Remember Ring

Rember ringWhat’s the next best thing to having a Rememberall like in the Harry Potter films? A ring that heats up when your anniversary is due. Just a conceptual idea for now, the Remember Ring would store your own body heat in the thermal pile to keep the electronics going and then on the programmed day it would heat up to 120 degrees for ten seconds once an hour every hour for the entire day.

[via Boing Boing]

Remember Ring heats up on your anniversary

Homemade Wide Angle 4×5 Camera

 

This is a thing of beauty…

"My home-made 6×9 super-wide camera. Rigid-body, 47mm f/5.6 Schneider MC Super-Angulon in a No. 0 shutter. With a Mamiya RB67 back…The helical focusing mount is made by Schneider – the distance scale is calibrated for the 47mm Super Angulons. You can buy the mount for some other lenses too. I scavanged the Graflock adapter and some other bits from an old American 6×9 rangefinder camera called Graflex XL. The rest I fabricated myself at a friend’s machine shop in Richmond. It was inspired by the Hasselblad SWC. To use, it is not as nice as the SWC, but I did some comparison shots, and most people who saw them thought that the SA is sharper than the 38 Biogon." 

[via Make] 

Home made camera – a photoset on Flickr

Wired Nextfest 2006

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I had the happy accident of seeing a sign for the Wired Nextfest in a subway on Tuesday and made it one of the last things on the big list for NYC.
Holy crap, all the time I was there I kept thinking Roy Batty’s line from Blade Runner "I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…’ This was stuff that I had blogged about or read of in magazines…

Flickr photoset Wired Nextfest 2006 

DIY Lenticular Stereo Images

Lenticular dragonI’ve seen parallax barrier/lenticular kits that you can buy in computer stores in Thailand. It had some software (simple image manipulation, 3D title maker, and the lenticular program) along with a picture frame that had a screen of the ridged lenticular material. The whole thing looked very cool. I think it was being sold by a printer maker, but I can’t remember what one. I do a bit of stereo photography here and there and was quite intrigued with it, but sadly not enough to buy the kit. The free software in the DIY article should be fun to play with though. 

 

[via MAKE]

Colograms – a simple way to create stereoscopic images

Magnetohydrodynamic Projects

MHD projects If you have ever seen the submarine movie "The Hunt for Red October" you will remember that it’s big thing was the silent propulsion system. It used something called ‘magnetohydrodynamics‘, that is it used a powerful electro magnet to pull water through a pipe and squirt it out the back. Your thinking ‘water and magnets? Get real’ well it’s true, water, and may other fluid type things (solar wind, salt water…) can be manipulated with magnetic fields. Water is a substance that is diamagnetic, that means that it is magnetic in the presence of a magnetic field (read the Wikipedia article on it, it’s explained better there). Grab a super magnet and shallow plastic pan and fill it with a little water and see what it does.

Anyway, this is a little project where you can experiment with this fascinating subject. Go have a look and try it for yourself. You could be having races with your mad scientist friends in no time..

Three magnetohydrodynamic propulsion projects