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studiousgluteus:

My 3D rendering of a character drawn by @barefootbandet. Only the face was drawn, so I never fully developed it.

This vary talented 3d artist 3D-ed my art pice. :D

— 8 years ago with 7 notes

studiousgluteus:

I just finished the process of building my first ever home made ukulele; in the shape of an iconic video game character no less. It took several months due to my procrastination and begin in a state of perpetual distraction. It’s a little lopsided, and a little rough, but now it’s finished! It stays in one piece when you tune it and sounds exactly like it should. I love having something to show for my efforts. I’m so proud of myself.

I know this guy. :D

— 8 years ago with 11 notes
wnycradiolab:
“helloyoucreatives:
“ The lickable life
“ WORLD’S FIRST LICKABLE LIFT
The doors have opened on the first ever lick-able lift in a unique advertising campaign targeting the taste buds of city workers.
McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes has taken...

wnycradiolab:

helloyoucreatives:

The lickable life

WORLD’S FIRST LICKABLE LIFT
 
The doors have opened on the first ever lick-able lift in a unique advertising campaign targeting the taste buds of city workers.
 
McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes has taken inspiration from Willy Wonka, Heston Blumenthal and Damien Hirst to create a Spot of Jaffa – edible elevator artwork comprising of 1,325 lick-able Jaffa Cakes.
 
The unique advertising campaign has taken food technicians and artists four weeks to develop and will be installed in a central London office block until Friday (13th April).
 
The edible elevators are being trialled at Engine on Great Portland Street, a communications group with over 800 staff, with a view to rollout the activity in offices across the country.
 
Philippa Tilley, Senior Brand Manager from McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes, comments:
“We are all about bringing a bit more fun to life and this was the perfect way to get a little joy straight to stressed out office workers.  We hope the lifts raise a smile, give people a taste for Jaffa Cakes and encourages them to go and buy a pack for the office.”
 

Oh boy.  I feel a mono epidemic coming on…

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— 8 years ago with 185 notes

onjiboo:

if I had these and had you over for dinner I would basically prance around the dining table asking if you needed salt or pepper.

I WOULD NOT LEAVE YOU ALONE UNTIL YOU SAY YES

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— 8 years ago with 139298 notes

alexob:

Pure water in the jungle with SteriPEN.

When traveling, some peace of mind can be had by having an easy way to purify your drinking water, as even the healthiest of us can get caught offguard by nasty little critters like giardia, cryptosporidium, or other bacterial bad guys, which will really put a cramp in any other plans we have.

The process for purifying water with the SteriPEN is almost dummy-proof (if you can tell the difference between a solid green light and flashing red lights), and is an ‘instant on’ design. Simply remove the outer case and immerse in up to 16 oz of water until the device’s sensors are covered, and the UV light comes on automatically. The internal timer lets you know when the process is complete, which is 48 seconds, according to SteriPen.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 80% of all travel diseases are attributed to contaminated drinking water. The U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) says that an estimated 10 million people get traveler’s diarrhea each year. If you pack a water purifier along with you, you can help ensure you’re not one of them.

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— 8 years ago with 38 notes

scinerds:

scinerds:

2-Cans-and-a-String Technology Updated for Age of Mobility

Remember your childhood days when you and your best friend, who also happened to be your next-door neighbor, spent all night by your bedroom windows, talking through two tin cans attached to a string?

Oh wait, that only happened on TV.

Well, even though your nostalgia is more imagined than real, you can still advance the rudimentary two-cans-and-a-string concept with a refreshed, only slightly higher-tech version. We give you The Can, a project launched on Kickstarter by Monkey Wrench Design.

You can attach The Can to a computer or smartphone, and then talk with family, friends and colleagues through an aluminum can sourced from real food products. The Can features what the team jokingly calls “can-over-IP technology,” which basically boils down to a microphone and speaker stuffed inside the can’s empty chamber.

The device comes in two basic flavors: tomato paste and creamed corn. The team uses tomato paste cans to make The Can Mini, and creamed corn cans to make a larger device, The Can Club Community. The Can Mini attaches to mobile devices through the headphone jack, while the larger can attaches to computers via USB.

