Lightweight & Portable Egg-Shaped Drone Folds Up Into Shell
Boasting practical portability with an eye to aesthetics, the new PowerEgg stands out against its more ungainly competitors, able to fold up into a smooth oval when not in ...
Category: Gadgets & Geekery
Everyone loves gadgets and all good geeks appreciate the intersection of geeky art and design, from memes turned into living works to technology scrap turned into new design objects. From innovative light art to unique drawing techniques, here are our favorite works of art that will inspire the geek in anyone – as well as our top gadgets for everyone who wants to have their very own piece of future tech.
Mattel ThingMaker: New Device Lets Kids 3D-Print Their Own Toys
Toy-maker Mattel has announced a 3D printer with a novel application: a way for children to make their own custom toys using a simple digital interface. The app, designed by Autodesk, is easy to ...
Pay Phones to Free Wi-Fi Hubs: NYC to Replace Outdated Booths
If you’re old enough to remember making quarter calls on pay phones, you might also be old enough to recall an edgier, grittier, graffiti-covered New York City, when the streets were lined with ...
Not Your Average Model Train: Self-Propelled Mechanical Toys
There are no batteries or power cords needed to propel this steam train and a series of other mechanical models, which come in kits of laser-cut plywood so you can assemble them yourself. UGEARS ...
World’s Brightest Flashlight: Brilliant 1000-Watt DIY Lantern
Lighting up the night sky like artificial lightning, this incredible homemade lamp boasts a 90,000-lumen output (over 100 times that of a typical Maglite) that would put the flashiest high-beams ...
Sound Sculptures: Music Translated Into Transforming Objects
An experiment in intentional synesthesia, this combination of sculpture, music and technology enables us to actually see the physical form of individual songs. ‘Reify’ is a collaborative ...
Bio-Wearables: Tech Tattoos Put Working Circuits on Your Skin
Tech Tats use conductive inks to create a circuit board right on your skin, providing a passive and unobtrusive alternative to standard wearables. Smartwatches and fitness trackers tend to stand ...
Gadget Gifts: 15 Slick Smartphone Add-Ons & Accessories
We may as well admit that our smartphones have become permanent extensions of our hands, and accessorize them as such. While these indispensable palm-sized gadgets can already do everything from ...
Star Wars Speakers: May the Force (of Sound) Be With You
Blast your tunes out the eyes of either C-3PO or a Stormtrooper, the bass pounding from beneath their heads, with this set of Star Wars speakers painstakingly reproduced from George Lucas’ ...
Lego Limb: Bionic Arm for Kids Makes Prosthetics Playful
This modular twist-and-lock prosthetic arm for kids is designed specifically for integration with LEGO parts, turning it into a fun toy that makes it easier to engage with other children. A ...
