Two weeks ago I bought a vintage 35mm camera from the flea market, which is lots of fun to play with. But if I had known about the Konstruktor DIY Kit from the Lomography people, I would definitely have chosen one of them instead.
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The Sonic Screwdriver better watch its back, there’s a new game in town. The Groundbreaker is a multi-tool suited for wiring “adventures”. Of course, if you describe the work of wiring anything as an adventure, I’m not entirely sure I should trust you with the job.
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What’s really great about teh Internets is how easy it is to get exposure to stuff you wouldn’t usually see. Take the wide world of hardware hacking for instance. Clearly populated by incredibly intelligent beings from a distant galaxy, this community has up to now lurked in hidden basements across the world, dreaming up cool new toys and building stuff…just for a laugh. The problem is, we mere mortals have had no way to interact with these exotic creatures, until…
Read MoreWe live in a litigious world, peeps, where every Tom, Dick and Marvin is out to sue for profit. Slip on a floor? Sue. Refused service? Sue. Insulted at a Justin Bieber concert? Sue. It’s getting out of control, so much so that people aren’t even sure their family won’t run them into a courtroom after a family dinner table argument. So what to do?
Read MoreWe cover a tiny fraction of the Kickstarter projects that approach us, mostly because there’s a limit to how many brush machined aluminum iPhone stands the world can handle in one month. But also because we’re kind of keen to avoid projects which seem destined for niche markets. Not so with this latest project, which we think will become a smash hit all over the world once it’s produced in volume later this year.
Read MoreWhen things are tight, the resourceful get to work. They don’t moan or get depressed, instead they dig out the toolbox, grab an ounce or two of initiative and craftsmanship and start to fix, build and scavenge what they can instead of buying new. That’s the sign of an intelligent consumer nowadays.
Read MoreThis ECO-iP4 DIY Paper iPhone Dock can be made from any stiff paper or cardboard material and can be built in around 15 minutes if you’ve got a nice sharp pair of scissors and a printer handy. You can print it out on a variety of coloured (and/or recycled) stock and even customise it with text or a logo if you’re feeling especially corporate. And if you need a landscape version all you have to do is make ‘two little cuts’….
Read MoreWe’ve long had a love hate relationship with Logitech mice. On the one hand they’re ergonomically designed and feature the wonderfully useful hyperscroll wheel for sweeping through documents and web pages, but on the other they suffer from a fundamental fault after a few years of use, when the mouse buttons start to fail (note that other mice also seem to suffer from the problem, although we’re not sure whether that’s because they’re OEM models made by the Logitech factory). Despite our rant…
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