Share Del Hatch made a big splash again this year with his chess playing robot, which uses an off-the-shelf sensory chess board and robot arm together with the open-source chess engine GNUChess. Photo: Billy Baque Words from Del: The interface for playing chess against a computer is poor. Real chess...

Share Ingrid Siliakus first discovered paper architecture by seeing work of the originator of this art form Prof. Masahiro Chatani (architect and professor in Japan). Paper Architecture is the art of creating an object out of a single piece of paper.   Via: Flickr and Ingrid Siliakus Share Tags:...

Share Horo WJE168 looks like a miniature piano being played by a violin bow. Luigi Pasqualini’s creation is certainly a head turner par excellence, using age old ‘tunable’ musical instrument construction techniques passed down over the centuries. The Horo WJE168 is built to special...

Share Designer Eric Ku redefined the concept of a chair by using alphabet. He made this chair out of the letters in the word “chair”. So it’s easy to construct a chair by assembling the redesigned alphabets. Via: theo’s gallimaufry Share Tags: Alphabetic Chair By Eric Ku Related...

Share These amazing folded paper art by Simon Schubert, created by making some folds in sheets of paper. He said: “The first attempt was not really so successful, took quite a white to get the technique perfect.” It’s stays unclear if he really folds the paper or if he rubs the lines into the paper.                 Via:...

Share In an effort to make sharks more cuddly, Kendra Phillips designed and produced a prototype for the ChumBuddy. This 7 foot monster plush was 100% hand sewn (sewing machines hate him) from fleece and felt & contains about 30 lbs of poly-fill.   Via Share Tags: child sleeping bag, childrens...

Share “Young Makers” is the theme for this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area, the world’s largest DIY festival, taking place on May 22nd and 23rd at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. Young Makers is a celebration of our future generations of makers as well as the youthful making spirit in...

Share This Barbie have new rare pink diamond necklace designed by Stephen Cantur. The necklace features 3 carats of white diamonds arranged in a Cubist style and surrounding a rare pink diamond from Australia’s Argyle mine. She becomes the most expensive Barbie till date with price of $550,000 dollars. via:...

Share This tiny brass cannon fires steel ball bearings with great force and accuracy, making it the deadliest cute thing and cutest deadly thing I’ve seen all year. Take a look video: Share Tags: cannon, Cool stuff, smallest cannon, stell ball, tiny cannon Related posts X-Ray Umbrella...

Share This is a Terminator head made entirely out of LEGO by Brickshelf robbed. Via Share Tags: Cool stuff, custom legos, lego terminator, new legos, terminator legos, terminator pictures, the terminator Related posts Lego Ship In A Bottle (0) X-Ray Umbrella (1) World’s Largest...

Share This well designed robot, the MakerBot Defender by Thingiverse user DemonDust doesn’t have any electronics and actually its mechanical parts don’t work as well as one would like, but it’s well designed and even comes with its own fantastic back-story! The Makerbot Defender is...

Share These sculptures by Korean artist Gwon Osang are made from hundreds of photographs of the unique subjects, overlayed onto life-sized mannequins to make an result which is both realistic and surreal at the same time.         via: Gwon Osang Share Tags: art sculptures,...

Share This laser suit project is for a Taiwan popular singer: Show Lo, and for his 2010 world tour. The nylon suit is embedded with 200 laser diodes, transforming the performer into a mobile light show. via Share Tags: laser, laser diodes, laser suit, laser suits, nylon suit, show lo, taiwan Related...

Share Weta Legs are professional digitigrade leg extensions used by special effects artists in movies and television, and are for the first time commercially available to the public. They can easily be costumed to resemble a digitigrade leg, from canine and feline to fantastical demons, dragons, satyrs...

Share These small ice-imitators are specially designed to put a slight cool in your Whiskey. All you do is put them in the freezer for a few hours and then pop a couple into a glass of single malt.     Source Share Tags: ice, ice cubes, ice-imitators, mini ice cube, whiskey ice Related...

Share Cakeland is a sequence of sculptures and installations resembling ideal tasty cakes– wall mounted, hanging and standing and walk-through cake environments full with their own lighting. Scott Hove’s Cakeland series consists of sculptures and installations of inedible cakes that in fact...

Share The Reflectius is incredibly remarkable clock concept by Art. Lebedev Studio. The design and concept seem really retro-futuristic, and would have been a great set piece for Back to the Future II.     Share Tags: clock timers, cool clocks, cool interior design, reflectius clock, unique...