Claim virtual turf with real-life balls
Want to claim your city as your own? Are you competing with a rival gang for turf, and want to avoid messy knife fights? Well now you can, thanks to Urban Defender.
Remake
Turning an “iLamp” into a lamp-lamp
I love this reuse of an first-gen “sunflower” G4 iMac (aka the “Luxo”). It was also nicknamed the iLamp (due to its flexible desk lamp-like arm), so this builder went ahead and turned his into an actual lamp. How to Recycle an iMac Luxo
Notebook based on “Jacob’s Ladder” principle
You kind of have to see this thing move to get the point. The brand name is RevolveR and apart from novelty, the “floating spine” binding seems to serve no particular function. Still, it’s pretty delightful, and seems to operate on the same principle as the toy commonly known as a “Jacob’s Ladder”
BIBI, the “plastician”
BIBI is a French artist who almost entirely uses trash plastic in his art. He calls himself a “plastician.” [Thanks, Karen!] BIBI, Plastician Artist
Lie-Nielsen chain-drive shoulder vise
There are vises, and there are vises. And there are those of us for whom vises are also vices. For we few obsessives cognoscenti, the price of this beautifully-designed chain-drive shoulder vise package may not be unreasonable. For the mechanically inclined, a remake would be totally do-able, and Lie-Nielsen is to be credited for not keeping any secrets about how it all goes together. The installation instructions (.pdf) contain all you’d need to know to cobble together one of your own.
LEGO kitchen counter
Restrictive homeowners’ association preventing you from building your entire house out of LEGO? To help convince them of the importance of the brick, why not start by building a LEGO kitchen, like this one from designers Simon Pillard and Philippe Rosett. While not made entirely of lego (there is a fiberboard counter underneath the brick), […]
Chair made of drinking straws
Scott Jarvie made this Clutch Chair using more than 10,000 drinking straws. This one is apparently an art piece rather than an actual chair, but it seems like it should be possible to make a functional one using this method as well.
