A Brief History of Golf Ball Design, and Why You Shouldn't Hit People with Baseball Bats. I once helped a career criminal move some things out of his basement—long story—and when we got to his golf clubs, he hit me (not literally) with this factoid: A golf club is apparently the ideal implement for casual, everyday interpersonal assault. "I thought [guys in your line of work] used baseball bats," I said, naively. "Nah," he said. "Those are too big and heavy. You come at me with a bat and I can take it away from you.
But this"—he turned around and swung a golf club back and forth through the air, causing it to make a creepy whistling noise—"you don't see this coming, it's so fast. And you can't get it away from me. Look at the rubber grip on this thing. " Other than that story I have nothing revelatory to say about golf club design. In the mid-1800s, a guy named Robert Adams Paterson made the first molded ball. Then an interesting discovery was made. By the late 1890s, a new type of golf ball had been created, by accident, by a visitor to B.F. On Sale For $150: One Laptop Per Child Is Now A Touch Screen Tablet. The One Laptop Per Child initiative has always believed in the power of technology to transform the lives of children. Founded by outspoken techno-utopian Nicholas Negroponte with the goal of putting a working $100 computer in the hands of every child on Earth, OLPC has not always been without controversy.
In some parts of the developing world, kids have far less use for laptops than clean drinking water, working toilets, and a good deworming. Even so, ever since the first OLPC computer came out in 2006, the project represents a vision of the future in which free access to information and technology in considered to be the clean drinking water of the mind: a basic human right. The first Children’s Machine came out in 2006 during a curious period of mass insanity in the computer industry when everyone thought that netbooks--cheap, crappy laptops with tiny keyboards that didn’t do anything particularly well--were the future of computing.
Can This Sink-Urinal Hybrid Get Men To Wash Their Hands? People, in general, aren’t good at prioritizing. We blow off work to repeatedly refresh our news feeds and bookmark articles we don’t ever finish reading. We eagerly wait an hour for a cheeseburger we consume in under three minutes. Worst of all, far, far too many of us forgo washing our hands after doing our business. Why? Nearly ⅓ of Americans don’t wash their hands before exiting a public restroom, with men outpacing women in terms of overall grossness (duh). He developed a design for a urinal that compels men to soap up after zipping up. Jursons stumbled on the idea for the project after he made several design collages for a study project at the Art Academy of Latvia. “I did some first mockups in fiberglass to test it and decide details for the continuous shape,” Jursons tells Co.Design. Now produced in a small-production run, STAND ($590) has shipped to locations in Norway, Germany, and Russia, not to mention Latvia.
3D printer made almost entirely out of Legos | Crave - CNET. An engineering student lacking the funds for a Makerbot created one himself with what he happened to have available: a box of Lego. 3D printers are slowly coming down in price, with the least expensive yet just reaching funding on Kickstarter last month, with an asking price of US$397. Matthew Krueger, aka, Matstermind, had been eyeing off the Makerbot ever since it was first on the market. But, as a poor engineering student, he simply didn't have the funds to purchase one — so he decided to make his own. What he had to work with was an old box of Lego, so he got to work and created what he is calling the Legobot, based on the very first Makerbot Replicator introduced in January 2012, printing with hot glue rather than 3D printing plastics. Although the Legobot is mostly made out of Lego, it does, of course, have some other components. "While it does print, I would call this more of a prototype than a finished project," he said of his project.
Via www.instructables.com. GIGS.2.GO | Curve | GIGS.2.GO, USB, flash, drive, reusable, tear-off, paper, pulp, recycled, Kurt, Rampton, BOLTgroup. Each tab is a tiny reusable thumb drive. GIGS.2.GO is made from low-cost moulded paper pulp, created from 100% post-consumer recycled paper – challenging assumptions that small tech products need to have oil-based plastic enclosures. The designer, Kurt Rampton, claims it is renewable, biodegradable, lightweight, cheap and durable enough to ensure that each tab should last for many uses. Rampton, from the industrial design firm BOLTgroup, explains how the idea for the concept was born.
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