Touch-sensitive faucet
Does grabbing onto a grimy faucet to turn on the water to rinse your hands strike you as an odd contradiction in sanitation? Then a touch-sensitive faucet might just be the solution for you!
Remake
Coiled extension cord lamp
I love this lamp made from its own coiled extension cord by Craighton Berman. He’ll sell you one ready-made with a cord, or just the laser-cut acrylic frame and lamp guts so you can roll your own.
IFixit’s sponsored blender teardown
Now this is a welcomed development. The company Blendtec provided iFixIt with one of their Total Blenders to take apart and document. As you know, we’re always prattling on about “If You Can’t Open It, You Don’t Own It” and other litanies from The Maker’s Bill of Rights. This is a company that apparently understands […]
Lightfader floor remembers where you were
This Lightfader floor has a (presumably slow moving) fluid in it, that gets displaced when you step on it, and then slowly returns to it’s original state.
“At The Mountains of Madness” prop set
Propnomicon has an ongoing project to assemble a set of props from the fictional Miskatonic University expedition to Antarctica from Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness.
Reaper gravestone
A plastic skull and ribcage, a stick, and some old curtains dunked in gray house paint. From Dave Lowe Design.
Real-time energy monitoring
A few months ago I met Mike Costa at Design Continuum. He had a Chumby on his desk which was set to monitor the energy usage of the building. At the time, he was working out the technical details of the system, and now has posted up some info about the project. Here are some highlights:
Real time power monitoring has been proven to effectively reduce power consumption due to waste. It is intuitive to consider that humans need some sort of feedback in order to recognize the presence of waste. For example if one leaves the faucet open one has sound and sight feedback indicating there is waste. What sort of feedback do we have for electricity? None really, this is why these systems can help with waste reduction
