DIY Light up hat
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Yang02 made a cool hat, I’m not exactly sure what it does but it appears to light up when it gets dark, it might also blink – Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Yang02 made a cool hat, I’m not exactly sure what it does but it appears to light up when it gets dark, it might also blink – Link.
We know that you were planning on buying an expensive gas mask to foil the next bio-terror plot, but who’s got the cash? Now for a whopping $0 of materials including an empty CD-ROM case and a plastic bag, you can make your own mask just like the pros use. Remember, evil could be everywhere […]
Hah! This is awesome, it’s a shirt you can “Digg” based on the open source Digg button kit – [via] Link.
Stylish and functional (might be fun to make a laptop version) Popular Science 1936 – To facilitate taking notes in the rain, a German newspaper reporter has equipped his raincoat with a window of transparent material. By holding his pencil and notebook in front of him, directly under the improvised window, he is able to […]
The “Vanity Ring” project by Markus Kison is an interesting take on social status. The wearer inputs their name into the software which uploads the amount of mentions their name gets on a Google search onto the ring. From the description: “While in earlier times richness and importance were equal to the amount of money […]
Researchers at Michigan Technological University, Arizona State University and NanoSonic Inc. are working on harvesting the ambient energy of walking and carrying a backpack with polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), a nylon-like material with piezoelectric properties. This would be great for multi-day hiking, since you wouldn’t have carry heavy batteries to keep your GPS or cellphone juiced! […]
Spencer Russell created a “sleeve” for his upright bass to house electronic sensors which detect his position relative to the instrument. The sensors use an Arduino board to communicate with a computer running PD (PureData) to translate the sensor information into sound. He used Blender and QCad to make a 3D model of his bass […]