Stonehenge robotic clock: telling time never looked so fun (2)
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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets From the same brilliant mind that brought you the RoboStool comes something a bit less useful but equally mesmerizing. Put simply, Norris Labs' Stonehenge is a robotic time teller which rearranges placards in order to express the current time. The concoction utilizes a CrustCrawler Smart Arm and a Parallax Propeller chip along with 14 cards to display the current time, though it does operate, um, a bit slowly. Ah well, it's ...
Nissan ECO pedal promises to push back against aggressive drivers (2)
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Filed under: Transportation While Nissan hasn't quite cut drivers out of the equation all together (yet), it is making some considerable progress in controlling just how they drive, including preventing folks from driving drunk and, now with its new ECO pedal, preventing people from driving inefficiently. To do that, the pedal simply pushes back against the driver's foot when it detects wasteful acceleration, which Nissan says could improve fuel efficiency by as much as five ...
Killing your phone's GSM buzz with ferrite beads (3)
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Filed under: Cellphones, Home Entertainment Tired of all that GSM buzz coming from your cellphone when all you wan to do is listen to music? The guys at MacLife have re-uncovered a simple fix that involves parts that you probably have laying around in your spaghetti drawer. Just grab some ferrite beads -- the same ones that often ship with TVs and USB cables -- and attach them to your speaker cables near the speakers. ...
FLOTspotting : Lamp made out of drinking cups, by Peter Castellucci (1)
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From the Coroflot portfolio of : Peter Castellucci ( Cranston, RI ) Featured Project : Garbage Lamp When you're done drinking, light up!...
Flower fire extinguishers from Japan - Core77 (8)
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First seen on RandomGoodStuff and now running the blogs like wild you-know-what is this ingenious fire extinguisher device in the form of plastic silk flowers. (Can I say that?) The best part of this invention is that the flowers magnetically stick to your fridge so you've got some rescue where you need it. When placed over an oil or grease fire, the flowers work by melting into a film that stops the burning. Hmm. No ...
Disassembled appliance art! (4)
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Coffee Maker Jason at 37Signals has posted a selection of disassembled appliances that are beautifully composed and kinda hypnotic to look at. The photo's are from Brittnybadger's Flickr set, and there's more there to check out. Toaster Electric Knife ...
LED Lights in the Bottom of a Purse? Brilliant! | glowing purse, Kawamura &Ganjavian, LED | geeksugar - Technology, Gadgets, &How Tos. (8)
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Rummaging around in the bottom of my laptop bag or purse is something I've just gotten use to. I've considered using one of those organizers that you move from bag to bag but the thought of lugging around something else in my purse stresses me out. Incoming, the Glowing Purse by architecture research lab Kawamura and Ganjavian, which offers a purse with battery-operated micro-LEDS that are attached to the bottom of the purse. You can ...
LED Lights in the Bottom of a Purse? Brilliant! (2)
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Rummaging around in the bottom of my laptop bag or purse is something I've just gotten use to. I've considered using one of those organizers that you move from bag to bag but the thought of lugging around something else in my purse stresses me out. Incoming, the Glowing Purse by architecture research lab Kawamura and Ganjavian, which offers a purse with battery-operated micro-LEDS that are attached to the bottom of the purse. You can ...
For the Geek in All of Us: Tokyocube Toys (1)
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If I know a geek, then I know right alongside gadgets, their hearts have a special place for toys, too! My boyfriend has a whole collection that he has picked up from Japantown right on his desk. And if I had any room left next to my laptop, chargers, pens, magazines, and various clutter that's strewn about, I would have a few desktop toys myself. But when I came across Tokyocube's delectable assortment of plastic ...
For the Geek in All of Us: Tokyocube Toys (2)
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If I know a geek, then I know right alongside gadgets, their hearts have a special place for toys, too! My boyfriend has a whole collection that he has picked up from Japantown right on his desk. And if I had any room left next to my laptop, chargers, pens, magazines, and various clutter that's strewn about, I would have a few desktop toys myself. But when I came across Tokyocube's delectable assortment of plastic ...
