Melvin the Machine Documents Audience & Makes Merchandise
Melvin the Machine is a fantastically complicated Rube Goldberg-style machine that, during its 4 minute run, films and photographs its audience, creates Melvin-themed merchandise, and…
Fairy Tales Reduced to Simple Math Equations in Witty Toy Store Ads
In this ad campaign for Brain Candy Toys of Nova Scotia, ad agency Revolve reduced famous fairy tales to simple math equations. via My Modern…
Clever Audiobook Ads Feature Book Characters Marching Into Ears
Characters from classic books march down ear canals in this ad campaign for Penguin audiobooks by Y&R Malaysia. Ads were made for The Jungle Book,…
Hippy Dialectics, Bizarre Sculpture of Two Jabbering Heads
“Hippy Dialectics (Ourhouse)” by Nathaniel Mellors is a bizarre sculpture of two animatronic talking heads linked together by a length of hair. The heads…
Teardown of a Hard Drive Shows How it Works
In “Hard drive teardown,” Bill Hammack explains how a hard drive works. An engineering professor at the University of Illinois, Hammack produces science and engineering…
Google+, A New Collection of Social Tools by Google
Google has announced Google+ a new collection of social tools by the searchmasters at Google. Google+ is currently undergoing a closed beta, but Google has…
Artist Nick Gentry Paints Portraits on Canvases of Used Floppy Disks
UK artist Nick Gentry paints wonderful portraits on obsolete media formats such as 3.5″ floppy disks. His portraits use a combination of obsolete media formats,…
Tesla Coil Lightning Viewed in Matrix Style Bullet Time
Rob Flickenger set up an array of ten cameras to capture the lightning emitted from his Tesla coil, resulting in a video effect similar to…
Solar Sinter, 3D Printer That Uses Sunlight to Melt Sand Into Glass
The Solar Sinter by Markus Kayser is a 3D printer that uses focused sunlight to melt sand into glass objects. Kayser demonstrated the Solar Sinter…
Bots High, A Documentary About High School Combat Robots Builders
Bots High is a documentary by Joey Daoud that follows three teams of high school students as they build combat robots for a national competition…