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mekastudios: Laser Origami Laser Origami is a system that allows you to use a laser cutter to produce objects with bends instead of using joints to make angled parts. Using focused lasers to cut and defocused lasers to heat and bend the object using gravity, LaserOrigami allows you to create objects in a fraction of…
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mekastudios: Laser Origami Laser Origami is a system that allows you to use a laser cutter to produce objects with bends instead of using joints to make angled parts. Using focused lasers to cut and defocused lasers to heat and bend the object using gravity, LaserOrigami allows you to create objects in a fraction of…
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theatlantic: Gas-Filtering Underwear Filters Odors Get your giggles out now. Okay. A U.K. company called Shreddies Ltd. has been getting buzz lately for its underwear that absorbs the odor of farts. (The company’s motto is “Fart with confidence.”) The back panel of the underwear contains a layer of “advanced carbon cloth”—the same material used in…
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theatlantic: Gas-Filtering Underwear Filters Odors Get your giggles out now. Okay. A U.K. company called Shreddies Ltd. has been getting buzz lately for its underwear that absorbs the odor of farts. (The company’s motto is “Fart with confidence.”) The back panel of the underwear contains a layer of “advanced carbon cloth”—the same material used in…
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I came to realize that professional baseball players are masochists: hitters stand sixty feet and six inches from the mound, waiting to get hit by a pitcher’s bullets; fielders get sucker punched in the face by bad hops, and then ask for a hundred more. We all fail far more than we succeed, humiliating ourselves…
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tumblropenarts: “The Kissing Machine“ by artist Patrick Camut This interactive sculpture from the series “Suggestive Mechanical Expression” engages two participants in a mechanically precise kiss when the motor located above the machine is activated by the toggle switch found on the shoulder harness. The “Kissing Machine” was inspired by a the moment when artist Patrick…
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My working theory is that consumer [startup] ideas are both art and engineering. The art component either takes in the mind of the consumer or it doesn’t. Like movies or music, sort of. Lots of great engineering teams can’t get the art to work with high probability, and even the great consumer internet artists swing…