mechanics

Miniature Kinetic Sculptures Are the Coolest Snail Mail You Could Possibly Send Someone

Stamps and envelopes and mailboxes—I DON’T DO THAT. But these MechaniCards—a set of five intricate and mesmerizing handcrafted mechanical sculptures you can send in the mail—are awesome enough to get me back standing in line for postage. Each MechaniCard is hand made by artist Bradley N. Litwin. The Radial Engine, the first card shown in…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Oct 14

But What Kind of Box Was This Huge Cardboard Machine Delivered In?

Here we have a large, complex machine built entirely of cardboard. It has cardboard gears and cardboard pulleys, cardboard levers and cardboard buttons. I wonder if it was packaged in a box made of a hulking old computer. [Make]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jun 16

The 22nd Century Garden

This flying greenhouse is the latest project from La Machine, a French street theater company famous for their grandiose creations. The future of gardening: one part Up, one part Wild Wild West, and two parts, um, plants. [Wired, Jordi Bover] https://gizmodo.com/image-of-the-day-what-glorious-machine-are-these-frenc-5148319

Tech News Kyle VanHemert May 29

Celsius X VI II’s Mysterious Mechanical Cellphone Gets Slightly Less Mysterious

Last month, I risked life and limb to tell you about Celsius X-VI-II, a shadowy French company who was building a $300,000 mechanical cellphone. The first pictures of the phone have surfaced, though they don’t exactly answer our questions. https://gizmodo.com/celsius-x-vi-ii-and-the-mysterious-mechanical-cellphone-5481533 The phone’s official unveiling is still to come next week at Baselworld Watch Show, but…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Mar 13

Celsius X VI II and the Mysterious Mechanical Cellphone

On March 18, at the Baselworld watch show in Switzerland, a vaporous French company called Celsius X-VI-II will unveil the Papillon, a $300,000 mobile phone that is packed with the most advanced micro-mechanics of any gadget ever created. All of this according to a recent profile in PCMag, one that frankly raises more questions than…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Feb 26

Exploding Painting Frame Reassembles Itself

I can’t have enough mechanical contraptions that turn everyday objects into wicked animated things. Like this painting frame that explodes just to re-assemble itself again. Or the bed that grows legs and walks while singing and dancing like Gene Kelly. OK, maybe I just dreamed that one, but this electrically powered painting frame—all made in…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Dec 3

Augmented Reality Goggles Give Real-Life +50% Speed Boost to Marine Mechanics

It’s like a real-life Starcraft perk for mechanics repairing armored vehicles: Marine mechanics assisted by augmented-reality goggles with a heads-up display repaired light armored vehicles up to 46 percent faster. The HUD replaces technical manuals on a bulky laptop with floating instructions, labels and oh yes, 3D models of tools right in front of the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 27

The Father of Parallel Worlds, Commemorated by Indie Rock

Hugh Everett is the father of the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics, the first physicist to propose that we exist in a potentially infinite series of parallel dimensions. He’s also the father of Eels frontman Mark Oliver Everett, who was just 18 when his father died. Tonight, PBS airs “Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives,” Mark…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 21

Quantum Encryption Network Goes Live, Claims To Be Unbreakable

Scientists have connected up the world’s first computer network protected by “quantum cryptography,” a supposedly unbreakable system that functions off a scheme based on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. For us non-science folk, that means that you can’t grab information transmitted through the network without disturbing it somehow, making it easy to detect when somebody’s trying…

Physics & Chemistry Elaine Chow Oct 9

We Dare You To Find A More Badass Tool Chest

This isn’t the tool box you’d likely see at your local garage right now. No, this is straight out of a gearhead’s rock n’ roll fantasy: A huge tool chest that also comes with an integrated Pioneer sound system and beer fridge. Top that off with self-illumination and built-in power strip and you’ve got almost…

Tech News Matt Hickey Aug 1

Miniature Kinetic Sculptures Are the Coolest Snail Mail You Could Possibly Send Someone

But What Kind of Box Was This Huge Cardboard Machine Delivered In?

The 22nd Century Garden

Celsius X VI II’s Mysterious Mechanical Cellphone Gets Slightly Less Mysterious

Celsius X VI II and the Mysterious Mechanical Cellphone

Exploding Painting Frame Reassembles Itself

Augmented Reality Goggles Give Real-Life +50% Speed Boost to Marine Mechanics

The Father of Parallel Worlds, Commemorated by Indie Rock

Quantum Encryption Network Goes Live, Claims To Be Unbreakable

We Dare You To Find A More Badass Tool Chest

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