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Submarine turned into a home theater..

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:36:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Someday I'm going to have a home theater but I can only dream of ever having one this cool. It's nice to see an artistic touch put into one of these since most are designed to be perfect listening rooms which usually means very boring...

Clip Source: blog.makezine.com

Kiwi businessman Wayne Eyre dropped a pretty penny on this fantasy home theater build, but the results are impressive. Many have suggested that it's supposed to be Captain Nemo's Nautilus, but there's no mention of deliberate Verne overtones in the original article. The last photograph above, for instance, shows leaking "plutonium torpedoes" in part of the installation, but plutonium wasn't even discovered until 50 years after 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was published. [via Dude Craft]

Tags: art, home theater

Projection mapping is now interactive... Play pinball on a building!

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:30:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: These guys just took something that is already amazingly cool and made it even cooler.

Clip Source: blog.makezine.com

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Tags: projection mapping, pinball, interactive

Guitar hero played with soccer/foot balls...

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:32:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is awesome. The technology behind it is pretty simple, and the ability to hit the spots is quite simple for the people doing it (they are serious pro's) but the idea of it all together is really quite genius IMO.

Clip Source: hackedgadgets.com

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Cell phone orchestra... Absolutely Amazing!

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:43:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is an unbelievable feet of cell phone technology. They had to film it at off hours due to the insane text's per second throughput they were attempting. Please go to the source and check out the video on the making of the commercial. This is real and done with real text messages.

Clip Source: blog.makezine.com

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This ad for Vodafone New Zeland is an impressive technical feat. They loaded up 1000 cell phones with ringtones for single instruments, and then built a system to send text messages to them in the correct order, to get them to perform a portion of Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture. Considering the amount of delay that I usually notice when sending messages, I was pretty surprised that they claim to have performed this over their regular cell network. [via gizmodo]

Tags: cell phones, vodafone, symphony

Jameco managers take paycuts so they don't have to layoff anyone.

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:23:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If we had more company's like this, the whole country would be in better shape. Obviously we'd still have problems but even if it cut the rise in unemployment by a small amount, it would make a big difference.

Anyway, my hats off to these guys! I will definitely be buying my components from them in the future.

Clip Source: blog.makezine.com

"...We at Jameco understand these times of economic uncertainty. When you struggle, we struggle. At a time of high unemployment, the Jameco management team has taken salary cuts to ensure the continued full employment of the trained professionals you have come to depend on for the past 35 years"...

Tags: jameco, unemployment

This is what you get for selling a Wii on the Home Shopping Channel!

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:02:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is going to be a classic. I've seen so many of these faked that it's actually kind of nice to see a real one...

Clip Source: gizmodo.com

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Hand it to that guy, he does not deviate from the sales pitch after such a colossally embarrassing f—kup, even with his cohost laughing and, no doubt, a production crew trying to keep it together. And hats off to the director who switched over to the b-roll while they got the pitchman positioned perfectly in front of the TV to cover up the scar the Wiimote left.

Tags: wii, wiimote

Unbelievable projection mapping video!

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:50:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It's very long and slightly redundant in spots but well worth watching the whole thing. Few things amaze me quite like projection mapping and this is an amazing example it.

Clip Source: blog.makezine.com

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Tags: projection mapping

He pulled the table out from under the cloth!

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:33:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is so coool! I want one!

Clip Source: blog.makezine.com

Alex over at Neatorama spotted these awesome handmade tables from essey.com. Sheets of 3 or 4 mm acrylic, in several colors and finishes, are thermoformed over a table-sized blank, by a person, to create a ghostly transparent or translucent shell in one of two sizes.

Tags: art, table cloth

The Disintegrator, a dual revolver, 24 barrel, 40 round per second...

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:24:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ...rubber band gun!!

I came across what I thought was a really really cool rubber band gun so of course I wondered if there was anything better... Well, this answered my question! This thing is unbelievable! Check out the video at the source to see it in action...

Clip Source: hackedgadgets.com

Wow this DISINTEGRATOR Rubber Band Gun takes the cake for well built rubber band guns! The build log and attention to detail is also second to none. The gun is amazing but the scenery sure helps, the creator is from Dunstable, England and the hills you see are the Dunstable Downs.

