I’m not sure what’s going on here but it appears to be an ode to space elevators. The uploader’s YouTube channel also has similar videos saluting the Pioneer and Voyager...
Posted by John Baichtal | Friday February 26th, 2010 8:58 AM
Categories: General | 7 Comments
This may be the end of civilization as we know it. [via Neatorama]
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday February 4th, 2010 2:31 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Fun & Games, General | 1 Comment
From Japanese crafter ã†ã‚ã, who is also Flickr user urone317. [via CRAFT]
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday February 2nd, 2010 6:45 AM
Categories: Craft, General, Makers | No Comments
You're looking at a piece of hydrogel. It is 98% water by weight. It's moldable, transparent, environmentally friendly, easily synthesized and (get this) if it's cut it will heal itself....
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday January 27th, 2010 8:48 PM
Categories: General, Science | 19 Comments
I have no idea how well it works, but I'm loving the minimalist zen-garden aesthetics of this Mast Humidifier from Masuza. The wood, supposedly, is naturally rot-resistant and imparts a...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday January 15th, 2010 4:23 AM
Categories: Energy, Furniture, General | 11 Comments
Yesterday, engineer Takuo Toda, president of the Japan origami aeroplane association, set a world flight record for a traditional-origami paper plane of 26.1 seconds. He's had longer flights, but they...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday January 4th, 2010 9:12 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, General, Science | No Comments
Built by Associate Professor Yojiro Ishino of the Nagoya Institute of Technology, this giant camera took six months to build and has reportedly been certified by the Guinness Book of...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday December 16th, 2009 6:44 AM
Categories: Art & Design, General, Photography & Video, Science | 7 Comments
The Maker Shed is the exclusive US distributor of Gakken products, allowing shoppers to get high-quality kits from Japan without paying out the nose for shipping costs. Gakken’s kits provide...
Posted by Mike Dixon | Monday November 30th, 2009 7:34 PM
Categories: General, Tools | No Comments
MAKE Japan is having a meet up, check out this iPhone instrument! It looks like 3 iPhones mounted to a laser cut body and the player “blows” to produce music!
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Sunday November 22nd, 2009 10:00 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Craft, General | 3 Comments
I always assumed messing around with your product's barcode for marketing purposes was, like, a violation of the Geneva Convention or something. Like if you tried to turn your packaging's...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday November 12th, 2009 6:01 AM
Categories: General, Hacks | 6 Comments
Firs it was “The Manga Guide to Statistics” then it was “The Manga Guide to Electricity” …and now, Lisp Manga. Lisp (or LISP) is a family of computer programming languages...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Sunday November 8th, 2009 5:38 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, General | No Comments
It's like a pop-up book, kind of, except way more complicated and expensive and made of Lego elements by YouTube user talapz. Words fail me, too. [via The Brothers Brick]
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday October 20th, 2009 9:11 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Fun & Games, General | 2 Comments
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