conductive plate design – designboom by ami drach + dov ganchrow + + photography: moti fishbine via NOTCOT. This could be made “real” by embedding the heating elements inside a plate and using the foil as design accents… At a time when almost every object around us seems to suddenly get Smart; From MP3 jackets […]
Inspired by a particularly excellent episode of the IT Crowd, Flickr member iamthechad built this device which contains the entirety of the internet … and it has a power switch … which should under no circumstances ever be used! If you’re scratching your head right now, go watch this. – The Internet!
Tabistry? Yup. At least according to this site it’s the “art of creating versatile textile out of ordinary soda/bear/soup/fruit/other can pull tabs woven together with fabric, ribbon, cord, wire, jump rings or any other material.” Some of the work is quite lovely. Seems a little… inappropriate to make a kid’s hat from beer can tabs, […]
What Will Save the Suburbs? by Allison Arieff… Interesting, maybe some of these places can become “TechShop” like tool centers… …Take as an analogous example their symbiotic partner, the big box store. As I learned in artist Julia Christensen’s new book, “Big Box Reuse,†when a big box store like Wal-mart or Kmart outgrows its […]
ConsciousFlesh useless projects is a site for (mainly) retro-tech projects such as nixie tube clocks, Tesla coils, Jacob’s ladders, tabletop ballista, and steampunk casemods. Seen above are a Jacob’s ladder, a wood- and brass-cased thumbdrive, a wooden computer casemod with a vacuum tube power indicator, a USB switch with a nixie selection indicator, and a […]
(image via Notcot) A company called Miniwiz has created a recycled plastic bottle specifically for building. From Inhabitat’s coverage: Made from recycled PET bottles, the lightweight bricks offer excellent acoustic and thermal insulation and can build anything from fences and roofs to pots for plants, skylights and beautiful walls of light… POLLI-Bricks possess incredible thermal […]
Portuguese craftsman Carlos Alberto handbuilt this sublime wooden Vespa. I think the classic Vespa is one of the most beautiful designs in history, and this is a truly worthy remake. via BoingBoing Gadgets
