I’m amazed at the huge number of people that build models out of paper. Here is a nice big list that you can scan through to find a quick (and not so quick) weekend project.
Category: Design
Casa Pollo
In Spain, officials have commissioned some 30sqm housing to help solve the problem of over crowding. While some consider the home a bit on the small side, they are low cost and take about a week to install.
[via we make money not art]
The RSStroom Reader
This is a sweet conceptual item (BTW, it’s amazing how many people can’t figure that out!). The idea it that as your sitting doing your business the RSSstroom reder is printing up your favorite feeds based on your biometrics. Just what the guys at Homeland Security need to keep up on top of things! If this were a real device I can see it being a popular accessory for the uber cyber toilets in Japan.
[via Ohgizmo]
Cool Cube World Stick People
Cool! Another way to kill time… There are four box things, each one has a figure in it that either does rope sticks, plays with a ball, a dog or a stick. You interact with them via the three buttons on the front or by changing its orentation. Motion sensors inside the device will rotate the fugure around in its virtual room. In addition to all that, if you link them together (there are contacts on four sides) the stick guys will interact with each other! They might play basketball, leapfrog, or just fight. The total number tof cubes you can connect is 16. Very neat.
[via coolest-gadgets]
Aeon Flux DVDs
For the fans of the original Aeon Flux series you can now order the entire collection on DVD. It’s got everything, the shorts from Liquid Television, the series, and loads of extras. I saw this at Sam Goody this weekend for quite a bit more than Amazon (the link goes to Amazon) so I think it’s a good deal for the giving season.
Chameleon Scarf
When my friend Greg sent me this link I’m sure he wasn’t thinking of the fashion applications of this new technology. The scarf uses a color sensor and a matrix of red, green, and blue LEDs to adopt the local color as it were. This reminds me of the active camouflage used by some ships and planes in WWII. The vehicle was illuminated by lights that were dimmed to match the ambient light levels. This would make the object harder to see at a distance. I suppose that the same would be true of a person wearing this if it was emulating the color of the wall behind the wearer. I doubt that it would be used in only this way, the fashion impaired would make a better market for this sort of thing.