Now I realise that building scale models of Cathedrals or Nebucanezzar in Lego is one of the geekiest things I have come across in a long time; but here is one geek pastime that has some very cool outcomes - besides you need some way of making your PC less, well, … beige.

A case (no pun intended) in point is this … the falcon … now steady on their Jams, I'm sure Ange likes her iBook the way it is! You really have to admire the sheer ingenuity not to mention inspiration of taking something as dull and functional as a PC and making it infinitely better!

Or how about this one? Pretty ugly actually but it's quite a lot fun … mind you I kind of like my G4 the way it is … although on or two mods like this one might not go amiss. Bye for now.

The fantastic floating device called a lifter has no moving parts, no onboard fuel, and no shortage of wide-eyed admirers. Even inside NASA.

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semacode | URL barcodes | practical ubicomp: “Simply put, a semacode is a URL barcode. Using our free software, you can scan a semacode, and with just one click the proper webpage will be loaded on your phone's browser. The system is open and extensible, and anyone can create semacodes on their own computer.”

Electrified wood: "Designed by Trans|alpin, Wood.e is essentially electrified wood, pressed with two integrated conducting layers which allow to add electrical conduct. 12V power is fed to the metal layers via one connector, and elements (lamps, spotlights, fans etc.) can be connected via another. NO cable needed.

Next month at the Salone del Mobile in Milan (April 13th-18th) they will present the ‘living in a box’ project, a furniture system made out of Wood.e.

Furniture like chairs, tables, lamps and shelves create symbiotic relationships that are not possible with ordinary wood or metal, and previously isolated objects can now combine the functions of furniture, lighting and space definition.

In the 2003 edition of the Salone, they showed the Cubix concept, instant furniture sold in a vending machine.

Via Blaine Brownell. Picture from Archinect.

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(Via we make money not art.)

Stamkey stamps transfer personal info to your cellphone: "

Stamkey is a PC/mobile application that allows you to embed information in a 2D tag called a QR code — essentially

a bar code that encodes information in both the x and y axes instead of along the usual unidirectional strip. The

Stamkey stamp is then readable by a cameraphone, enabling transmission of the encoded data into your phone. If you

haven't already guessed by now, Stamkey is a Japanese innovation, and users in that country are placing the QR codes on

business cards for immediate transfer of contact information. While we would rather just cut out the analog middleman

altogether and have our phones beam contact info to one another, we can see some interesting possibilities in the idea

— suck down a set of text directions to a club from a concert poster, perhaps?

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(Via Engadget.)

Water bottle WiFi in Mali: "

In the great tradition of DIY wireless comes another

project underway in Mali. The project is investigating best practices for building small DIY antennas and router

enclosures at low-cost to serve the Malian television and WiFi markets. Designs were taken from numerous sources and

adapted to use materials readily available in Mali such as plastic water bottles (peep the ‘BottleNet’ antenna at

right), used motorbike valve stems, and window screen mesh. Goals included reducing cost and making assemblages simple

enough to require little technical skill. For about $40 per antenna, the project could end up satisfying most of the

needs of the WiFi market in Mali. Want to piggy-back off your neighbor's broadband? Start saving your bottles.

Via [Smart Mobs]

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(Via Engadget.)

Build your own LCD Video Projector: “A while back I got frustrated with the fact the LCD Projectors cost so much money to buy, and figured that it couldn‘t be so hard to build my own. So I took a 2 inch JVC active matrix LCD (no longer on the market, but the LCD’s on the right work pretty well) which was the exact size of a slide, took it apart, and mounted it inside my slide projector. This sort of worked. The downside was that the heat from the bulb was too much for the LCD, and the image degraded into swirls of colour after 15 seconds or so. Later on I worked out a beam splitter-type arrangement, where the light from the slide projector was reflected at a right angle to the LCD, and a huge blower fan was cooling the works, and it turned out pretty well. The picture was kinda pixilated, but I didn‘t have all the perfect lenses. But not bad considering I only invested $150 USD in the whole project. I don’t have pictures from those experiments, but I‘ve gathered together a lot of different related resources, and made up this page, in hopes that you’ll get some ideas and figure something out on your own. ( I'm going to put together another projector with the LCD on the right and take pictures of the whole process, and post the new article in the near future…)”

How to do USB in Physical Computing: "Serial cables are slowly becoming obsolete; being excluded with every new computer version. Ever wonder if it would be possible to write a USB device for PCs? If you know how to program PIC chips, then this tutorial will show you how it's done, with hardware, firmware and software examples.