Harvesting my backyard honey (and your chance to get a jar)
Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.netEarlier 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…
Which professions have the most psychopaths? The fewest?
Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.netThe 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…
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iPhone case allows you to take photos with phone held horizontally
Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.netThe 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. At $50, it’s a bit pricey. I won…
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Loud Bicycle: Car horn for your bike
Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.netAn 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 …
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Make it So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction – “Sex with Technology”
Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.netHere’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 …
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Bluetooth stickers help you find things when you lose them
Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.netStickNFinds 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…
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Radishes moan when groped
Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.netWorld’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…
$40 device keeps your head from falling off your shoulders when you sleep on a plane
Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.netI 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?
Enter the UpRight Sleeper, a neck support that makes…
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…
Whole Food’s Dark Rye profiles MAKE editor-in-chief Mark Frauenfelder
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