Ménage à Quatre is a new accessory for female self-pleasure, featuring a series of four rings made of silver and silicone, ergonomically designed to stimulate the clitoris and other pleasurable areas.
https://vimeo.com/65961597#at=53
Ménage à quatre is currently seeking funding on indiegogo.
Found here. Links to videos 1 & 2.
Electronics turn a person’s thoughts into commands for a robot:
Using a brain-computer interface technology pioneered by University of Minnesota biomedical engineering professor Bin He, several young people have learned to use their thoughts to steer a flying robot around a gym, making it turn, rise, dip, and even sail through a ring.
The technology may someday allow people robbed of speech and mobility by neurodegenerative diseases to regain function by controlling artificial limbs, wheelchairs, or other devices. And it’s completely noninvasive: Brain waves (EEG) are picked up by the electrodes of an EEG cap on the scalp, not a chip implanted in the brain.
Found here. Link to video.
The Monkey Light Pro creates images and animations within a bicycle wheel with the use of 4 bars of LEDs. Once you’re rolling, the display fills the bike wheel and is visible from both sides.
The Monkey Light Pro has sensors to track speed, heads-up position and rotation direction. This allows the system to create stable, full-wheel images from 15 to 65 km/h.
More info on Kickstarter.
Link to youtube video.
A candle holder that keeps the flame of the burning candle always at the same level, .by Japanese designer Yuya Ushida.
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The Toa Mata Band by Italian music producer Giuseppe Acito is a fully working music band made up of several tiny robotic LEGO figures, programmed to play various electronic instruments.
Each “member” of the band is constructed from LEGO Bionicle pieces rigged with rubber bands and pulleys. Their arms are controlled by an Arduino Uno connected to an iPad running Nord Beat, a MIDI sequencer app. The tiny bots essentially perform a MIDI sequence by hitting the instrument they’re facing when prompted.
Found here. Pictures found in Giuseppe Acito’s flickr. Links to videos 1 & 2.
Coral handled Venetian knife and fork from about 1600 from Supper With Shakespeare: The Evolution of English Banqueting exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
via ny times
Aluminum sheets and flexible PVC wires, weaved together using traditional techniques from Rwanda, from the Wire project by Israeli designer Maya Ben David.
Accessories and objects made of antique small pieces, human prosthetics or broken porcelains from the Feeas series, by Spanish designer Remedios Vincent.
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