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Boing Boing Gadgets 18 hours ago:
Lamps made from cassette tapes -
Cassette Is Not Dead refurbs cassette tapes into handsome lamps. They operate on a barter economy -- send them 40 homemade mix-tapes and they'll send you a wallet made from one tape; send them 80 pre-recorded tapes and they'll send …
Boing Boing Gadgets 23 hours ago:
Laptop with thermite self-destruct mechanism -
Caleb sez, "I wanted to try making something in the style of "Q" from the James Bond movies. My idea was to make an emergency self destruct system for laptops and portable hard drives.Boing Boing Gadgets less than a day ago:
Victorian-era multitool for women: the chatelaine -
Ben Marks of Collectors Weekly says: "Our Senior Victorian Accessories Correspondent, Hunter Oatman-Stanford, has just written a piece about the chatelaine, which was the killer hands-free device for women back in the Victorian era.Boing Boing Gadgets less than a day ago:
3D printed bio-absorbable splint saves baby with otherwise fatal impaired breathing -
Elijah sez, "Recent news has been all about the commercial use of 3D printing - from food to weaponry.Boing Boing Gadgets 2 days ago:
Prosthetic tentacle -
Taiwanese design student Kaylene Kau created this motorized prosthetic tentacle for a class project: "For this project we were pushed by our Professor to push the boundaries of current upper-limb prosthetic design.Boing Boing Gadgets 2 days ago:
Concept design for a bike-light that projects a grid on the ground, highlighting bumps/holes -
A team from the University of Sichuan won the Red Dot Design award for a concept design called "Lumigrid" -- a bike-light that projects a grid on the ground ahead of the rider, making terrain irregularities easy to spot: Lumigrids can project a grid onto the ground.Boing Boing Gadgets 3 days ago:
Anatomical pinball table -
Canadian artist Howie Tsui redesigned a pinball machine to turn it into a crude simulation of a musket-ball rattling around a soldier's guts for a War of 1812-themed exhibition currently running at the Agnes Etherington Arts Centre at Queens University in Kingston.Boing Boing Gadgets 3 days 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 3 days 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 4 days ago:
