This is the best LCD picture frame project I’ve seen lately, Revital writes – Medical technologies have reached the stage in which biological deterioration no longer means the end of a human life. Life prolonging machines can replace our organs and allow us to maintain various degrees of living. However, as science helps us cheat […]
The Bamboo Bike Project is a collaboration between scientists and engineers at The Earth Institute at Columbia University and a bicycle builder at Calfee Design. The project aims to examine the feasibility of implementing cargo bikes made of bamboo as a sustainable form of transportation in Africa. The ultimate goals of the project are: 1.To […]
The Kombolói is a digital worry bead meant to diffuse one’s anxiety. It works through a capacitive touch sensor that collects energy, turns it into light, and diffuses it into “soothing” pulses of light. Interesting idea for helping everyone who has too much stress in their lives. Kombolói – Link
Italian designer Adele Rotella’s “XYO” lamps communicate with a simple language of projected icons and hieroglyphics. Interesting idea to embed sensing and communication technologies into lamps, just don’t get too close or you might melt from the heat. XYO lamps – [via] – Link
Pingmag has a great photo set and write up about “Decotora” or decorated trucks – On a dark and rainy night, bright and blinding lights approach a vacant lot, off a Japanese highway – just if Shibuya’s blinking neon signs decided to move themselves past you… However, it’s some proud and lonely trucker halting for […]
The “Rolling Bench” has a handle on the side that you turn when the surface of the seat is wet or dirty and you want something cleaner without getting dirty yourself. Pretty simple solution for the age-old problem of finding public seating that is not completely soiled by the last person who was there or […]
Robert Wechsler made these circular bikes from nine salvaged bikes. They were reassembled into a carousel formation, the bikes are modular and can be dismantled and reassembled. It is normally left in public places where it can attract a variety of riders – [via] Link.
