Joe sent over this awesome water chopper! Years of puttering around the workshop finally have paid off for a local inventor, who was featured in the July edition of Popular Mechanic. Jim Garlitz, who operates a pizza shop in this small unincorporated town in the western Maryland mountains, was featured for a watercraft he assembled […]
Erik writes – Being on the ground in Nairobi makes it a little easier to find good AfriGadget stories. I took a walk down Ngong road, an area with a lot of shadetree mechanics, wood carvers and metal fabricators. The first place I stopped at had a home made welding machine. Simon, the shop owner, […]
If you know more about this nail-and-toothpick artist post up in the comments – Link.
Ben’s amazing wooden prototype ball machine – Link.
Hyposurface is freaking cool – HypoSurface is the World’s first display system where the screen surface physically moves! Information and form are linked to give a radical new media technology: an info-form device. The surface behaves like a precisely controlled liquid: waves, patterns, logos, even text emerge and fade continually within its dynamic surface. The […]
Wow, the knife.hand.chop.bot is my new favorite bot. The best part of the video is the laser dot that appears on the person’s hand before it starts its chopping – 5VOLTCORE is about to build a self-fulfilling cybernetic system, that plays with the senses and perceptions of the User and the sensors and the processes […]
Ann sent in this video about a guy in maine who built his own hydraulic cow-lift to tip a cow on it’s side, so he can take a power grider to it’s hoofs. Lots of jiggling udders and a dramatic cow-fall included! (No animals were harmed) – Link.
