The Trash to Treasure contest for kids recently wrapped up with a weekend of making for the three teen winners at Continuum’s offices near Boston. Daniel, MaryAnn and Lily all submitted text and image entries of their devices intended to make use of recycled materials that would make an improvement for others.
Like using off-camera flash units for your photography, but tired of having to walk over to them to adjust the flash power?
I’m still sad that the TV show LOST has ended but am loving all the creative ways in which the show is still being celebrated. These retro-style LOST posters by designer Ty Mattson are a couple of my favorite. I can still see Hurley starting up the VW van and the numbers one brings me […]
Julia Tsao‘s Curious Displays thesis project proposes swarms of half-inch pixelbots, which could form into a TV or perform other robotic tasks. Each block operates independently as a self-contained unit, and has full mobility, allowing movement across any physical surface. The blocks operate independently of one another, but are aware of the position and role […]
Jim K writes in to share this fun-looking project, a DIY handheld projector. Similar to the larger homebrew video projectors we have covered in the past, this one uses the screen from a portable TV screen to make a handheld micro projector.
Make Subscriber Dave Vondle let us know about this great project he just posted. He started with a rear projection TV, turned it into a laser light plane-based multi-touch screen, and wrote it up on the IDEO Labs Blog: Continuing our multi-touch research, we’ve been working on turning an off-the-shelf rear projection TV into a […]
Marcy Gunther is the producer of Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman, a reality game show featuring a Host Dog and six real life kids as contestants. Ruff always seems to have something going wrong in the doghouse, and he has the kids help him learn about how to solve the problem with science and engineering. Have […]
