Category: Design

3mm Thick Paper Clock

Flex LCD 

Ok, a little big for you wrist but it would be perfect for the computer room. I love all the ePaper applications that are being thought up these days. However, they need a few more:

  • Flags: Just the thing for countries that have short cycle time on what party is currently in power.
  • Bumper Stickers: Vote for the loser and don’t want to be ridiculed by your friends?
  • Envelopes: Make them out of Tyvek and you have re-usable mailers. Download whatever address you need and your set.
  • CD/DVD Jewele Cases: Not the case itself but the liners. I hate having to make new listings of what is on the media. It would be bliss if the case could be synced up to the burning software (hell, make the top surface of the media out of this stuff. On the other hand it might spin the eInk balls to the outer edge when it spins)
  • Post-It Notes: 3M, get on this one.

Ok, if you see any of these ideas out there tell me, ok?

3mm thick paper clock

Alton Brown FAQ

Alton Brown

Ah, Good Eats is about the only cooking show I can stand to watch (yeah, I watch the Food Network sometimes). Mostly I’d say its because Alton Brown makes the entire learning process fun and entertaining. Might be because he isn’t a professional cook. Yep, that’s what I said, not a cook. He only took up cooking after deciding that he wanted to make a cooking show. His day job before the ‘Good Eats’ gig was as a video producer. Did music videos and gobs of commercials for TV. This would explain the high production values of his show. His big reason for doing the show is because when he was a kid he never thought that learning was fun enough and decided to change all of that. From all the people I’ve talked to he hit the mark big time. I like the fact that his shows don’t tell you just how to make one food item but the process behind how cooking works. That is exactly the sort of program that catches my attention. Plus its also a show that my wife and I can watch together, even if she expects me to put into practice my new found skills come dinner time. Umm… yeah… I’m not quite there yet. Maybe in a year or so.

Good Eats Fan Page

The Call of Cthulhu – an HPLHS Motion Picture

The Call of Cthulhu 

This Saturday I and a bunch of friends were treated to a wonderful amateur production of H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘Call of Cthulhu’. Shot entirely in "Mythoscope’, it captures the look and feel of a 1927 silent film to an astounding degree. Not only that, it could be the most accurate telling of a Lovecraft story in a visual medium. The production runs for more than 45 minutes and the DVD includes out takes and some reveling behind the scenes footage. This is the perfect DVD for any fan of the Cthulhu mythos, and even if your not get it just for the incredible look of the entire production. If only all non professional videos looked as good as this one does…

The Call of Cthulhu – an HPLHS Motion Picture

Robot Magazine On the Stands

Robot 

I’ve been reading through the premiere issue of ‘Robot Magazine’ and have nothing but good things to say about it. Anyone that has an interest in the growing area of hobby robotics needs to read this publication. No matter if you have a LEGO Mindstorm kit and want to get some ideas, a new VEX robotics system, or are building a ‘Robo One‘ classed robot there is going to be something in this for you. The lead story of how the Mythbusters built their own PackBot out of the new VEX Robot System is a great read. First class stuff!

Robot Magazine

Project Dalek

 

What self respecting sci-fi geek hasn’t dreamed about owning their own life sized Dalek? In the 32 page PDF you will learn all the ticks needed to build you very own replica of the terror of British TV. The instructions look very well written and the illustrations are easy to follow. Someone with a home shop should be able to knock one of these out in a month or so.

Project Dalek