A magnet-powered method of pouring beer from the bottom up that works nine times faster than traditional methods, further proof that great ideas can be fueled by alcohol. The cup features a small hole at the bottom, covered up by a circular mag...
People have known for some time now that agents from various government agencies can listen in on your conversations even if your phone is turned off. A new smartphone hack, that includes both Android and iPhone, also lets people listen in on your co...
Students and faculty from the University of Michigan's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department have developed a small device they call ‘HiJack’ to make sensing peripherals easily accessible to those on a small budget. HiJack is a...
OpenPicus, the italian open source platform made for wireless smart sensors and actuators, definitely takes off with a thick list of juicy news ready to be downloaded on 20th Jan 2011 (10am italian time) The open source platform is ...
Wearing a solar powered shirt or biosensing pants is cool and all, but cleaning the garments is not an easy process to contend with. However that problem just might be solved with a new type of ‘electronic yarn’ created by scientists from the Nanotec...
Actually toasters aren’t smart enough to drive yet, but they are getting there. Seriously though, well as serious as I can be with this information, David Carr of MIT’s Media Lab has created a prototype toothpaste dispenser, called ‘Tastes Like...
Developing software – or better firmware – for the Atmel AVR can be quite easy or quite complicated. A lot of people like to just use vi, some source files and a make file. Here at Interactive Matter we ar...
LEDs always seem to inspire clever multiplexing solutions. I got this kit recently and am looking forward to assembling it over the long weekend: http://jimmieprodgers.com/kits/lolshield/The LoL Shield is a charlieplexed LED matrix for the...
I've created album of my photos from Maker Faire: http://picasaweb.google.com/pdp7pdp7/MakerFaire2010BayArea Everyone else that went please post too. There was no way to see everything so I am hoping to catchup on what I missed via ot...
I had good fortune to attend Maker Faire 2010 - Bay Area - this past weekend in San Mateo. This was my first Maker Faire and an incredible experience beyond my wildest dreams. I had no idea the massive scale upon which the Faire operates....
