Instead of cricking your neck to drink from a water fountain, what if the fountain cricked its neck for you? Tropism Well is an interactive sculpture that senses when someone...
Posted by Laura Cochrane | Friday November 9th, 2012 12:03 PM
Categories: Arduino, Art & Design | 4 Comments
In her studio overlooking the Aar, de Senna buttoned up her lab coat, donned her latex gloves and face mask, and spent the next three full months clocking about 800...
Posted by Goli Mohammadi | Thursday November 1st, 2012 6:11 PM
Categories: Art & Design | 4 Comments
Dodecaudion is a gesture-based, spatial interface that allows performers to create music by moving hands or other body parts around the 12-sided structure.
Posted by Laura Cochrane | Friday October 26th, 2012 4:29 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Music | No Comments
Mika Aoki makes glass art inspired by mold spores, viruses, plants, life, and death.
Posted by Arwen O'Reilly Griffith | Wednesday October 24th, 2012 2:07 PM
Categories: Art & Design | 2 Comments
21-year-old MIT computer science and electrical engineering student Stephan Boyer built Bullet, a self-balancing electric unicycle that reaches a top speed of 15 miles per hour and is the envy...
Posted by Laura Cochrane | Friday August 17th, 2012 7:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Fun & Games | 5 Comments
Randy Grubb has one sweet job: working from his Grants Pass, Ore., garage, he builds hot rods. His rides, however, are far from ordinary — he builds from supersized truck,...
Posted by Laura Cochrane | Friday August 10th, 2012 7:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Home, Workshop | 2 Comments
In developing countries, a mobility issue can create a major drain on a family’s already sparse resources. That's why Randy Geile designs inexpensive wheelchairs using readily available parts.
Posted by Laura Cochrane | Thursday July 12th, 2012 3:08 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Energy, Fun & Games, Health, Home | 1 Comment
Netherlands-based designer Sabine Marcelis made a do-it-yourself winemaking kit for her graduation design project that has everything needed to ferment, siphon, bottle, and cork wine.
Posted by Laura Cochrane | Friday June 29th, 2012 7:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Food & Beverage | 6 Comments
Without an everyday reference for a sense of scale, Szymon Klimek’s intricate mechanical creations could easily be mistaken for twice their true size. Made from 0.1 millimeter sheets of brass...
Posted by Laura Cochrane | Wednesday June 20th, 2012 10:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Workshop | 4 Comments
Brothers Michael and Kenny Ham have a goal: to create cheap electric vehicles that get people interested in renewable energy.
Posted by Laura Cochrane | Wednesday April 18th, 2012 10:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Electronics, Energy, Home | 5 Comments
Jeff Stone and his wife Susan built a telescope out of hockey sticks.
Posted by Laura Cochrane | Wednesday March 14th, 2012 9:15 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Science | No Comments
Homemade Cat (hamster) Wheel! via Reddit.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Friday January 13th, 2012 3:00 PM
Categories: Art & Design | 11 Comments
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