Sunday, 15 April 2012

Brick Brites: LEGO with LEDs





April 12th, 2012by: Lambert Varias Make your LEGO ambulance, LEGO police car and LEGO techno club more realistic with Brick Brites, transparent bricks embedded with LEDs that are compatible with your “favorite construction blocks”, as long as your favorite construction blocks are LEGO.

Bicycle Upgraded with Train Horns Sure to Clear the Way





April 12th, 2012by: Technabob Ever find yourself on your bike, only to be cut off by some jerk who doesn’t think bikes belong on the road?

The Chadster outfitted his bike with a large dual-trumpet horn from a train, connected up to a tank filled with compressed air.

Ardbeg’s ISS Whiskey Experiments





Automated cargo vessels head to the ISS regularly to take astronauts new supplies and pick up trash.

A few months back, Ardbeg Distillery sent some vials of key ingredients to the ISS aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket.

When the vials come back from orbit, the researchers at the distillery intend to do experiments to see if zero gravity had any effect on terpenes in the ingredients.

Photographic Moon Globe is out of This World





The Sky & Telescope Moon Globe is 12-inches in diameter, and has 850 labeled locations.

For $99.95 you get both the globe and Sky & Telescope’s detailed Moon Guide.

LEGO Dock for Nokia Lumia 900 Lets You Safely Brick Your Phone





Check out this LEGO beauty which was constructed by Baris Eris.

He also provides instructions and detailed close-up shots, which should be enough for anyone with some LEGO bricks to build their LEGO charging dock for their smartphone, not just the Nokia Lumia 900.

TJ* Animatronic Puppet Puts a Robot Head on Your Desk





Designed by Jeff Kessler, TJ* is an animatronic puppet you can easily control.

The mechanical puppet is controlled using a programmable Arduino circuit, so you can make it do whatever you want.

Pricing for TJ* starts at just $50(USD) if you already have an Arduino, and at $120 for a complete system with the Arduino Uno controller and puppeteer’s joystick.

BrewCave Walk-in Cooler & Kegerator: The Beer Lover’s Happy Place







The BrewCave is made of metal-skinned panels with 4″ insulation cores.

It can fit up to 30 cases of beer along with 4 kegs of more beer.