Creative Engineering at the Protests in Hong Kong
The whole world is watching Hong Kong, where a battle is playing out in the streets between authorities and citizens protesting China’s encroachment on their independence. It started in June in ...
Tag: Low Tech
Elegant Energy-Free Air Conditioner Can Drop Temperatures by 26 Degrees
At a glance, the honeycomb structure of terracotta tubes looks more like large-scale work of handmade sculpture than a highly designed air conditioner. Developed for an electronics factory in ...
CloudFisher: Low-Tech Net Turns Fog into Drinking Water for Morocco
In a semi-arid region of Morocco, where tap water is a luxury but fog is plentiful, a fog-harvesting net based on the structure of a spider’s web naturally collects moisture from the air. ...
Solar-Powered Art Etched with a Magnifying Glass & the Sun
Magnifying glass clutched in his fist, Jordan Mang-osan uses nothing but focused rays of sunlight to burn detailed drawings onto panels of wood. A native Igorot from the Cordilleras of the ...
15 of the World’s Weirdest Low-Tech Film Cameras
A pistol that shoots photos instead of bullets, a harness for pigeons, a cane and a human skull are among the unexpected objects that have been turned into film cameras since the dawn of ...
NeoLucida: Optical Drawing Tool Lets You Trace Real Life
Have you ever wondered how 19th century artists were able to produce such incredibly realistic drawings? It isn't just because they were unusually talented, though it's hard to argue that they ...
Rock n’ Knit: Low-Tech Chair-Powered Hat Factory
Lounging around in a rocking chair for an hour or two might make you feel lazy - but what if, as you were rocking, you were actually a low-tech, one-person hat knitting factory? Rocking-Knit by ...
21st Century Tintypes: Incredible Old-Fashioned Photography
In an era of digital cameras, Photoshop and other high-tech photography and processing techniques, one photographer has gone just about as far in the other direction as possible. Michael Shindler ...
Trashcam Project: Dumpsters Turned into Pinhole Cameras
The images are breathtaking: black-and-white urban scenes with all the organic drama and character that only low-tech photography methods can produce. Would you believe that these beautiful ...
Fluid Designs: 12 (More) Water Vehicles to Float Your Boat
First there was the guitar boat, the wooden Ferrari boat and the 'spider that ate San Francisco'. Now come 12 even cooler and crazier watercraft designs and concepts from super-high-tech ...
