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Today’s Cool Video

I really like the music in this video by Graffiti Researd Lab showing LED Throwies. Well composed!

A Throwie consists of a lithium battery, a 10mm diffused LED and a rare-earth magnet taped together.

From the Make:Blog comments. One commenter questions the environmental impact:

what do you think the ecological impact of peppering the landscape with a handful of lithium batteries is?

And another bemoans the waste of good electronics:

It seems a shame to have the still good magnet and still good LED slaved to a dead battery halfway up a wall.

Source [Instructions to make your own]

February 15, 2006
Nano iKitty

Plug your headphones in where?! Meeeoow!

February 10, 2006
Like Beer? Gonna get a beer belly?

For you beer fans, now there’s a product for you! Since you are going to get a beer belly anyway, might as well make it useful right?

February 9, 2006
T-shirt Folding Machine

Boing Boing brings us video of a homemade t-shirt folding machine. I have to make one of these and show the kids!

February 2, 2006
OH! Memememme! I want want want!

Awesome! I want a pair!

January 31, 2006
Mom! Where’s My PSP?

New age punishments. Don’t take away their toys, just give them something substandard. This video is an amusing account of a PSP ripoff.

January 27, 2006
How to accurately determine your iPod battery life

I could have used this document when troubleshooting Cathy‘s iPod.

January 24, 2006
Get creative with that digital camera!

This 4 minute film by Patryk Rebisz is shot entire with still pictures using the Canon 20D in burst mode which produces about 5 frames per second. The details were published in the magazine FilmMaker under an article called Still Life. Very creative! As such, it has won awards.

January 15, 2006
Thermal-sensitive polymer

“The secret? Thermal-sensitive polymer.” Just the sound of that is cool. I could think of so many uses for this material. These people made vases.

January 11, 2006
Raggy! Roomba Rooba Roo!

I wish I could have had a video camera! Molly was resting on the floor and the Roomba whirs over and bounces off her nose. She doesn’t flinch! Since her long nose is obviously new territory for the Roomba, it immediately kicks into “outline the perimeter mode” where it moves a little bit then rotates back into the barrier and repeats over and over. So here’s poor Molly trying to get a nap and this robot is noisily tracing her snout!

After about the 5th bump she nonchalantly raised her head and let it pass. If you have pets and are concerned your pet and Roomba won’t be friends, I’d put your fears to rest.

January 11, 2006

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