Apart from the materials that go into making them and the design process that is involved, car tires have been short on tech. Don’t get me wrong, thanks to changes in technology, tires are now safer than they have ever been, but in terms of embedded technology in the consumer market, there really has not [...]
Posts from — August 2008
[ August 28th, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]Pirelli Cyber Tyre, Microchipped for Your Safety
Cabernet Couch, Furniture for Winos
Making or sitting on furniture made from wine bottles is just not something I would ever have the desire to do. As you can see, the results don’t look very good, but if you drink an enormous amount of cheap wine then you might as well download the specs and go through with the Cabernet [...]
Bat Signal Clock Radio
If you are a comic geek that loves your Batman then this about the coolest clock radio you will ever see. Not only does it play music and wake you up, but it projects a Bat Signal onto your wall. What more could you ask for in a clock radio other than the ability to [...]
DIY Solid State Disk: 8GB RAID USB SSD in an FDD Shell
If you tend to hoard your old PC parts with the hopes of one day cannibalizing them and producing something great, then this project might get the creative juices flowing. It is a DIY Solid State Disk (SSD) that uses a USB hub and a bunch of memory sticks to create a kind of slapped [...]
Brain Lamp From Lervik Design is Very, Very Cool
I’ve got to say that this is about one of the coolest table lamps I have ever seen. The brain in question is an accurate 3D modeling of the artist’s brain, which was obtained through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and then “printed” using a 3D printer. The result, as [...]
