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Posts tagged “final frame”

Final Frame: An iPhone Everything Future

The Purchase Brothers' teases us all with a vision of what the iPhone be 4 years from now. It's completely overdone, full of hype, and provides more questions than answers. But still, it does get us t...

Final Frame: LEGO Inspired Living

From kitchen spoon holders to PC cases, or even full-on radiators and entire home offices, there seems to be a LEGO alternative for everything these days. One could only wonder how far the extent of t...

Final Frame: Another Transition, Another Upgrade

It has only been a little over 50 years since the first introduction of color TVs to the masses. Now once again, with the digital transition now eminent (some stations have already started cutting off...

Final Frame: Landscape Architecture Meets Photoshop

Work from Myoung Ho Lee shows us what it would be like if we could cut and paste our natural surroundings. Don't like a tree blocking the view your apartment view? No sweat, we'll just move it over th...

Final Frame: Mao and the Chinese Cell Phone Revolution

Did you ever imagine cell phones would be so important? Thanks to its proximity to Japan and Taiwan, China is getting the most advanced phones before North America. Will China rule the world? [Painti...

Final Frame: Old School Retro Calculators

Remember those old calculators? Almost all of us have had contact with these old machines. Through our fathers, mothers, brothers or even ourselves. Don't they just look good? Large buttons and displa...

Final Frame: Millions of Keys

22, 528 recycled computer keycaps and 192 custom keycaps, those are the number of keyboard keys that went into the construction of TEXTile, a customized active keyboard and interactive software instal...

Final Frame: Sound Wave

The 'Second Lives' exhibition at the Museum of Art and Design. If you are not trying to store them, it sure doesn't hurt to turn them into something interesting to look at. The first thing that comes...

Final Frame: Nerdbots Robots Made Out Of Household Items

Nerdbots are lovable robots created out of household items. They are created by Nicholas and Angela from Kansas City, Missouri. This idea came from a strange obsession with all things robot. One day, ...

Final Frame Di-Cyle Concept: Right Out of Science-Fiction

This might look like a modern art or a stationary bicycle, but it's actually a concept by GBO called Di-Cyle. It looks like a bike out of Star Wars and it's designed to function on land or on water. T...

Final Frame: Mauritian Sunset by Sandy Smith

We can't see the sunset, but we do think that this is a pretty cool way to use a pile of old computers. The best part is the dichotomy between the front of the exhibition and the back. Click through t...

Final Frame: Keg Droid

Ames, Iowa, home of Iowa State University installed rubber sidewalks because the regular sidewalks were sustaining too much keg-inflicted damage. ...

Final Frame: The Hardiman and the Hardyman

The Hardiman was the first attempt to construct and design a powered exoskeleton. It was conceived by GE.in 1965. It's original purpose was to allow the wearer to lift with ease loads up to 1500 poun...