This LED lamp is powered by gravity using the same technology as a grandfather clock.  The lamp last four hours per cycle when activated and is expected to remain functional for 200 years.  “To “turn on” the lamp, the user moves weights from the bottom to the top of the lamp.  An hour-glass like mechanism…

a “silly” website where people can keep track of their morale & display it online. the morale-o-meter free embeddable web application provides an opportunity to continuously track & log numerical morale indicators (i.e. morale, health, sleep, alcohol, caffeine), visualize them as bar graphs, & compare the results with friends, or embed them in blogs or…

In keeping with my interests in robotics, I have found another article demonstrating what a robotic arm is now capable of. While it may not be as cool as my first find, the fireball throwing robot, the tasks this robot can complete are equally impressive. This robot is capable of singing, drawing and writing. The…

In the Southwest and on the west coast, rocks of various sizes are encased in a type of wire mesh to emulate a larger stone structure. It’s a way of using what is readily available to serve the purpose needed. This piece, done by artist Steven Siegel, which sits in front of The Cumming Arts…

This is a link to a commentary on Molly Wright Steenson’s talk on designing with boredom in mind. Steenson gave a talk at Interaction Design Association’s first annual conference (Interaction 2008) called Strategic Boredom. The link for her part in the conference is here and a followup/transcript of her talk on boredom is here. The…

This thing is awsome! I dont know that I have any practical use for this grappling gun, but it would get me one step closer to being as cool as Batman. One very very practical use for this gadget would be to carry it with you in the woods or jungle in case of a…

This technology is really amazing especially with todays energy crisis it’s comforting to know that people can start producing their own power. At this stage the energy produced is very low but the technology is brand new, and can be expected to improve. Right now a shirt made from the fabric can generate enough eletricity…

Lightshow with Pd/GEM and physical modellingOver the last decade, the user base of Pd has constantly grown and many of these users have also turned into developers who work on the software itself and make their own extensions. The sheer number of available extra packages may make Pd a bit intimidating to beginners, so this…

This website hosts all kinds of creative commons licenses and unlicensed films, live recordings, books and software. I ve only used it to get good quality live concerts, Everything on the site is availabe for download from different servers, so its all availabe all of the time.

This device measures the electrical draw of appliances.  You would simply plug the appliance you wanted to measure into one end of the jar’s cable and then plug the other end into a wall outlet.  I thought the design for this was really simple and original, it also recently won a Greener Gadgets competition and…

Ever since I learned about the true nature of Niagara Falls and how it runs at less than it’s full capacity in order to preserve it’s present location, I’ve often wondered how the general public would view this powerful force of nature if it were allowed flow as it should. With this sculpture, the very…