The waterbird weighs only 12kgs and takes less than 10 minutes to assemble and can be disassembled to store in a carry bag to take around with you or to leave in storage. What is it? It’s a self-powered water rider that can be propelled at up to 27 km/h by hopping. The hopping motion propels the underwater wings almost like wings flapping underwater.
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Daft Punk Helmet by Graphic Designer Harrison Krix based out of Atlanta. Krix has put together a collection of photos taken over the span of 17 months showing the process of this cool helmet. The helmet was made by sculpting, resin casting, chroming, and vacuum forming. You can check out the whole process in more detail at his blog.
Programming for the helmet code was done by James Moss.
Chroming work courtesy of Creations n’ Chrome
Custom PCBs printed by batchPCB.com (designed by me)
Visor vacuum-forming performed by Mike Iverson
Some video and photography courtesy of Emily Krix More
Pilot Handwriting by Grey Barcelona. It’s fairly simple you go to the Pilot website and just download the typography sheet, then write out each letter in the boxes. Next take a picture with a webcam, which will be sent to the Pilot site and you will be able to manually tweak and clean up your writing. Try it out.
Write by hand on your computer! Go to pilothandwriting.com, turn your handwriting into a digital font and send handwritten e-mails to your friends.
Thanks to SK for the tip.
Leonar3do makes 3D product design easy and fun and opens a new gateway to creativity. Whether you’re 12 years old or 50 years old, this new technology brings those interested in modeling in the 3D environment a more interactive way to bring out their own personal virtual world to life.
LeoWorld is a unique 3D VR modelling and animation software. You can easily control the software thanks to its simple and intuitive user interface. More
The Bendable Bike by young, British designer, Kevin Scott age 21. A graduate of The De Montfort University used a ratchet system so the rider can wrap the bike around a lamp post or pole and lock it up without needing a lock or chain. The actual frame of the bike is the lock itself. Really incredible invention.
“More than 52 bikes are stolen in London every day, according to official figures.
A total of 23,748 bikes were reported stolen in London in 2009-10 — up 27.8 per cent on the previous financial year — but police believe that the true figure could be double that.
Experts recommend that users should spend around 10 per cent of their bike’s value on a decent lock – ideally two – and always lock it to a solid object through the frame”
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The Terrafugia airline company brings you a model of a flying car soon to be in production. Within 30 seconds the wings of the plane contract and becomes a car. More
The USB Typewriter Keyboard is for all computers but works especially well with the iPad. Jack Zylkin the one behind this great idea also has DIY kits available to purchase at his etsy store.
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Jem Stansfield builds a vortex cannon that blows a straw hut, wood hut, and a pile of bricks over. Really incredible stuff.
The vortex cannon is a super-blower of sorts, funneling the reactive energy of an exploded gas mixture into a directed, “smoke” ring producing a blaze of fast-moving air. -tomsguide
(via likecool)
If your interested in building your own vortex cannon check out Make Magazine’s DIY video below.
Kinect for the Xbox 360 is a huge advancement in the interactivity of the gamer and the video game. The Kinect sensor recognizes your full-body movements and essentially puts you in the game. Kinect turns you into the controller and your movements into the buttons.
The EyeSeeCam is an award-winning camera system that is controlled by the eyes. It is currently the only system that can record what the eye is seeing. Basically the camera focuses on whatever the user is looking at or focusing their attention at. It comes in the form of a head-mount and the files are recorded to the hard disk of a portable computer.
