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The Analog Animated Gif Player
The Gif Player by Belgian designer Pieterjan Grandry is a device that plays animated gifs that are printed on special rotary discs. It is based…
A Simple & Empowering Solution on How to Get More Women in Tech
Caroline Drucker of SoundCloud offers a simple but empowering solution for getting more women in tech in her Ignite NYC 13 talk, How to Get…
Harvey Pekar Library Statue Project
The Harvey Pekar Library Statue is a proposed memorial to Harvey Pekar, the indie graphic novelist (American Splendor) who died in 2010. Created by sculptor…
Holga iPhone Lens Filter Kit
The Holga iPhone Lens Filter Kit gives your iPhone photos that low-fi retro look that Holga cameras are famous for but without the use of…
Yahoo! Neon Billboard In San Francisco Is Coming Down
The San Francisco Egotist reports that the iconic Yahoo! Neon Billboard in San Francisco is coming down in two weeks. It’s been a San Francisco…
Carbon Fiber Stormtroopers
Leonard Carson and three coworkers banded together to make themselves custom carbon fiber Star Wars stormtrooper uniforms. They built the uniforms in their free time,…
Salvador Dalà Illustrations in 1969 Alice in Wonderland Book
In 1969, one of the Random House Book of the Month Club offerings was Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice in Wonderland which contained gouache illustrations from…
The Nautilus Aperture Door
“The Nautilus” by Five Ton Crane, a San Francisco Bay Area art collective, is a 25 foot long art car inspired by the submarine from…
Eve’s Wireless, Silent Film About The World’s First Mobile Phone (1922)
“Eve’s Wireless” is a 1922 silent film newsreel demonstrating the world’s first wireless mobile telephone. The boxy telephone required an umbrella to act as an…
Pillow Fight Weapons
Design student Bryan Ku has developed an armory of plush weapons suitable for dominating a pillow fight. Though it remains to be seen if his…