Search the web for home wine-making supplies, and you’ll be greeted by so many plastic buckets and airlocks and hoses, you’ll feel like you just stumbled onto a construction site. DIY vinification is a complex (and unsightly) ...READ»
He last turned heads by funding budding entrepreneurs who quit college to start businesses. Now Thiel's Breakout Labs is doing the same for scientists, granting $50,000 to $350,000 to entrepreneurial-minded free radicals. READ»
From a first-grader curious about how a clock works, to a designer who needs to make a quick-and-dirty mockup of an in-development gadget, we could all use a little help when it comes to understanding and manipulating our interactive ...READ»
Homemade rocket launchers? Backpack-mounted drones? Improvised tanks? Inside the weird and wonderful world of weapons from the Libyan revolutionary war.READ»
As Stephen Hawking once said: "Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-generated robots will take over our world." So what developments in robotics happened this week?READ»
"I'll definitely go to the Burton exhibit," says Boing Boing's Mark Frauenfelder. He'll also be at Maker Faire, a DIY celebration. "Our food demos run the gamut" from tofu to seedballs to fermentation, says organizer Kim Dow.READ»
The DIY project you see here, by Sweden's Pål Rodenius, follows a logic that has doubtless passed through the gray matter of anyone who's ever spent a Saturday night with a hammer and a printout from Instructables.com: If people use ...READ»
A pop-up community center offsite at SXSW teaches sewing classes, engages Austin crafters, and even manages to turn those craptastic swag bags into something usable!READ»
Microchips are made from silicon and plastic for a good reason: it's very easy to control and make sure each component is exactly like every other. But Dr. Jean-Baptiste Labrune of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs thinks that electronics made ...READ»
Want to test out a product or marketing idea, but don't have $10,000 to burn? This Denver-based startup can gather potential customers online in just four minutes for $40 a head.READ»
So technically, the recession is over and consumer confidence is on the upswing. But some of us are still hoarding cans and making curtains out of potato sacks like our grannies did in the Great Depression. Enter Recession ...READ»
The U.S.-based iterations of Maker Faire, annual celebrations of all things DIY, are famous for their out-of-this-world gadgets and contraptions. Maker Faire Africa is no different.READ»
There's a huge media fuss about a potential failing of the iPhone 4's clever antenna design, with folks concerned it spells radio-drop-out call doom for the phone. We remain to be convinced. But here's a $0.001 DIY fix anyway. READ»
