Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
Ever see an old kind of banged up camera sitting in a second hand shop and wonder what photos from it look like? Marcy over at Junk store Cameras was wondering too and decided to find out. Go have a look at the results of some of her finds. I’m impressed that she found a company that still makes 126 film!
Almost a year ago I blogged about these little critters but at the time there was no place in the US that you could buy them. That is not the case any longer! Compact Impact is now selling them for $10 so you too can have a cute pet cactus in your pocket. Just remember to water once in a while and give it some sun, after all it is a living thing.
[via Cool Hunting]
I was burning some photos from a friend of mine tonight and I realized that I was fresh out of cases. Not wanting to go through my junk to find an empty case or at lest the next CD/DVD to get all scratched up and die a slow death, I thought I’d have a look to see if anyone has a nifty origami solution. Sure enough, no less than three people have thought of how to do this and decided to share.
The first and easiest one for me was the one by Tom Hull. The ‘American CD Case‘ was easy to make without resorting to running paper through my printer.
Two others, Paper CD case and R&OS origami CD wallet are cool if you want to print titles, track lists, text on the spine, and a few other things. If you want some fancy fonts on your case then go with the one from R&OS. Both will produce an easy to follow PDF file but remember not to have it scale when you print because that will screw things up. Could be good if your doing a mini CD though. Go try it out and tell me if it works.
This should be a handy resource for anyone out there who has a naked CD/DVD that needs to be taken somewhere. Lets all sit back and appreciate the amazing power of paper.
Yes, if you set your coffee mug down on the display you can halt the forward progress of your opponent. For added hazards small animals could also be used. I’m thinking that a small sleeping cat could be the perfect obstacle in this game. How long will the cat sleep? Will you be flying by it when it awakes and causes you to crash?
Neon Racer is a multi-user Augmented Reality (AR) racing game adapting the simple and powerful gameplay of racing games to an AR tabletop setting. The game combines an intuitive and tangible interface with quality content. In this demo we explore how a rich gaming experience can be created by using only a limited amount of virtual information. The game compacts the use of virtual elements to a minimum, displaying only the players’ racing vehicles and lap checkpoints. The active setting for the game is provided by the physical world, and all its parts can influence gameplay. Physical objects act as collision obstacles and influence the course of the race itself. Participants have to interact with both the virtual and real objects to succeed.
[via we-make-money-not-art]
I’ll agree with that. The only thing worse is maybe a bag of Pixi Stix and a hammer…
Ever have one of those days? Well the city of Sioux Falls South Dakota had one on Saturday. The old Zip feed mill (a landmark for over 50 years) was set to be imploded by 100 pounds of explosives. The plan was for it to drop and then fall over in a big pile. The entire event was made into kind of festival, parties, a drawing to see who gets ot push the button, multi camera TV coverage, the works. Well , the countdown hit zero and the demo charges blew and the building was going to have nothing to do with following the plan. It dropped and tilted but stopped far short of the mark. Looks like it’s going to be a job for the wrecking ball and jackhammer after all. First they have to make the place safe to work around, as it is it could fall over in a strong wind. My brother lives in Sioux Falls and he put together this photo you see above this. No, the sign didn’t originally say ’tilt’. He also took some panoramic photos from the top, I’m still waiting on those.
This link will take you to the KELO TV page where you can see all the exciting tilting action for a bunch of different angled.