CSS trick mimics sideways-flicking behavior in MobileSafari (35)
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Filed under: iPod Family, Tips and tricks, Developer, iPhone Ajaxian has posted a ridiculously simple way to enable web apps to mimic the iPhone's side-to-side flicking behavior using custom CSS supported by MobileSafari. If you're creating a web app specifically for iPhone and iPod touch users, you can get a similar feel to a native application with MobileSafari. MobileSafari includes some CSS 3 support, including advanced DOM selectors and support for animations and transitions. Chances ...
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Eric said:
Makes me want to have something I need to create for the iPhone.
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yamahito said:
I'm guessing marcus doesn't really want to write an iPhone version of the portal. But just in case! ;)
Super Oors World, Creative Commons Pixel Comic (6)
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Pixel and sprite-based comics may get a bad rap, but this is truly wonderful. Super Oors World from French creator Jonathan Silvestre is a wordless pixel comic that feels like the perfect marriage of 8-bit video games and funny-animal comics. The first episode, at least, is a pitch perfect adventure game complete with giant boss villain. What’s more, all the comics are distributed under a Creative Commons licence and you can download the sprite assets ...
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Ooo. Surprise ending!
Nissan ECO pedal promises to push back against aggressive drivers (19)
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Filed under: Transportation While Nissan hasn't quite cut drivers out of the equation all together (yet), it is making some considerable progress in controlling just how they drive, including preventing folks from driving drunk and, now with its new ECO pedal, preventing people from driving inefficiently. To do that, the pedal simply pushes back against the driver's foot when it detects wasteful acceleration, which Nissan says could improve fuel efficiency by as much as five ...
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Charles said:
These are the kinds of things we should be looking for to increase milage, not corn, or batteries.
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Kaleb said:
How many accidents would this cause?
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Jonathan T. said:
Better version of the story I shared earlier.
Stonehenge robotic clock: telling time never looked so fun - Engadget (9)
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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets From the same brilliant mind that brought you the RoboStool comes something a bit less useful but equally mesmerizing. Put simply, Norris Labs' Stonehenge is a robotic time teller which rearranges placards in order to express the current time. The concoction utilizes a CrustCrawler Smart Arm and a Parallax Propeller chip along with 14 cards to display the current time, though it does operate, um, a bit slowly. Ah well, it's ...
“Muffin Man” by Tom & Mark (1)
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“Muffin Man” is a new spot for Royal Bank of Canada directed by Tom and Mark Perrett (repped by Nexus Productions). The commercial uses CG to recreate a stop motion aesthetic complete with choppy timing, puppet-like designs and muted Seventies color palette. It’s a well done spot, no question about it, but I have mixed feelings about it. Frankly I’m getting tired of CG directors evoking charm in their work by cashing in on the ...
Killing your phone's GSM buzz with ferrite beads (34)
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Filed under: Cellphones, Home Entertainment Tired of all that GSM buzz coming from your cellphone when all you wan to do is listen to music? The guys at MacLife have re-uncovered a simple fix that involves parts that you probably have laying around in your spaghetti drawer. Just grab some ferrite beads -- the same ones that often ship with TVs and USB cables -- and attach them to your speaker cables near the speakers. ...
Landrover Sculpture by Gerry Judah (2)
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Concept Designer Gerry Judah attached a bevy of Land Rovers to a colossal steel framework at the Goodwood estate for their Festival of Speed in England last weekend. The 34-metre high sculpture, which weighed 120 tonnes and consisted of nearly 3500 parts connected by 4900 bolts, was commissioned by Land Rover (surprise surprise) and was fabricated by Littlehampton Welding, which also made Thomas Heatherwick's East Beach Cafe....
Strange Architecture (4)
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Normally we're hating on those YouTube video slideshows set to music but this one's an exception with some truly odd and inspirational buildings. via frame...
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cool, and possible seo tactic for the future
http://pingmag.jp/2008/07/25/martin-and-munoz/ (5)
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American-Spanish artist couple Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz from New York have been exploring tiny little dramas from our everyday madness and transformed them into short therapeutic scenes: What started as miniature snow globes a couple of years ago, has now evolved in veritable landscape panoramas that depict the elaborate bleakness of an emotional icy [...]Contribute comment
