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Stop Snoops in Their Tracks with the Talking Booby Trap

Stop Snoops in Their Tracks with the Talking Booby Trap

Need a way to protect your wares from sneaky snoops? With some light soldering to a basic recording module, a small assortment of tools and components, some clothespin hacking (yes, seriously), and other parts you probably already have around the house, you can make your own Talking Booby Trap! Like all ambushes, you arm and […]

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Packing tape spiderweb

Packing tape spiderweb

This installation, by design firm numen / for use, used 530 rolls of tape measuring 117,000 feet and weighing 100 pounds. The tendons of multiple layers of transparent adhesive tape are firstly stretched between the columns of an ex-stock exchange building. The following continuous wrapping of tendons results in a complex, amorphous surface through the […]

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Vote for your favorite tape sculpture

Vote for your favorite tape sculpture

Scotch’s Off The Roll tape sculpture contest ends this month, so vote early & often — literally, you can vote for as many entries as you want, ten per day, one vote per sculpture max. The above sculpture, by Rachael J, is an example of the entries.

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