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The next time you want to purchase a lamp to dress up your home, we would recommend holding off that trip to Ikea for a moment. After all, why go for Swedish-designed products when you can settle for something which is totally different and unique in the form of the Robolamp series? Using bits and [...]

It used to be you heard about electronic and mechanical geniuses getting their start through tearing apart any gadget or motor they can get their hands on.  Purely to see what made it tick and if they could perhaps get the whole mess back together again.  Sadly, today’s kids get a little bit jipped in [...]

First there was the One Laptop Per Child laptop for under $100, now an engineer has created a $10 do it yourself microscope out of a cellphone!
The vision of engineering professor Aydogan Ozcan of UCLA, the microscope uses a cellphone and ten dollars ($10) of off the shelf parts. The idea is pretty groundbreaking [...]

There are a great deal of designers trying to hide your speakers in other devices or at least making it so that they blend in with the rest of your décor.  Yet this designer has gone for a slightly different angle, they’re making the speakers a feature of sorts.  For once it’s not done in [...]

Gallery of posts up to 10-17-2009

Some of you might remember when we reported on the Hollywood Rip, Ride, Rockit, a now recently opened roller coaster at Universal Orlando that allows the spectators to choose a soundtrack. Disney’s EPCOT Center has now debuted a new ride called Sum of All Thrills, which allows the spectators to design and ride their [...]

See that picture to the left? Beautiful, isn’t it? Believe it or not, it wasn’t shot by a million-dollar satellite, but a simple handheld camera by two M.I.T. students who haven’t been to space, yet.
Justin Lee and Oliver Yeh didn’t have Dennis Tito’s $20 million dollars to go into orbit, but what they [...]