Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
By dragging a printed paper strip over a linear array of 49 fiber optic strands a 7×7 pixel image can be formed. The effect is very cool, animated text and even motion captured from video can be shown.
I want to know what the application was that the designer used to make the paper strips, looks complex but powerful.
[via ektopia]
Would you beleive that this bike folds into this case?
I didn’t think so until I read the site. With this and a backpack you could fly to where you wanted to do your touring, deploy your bike and away you go.Heck, the case can be pulled along behind the bike when your on the road. Amazing!
Quite cool.
The brightness of the lines is determined by the importance of the tags in terms of structure.
H1 is brighter than H2, which is brighter than H3.
TABLE is brighter than TR, which is brighter than TD tags.
Images and flash elements appear as 70% white.
New HTML tags like STRONG and EM is brighter than older ones like B and I
UL, OL and DL is brighter than their LI, DT, DD
DIV layout is brighter than table layout
Basically a semantically rich site will appear brighter than one with messy old-style code.
What a clever way to check a web page’s design structure out.
[via MAKE]
You know, with a setup like this the sport of disc golf could be as interesting as Nascar. If I lost you with that one, lets start with the basics. Disc golf is where a small group of people try to land a thrown spinning disk into baskets made out of chains at some parks. I suppose they enjoy it, all I know is that whenever there is a group of ‘golfers’ in a park all the other people there had better head for the hills as their very lives are at stake. The players seldom announce their themselves before shooting at a ‘hole’. Even if you have been there long before the golfers arrived. Having a Frisbee land in your picnic is a bit of an upset. Anyway, that said I think we all know what Nascar is. I mean with the movie Cars and such its hard not to know what it is. Now I have a feeling that the entire televised racing thing hit big when some genius realized they having a live camera inside of a car was exactly what everyone wanted. That is entirely true. Now you not only watch the sport to see the cars crash and burn like you normally could if you were in the stands but now, if you were extra lucky, you could see it just the way the driver saw it. Ooo, I smell ratings! Now, if follow this path you could say that if you put a camera on anything and let the viewers experience a new point of view you have gold. See what I’m getting at here? The white fin on the Frisbee is a rudder that keeps a small video camera looking in the right direction when the disk is thrown. Genius! I expect this on The Ocho any day now.
This quote sums up this DIY project quite nicely:
When you go to the hardware store, or even the grocery store, force yourself to start looking for product containers that have interesting shapes. Don’t look at them and think: "Oooo, only my spouse would buy a bottle like that." Instead look at it and think: "Wow-There sits my next starship engine nacelle", or "Man-that deodorant stick case would make a great hand phaser with some additional parts."
I do this all the time. Kitbashing and scratchbuilding models has been a hobby of mine for years. Go have a look at this outstanding tutorial and have a go at it yourself. Trust me, you will never look at a bit of plastic packaging the same way again. Someday I’ll have to post photos of all the weird junk I’ve made by doing this.
[via MAKE]
I think I might have seen one of these in Bangkok but I’m not sure.
Patented in 1967, K67 was prepared for its serial production in 1968 with the first exhibition of prototypes in Ljutomer (Slovenia). In April 1970 K67 was published in an English design magazine with the article "Low life from the streets" and the Museum of Modern Art in New York included it into its collection of 20th century design. The K67 was sold in large quantities not only to the countries of Ex-Yugoslavia, but also to the COMECON countries and other continents (eg. Japan and New Zealand). Due to the fact that the K67 principle is copied several times by other companies, K67 came to embody the Eastern European kiosk culture.