Pretty sure this one’s a “today-only” sale item – This innovative lock is designed by Art Lebedev Studio… responsible for the amazing Optimus Maximus keyboard with a tiny screen on each key. Constructed of 100% titanium alloy, nothing less than a level forty-two spell of ultimate cutting will break the Defendius lock open. Really, just […]
These are full-page scans from the 1930 DeMoulin Bros. & Co. Fraternal Supply Catalog, which illustrates tons of pranks to use on new recruits. Most are fantastically elaborate and would never work in today’s society. I think my favorite is the Electric Spiked Pathway or maybe the Moral Athletics. Take a look and post your […]
NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday had a nice report on our growing DIY culture, featuring brief interviews with Instructables’ Eric Wilhelm, Etsy’s Rob Kalin, and our own Phil Torrone – “If you just Google anything in your home, there’s probably a hack or a mod for it,” Torrone says. “And there’s probably someone who’s completely obsessed […]
Often, a company will attempt to break a world-record, or release a “crazy” web video to promote their generally unrelated product. What’s unusual is when that publicity stunt is actually really cool! John writes in – The world’s largest and most powerful air vortex cannon. The site has a video of the cannon blowing out […]
uBrowser is an simple Web Browser that illustrates one way of embedding the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine into a standalone application using LibXUL. In this case, the contents of the page is grabbed as it’s being rendered and displayed as a texture on some geometry using OpenGL. You are able to interact with the page (mostly) normally and visit (almost) any site that works correctly with Firefox 1.5. Translation: Expect to see browser like Firefox in every virtual world really soon. [via] Link. I took a few screenshots, check’em out!
The Kodak EasyShare-One is one of the first wi-fi (wireless) enabled digital cameras on the market. Take a photo, connect to a wireless hot spot, then transfer them or email them. Sounds good, right? Almost, except that you can’t really email the photos–they’re sent to Kodak’s EasyShare Gallery and the link is sent to that gallery. I use Flickr for all my photos, so here’s one (of many forthcoming) how-tos on using the Kodak wi-fi camera with Flickr and a Mac. It’s simple and works for me. Now I can send my photos to Flickr from anywhere.
MAKE has an instant message buddy and he’s now on a permanent server to handle all the messaging! The MAKEbot is a AIM/iChat buddy you add to your buddy list. When you type latest, he will give you the latest news from Makezine.com. You can type subscribe 1 and he’ll deliver the latest news each hour. If you type photos you’ll get the latest photos from the MAKE photo pool, type bookmarks you’ll get our latest bookmarks, type Instructables you’ll get the latest how-to projects. Lastly – if you type keywords like psp, welding, ipod or whatever he’ll search the MAKE site, the pages from MAKE and give you a link from our search engine to help you find what you’re looking for…You can also type help to get a list of commands. That’s right, he’s the first and only bot that uses RSS, Flickr, del.icio.us, Instructables and Google search! Add him now! Here are some screenshots!
