Harvesting my backyard honey (and your chance to get a jar) Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net Earlier this summer, I harvested honey from my backyard beehive. I follow the Backwards Beekeepers’ no-treatment school of bee husbandry — I don’t do anything other than set up a box and fill it with bees. No mite treatment, no quee… … Continue reading Harvesting backyard honey
Which professions have the most psychopaths? The fewest? Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success, by Kevin Dutton, has this side-by-side list of professions with the highest percentage of psychopaths (CEO tops the list) and lowest… RT @BoingBoing: Which professions have the most psychopaths? … Continue reading Professions that encourage a lack of empathy?
iPhone case allows you to take photos with phone held horizontally Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net The MirrorCase for the iPhone lets you take photos while holding the phone flat, like an old-timey camera. It seems like a good way to shoot video of yourself, too - just set it on a table and do your thing. … Continue reading Case lets you film people with an iPhone laying flat (like presidential campaign fund raisers)
Loud Bicycle: Car horn for your bike Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net An outstanding Kickstarter project - a bike horn that is as loud as a car horn! Cycling in traffic can be frightening and dangerous. The Loud Bicycle horn prevents accidents by alerting motorists with a familiar sound. The safety benefits of … RT @BoingBoing: Loud … Continue reading A bike horn that helps you avoid homicidal drivers
Make it So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction - “Sex with Technology” Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net Here’s an exclusive excerpt from Make it So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction, by Nathan Shedroff and Christopher Noessel. Many designers enjoy the interfaces seen in science fiction films and television shows. Freed from … Make it So: … Continue reading Why creative writers are the best tech futurists
Bluetooth stickers help you find things when you lose them Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net StickNFinds are Bluetooth location stickers the diameter of a quarter (but thicker than a quarter). You attach them to television remote controls, pets, children, or other things that you need to locate. The batteries last about a… RT @BoingBoing: Bluetooth stickers help … Continue reading SticknFinds: find the things you lose
Radishes moan when groped Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net World’s Best Ever says: “The Sekuhara (translated: Sexual Harassment) Interface is a group of daikon radishes that have been hooked up to electronic sensors to emit moans and groans when groped.” It would be easy to construct a Sekuha… http://flip.it/6AAPQ Related articles Radishes: Love 'Em and Leaf 'Em … Continue reading What radishes can teach us about personal privacy
$40 device keeps your head from falling off your shoulders when you sleep on a plane Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net I can’t sleep for more than 30 minutes or so on a plane. After that, I’m awake for the duration of the flight, no matter how long it is. I wonder if this neck-propper-upper would help? … Continue reading Upright sleeper: How to sleep on a plane
By Mark Frauenfelder, makezine.com This summer the folks who produce Dark Rye, the online magazine for Whole Foods Markets, came to my house in Los Angeles, and shot a video profile of my daughters and me working on different projects. We made a guitar out of a metal… http://flpbd.it/MGnTr Whole Food’s Dark Rye profiles MAKE … Continue reading Whole Food’s Dark Rye profiles MAKE editor-in-chief Mark Frauenfelder
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