Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
This is just a wacky item. As many people may know, scattered around the planet are tile mosaics depicting the aliens from the classic video game ‘Space Invaders‘. Well this is one made up of not the usual ceramic tiles but of Rublik cubes. Neat. I’m waiting for someone to build a massive sculpture out of Merlin games.
[via Core77]
Sometimes you see something and you just have to blog about it, this is one of those things. Amaze your friends with this floating space shuttle. If you don’t want he space shuttle hovering over your desk all day you can swap it out with an LCD clock. Could be a nice gift for the geek on your list.
Two years after their theft from an Oslo museum, Edvard Munch’s famous paintings "The Scream" and "Madonna" have been recovered. The police aren’t saying how they got the paintings back but both are in pretty good shape. Good work!
I’m not sure if this is an ultra low power LCD display or if it’s doing the same trick that ePaper/eInk can do. That’s consume no power to keep an image on the screen. If so this is going to be one hell of a handy device for portable electronics.
[via Fosfor Gadgets]
I like a radio that you have to build parts just to get it to work. It makes the sounds sweeter when you know exactly how much work you put into it. I used to have a crystal radio that I listened to when I was working in my garage that I made from a paper towel tube. It was great! This kit isn’t a crystal radio but it does have a vacuum tube in it. Oh yeah, nothing says cool more than a glowing valve! This kit will make any home tinkerer happy, heck it will make tech bloggers happy too (hint hint, oh brother of mine!).
[via red ferret]
Cool, I’ll be in New York when they start putting this up.
London-based sculptor Anish Kapoor, famous for Chicago’s 125-ton stainless steel "Cloud Gate" sculpture in Millenium Park (looks like a trippy mirrored jellybean), will install his 3-story tall "Cloud Mirror" in NYC from Sept. 19 to Oct. 27. To be situated at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, the dish-like sculpture’s concave side will show an inverted reflection of the skyscraper.
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