If your looking for decorating ideas that are a little out of the norm…
Author: John
LOMO Meccano Erector Set
From the makers of fine photographic equipment (that’s a joke folks):
Your days of mindless play and whimsical fancy have come to a close. Now that you have arrived at this important growth stage, your further development requires true inspiration – not the blithe bouncing of a rubber ball or cradling of a lifeless doll. Peel open your assigned LOMO Meccano Erector Set and prepare to greatly advance your powers of critical thought and mechanical prowess. Using this collection of precise modular instruments, you can erect the following five creations…
Alas, there looks to be only 100 available. However, for your $125US you do get one heck of a cool kit. With this set up you cam make an enlarger, a slide projector, a camera, a negative viewer, and a magnifying glass. If you ask me it’s worth the price. Little known fact, pretty much any camera that has a bulb setting and a back that opens can be used as a photographic enlarger. I used to use a medium format twin lens reflex camera as an enlarger when I didn’t have a proper darkroom. The results were not perfect but it did get the job done. I think I see a future DIY project here…
[via MAKE]
LOMO Meccano Erector Set
AutoStitch
If your into panoramic images like I am your always on the look out for software to help you stitch images together. This is a fine choice.
Autostitch™ is the world’s first fully automatic 2D image stitcher. Capable of stitching full view panoramas without any user input whatsoever, Autostitch is a breakthrough technology for panoramic photography, VR and visualisation applications. This is the first solution to stitch any panorama completely automatically, whether 1D (horizontal) or 2D (horizontal and vertical).
Oh yeah, it’s free!
[via Make]
Vacuum Tube Sculptures
Here are some amazing miniature dioramas and sculptures that are built inside vacuum tubes. Opening up a vacuum tub can’t be much harder than opening up a light bulb, I’ll have to give this a try.
[via boingboing]
Sageous Galleries, Vacuum Tube Sculptures by Peter A. Luber
Crawfish Toothbrush Holder
This has to be the most clever of all clever toothbrush holders I have ever seen. How cool would it be to have a crayfish hold your toothbrush? For about $6US it a deal but only if your in Japan as it looks to only be available there.
[via technabob]
crawfish toothbrush holder
(Original page in Japanese: CRAWFISH ??????? ???? ????? ?????????)
Terror From Space! Close Call For Airliner
This happened a few months ago but it highlights the dangers of keeping Earths orbital real estate clean.
The pilot of a Lan Chile Airbus A340, which was travelling between Santiago, Chile, and Auckland, New Zealand, notified air traffic controllers at Auckland Oceanic Centre after seeing flaming space junk hurtling across the sky just five nautical miles in front of and behind his plane about 10pm last night.