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Arrow Door Handle: So You Never Flunk The Door Opening Test Again
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Most doors have huge “push” or “pull” signs stuck on them, but a lot of people still push (or pull) it when they’re supposed to pull (or push) it. A lot of doors open either way, but there are some that don’t.… |
December 19th, 2011
FLOTE Stand Makes Tablet Usage Hands-Free, Looks Cool Doing It
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When it comes to choosing a stand for your tablet or e-reader, which matters more to you: portability, size, ease of storage, or functionality? If you answered ease of storage, then you probably won’t like the FLOTE very much.… |
December 15th, 2011
Robot Nativity Scene: The First Robo-Noël
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I’ll start out by saying that I’m not particularly religious, so I don’t know if any of you guys will be offended by this. If you are, you’re probably reading the wrong website. When I stumbled onto this, I couldn’t resist sharing this quirky little scene of the Nativity, retold… |
December 7th, 2011
Tom Samui’s Junk Elf: from Recycled Car Parts, Not from Rivendell
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Swiss artist Tom Samui has been creating junkyard wonders for the last decade or so. He works with a team of 15 people creating these amazing sculptures made out of recycled automobile parts, like this intricate elf: Tom has created hundreds of these sculptures, entirely made out of scrap car… |
November 28th, 2011
Portal Bookends: For Science (Books)
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The concept is simple. Left side: Test subject enters orange portal; Middle: ???; Right side: Test subject exits blue portal. While it’s not a wholly original concept, these aluminum Portal… bookends look even more refined than the originals we spotted on Reddit over a year ago. Since the guy who |
November 17th, 2011
I’ve Got One Hand in My Pocket, and an iPhone in My Belt Buckle
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A lot of other iPhone cases can make your device look pretty or make it more convenient or more functional. And then there are others that aren’t exactly cases but sort of function in a similar manner, like this belt buckle slash iPhone holster called the EXO7 that lets you… |
October 14th, 2011
Recycled Steel Ravage Transformer: An Oldie but a Goldie
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For his day job, Alan Yang sells hand-painted bone China wares, but this robot is anything but that. He’s also one of those Chinese guys who likes to make awesome steel Transformers…, and is part of the crew that made some of those gigantic IRL metallic bots. This Ravage |
October 4th, 2011
Metal Wall-E Assembled from the Scrap Heap He Was Made to Clean Up
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We’re suckers for Wall-E. The little robot from the distant future is just the robot we can stake the future of humanity on. Now, assuming you’ve got the money to spare, you can have your very own Wall-E – in sculpture form.… |
September 20th, 2011
Steampunk Robocop Sculpture: Your Move, Creep!
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Etsy sculptor Kreatworks is back with another monstrous metal artifact. This time, it looks like Robocop is ready to invade the Victorian era. The last time we mentioned his work, he had built a 1000-pound Jack Sparrow sculpture.… |
August 21st, 2011
LockCircle Aluminum DSLR Cap: Expensive, for a Reason
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The cool looking LockCircle is an aluminum body cap for DSLRs, designed to replace the cheap – and not too snug-fitting – plastic cap that your DSLR comes with to keep dust out of the sensor are of your DSLR when it has no lens. The plastic body caps aren’t that… |
August 6th, 2011
