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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Core77 Design Award 2011: 2P Portable Restroom, Student Notable for Products/Equipment
Over the next months we will be highlighting award-winning projects and ideas from this year’s Core77 Design Awards! For full details on the project, jury commenting and more information about the awards program, go to Core77DesignAwards.com
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Posted in Core77 Design Awards
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ideacious
Have you checked out ideacious? It’s similar to Kickstarter in that creators post projects that need backing for manufacturing, and buyers order products that are currently available or ‘pre-order’ a product before it’s made. However, if a buye… Continue reading
New Article: Adapting your FD or FL lenses to EF/EOS
Ever wondered how?
We’re featuring an article here by the owner of EdMika adaptors. They’re a Canadian based duo that engineers and makes adaptors for the Canon FL 55 f/1.2 lens, and an adaptor for various other Canon FD lenses.
Wh… Continue reading
Posted in Canon Lenses
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InjectIR HDMI/IR Adapter
When you’re hanging an HDTV on a wall, the biggest pain is fishing wires through walls to the video equipment that’s hidden in a closet or another room. It is necessary to run an HDMI cable through the wall for the audio/video, but the oth… Continue reading
Posted in Visual Media
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Collecting Water in the Sky
Skydrops is a helium inflated balloon designed to collect water by harnessing Mother Nature’s own energy. Spinning in the wind creates energy used to cool metallic sheets with peltier cells within the balloon. As the air passes through the cooled sur… Continue reading
Posted in balloon, Product Design, water collection
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Ghost stealth boat glides on gas layer
We have stealth submarines and fighter aircraft, so what about stealth boats? Granted, boats are a whole lot harder to hide when it is traveling on the open sea simply because even with a cloaking ability, you cannot dismiss the wake in the waves that … Continue reading
Marvel At Sony’s Microscopic OLED Electronic Viewfinder
One of the marquee features of Sony’s new Alpha and NEX cameras, which by the way look excellent, is the new electronic viewfinder. I’ve never been particularly attracted to these things, preferring the mirror-based optical viewfinder on DSLRs or s… Continue reading
Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ as a children’s book
Illustrations by Andrew Kolb
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This capsule was curated by Stevyn Colgan Continue reading
Posted in 1960s, 1969, Culture, David Bowie, featured, Space Oddity
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Weird, Birdlike Mystery Drone Crashes in Pakistan
It looks a bit like silver bird. It probably was used to spy on insurgents. And now it’s in the hands of the Pakistanis.
WIRED editor-in-chief Chris Anderson flags pictures of an unusual, unfamiliar drone that reportedly crashed crashed over southwe… Continue reading
Posted in Chris Anderson, Drones, Perils of Pakistan, SmartBird
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