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Their work looks like so much fun.

Video displaying the new BMW concept car covered in cloth. I personally think it’s great. Most likely it’s considerably more energy efficient to produce, and I think it’s definitely more attractive. Perhaps some day we’ll see this.

Scott Johnston has a project to take google earth data and run it though his CNC mill to produce a physical model of the geographic terrain. Brilliant idea, and very interesting.

No I don’t mean that crappy plastic board. Some students made this Electronic Dartboard or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ECE 476 it’s a horse hair board that is a very complex but well done project. It’s worth the read to find out how they did the dart detection alone.

Next big future has an entry titled Rewritable holograms will revolutionize medicine and advertising, it’s about a group at University of Arizona who created a rewritable 3d hologram. It’s apparently pretty fast and they’re working on a full color version. They talk about advertisements and TV, but I wonder about it’s impact on […]

Reddot was the design concept - winners 2006 for a moldable mouse made from clay and covered in Nylon. The buttons and scroll wheel are to be stickable components RFID enabled so they can transmit to the base. If this is so, it is hereby declared awesome.

Someone has built a human carrying electric plane. The original site was in French so here’s Translated version of http://www.apame.eu/Projet03.html. Now all they need is some solar panels on the wings.

It looks like O’Reilly has put iPhone Open Application Development up for early purchase as a rough cut. I’m really having a hard time not buying it right now. I’ve been so anxious to get a look at the API for the iPhone and can’t wait to get my hands on it. […]

I’m a big fan of open source, and I’m a big fan of electronics. Naturally this project, MAKE: Low cost open source VGA compatible video card sparked my interest. It’s an open hardware VGA card. Meaning that if you were so inclined you could buy all the component parts, download the eagle […]

MIT in it’s infinite wisdom has already made all it’s courses available online via Open Course Ware. Since they’ve done this they’ve now released the material for their 6.189 Multicore Programming Primer: PS3 Cell Programming. Dig in and learn some parallel algorithm and other geeky things.