“Forget the rubber band Gatling gun. The DISINTEGRATOR is the most incredible rubber band gun ever built, capable of firing more than 40 rounds per second (2400 rounds per minute) from its 24 revolving barrels. This is the twin Vulcan cannon of the rubber band gun world!”

Tags: rubber band gun, rubber bands

The ultimate model railroad.. "Miniature Wonderland"

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:57:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I am a HUGE fan of model railroads and even dabbled in them some myself in a past life, but this just puts them all to shame. Absolutely amazing!!

Clip Source: blog.makezine.com

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Tags: model railroad, railroad, modeling

Cybraphon - An emotional autonomous band!

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:17:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: First I have to say that I really love the sound of mechanical bands such as this so that does way on my feelings about it. That said, it's not the best sounding I've heard but it has to be the best implementation I've seen yet. I love the fact that it's mood is affected by things such as it's friend count on myspace and the number of results on google about it. In fact, me posting this will put it in a better mood and therefore it will play more upbeat music! Sounds like a lot of people I know who's moods are way to affected by there online "status".

Clip Source: cybraphon.com

Inspired by early 19th century mechanical bands such as the nickelodeon, Cybraphon is an interactive version of a mechanical band in a box. Consisting of a series of robotic instruments housed in a large display case, Cybraphon behaves like a real band. Image conscious and emotional, the band’s performance is affected by online community opinion as it searches the web for reviews and comments about itself 24 hours a day.

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Tags: autonomous, cybraphon

Did you know processors start from sand?

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:41:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I must admit I never thought about it before seeing this. Also, I highly recommend going to the source and checking out the full picture story. It is a very cool step by step of the making of a processor.

Clip Source: www.tomshardware.com

Sand. Made up of 25 percent silicon, is, after oxygen, the second most abundant chemical element that's in the earth's crust. Sand, especially quartz, has high percentages of silicon in the form of silicon dioxide (SiO2) and is the base ingredient for semiconductor manufacturing.

Clip Source: www.tomshardware.com

The resulting purity is so great that electronic grade silicon may only have one alien atom for every one billion silicon atoms.

Clip Source: www.tomshardware.com

A mono-crystal ingot is produced from electronic grade silicon. One ingot weighs approximately 100 kilograms (or 220 pounds) and has a silicon purity of 99.9999 percent.

Tags: processor

Key-Ring... A key and key ring in one!

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:15:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Talk about a "Why didn't I think of that" moment... So simple and yet so obvious! Oh well, maybe one day I will have created the thing that causes people to say "Why didn't I think of that".

Clip Source: blog.makezine.com

Scott Amron of Amron Experimental wins this decade's OMG-why-didn't-I-think-of-that award. Via Neatorama.

Tags: key ring

Thought you saw the last of Windows 95? Think again!

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:40:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is insane! Windows 95 on an iPhone! I think I'm literally speechless...

Clip Source: www.engadget.com

Give a guy an iPhone, a jailbreak, and an open-source, cross-platform x86 emulator, and it's just a matter of time before hilarity ensues. In this case, said hilarity involves getting Windows 95 to boot on an iPhone 3G, a process that takes 5-10 minutes worth of pure boot time only to yield an environment useless for... well, actual use.

Tags: iphone, win95, windows

Very cool interactive LED wall!

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:47:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This has to be one of the best i've seen of this type of technology. Most of the time they are limited to 1 or maybe 2 effects. This one has many many effects. The best part is that it not only tracks motion but also distance from the wall. Very very nicely done!

Clip Source: blog.makezine.com

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This is a project I worked on with Marc-André Baril while I was at Moment Factory. They created an interactive wall for the tourist information office, La Vitrine in Montreal.

The installation includes tracking devices and low-resolution LED displays and is capable of showing many different visualizations based on the presence and movement of people.

Visitors can interact with the installation every night from 7 PM to 11 PM. La Vitrine, 145, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, Montréal

Tags: interactive, led