Design firm Digital Kitchen threw a party with a photo booth. And the set props were super fun, with pointy mountaintops, fluffy clouds, and a jagged bolt of lightning. But this was no regular photo booth… they rigged up an animated GIF photo booth. They call it Protobooth! On their site they reveal the components […]
Travel back in time with Bill Gurstelle as he teaches how to make a bit of ancient technology, the Egyptian bag press. Make your own bag press and enjoy fresh squeezed juice, the really old school way!
A “crowdmap” of technology hubs and hackerspaces on the African continent.
Using contact mics that detect hand gestures through the aid of software, the Mogee is an electronic musical instrument that can be appended to virtually any rigid object.
Everyone loves a soft robot, and I’m fond of the marine variety. This bioinspired prototype tentacle, made of silicone rubber, not only curls and extends in eerily squidlike fashion, it’s also got pressure sensors embedded beneath its suckers so it can grasp objects, like a cephalopod should.
Behold “gingerbreadtron, ” the transforming gingerbread house by Brian Hall! It’s a robot in disguise – as a gingerbread house. This project was a fun thing to make over the holidays with some servo motors, glue and some cardboard. [via buzzfeed]
Jessica of geekcr3d takes the iconic hand turkey to a whole new level with this LED hand turkey sweater. As a kid, I loved making decorations for the Thanksgiving table. I thought whoever came up with the idea that your hand could be traced and transformed into a turkey was a genius. I made hand […]
