Light-up Shoes
Tamás Fejér is responsible for these fun light up shoes, which uses light sensors to activate the onboard LEDs. [via Fashioning Technology]
Month: January 2011
Texting your door lock: “open pls. TY”
You can leave your keys at home with this clever hack by Billy Chasen, who rigged up his deadbolt to a Propeller-based Spinneret Web Server. Using an SMS gateway called Twilio, he can open and close the lock by tapping out a quick text message. Not only that, but the system also responds to acknowledge […]
Heather Ross Surfboards
Fans of Heather Ross’ fabric designs can now hit the surf with her designs underfoot. The Heather Ross series of Walden Surfboards is now arriving in the US and is set to arrive in Australia in July.
Kaiju anatomical drawings
For those curious about the inner workings of kaiju beasties like Gamera (top) and Guiron… The anatomical features of Gamera and his foes are detailed in a set of illustrations found in one volume of the KaijÅ«-Kaijin DaizenshÅ« movie monster book series published by Keibunsha in 1972. [Via Pink Tentacle]
Clear iPhone 4 mod
Yesterday the general public learned what a pentalobe is. You might be asking yourself why you’d need such a thing, but if you’re like Uwants member mkmarken, then you’d want it to disassemble your iPhone 4 in order to strip the black coating from the inside of the Gorilla Glass enclosure with a little paint thinner. Just because you’re continually discouraged from opening your device doesn’t mean you can’t make it easier to see what’s inside.
The owls are not what they seem…
Especially this one. Unless, that is, it seems to you like an original sculpture prepared by Chicago sculptor Jessica Joslin for the Twin Peaks 20th Anniversary Art Exhibition coming up on February 12-13 in LA. In which case, well, at least this one owl is exactly what it seems. [via Bong Boing]
Halo costumes at Open MAKE event
One of the most popular posts of last year was about Shawn Thorsson’s amazing Red vs. Blue Master Chief Halo costumes. We got to see some of the excitement these costumes generate firsthand, especially in kids, when Shawn (and friends) showed off the costumes at last Saturday’s Open MAKE/Young Makers program at the Exploratorium. You […]
