Gizmodo: walls

Motherboard Walls Add That Special Something To Your Next Remodeling Project

John Mahoney — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:30:00 EDT

These are the walls of a Human-Computer Interaction Institute lab at Carnegie Mellon, and as you can see, they provide plenty of opportunities to create such interactions on the fly when you snag your sweater on some spiky solder leads or that ZIF socket handle. Chris Harrison, a PhD student, bought old motherboards on eBay by the pound to completely adorn the lab in mo-bos. And while this is great for the computer science lab and maybe OK for the garage (maybe), don't even think about doing this in your bedroom if you ever want to have sex again. It does look pretty sweet, though.

[Chris Harrison via Neatorama]

Mio Nomad System: Create a Wall Anytime, Anywhere

blongo3 — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:00:01 EDT

The Nomad is a modular system for creating partitions designed by Mio. What sets them apart from other partitioning setups? Well they're made up of tons of little recycled-cardboard pieces that fit into one another in order to create your desired wall shape. You can even create openings that you can walk through, ala a door.

The pieces, that are extremely light and fold flat, are made out of recycled-cardboard and come in six different colors. However, 24 pieces cost a whopping $56. So if you were to create a wall similar to the one in the picture (which contains somewhere in the vicinity of 112 pieces) it would end up costing around $280. Although after checking out the prices for wardrobe screens at Cost Plus this doesn't seem quite as bad and they're portable. [Product Page via TreeHugger]

This Robot Defies Jesus, Walks on Walls

Gizloco — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:46:42 EDT

Hold on to the edge of your seat, boys and girls, because this here robot is poised to Blow. You. Away. Not only is it made of metal and rubber, in and of itself completely mind-boggling and on more than one occasion made me question my own hollow existence, but it can also walk up walls. So the government has been lying to us! I totally called this back in '47.

There's a video of this totally radical robot, like, walking up a wall. I could've sworn that only the Son of God could do that, but the Japanese sure do have a knack for creating robots with little actual, real world utility. – Nicholas Deleon

The Wall-climbing Robot [Newlaunches.com]