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Alice Wang’s tyrant makes waking up a little more important… via Engadget. This alarm clock steals your mobile phone and randomly shuffles through your contact list and calls someone every three minutes after the desired wake up time. This looks like a concept piece, but you could actually build one of these in few ways… […]
This is fun — a Google Map of where specific programming languages came from. You can also zip around Google Earth to see them too.
The open source Linux phone – the Neo FreeRunner fromopenmoko is now on sale… It’s open source software (not hardware) to be specific, but they *do* have the CAD files which is a great first step! … Currently there isn’t a 100% opens source phone yet (that I know of). Openmoko, developer of the first […]
Here are some of my favorite posts from the CRAFT blog this week: Soft Guitars Glow in the Dark Robot Pillow HOW TO – Multicolored Gocco Prints Cowboy Cookies Recipe Etsy’s July How-To Month
The “Oterp” by Antonin Fourneau is a prototype sound editor built inside a PSP console with an integrated GPS that allows you to manipulate sound in real-time based on your location on earth. The device also collects new sounds when it detects that you have arrived at specific pre-programmed locations on the planet, with the […]
Load page, adjust filter, enjoy the isolating benefits of on demand noise. – Simplynoise
Although this project is considered old by blog standards (2002), we still like the simplicity of this device. The “Transparent Headphones” are a custom built pair of headphones with a microphone attached to the outside of each ear piece. The device detects nearby sounds and fades the sound out of the corresponding ear that detects […]
