Month: April 2007

Cory Doctorow:
The March, 1954 edition of Popular Science carried a great article about homebrew car builders and their killer creations. I love this “Manta Ray” car!

MATE A MANTA RAY with a jet plane and this is what you get. Builders V. F. Antoine and G. K. Hire, of Whittier, Calif., work on guided missiles for a living. Shout is a chromed aluminum casting. Bumpers were fabricated from Hudson parts.

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Update: Coop sez, “That car was patterned after the 1951 Buick Le Sabre concept car, designed by legendary GM design god Harley J. Earl.”

Originally posted by Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing

Cory Doctorow:

I’m entranced with the latest TokyoFlash impractical wristwatch from the future. The Shinshoku tells the time with a set of impenetrable color-coded LEDs that shine through holes in the metal mesh wristband. It requires that you rewire your brain to learn an entirely new time-telling system, which is good mental exercise, and it means that no one will ever ask to borrow your watch, except for fashion.

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See also:
Radio Active watch from Tokyo Flash
Crazy TokyoFlash watch: the Pimp Watch
Binary LED watch from TokyoFlash
Biohazard watch
Japanese watches from the edge of cool
Bingo Watch — looks like a Bingo card
Japanese watch blinks and beeps the time in Morse code
Scope watch tells time using line-intersections on Cartesian grid
Impractical lovely pixelwatch from Japan
Japanese black-light watch uses mirrors to make time seem infinite

Originally posted by Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing

Cory Doctorow:

Robert Bolesta has created a lovely alphabet out of formed chunks of ground beef in styro trays.

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(Thanks, Robert!)

See also:
Rustic found alphabet
Found alphabet made from human brains
The Dinosaur Alphabet by Hal Robins
Naturally occuring alphabet on the wings of butterflies
Cartoonist challenge: illustrated A-Z in an hour
Modded plastic soldier alphabet

Originally posted by Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing

Cory Doctorow:

Artist Oliver Munday produced this stunning alphabet by melting, torquing and modding plastic toy soldiers.

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(Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

Update:
Here’s underconstruction’s interview with Oliver Munday — thanks, Armin!)

Originally posted by Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing