USB pet rock from ThinkGeek has all the functionality of the original pet rock, but is USB compatible.
Remake
Pop-up cardboard office
What could be cooler than pop-up books dioramas? How about if they are life-sized? That’s exactly what designers Liddy Scheffknecht and Armin B. Wagner have created with their pop-up office.
Sundial cannon fires at noon
The glass is aligned to concentrate the sun’s rays, lighting the cannon’s fuse at high noon. More pics here, and a very detailed .pdf from the British Sundial Society on so-called “noon cannons” here. [via Neatorama]
Robolamps
Croatian designer Robert Matysiak has made a delightful array of these “robolamps” by cobbling together “a bunch of plumbing supplies and green light bulbs.”
“Polaroid” mini-vase
…a small planter that recalls the nostalgic form of polaroid, with the plant becoming the focus of the “picture.” The planter is suspended with a clothespin on the end of a cord, with a small embedded lamp illuminating its subject.
Tetris meets Arduino
Like Tetris, but tired of playing it alone in the dark on your Game Boy? Well, now you can rejoice, for Luyza Pereira and Bettina Hiel have brought Tetris into the era of physical computing with their installation Tetris meets Arduino.
Mac mailbox
Mac mailbox from Te Atatu in Auckland…
