If you're looking for a nice portable speaker for your iPhone or iPod Touch and are into the retro look of an old lunch box, then you'll dig AudioPail, a...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Wednesday September 19th, 2012 2:00 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile | 3 Comments
On a recent trip to Europe, BC OSS enthusiast Gef Tremblay pieced together something he calls KindleBerry Pi from minimal kit he brought along on his journey. He's networked a...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Tuesday September 11th, 2012 2:00 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Electronics | 11 Comments
Autodesk recently released an update to their 123D Catch photogrammetry app that now runs on the iPhone. Similar in function to the previously iPad-only app, a user captures a series...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Friday September 7th, 2012 4:00 AM
Categories: 3D Printing, Art & Design, Computers & Mobile, Photography & Video, Workshop | 5 Comments
This clever smartphone stand from Harry Allen elicits a double-take. It's almost as if the smartphone is designed to fit within its grasp.
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Tuesday August 21st, 2012 2:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Computers & Mobile | 1 Comment
Tablets make great dashboard displays. In this video, makers Sonic Electronix install a Nexus 7 into a custom fabricated 2008 Dodge Ram dash cradle.
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Tuesday August 7th, 2012 4:00 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Home | 4 Comments
This iPhone Papercraft Passive Amplifier from the folks at Eco Made is a die cut piece of 100% post consumer chipboard that you can fold together into a fully functional...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Wednesday July 11th, 2012 2:00 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Home, Paper Crafts | 12 Comments
Using a slightly modified Square mag stripe reader, an RCA MODEL SRT-403 Tape Recorder, an iPod Touch, and requisite audio software, Evan Long got a modern digital media player to...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Monday June 18th, 2012 2:00 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile | 7 Comments
In an opinion piece on Wired, iFixit's Kyle Wiens, who tore down a new MacBook with Retina display and declares it: "Unfixable, unhackable, untenable."
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Sunday June 17th, 2012 7:30 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile | 20 Comments
Have you ever wanted your very own Street View camera to capture the places not yet covered by Google Maps? With this DIY Street View Kit from German designer Jan...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Friday June 8th, 2012 2:00 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Home, Tools | 5 Comments
If you've got an iPad with a camera, you can now use it to capture 3D objects using Autodesk's new 123D Catch app for the iPad. Similar to the desktop...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Friday June 1st, 2012 2:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Computers & Mobile | 8 Comments
Fans of Ytai Ben-Tsvi's IOIO board will be happy to know that there's an update coming. Ytai recently announced that there's an second generation IOIO in the works. The new...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Tuesday May 29th, 2012 2:00 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile | No Comments
Managing to fit into two rather large suitcases, Melvin the Machine, from Eindhoven, NL design studio HEYHEYHEY is a portable 38-step Rube Goldberg machine traveling abroad and having a bit...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Thursday May 3rd, 2012 3:00 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile | No Comments
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