Laptop Hinge Support Garment
Phil @ MAKE tips us off to this “laptop underwear” for supporting a broken display hinge. Very clever, and quite futuristic looking!
Technology
Rock Band Drum Cozies
Etsy seller FunkieFresh makes these sweet cozies for your Rock Band drums. They’re supposedly good for dampening your hard rocking to the benefit of your neibors. To me they have a sort of 8-bit aesthetic because of the resolution of the crocheted stitches. (Thanks, Matt!) Related: Rock Band drum dampening tutorial on MAKE
Paul Smith’s Boom Box Briefcase
Seems like $425 is a lot to pay for a boom box laptop bag; I’m sure this would be more fun to make yourself, anyway! Looks great, though. Via BoingBoing. Related: Server Coat Boombox messenger bag on MAKE
Occult Military Patches
The New York Times has an article up about Trevor Paglen’s book I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon’s Black World, which highlights the patches worn on the uniforms of “secret military units [and] classified Pentagon programs.” I’d love to work at that embroidery […]
Crafter Emma Hogbin Speaking at Geek Conference
If you love knitting and you’re a geek too, don’t miss Emma Hogbin who will be speaking at LugRadio Live in San Francisco on April 12 at 4pm. It’s a very fun look at how to make technology friendly and how we can really get more women using technology. The software of the Internet is […]
Lampshade Knits Itself
Cory @ BoingBoing writes: Nadine Sterk’s Sleeping Beauty lamp is on exhibition at a show of design school projects, on display at the Design Huis in Eindhoven, The Netherlands — it’s “a lamp that develops like a living organism: switch it on and it slowly starts growing by knitting its own lampshade at a speed […]
Leah Buechley’s LilyPad Arduino workshop in Amsterdam 4/15-4/18
Leah Buechley will be a part of a Wearables Master Class by Mediamatic teaching a workshop on her LilyPad Arduino in Amsterdam April 15-18. During the workshop, you’ll learn how to make soft, playful, and wearable computers by using the LilyPad Arduino. Other instructors are Maurin Donneaud & Vincent Roudaut of XYinteraction (textile & electronics). […]
