Jason Freeny, the designer who brought us that amazing-yet-freaky minifig anatomy lesson last October, wants every Lego aficionado to know that there’s a huge red brick inside all of you. Continue reading… “There Is A LEGO Set For Every Collector”
As homeless populations in most major cities around the world increase, now is the time to
begin creating sustainable housing solutions that defy convention. Dutch design group N55, in conjunction with the Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire, created just such a solution with the invention of the Walking House. Continue reading… “Walking House”
Remember those ads in the back of comic books with the crazy X-ray glasses? You know… they had plastic frames and cardboard eye-covers with holes in them (presumably so you wouldn’t face-plant while walking); and the cardboard had these wild spirals on them…
And they never worked. Ever. How many of us were suckered in by the lure of seeing through a girl’s shirt? Not that we really would’ve known what we were looking at, but still… it was taboo. And so we bought these pieces of trash and… nothing. Very disappointing.
Until now. Continue reading… “X-Ray Glasses Are Here”
We’ve seen a NES crammed into a toaster and made functional before. And it was awesome. So of course the next logical step is giving the same treatment to an SNES. Continue reading… “Super Nintoaster”
Remember all those Star Trek gadgets you wished you had because they looked so cool? Well, it turns out looking cool is about all they’d be good for.
Here’s five inventions that will be available some day … even if nobody wants them. Continue reading… “5 Awesome Sci-Fi Inventions”
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If the Segway’s current movement mechanism and cast of characters astride them wasn’t keeping you up at night, the Cajun Crawler should seal the deal.
Continue reading… “Cajun Crawler”
When compiling your essential Windows XP or Vista toolkit, it makes sense to source as many free tools as you possibly can.
But sometimes you don’t know that you need a tool until you’re presented with it
So check out this list of ten of our favourite free system tools and plug some gaps in your software collection.
Continue reading… “10 Useful And Free Windows Tools”
Just ask the inventors of these products, each one having changed the way we live, and each one having come about either by serendipity or complete screw-up. We’re talking about… Continue reading… “Accidental Inventions That Changed The World”
Most audiophile speakers tend to be rather cosmetically challenged, but here’s one that looks decidedly more Donald Trump than audio nerd. Continue reading… “Add Bling To Your Audio”
IN the January MI we showed you Tom McCahill’s dream car. And it really caught your fancy. We were swamped with letters, many of which longingly described pet dream cars. So, the editors asked artist Doug Rolfe to draw this set of cartoons to illustrate what might happen if Everyman would fit a car to his own personality. Continue reading… “Cars You’ll Never See”
We’re living in the 21st Century. With all that science and technology has achieved, doesn’t it seem a bit anachronistic that we have to reset most of our clocks and watches
manually when daylight savings time comes… and goes? Continue reading… “10 Clever Clocks & Watches”
Forget headache-inducing goggles and hissy sound, full sensory virtual reality – dubbed ‘real virtuality’ – is just around the corner. Continue reading… “VR Tech”