“It’s fun and silly. It’s trying to take this old technology, that we all are familiar with and have some nostalgia for, and couple it with new technology to make it active and exciting,” Edwin Wood, Monkey Wrench Design co-founder, told Wired.

But beyond being a novelty toy, the Monkey Wrench team also considers The Can an artistic and social statement.

“In thinking about our dependence with cellphones and how we interact with our devices, our idea is to make people talk more instead of staring at their phones,” Wood said. “The ethos behind it is to make people interact a little more. And the nice thing is it’s still all based around technology.”

The Can is available in a few editions on Kickstarter. You can get a fully assembled mini version for $25, and a larger version for $37. If you’re the crafty type, Monkey Wrench Design is also selling DIY kits for $17 and $29, respectively.

We’ve tried The Can. It works. It may be little more than Pet Rock for the year 2012, but hey, the Pet Rock didn’t even move.

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— 8 years ago with 97 notes

chazmcintyre:

Constructed from the same heat-resistant waterproof material and roll top closure as their popular Dry Sacks, Sea to Summit’s Pocket Shower is the ultimate accessory for your outdoor excursion this camping season.

This ingenious device allows you to take a refreshing shower while enjoying the great outdoors. Fill the Pocket Shower with approximately 2.6 gallons of water, allow the black fabric pack to soak up the heat from the warm sunny day, then simply hang it from the two durable Delrin D rings with the 20 feet of lightweight cord provided with the pack. The Pocket Shower is equipped with a built in twist spout allowing the user to adjust the flow of water, and after soaking in the sun all day you can expect a nice, warm shower before hitting the sack

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— 8 years ago with 618 notes

kickstarter:

The Impossible Instant Lab turns your iPhone images into real photos. Just select the image you’d like to develop, place your iPhone in the cradle (pictured above), and slide open the shutter on the base. A signal will notify you when your photo is complete. The Instant Lab is also conveniently portable — that tower collapses flat! — so you can bring your Instant Lab pretty much anywhere. Now if we could just figure out how to IRL tag people…

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— 8 years ago with 890 notes
explore-blog:
“From the things-we-wish-we-knew-about-before-Sandy department: Hand-crank-powered USB charger, with bonus points for the sleek design.
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explore-blog:

From the things-we-wish-we-knew-about-before-Sandy department: Hand-crank-powered USB charger, with bonus points for the sleek design.

( Co.Design)

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— 8 years ago with 463 notes
alexob:
“ Engineers at Stanford have created a peel -and-stick solar panel, which can be applied to pretty much any surface.
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alexob:

Engineers at Stanford have created a peel -and-stick solar panel, which can be applied to pretty much any surface. 

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— 8 years ago with 359 notes

prostheticknowledge:

Polaroid Cacher 

Student project from Adrià Navarro and DI Shin turns an old Polaroid camera into desktop printer, designed to capture special moments in your online life - video embedded below:

Polaroid Cacher from Adrià Navarro on Vimeo.

The Polaroid Cacher is a camera that allows you to take traditional instant pictures of your digital experiences. It’s an ambient device, part physical and part digital, meant to address the fleeting nature of online interactions.

We believe that our daily online activity –conversations, discoveries, games– is as meaningful as our activity in the physical world and, as such, should be preserved the same way we try to capture every important moment in our life. Especially because most of this experiences will be soon forgotten, lost under layers of information, databases and outdated services.

Given the powerful association of instant photography with memories, people and nostalgia –rather than with photographic quality– we designed our camera as a fictional Polaroid product. One that captures digital media in a traditional analog format, as means to create tangible, durable mementos of our digital life.

More Here

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— 8 years ago with 889 notes

escapekit:

Urban bird house

“Artist Klaas Kuiken created individual nesting areas for the bird populations that are trailing off. Instead of feathered friends nestling into your roof, they’ve got their own home to cozy up in. Standard roof tiles have been created with a ‘framed’ structure atop and a small concave space at the bottom for these urban birds to perch out. With a design that’s able to fasten safely and is removable, able to be cleaned and even save the birds– what more could you ask for? These tiles are now available for order, from The Netherlands.”

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— 8 years ago with 1204 notes