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yaean Moved

So we moved... down two floors. New address on the contact page. And here's a picture of the team after lighting joss sticks for the gods in the new office (some assembly required).

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cardboard lamp

Cardboard Lamp

The PLamp is a lamp made out of re-cycled cardboard. The lamp is the box is the lamp. Part of the box is even the ceiling rose for the lamp. The shade is a single piece of folded and stamped…

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cardboard furniture

Cardboard Furniture

Pomada make furniture from 30 cm wide cardboard tubes mounted in frames made from plywood or recycled OSB.

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cardboard point of sale shelves from coke

Cardboard Coke Rack

Coke has made this point of sale shelving system out of cardboard to, they say, reduce waste. Hey it's recyclable. And Coke will recover/reuse the systems from retailers - an industry first, they say. Of course, you could just get…

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nail art

Nailed Art

Marcus Levine makes sculptures of people by hammering nails into large white wooden boards. Amazing! All done freehand and by eye - no tracing.

See also Screw Sculpture.

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SixToes: Low Guns

Seven Seconds In Four Minutes

In August 2010 a user called Straylight uploaded a video called Glide 2 to YouTube. The video was shot with a high-speed camera (a Casio) out of the window of a moving train. It got a lot of…

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art from thread spools

Art From Thread Spools

Devorah Sperber makes upside down pixelated pictures using spools of thread like this version of John Lennon's self portrait. When viewed through a glass or acrylic sphere placed in front of the piece the image appears smaller and the right…

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lego robot solves megaminx

Lego Robot Solves The Megaminx

The Megaminx is a bit like a Rubik's cube but it's a dodecahedron - twelve faces. So it's even more tricky to solve. Using some Lego Mindstorms and dedicated code running on a HTC Desire, David Gilday from ARM…

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lego gummy sweets

Lego Gummies

Instructables has a guide to making molds out of Lego then making gummy sweets from the mold. Lego and gummy sweets: what more could you want? Eat. Build. Love.

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