Blog Profile / Boing Boing Gadgets
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| Archived Since: | April 5, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
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. It's meant to demonstrate the way that repetition and concentration can inure you [...]
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. It's in New York, though, and Fermilab is outside of Chicago, and this presents a logistical problem with a complicated solution: The Muon g-2 ring, an electromagnet made of steel and [...]
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 [...]
Boba Fett mixer
DeviantArt's TommyFilth modded a KitchenAid mixer and gave it a perfect Boba Fett makeover: "I asked for a Kitchenaid mixer for Christmas, I pointed my wife toward a broken one on eBay so that I could refurbish it, as I was taking it apart I got some inspiration for the paint job and this is [...]
Modified Liberator 3D printed gun made with cheap printer, fires 9 shots
Joe, an engineer from Wisconsin, modified the (now censored) designs for Defense Distributed's 3D printed gun, the Liberator, and printed a working model on a Lulzbot A0-101, a $1,725 consumer printer that is much cheaper and more widely available than the Stratasys Dimension SST printer used by Defense Distributed. The gun printed by Joe, which [...]
How to get cinematic video from a point-and-shoot camera
The first step, unfortunately, is that you have to have Sony's remarkable but rather expensive RX100, whose larger sensor makes much of the difference. Fortunately, all it then changing some menu settings to get a flat image profile and 25fps. Guides from Run, Gun and Shoot and from EOSHD have the goods.
Printing a gun is hard
Caleb sez, "The Department of Defense ordered that 3d printed gun removed from the Internet. That didn't work out. You can still download it and print it. I did, and found that the files are a mess and not really functional. I also took a cool timelapse video of the printing." 1. the scale on [...]
Haunted Mansion wallpaper and fabric
Kristen sez, "The DoomBuggies website has released a version of the Haunted Mansion Corridor of Doors wallpaper in fabric, wallpaper and gift wrap, and according to the DoomBuggies facebook page, it's the same graphic that has been used by Disney. 'This is created from the same artwork that we created for Disney's official Haunted Mansion [...]
Hilda (from the kids' comic) as an 8" vinyl toy
The good people at London's Nobrow Press have done an 8" vinyl toy for the outstanding kids' comic Hilda, created by Luke Pearson (reviews: Book 0, Book 1; Book 2). The Hilda toy is grownup-collector-expensive, but it's also a very nice piece -- I saw one in person last night when I brought my daughter [...]
Robot made from recycled scrap
Chinese inventor Tao Xiangli tinkers with a hand-made robot at his house in Beijing, May 15, 2013. Tao, 37, spent about 150,000 yuan (about $24,400) to build the robot out of recycled scrap metal and electric wires found at second-hand markets. The robot, which took a year to create, is 7ft tall and weighs about [...]
Record Eater: 1967 record player that ran in any orientation
Every single thing about this ad is great: the illustration, the typography, the industrial design of the gadget, the copy. What a beauty. The Record Eater ‘45 rpm’ record player ad, 1967. (via BruceS)
Simian kettle bells
I've heard loads of good things about crossfit, but I've never tried it myself. Nevertheless, I have to admit that there are some pretty impressive options for sports accessories in it, such as this "Primal Bell" kettlebell, which is a pretty handsome artifact in its own right. Onnit Fit Primal Bells – Onnit (via OhGizmo)
Book-and-record set for the League of Space Pirates
Noah Scalin sez, "Thought you might enjoy this little video I made to promote the latest release from my science fiction project League of Space Pirates (yes, apparently they still have As Seen On TV commercials in the future). It's a return to the classic book & record format of the 70s/80s. In this case [...]
Sheet-metal Millennium Falcon model
The Millennium Falcon Metallic Nano Puzzle looks like a delight. It's one of those puzzle/models that you punch out of thin, laset-cut pieces of sheet metal and assemble with tweezers and pliers, and the finished model is quite a beauty. It's $15.30 plus shipping from Japan. It looks more complex than the models I've done [...]
Kickstarting solder-it-yourself junkbot kits
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robotbrigade/dbug-model-kits-art-hacked-from-electronics A group of engineering students (with no stated manufacturing experience -- caveat emptor) are kickstarting a series of cute assemble-it-yourself junkbots called "D.Bug"s. Show More Summary
Kickstarter for a multifunction wrecking bar with crowbar/hammer/angle measuring tool
The Cole-Bar Hammer is a multifunction wrecking bar on Kickster ($65 gets you an earlybird tool, with shipping). It unfolds and locks into place to serve as a crowbar; it also can be used as a hammer and as an angle-measurement tool, and it has a lovely, brutal elegance: The Cole-Bar Hammer is essentially a [...]
US State Department orders removal of Defense Distributed's printable gun designs
The US State Department has ordered Defense Distributed to take down the designs for a working 3D printed gun, citing export control rules set out in the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. Defense Distributed's Cody Wilson is appealing, and says that ITAR does not apply to "non-profit public domain releases of technical files designed to [...]
Othermill: kickstarting a desktop 3D computer-controlled mill for circuit-boards, jewelry and more
McArthur Genius Grant winner and maker hero Saul Griffith and his friends have a fully funded Kickstarter on the go for the "Othermill," a computer-controlled mill for creating your own custom circuit-boards -- and for milling decorative or functional shapes from "metal, wood, wax, and plastic." It's a compact desktop tool designed for home use. [...]
Apple's man behind the camera
Peter Belanger reveals the technical complexity behind Cupertino's cooly minimalist advertising. [Michael Shane at The Verge]
NeoLucida: kickstarting a new version of the Old Masters' favorite drawing gadget
Pablo Garcia and Golan Levin, two celebrated art profs and dead media specialists, have launched a fantastically successful kickstarter to recreate the Camera Lucida, a gadget much favored by the Old Masters. It uses an optical trick to superimpose the scene in front of you on a sheet of paper that you can trace in [...]