I don't know how else to put it. These lamps, by a Japanese craftsman known as The Great Mushrooming, feature handblown glass mushrooms, with internal LEDs, mounted in found driftwood...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday August 19th, 2010 1:55 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Electronics, Furniture, General, Science | 1 Comment
From the MAKE Flickr pool: I’m not sure what Osaka, Japan’s Naniwa craftsmanship festival is, but it looks like a mini maker faire. Lots of fascinating projects, I wish I...
Posted by John Baichtal | Monday August 9th, 2010 5:22 AM
Categories: General | No Comments
Designed by Bangkok advertising agency CreativeJuice for plastic model kit giant Tamiya, the letters in this card can be popped out and snapped together to build a robot, a plane,...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday August 4th, 2010 3:45 AM
An installation by Tokujin Yoshioka, whom some may remember for growing a crystal chair back in 2008, for the Mori Art Museum's ongoing Sensing Nature exhibit. Snow is 15 meters...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday July 26th, 2010 9:50 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Energy, General | No Comments
shiinaneko found a new way to use his iPad: It was the time, when I was eating sashimi at a bar, fiddling with my iPad. A slice of Tuna accidentally...
Posted by John Baichtal | Sunday July 25th, 2010 6:07 AM
...but non-lepidopterists will probably be hard-pressed to figure that out just by looking at it. The video rates high on the jaw-dropping scale. The ChouChou electric butterfly is, in fact,...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday July 22nd, 2010 9:37 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, General, Robotics, Science | 1 Comment
I love this ornate and colorful light that Japanese maker Keisuke Matsushita created with RGB LEDs and a beautiful etched brass enclosure. Keisuke’s site is in Japanese but you can...
Posted by John Baichtal | Wednesday June 30th, 2010 6:41 AM
From Make: Japan: Beatfly is a small illuminating blimp for entertainment. Its light and movement can be controlled via various interfaces such as MIDI controller, iPhone multi-touch interface, Flash interface...
Posted by John Baichtal | Thursday June 24th, 2010 11:56 AM
Categories: Arduino, Fun & Games, General | No Comments
These are not standing waves; they appear momentarily and then recede. Which is still pretty amazing. The machine, at Japan's National Maritime Research Institute, is being described in the English-language...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday June 23rd, 2010 9:08 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Craft, General, Science | 8 Comments
Japanese toy giant Bandai is set to release a series of nifty kanji figures that transform into the shapes of the animals they represent. The shape-shifting critters, called Mojibakeru (moji...
Posted by John Baichtal | Thursday May 27th, 2010 6:53 AM
Categories: General | No Comments
Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich created this installation, simply called The Swimming Pool, for The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan. A 10cm layer of water over a...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Sunday May 2nd, 2010 1:55 PM
Categories: Art & Design, General, Makers | 1 Comment
Tokyo/Glow is a short film, written and directed by Jonathan Bensimon, about the little glowing guy from a cross-walk sign who jumps down from the sign, at night, and wanders...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday March 9th, 2010 10:08 AM
Categories: Art & Design, General, Photography & Video | 1 Comment
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