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There’s nothing I love more than making good electronic music from classic video game consoles. This video is a great example of someone using circuit bending techniques to generate sounds from an old Atari 2600. Using Paul Siocum’s Synthcart, the user is able to create original pieces using the 2600’s built-in sound chips. Nothing beats the DIY instrument movement. If ...

What does an ex-fighter pilot do for thrills and kicks when he’s done shooting down krauts? He builds a unique rocket-powered flying machine, takes some opium and calls himself Fusion Man. Such is the life of 48-year-old Yves Rossy, the man behind the wings of his real-life Iron Man suit. Rossy is able to achieve speeds of 186 mph and ...

My birthday was on Tuesday and I got about three musical cards this year. Though they were good for a short laugh, I felt bad that my siblings had spent $5 on a card just because it looped a sound over and over again. Luckily, Justin from Instructables has come up with a way to turn your useless birthday card ...

TouchWall, a prototype device currently in development by Microsoft Research and Office Labs is a lot like Microsoft Surface, the tabletop computer with multi touch capabilities, except now it hangs from your wall. Some basic uses of TouchWall include dragging, scrolling, enlarging documents as well as viewing photos and videos. At the CEO Summit, Bill Gates is expected to talk ...

A Japanese company called Fujitaka has introduced a “Child Check System” for cigarette vending machines that uses facial recognition. It then compares the face with 100,000 faces in the vending machines database after taking a digital photograph of the consumer. The legal smoking age in Japan is 20, so if you just so happen to be a 13-year old looking ...

Victor Vetterlein has designed a vision of what conceptual homes of the future will look like. I am easily reminded of the bizarre looking “arcologies” you could build in SimCity 2000. Dubbed “Reboot,” the futuristic living-space is supposed to be a self-sufficient and environment friendly take on everyday living. Everything about its interior is digitally controlled and designed to be ...

Jailbreaking your iPhone is the norm nowadays. I’m pretty sure no one with an iPhone would be caught dead without some sort of third-party application installed. If you’re a fan of keeping it simple or kicking it old school, check out iDial, a rotary phone application for Apple’s Jesus Phone. Add it to your iPhone and you’ll be able to ...

If you’ve ever played the game Full Throttle or seen the movie Aliens, you’re familiar with the “game” of laying your hand down flat on a table and using a knife to stab at the table in between your fingers. The trick is to not hit your hand. There’s no pay off for winning the game but there is most ...

Designer Soojin Hyun has created a unique take on an office workplace by adding an adolescent fort feeling to a workers surroundings. It’s called “House on the Table,” and that’s essentially what it is – a house on a table. If anything, it’s a glorified cubicle without the carpeted walls. It would boost a workers attitude more so than a ...

Here’s an interesting take on clothes hangers for the “American Psycho” out there. Tianyi Chang has come up with a creepy way to hang your coats, aprons or whatever you wish on polyurethane black knives mounted and screwed into a wall. The lady friend might not enjoy knives being drilled into her wall as a fashion statement, but she’ll get ...