You can make anything from 3-D printing, from impossibly complex lamps to chain-mail bags to entire buildings. So it's actually kind of surprising that 3-D printed shoes aren't more common. Maybe someday soon: For her master's ...READ»
Ninteno's guru Shigeru Miyamoto has just revealed that Nintendo might be aiming at a surprising new market for its games consoles: Schools. With all the controversy about distractions and violence, is this sensible?
Miyamoto's ...READ»
Good news for anyone who has old records but no record player: you can make your own record player pretty easily--just add cardboard. Griffiths, Gibson and Ramsay Productions (GGRP), a Vancouver-based sound design studio, exploited ...READ»
Man, Shabbat is old. Like, thousands of years old. No offense to whoever created it, but it's painfully outdated. In response, the day of rest has been rebranded as the Day of Unplugging.READ»
A week after the FCC debuted a beta tool for consumers to measure their broadband speeds, we've got the first set of stats. 150,000 people decided to avail themselves of the widget, available on Android, iPhone and Web platforms, ...READ»
In the future DARPA's ISIS blimp may be hovering above the horizon near to conflict zones, feeding real time radar data to troops and smart weapons from on high. True to its name, it's also a little more magical than the Goodyear ...READ»
Film maker John Waters famously dubbed the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA)'s annual fund-raiser, "Dining by Design," the "Cannes of Tabletop." And with good reason. If these tables could walk, they would have been ...READ»
Most of us don't think about the cultural context of our washing machines--we just toss in clothes, turn on the device, and don't ponder it further. But the reality is that the majority of people on the planet wash clothes by hand, ...READ»
Got spare change? A Coke robot, a used panties dispenser, a pet cockroach machine, and other coin-operated tools of instant gratification cater to inexplicable needs.READ»
Got spare change? A Coke robot, a used panties dispenser, a pet cockroach machine, and other coin-operated tools of instant gratification cater to inexplicable needs.READ»
If you assume a desktop computer's a big box full of chips, hard drives and other paraphernalia, it's hard to see how to make it cheaper. Unless you go down the virtualization route: NComputing thinks the ultimate cost could be ...READ»
Ninteno's guru Shigeru Miyamoto has just revealed that Nintendo might be aiming at a surprising new market for its games consoles: Schools. With all the controversy about distractions and violence, is this sensible?
Miyamoto's ...READ»
A pair of senators, one red, one blue, have today proposed a biometric ID system to "mend" immigration. It's part of a bipartisan immigration bill backed by President Obama, and proposes to replace everyone's social security cards ...READ»
"Oh ar, oi'm a movie pirate, I am. Oh arrrr!"...does that sound sexy to you? Does it bring visions of a be-hatted Johnny Depp to mind? According to some content providers it might, and they want to rename online piracy. Losers.This ...READ»
