Archive for April, 2010

April 27th, 2010 - Posted by Den

A honey pot of talent

Spiders can’t catch terrorists. Beagles can’t make preserves. But bees are in a league of their own. Not content with providing humans with their honey, they’ve moved on to tackle the problem of border security. As part of their training, each bee checks-in to a ‘bee hotel’, specially developed by UK firm Inscentinel, where it’s [...]

April 16th, 2010 - Posted by Kate

How Hipstamatic got its groove back

My latest iphone discovery is an amazing app which turns your iphone camera into an ‘old-school’ hipstamatic – above are some examples.  I loved the end result so much I decided to do a bit more digging about the original Hipstamatic and came across this great story about the invention and reinvention of the hipstamtic [...]

April 6th, 2010 - Posted by Kate

DIY Manufacturing?

US company MakeBot Industries has created a personal 3D printer (the CupCake CNC) that enables users to input a digital design file and output virtually any plastic object.  While 3D printers have been around for a while, this is the first product to come with a consumer price tag – it’s  just USD750 and best of [...]