Ad-cutting is a kind of guerrilla art form, in which parts of adhesive-backed subway poster ads are creatively cut, peeled, and/or mixed-and-matched with one another to subvert the message of...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday April 4th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design | 34 Comments
Picking locks not only requires the right skills, it also requires the right tools. Fortunately, the folks at TOOOL (The Open Organization of Lockpickers) have come up a great way...
Posted by Michael Castor | Thursday March 22nd, 2012 8:00 AM
Categories: General, Tools | 11 Comments
Not a physical product, of course, but a physible one, from anonymous designers at the F.A.T. collective. I'd vote against the naughty acronym, personally, but they do thrive on controversy,...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday March 19th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: 3D Printing, Fun & Games | 12 Comments
...the massive maker community could help put the pressure on these companies as well. Makers tend to care about the origin of things, how they're made and by who. We're...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Friday March 9th, 2012 3:00 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Craft | 2 Comments
The challenge, you're not allowed to make a SkyNet joke.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Wednesday March 7th, 2012 3:00 PM
Categories: Uncategorized | 13 Comments
Most of the Barbots and their teams are returnees from previous years, but as with the DARPA Grand Challenges, the...ah... bar raises very quickly from one event to the next...
Posted by Paul Spinrad | Tuesday March 6th, 2012 4:00 PM
Categories: Electronics, Food & Beverage, Home, Robotics | 8 Comments
I don't see kids adding skills they've earned to their social networking profiles yet, I mostly see check-ins, bands, movies and status updates. While historic groups like the Boy Scouts...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Friday March 2nd, 2012 10:00 AM
Categories: Education, Kids & Family | 87 Comments
I love this pair of “interviews” that hacker legends Mitch Altman and Emmanuel Goldstein gave to the Media Show. When someone says they are a hacker, what do they mean?...
Posted by John Baichtal | Thursday February 23rd, 2012 7:00 AM
Categories: Hackerspaces | 5 Comments
If you want to see 3D printers, tool lending, laser cutters, skill building, entrepreneurial classes and hackspace-like activities visit the NYPL "Join the Conversation" page and send in your comments....
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Wednesday February 22nd, 2012 3:00 PM
Categories: Uncategorized | 7 Comments
Neat idea from NY architect John Locke, who designed this slot-together plywood shelf unit to hang over the standard public telephone kiosk without fasteners or other alterations to the existing...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday February 16th, 2012 6:00 AM
Categories: Energy, Furniture | 2 Comments
Sculptor Tony Cragg created this dice-covered sculptures for Paris’s FIAC art show, which took place in October. Love to see this style with d20s! [via Colossal; photo courtesy of Daniel...
Posted by John Baichtal | Friday February 3rd, 2012 7:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design | 3 Comments
As I spent the days and nights shipping, I thought it would be interesting to consider how we could transform and evolve the postal system. I think makers, hackers and...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Tuesday January 17th, 2012 3:00 PM
Categories: Uncategorized | 82 Comments
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