Typewriter Knolling
SUBMISSION: This is an old typewriter I had the pleasure to dismantle today 🙂 hope you like it!
– Aidan…
Tablet Hacking Kids
Illiterate Ethiopian kids get ‘given’ a bunch of tablets, proceed to work out how to use them unaided, and subsequently hack them until they can use the camera. GOOD EFFORT. Check out the article.
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Localised Newsprint For Newcomers
This idea of sending a localised newspaper to newcomers to an area has been around for a while (since 2009) and it’s a real shame that it was never picked up (as far as I know).
– Aidan…
Oceanwings – Squirrel Suit for Divers
The ‘Oceanwings’ is a swimsuit designed by Aqua Lung and takes it’s cues from skydiving wingsuits. There’s a video demo of it below, but I think it would benefit significantly from some kind of propulsion. Although I guess speed isn’t everything…
77 miles of 77,000 Miles
There’s a weekends work here. If at least one person appreciates the work that’s gone into this, I will have achieved.
Thank you and goodnight.…
Developing Other Peoples Exposed Film
Chris Hughes has been buying used cameras that still have film in them. It’s like forgetting what’s on a roll of film and developing it but 100 times better. (via)
– Aidan…
Pedestrian Bridge Over The Carpinteira Stream
Carrilho da Graça – 2009
Funky, check his other stuff out.…
European Extremely Large Telescope
“The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), with a main mirror 39 metres in diameter, will be the world’s biggest eye on the sky when it becomes operational early in the next decade”
Aside from the having a most unimaginative title, this looks like it could be the shit.…