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Kevin Van Aelst's strange gadget art
Boing Boing Gadgets Aug 24 09Illustrating a recent NYT piece about dads and technology is a clever photo-composite that echoes Magritte. His portfolio site has many similar works. My favorite is this iPod with rabbit ears!... Full story...
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Comparing gender in Lego minifig heads -
From the Boing Boing Flickr pool, Maia Weinstock's chart of gender in Lego minifig heads. There's an accompanying blog post, where Weinstock explains: So many of LEGO’s sets today are made in conjunction with a movie or other Hollywood media brand.Boing Boing Gadgets 23 hours ago:
History of gendering in Lego -
On Sociological Images, David Pickett is tracing the history of gendering in Lego toys, from the early efforts to produce girl-sets and boy-sets before 1988, to the full-blown gendering watershed attending the release of the Pirates minifigs, which had definite "girl" and "boy" characters.Boing Boing Gadgets less than a day ago:
"Ghosts With Shit Jobs" econopocalypse mockumentary raising money for tour with USB bracelets -
Filmmaker (and comics creator and novelist and games developer) Jim Munroe is raising money to take his outstanding science fiction feature Ghosts With Shit Jobs on tour.Boing Boing Gadgets less than a day ago:
Pneumatic ping-pong ball delivery system playfully fires balls into "art environment" -
r0r0 sez, "Ping Pong Ball Suction Construction is a pneumatic delivery system for ping pong balls as part of an art environment that's actually on display in Lille, France.Boing Boing Gadgets less than a day ago:
Wooden compass -
The latest from Joey Roth, designer of minimalist teapots and speakers, is more down to earth: a compass pendant.Boing Boing Gadgets 2 days ago:
Printing out robots with your MakerBot -
Annelise sez, "This is an episode of MakerBot TV which is all about making DIY Robots with MakerBots!" The MakerBot design team is building a Robot Petting Zoo to bring to this year's Maker Faire.Boing Boing Gadgets 2 days ago:
Jagged anti-boner ring -
This little feller is a "German Spermatorrhoea Ring," ca 1894. Spermatorrhoea ("involuntary loss of semen") was best fought with this toothy beast, which also doubled as a cure for Onanism ("voluntary discharges from masturbation").Boing Boing Gadgets 2 days ago:
Canon shifts to robots for camera production -
Reuters: Man tries out a Canon EOS-1D X at a Tokyo showroom. Camera maker Canon is evolving toward "fully automating" production, to reduce costs.Boing Boing Gadgets 2 days ago:
Salvaged lighting fixtures -
I wandered into a temporary showroom for Trainspotters in London this weekend; they're a retailer specializing in salvaged industrial lighting, with a lot of crazy, chunk ex-Soviet numbers.Boing Boing Gadgets 3 days ago:
Kodak set us up the bomb: kept a nuclear reactor in the basement -
As Kodak stumbles through its bankruptcy, all sorts of weird facts are surfacing, like the news that the company had its own nuclear reactor, producing weapons-grade isotopes.Popular Tags »»
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