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Boing Boing Gadgets  10 hours ago:

HOWTO move an immensely delicate 50'-wide circular electromagnet -

Fermilab just got a new Awesome Magnet, a 50'-wide jobbie that can't be tilted by more than a few degrees without suffering irreparable harm.
Boing Boing Gadgets  11 hours ago:

Promotional DVDs smell like pizza when played -

A Brazilian ad agency has built a campaign for Domino's "Pizza" that uses a heat-sensitive coating on rented DVDs; when the disc is played, the heat from the player heats up the coating and causes it to emit a pizza-like odor; the coating also changes appearance and becomes a picture of a pizza with an [.
Boing Boing Gadgets  less than a day ago:

Boba Fett mixer -

DeviantArt's TommyFilth modded a KitchenAid mixer and gave it a perfect Boba Fett makeover: "I asked for a Kitchenaid mixer for Christmas, I pointed my wife toward a broken one on eBay so that I could refurbish it, as I was taking it apart I got some inspiration for the paint job and this is [.
Boing Boing Gadgets  less than a day ago:

Modified Liberator 3D printed gun made with cheap printer, fires 9 shots -

Joe, an engineer from Wisconsin, modified the (now censored) designs for Defense Distributed's 3D printed gun, the Liberator, and printed a working model on a Lulzbot A0-101, a $1,725 consumer printer that is much cheaper and more widely available than the Stratasys Dimension SST printer used by Defense Distributed.
Boing Boing Gadgets  less than a day ago:

Modified Liberator 3D printed gun made with cheap printer, fires 9 shots -

Joe, an engineer from Wisconsin, modified the (now censored) designs for Defense Distributed's 3D printed gun, the Liberator, and printed a working model on a Lulzbot A0-101, a $1,725 consumer printer that is much cheaper and more widely available than the Stratasys Dimension SST printer used by Defense Distributed.
Boing Boing Gadgets  3 days ago:

How to get cinematic video from a point-and-shoot camera -

The first step, unfortunately, is that you have to have Sony's remarkable but rather expensive RX100, whose larger sensor makes much of the difference.
Boing Boing Gadgets  6 days ago:

Printing a gun is hard -

Caleb sez, "The Department of Defense ordered that 3d printed gun removed from the Internet. That didn't work out.
Boing Boing Gadgets  6 days ago:

Haunted Mansion wallpaper and fabric -

Kristen sez, "The DoomBuggies website has released a version of the Haunted Mansion Corridor of Doors wallpaper in fabric, wallpaper and gift wrap, and according to the DoomBuggies facebook page, it's the same graphic that has been used by Disney.
Boing Boing Gadgets  May 16 13 :

Hilda (from the kids' comic) as an 8" vinyl toy -

The good people at London's Nobrow Press have done an 8" vinyl toy for the outstanding kids' comic Hilda, created by Luke Pearson (reviews: Book 0, Book 1; Book 2).
Boing Boing Gadgets  May 16 13 :

Robot made from recycled scrap -

Chinese inventor Tao Xiangli tinkers with a hand-made robot at his house in Beijing, May 15, 2013. Tao, 37, spent ¥150,000 ($24,400) to build it out of recycled scrap metal and electric wires found at second-hand markets.