Attention all eco inventors, green design visionaries, and gadget geeks! We’re excited to announce Greener Gadgets 2009! Registration is now open for the return of this provocative conference, which will take place on February 27th, 2009 in NYC. Like last year’s inaugural Greener Gadgets event, the 2009 conference will convene some of the world’s leaders in green tech to explore the sustainable side of the consumer electronics industry. This year’s event is shaping up to be better than ever, with a star-studded lineup of speakers and another exciting design competition, and Inhabitat will be posed at the center of...
From A Hamburger Today This weekend during brunch my friend's friend regaled us with a recent story about how while driving out of a parking lot, a stranger outside the car frantically tried to get his attention. He almost wrote her off as a crazy woman, but gave into her persistence instead and rolled down his window. "You left your wallet over there!" she said. He got out of the car to check. Yes, there was a wallet; alas, it wasn't his. "This was the only thing inside," he said dramatically, while pulling a card out of the wallet: ...Huh?...
Pruthviraj Patil is a non-photoshopped 11-year-old boy from India who has werewolf syndrome. It's ok to giggle, because scientists think they've found a cure. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment » The Best Links: More photos of Wolf Boy More wolf children...
Flickr’d How dumb are men, generally? A woman is set to divorce her husband after she discovered a photo of his genitals in his iPhone’s sent e-mails folder. The woman suspected that the guy was sending photos of himself to other women, but the guy had an excuse: it’s just a glitch, honey. Yeah, the iPhone has this weird habit of going into photo mode, unzipping your pants and sending proof of your awesomeness to strange women. The woman didn’t believe this “glitch” excuse and asked on the Apple discussion boards for advice. “I think your marriage has a...
Windows only: Create and mix your own file and media playlists with Freepath. Users can create file playlists from a variety of sources: files from their own computers, video files found on YouTube, photos from Flickr, nearly anything you can drag and drop from the web or your own computer can be dumped into Freepath. Once the files are placed within a playlist, users can opt to keep the list as spartan or create a slideshow complete with transitions and extra effects. One of the more unique features of Freepath is that files remain editable once they are embedded into...
Danny is a frequent user at the Boston Fab Lab. He has done some great work to figure out the laser cutter. In nice Fab Lab community fashion, Danny has encouraged and tutored many other lab users on how to get the most out of the tools in the lab. The Boston Fab Lab is housed in the South End Technology Center, and is supported by the Center for Bits and Atoms at the MIT Media Lab. The lab has open hours on Thursday evenings and Saturday afternoons. If you would like to get your hands on some of...
It’s hard to believe that nearly a year has gone by since we gave out those crazy gorilla awards to the best startup and product successes in Silicon Valley and around the world. Some of the photos from last year are here. The Crunchies are back. We are once again partnering with some of our favorite blogs - thank you to co-hosts GigaOm, Silicon Alley Insider and VentureBeat (click the links for their announcements). The Awards Ceremony will be held on Jan. 9, 2009, 7:30 pm at the Herbst Theater across the street from City Hall in San Francisco. The...
Knit Night Cupcakes more photos>>> Posted by dar_jan for Design Yout Trust, 2008. Permalink | No comments Design You Trust sponsors. We're proud all of them: Dream Template | W3 MARKUP | activeCollab | MOSSO : The Hosting Cloud | Envisionext.net | Behance Network...
When I need to photograph a small object with my iPhone, the fixed focus lens makes for a pretty horrible image. Inspired by this post, I took a 50mm lens from an old SLR and started using it as an improvised macro lens by holding it in front of my iPhone. I decided to make a mount for the whole contraption. I realized that the little plastic coffin from the iPhone packaging would work pretty well. I cut a piece of mousepad to cushion things, and mounted it all with a couple of zip-ties and a rubber band. Now,...
Here are some of the scenes and many of the shining faces from our second-annual NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco last week. All of the photos were taken by Katie Basso. You can see more photos from the conference on Flickr, and please do leave us a link if you’ve posted shots of your own elsewhere....
Generally, when you think of a hot laser being pointed at your body, you'd expect it to create a hole rather than seal one up. And most of the time, you'd be right. But Abraham Katzir, a physicist at Tel Aviv University, has just begun human trials of healing lasers that promise less scarring, faster healing and less risk of infection when compared to traditional stiches. As you can see from the photos to the left, the laser-healed cut on the bottom healed much better than the suture-sewn cut on top. So how do they keep the laser safe and...
The break-in at the Manhattan branch of the London dealer Colnaghi’s, on East Eighth Street, was sophisticated. It involved going through a skylight and a maneuver with a rope that could have sent the robbers plunging down the stairwell. Once inside, however, the perpetrators became bumblers, treading on a couple of canvases, and by no means choosing the best on the walls. Click to the full article, and here for the associated photos slideshow. @ haha.nu....
Hey Makers, I put together the LED Clock kit today - it took awhile to make but was really rewarding once I got going with it. Obviously the wiring was the hardest part but once you check all your connections and develop a pattern it goes by pretty fast. This kit also taught me a couple of things. One of those was how to tell the polarity of an LED. It all has to do with the length of the legs on the LED. Also I learned firsthand how bring LED's can really be. Unless you just want a clock...
Liset van der Scheer. more photos>>> Posted by dar_jan for Design Yout Trust, 2008. Permalink | No comments Design You Trust sponsors. We're proud all of them: Dream Template | W3 MARKUP | activeCollab | MOSSO : The Hosting Cloud | Envisionext.net | Behance Network...
We've covered a few before, but since you guys keep uncovering examples of companies supplying you with gizmos in ridiculously voluminous packaging, we're building a new Hall of Shame to give these things a home, and embarrass the perpetrators. Oh, and in the spirit of Amazon's "frustration-free wrapping promise," and the vicious gash I got in my hand last week when unwrapping a simple flashdrive, let's bundle overly-protective gadget wrapping in there too. You know— those "plastic-wrapped in seven different bullet-proof layers" blister packages, in a box, in a cellophane wrapper that even a chainsaw can't free-up inside of half...
Many people decorate their workspace with pictures of their families. Often, these photos serve as a good conversation piece. But, what if you could have a life-sized cutout of your kids, playing sports? That’s where StickyFan comes in. The service lets you upload a photo of your kid (or really, anyone, but the focus is on child athletes) and then order either a huge cutout or a poster. Cutouts can be up to 6 feet tall, while posters are 24” x 36”. Stickyfan offers its own photo editing tools, and sends you a proof of what your cutout will look...
People, if you haven't already checked out the photography of Tanja Askani, you SHUD! Exhibit A; the Snorgle-a-thon of a prosh deer and hare. Check out the fest below, and see all Tanja's photos here. Ruhmember to check out ALL Tanja's photos! You won't buh-leaf it!...
