Mollie got a great anniversary present! via Fabbaloo. Adam came home with my anniversary gift. Now, some people might get a necklace or a pair of earrings for an anniversary, but not me. I got a 3D mouse brain. I am so psyched. He designed it based on sections and pictures he found online, made […]
I saw Mayor Bloomberg of NYC speak a few days before our NYC Maker Faire event and he outlined a new service which allows anyone to upload photos and video to their 911 and 311 services (311 is for things like potholes, trash, city stuff). I was pretty excited about this new leap in government […]
Better organic semiconductors for printable electronics… I know for a fact this is interesting for at least 3 specific people who read MAKE, this is for them but I suspect others will dig it too :)
Intel teases shape-shifting programmable matter via Fabbaloo. In the final keynote of the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) Thursday, Justin Rattner, Intel’s chief technology officer, shed some light on work around programmable matter, as he teased the audience with what Intel believes would apply as technology in the next four decades. The idea of programmable matter, […]
RCA: The Future of Money @ Core77 via Beyond the Beyond. Students in the Design Interactions Department at the Royal College of Art were challenged to explore the future of money when it disappears as a physical currency… Cash is dissapearing more and more and we are moving towards a cashless society where hard cash […]
CleanTechnica points us to M2E’s kinetically-powered portable charger due to be released next summer. The kinetic energy system uses the Faraday Principle, which states that the movement of a conductor through a magnetic field produces voltage in the conductor proportional to the speed of movement. In this case, the conductor is a wire coil. The […]
I’m trying to figure out what’s up with this story… People are getting kidnapped – got that part, so they’re getting RFID chips implanted… which helps how? Snippet from the article… The chips cost $4,000 plus an annual fee of $2,200…. Xega, based in the central Mexican city of Quererato, designed global positioning systems to […]
