Designer Yuko Taguchi has created this ingenious wind-up lamp: “This is for people who can’t sleep without the light. Also, people who read in the bed sometimes forget to turn off the light. The key functions as a switch and a timer. Wind-up to turn the light on before you go to bed. The light […]
Grad students at the University of Tokyo are developing a system for 360-degree peripheral sensing, aka “whiskers,” to tell when there’s something near your body. Their idea is for construction safety, but this has all kinds of implications, and gives new meaning to the phrase “cat-like senses.” The Haptic Radar / Extended Skin Project – […]
Mouna Andraos has created the Power Cart for the 2007 Conflux Festival in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It’s a portable street vending cart (complete with umbrella for shade) that can charge your gadgets with solar and crank power. Power Cart – [via] Link. Photos: Regine Debatty
Livejournal user vomitsaw has created these printed circuit board (PCB) bracelets to look like skulls! No word as to whether they’re for sale, but the etched copper and AV plug fasteners make these a geek-chic must have. Skull PCB Bracelet – [via] Link.
Gareth at MAKE writes- We’ve mentioned Leah Buechley on the blog before. She’s a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Colorado who does some really innovative things with soft circuits, LED clothing, and other geek couture. She writes of her most recent projects, the LilyPad: e-textile construction kit version 2.0 There is […]
Bulbs Unlimited makes kits for creating your own light bulb lamps. Use your dead light bulbs essentially as lampshades for a new lamp! I’d love to see one with dead incandescents surrounding a compact fluorescent! I knew I was saving all those dead bulbs for something… [via] Link.
Another knitting project from the Campus 2.0. of Ars Electronica, Gelsomina, uses a hacked knitting machine to translate voice recordings into stitches. How does it feel when a sweater becomes a medium with which to record your own voice? Gelsomina, the voice knitting machine, makes it possible to transfer individual vocal melodies to a piece […]
