Found Object Animal Sculptures by Edouard Martinet
French artist Edouard Martinet assembles found objects into delightful sculptures of insects, birds, fish, and other animals. He assembles the sculptures from all manner of…
Medical Diagnostic System Uses Bees to Detect Signs of Disease in a Person’s Breath
Designer Susana Soares has developed a simple diagnostic system that uses honey bees to detect traces of cancer or other diseases in a person’s breath.…
NYPD Urges Bar Owners Not to Serve Santa at 2013 NYC SantaCon
DNAinfo New York reports that a New York City Police Department precinct in Manhattan has contacted bars in Midtown and Hell’s Kitchen to urge them…
FCC Will Propose Lifting the Ban on In-Flight Cell Phone Use in December
Today The Wall Street Journal reported that this December the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will propose lifting the cell phone ban currently in force on…
Butterfly Alphabet, A Photographic Alphabet Made From Patterns on Moth and Butterfly Wings
Kjell Sandved embarked on a 24-year project to find all 26 letters and the numbers 0 through 9 on moth and butterfly wings.
Titan Arm, University of Pennsylvania Students Design A Low Cost Upper Body Exoskeleton
Titan Arm is an upper body exoskeleton that augments arms strength by nearly 40 pounds. The exoskeleton was created by a group of University of…
How to Make an Decorative Swan Out of an Apple
Grant Thompson (aka “The King of Random”) demonstrates how to make a decorative swan out of an apple in this video and Instructables article. via…
Full Turn, Video Installation Featuring Spinning Monitors That Create 3D Animations
“Full Turn” is an ingenious video installation by artist Benjamin Muzzin in which two back-to-back monitors are spun at high speed to create three dimensional…
Spectrogram Visualization of a Dial-Up Modem Handshake Sound
Back in February Scotty H created this video spectrogram of the dial-up modem handshaking sound—the distinctive series of warbles and hisses that was once the…
Italy’s Ettore Guatelli Museum Houses More Than 60,000 Everyday Objects
photo via Ettore Guatelli Museum The Ettore Guatelli Museum is a collection of more than 60,000 everyday objects housed at a farm near Parma, Italy.…