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Turntable Rider, Kit That Converts Bike Into Electronic Instrument
Turntable Rider is a kit that turns a bicycle into an electronic instrument (video). The kit includes a handlebar-mounted fader box and handbrake sound pad.…
Ultimate Cat Tease, A Talking Cat is Teased with Fish
In the past, we have posted the Ultimate Dog Tease video where a hungry talking dog is teased with food. Now in the same Talking…
MoCCA Fest 2012, An Indie Comic Show Benefit for the Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art
MoCCA Fest 2012 poster art by P Craig Russell MoCCA Fest 2012 is a two-day indie comic show that fundraises for New York City’s Museum…
One-Second Classics, Extremely Abridged Audiobooks by Hudson Hongo
Humorist Hudson Hongo has abridged the audiobooks for several classic novels into convenient one second editions.
DARPA Humanoid Robot Climbs Stairs
This video shows humanoid robots by DARPA and Boston Dynamics successfully climbing stairs, doing push-ups, and walking on a treadmill. Versions of these robots will…
Poodle-Shaped USB Hub Uses Its Four Legs as Ports
The Poodle USB Hub is a smartly designed device that uses its four “legs” as four 2.0 hi-speed USB ports and its eye as the…
2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards, Voting Now Open
The 2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards, honoring the best of online video, will be June 7-9 in New York City. Judges have selected finalists for…
Photos: SXSW Interactive 2012
Here are my photos from last month’s SXSW Interactive 2012 in Austin, TX. The week started out with a lot of rain, but then it…
Chairs Designed to Look Like The Simpsons
56th Studio has designed Caricature as furniture, a line of quirky chairs that are fashioned to look like members of The Simpsons family: Homer, Marge,…
Rickshaw Telephone
We recently posted about a line of fancy telephones from the 1970s and Design Line Fashions, their fun-to-watch promotional film. Those (often oddly-shaped) phones reminded…