TARDIS MAME Console
Simon sent in this site describing how he built a 3/4 scale TARDIS then built a folding MAME arcade cabinet to fit inside it. TARDIS MAME Console – Link.
Made On Earth
100 (squared) bicycle bell bicycle
Spluch writes – Didi Senft, also known as the Tour de France devil or El Diablo, is a renowned German inventor who has created over 100 bicycles including the largest in the world as listed in the Guinness Book of Records. This picture shows him seating atop his latest bicycle creation which is made up […]
Fun with Asterisk at the Etel Faire, call a plant now…
You can call some plants right now, try it! It’s happening at the Etel Faire – Botanicalls allows thirsty plants to place phone calls for human help. When a plant on the botanicalls network needs a lot or a little water, it can call a human and ask for exactly what it needs. Brady writes […]
Weird bass guitars
Check out these great bass guitars! Which one is your favorite? Weird Bass Guitars | Weirdomatic – [via] Link.
MatchstickMan – The incredible Matchstick Uke
Tony writes – Jack Hall from England, U.K. proved that a ukulele didn’t need to be made with conventional tools or from the finest materials to play well, sound good and be beautiful to look at. This one-of-a- kind 1984 ukulele was made entirely from used wooden matchsticks…10,000 of them painstakingly glued together with 2 […]
Stain teacup – design appears over time
Artist Bethan Laura Wood made these clever teacups that reveal designs over time – Stain is a set of a teacups designed to improve through use. This project examines the assumption that use is damaging to a product (For example, scratches on an iPod). The interior surface of the cup is treated so as to […]
$10 wok keeps TV station on air
Some Kiwi ingenuity sent in from our pal Nat – Why pay $20,000 for a commercial link to run your television station when a $10 kitchen wok from the Warehouse is just as effective? This is exactly how North Otago’s newest television station 45 South is transmitting its signal from its studio to the top […]