The New York Times has a pretty good round up of way to do 3-D printing, some cheap(er) and some expensive… (Pictured here, a LEGO spaceship – Marty Katz for The New York Times) Over the last few decades, the electronics industry has worked magic with documents by building gadgets that copy, e-mail, print or […]
This is pretty interesting, a device from Ambient will give you demand response event notifications and peak Load advisory notifications so you can reduce kW usage when demand is unusually high and supply dangerously short, it’s only available in NYC at this time. If these were built in to more devices (or homes) you could […]
Tim O’Reilly’s News From the Future column in every issue of MAKE magazine is one of my favorites and it’s expanded to posts here on MAKE. So, I’m turning the “News From the Future” category on MAKE into a newsletter – you’ll get special future related stories and links from Tim and myself. To get […]
Anna writes – InsideOutside is a piece of (under-)clothing that heats up or cools down uncomfortably when the wearer gets near spaces where others feel discomfort. These areas can include but are not limited to video-surveilled areas, shopping malls, riot-proof architecture, uncomfortable street furniture etc. You can add coordinates of places that make you feel […]
Brian @ Hackszine write – Quinn Norton has posted the slides from the popular Body Hacking talk she gave at O’Reilly’s recent ETech conference. She defines body hacking as: Acting on yourself, with or without assistance, to enhance the function of your body or your perceptions. Body hacking is, like all other forms of hacking, […]
This race race sounds tasty… Well, some of it. If you thought motor-racing was all about petrol-heads and champagne, WMG students at the University of Warwick will make you think again. Eco One is an environmentally-friendly race car with a difference: its shell is made from hemp, the tyres made from potatoes and the brake […]
Researchers in China are working on ways to recycle PCBs (Printed circuit boards) – for the most part PCBs from gadgets, consumer electronics and everything else is usually just tossed in a landfill – Electronic circuits in discarded computers, cellphones and other devices could be recycled less harmfully using a technique developed by researchers in […]
