“Systems Supernova”, a dress made out of recycled computer wires created by Tina Sparkles for the Keep Austin Beautiful Recycled Fashion Show. Made mostly of recycled computer wiring, the Systems Supernova dress addresses the growing problem of e-waste in American culture and explores the concept of systems thinking as it relates to our ecosystem. Each [...]
Kodak engineer Steve Sasson talks about how he created the first digital camera in December 1975. It was a camera that didn’t use any film to capture still images – a camera that would capture images using a CCD imager and digitize the captured scene and store the digital info on a standard cassette. It [...]
Scandicraft has developed the ScanCam 200, a perimeter security system that features a mini quadrotor helicopter drone that launches from a mailbox-like hangar in order to do surveillance flights around your property. When there is a security breach and a sensor is triggered, personnel at an operations center, situated anywhere in the world, can launch [...]
Over at Instructables, Eric Paulos and his colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University’s Living Environments Lab explain how to make illuminated balloons that change color based on the local air quality. Each balloon is outfitted with a tri-color LED, tiny air quality sesnsor, rechargeable battery, and a few other inexpensive components. I’d love to encounter these [...]
Shay Carmon came up with a design concept for a Defibrillator Toaster that helps you revive your old bread. via Gizmodo Join the forum discussion on this post
The full trailer has been released for “The Social Network”, a film about the founding of Facebook, written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher. The film is scheduled for release on October 1st, 2010. On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer [...]
As many of you know, crysis is one of the games that we hear at 53tabs have been waiting along time for. We talked about the single player demo last month, and its interesting to see how it has progressed since then. The Story: The plot for the game sees players as Codename: Nomad, an [...]