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Nourishmat takes some of the guesswork out of gardening. Related articles The Nourishmat Starts Your Gardening Adventure with Ease! (geardiary.com) Nourishmat: Growing Your Own Food Just Got Super Easy (design-milk.com) Innovative Garden System Lets You Grow Wherever You Go (livescience.com) Gardening by numbers: Nourishmat offers big yields, minimal guesswork (mnn.com) How Does Your Garden Grow? … Continue reading Nourishmat takes some of the guesswork out of gardening
Mushroom Tiny House: The part-grown portable home. Related articles Mushroom House: The Tiny Home Stuffed With Mushrooms (creativecloseup.com) Chinese Man Lives in Portable House He Carries on his Back Like a Snail (inhabitat.com)
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techvalleycenterofgravity.com The Tech Valley Center of Gravity is a federation of makers, hackers, crafters, and artists who share camaraderie, space, and resources to do our tinkering. We have a permanent makersp … http://flip.it/RK4b1 About Us
Antique Raspberry Pi Internet Radio Matt Richardson, makezine.com It seems to be a popular thing to do, turning your Raspberry Pi into a streaming audio player for internet radio stations. However, I’m especially impressed with Florian Amrhein’s Digital Vintage Radio. The Oxford-based maker use… http://flip.it/Emb1I
Grundtal magnetic towel rack Jules Yap, ikeahackers.net Materials: Grundtal bar, neodymium magnets Description: My oven door handle does not have a large enough gap to hang a kitchen towel from, which is something that I grew accustomed to in my previous kitchen. This hack is a non… http://flip.it/AGNH1
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Ikea’s LED Strips Automatically Illuminate the Deepest Darkest Drawers Andrew Liszewski, gizmodo.com Whether you get ready for work at some impossibly early hour before the sun rises, or you live in a cheap windowless basement apartment, Ikea’s new Dioder strip lights will bring some much needed illumination to drawers, cupboards, and closets.Rea… http://flip.it/cFlTa
The Dyson Hard Just Made Your Floor Mop Obsolete Andrew Liszewski, gizmodo.com Not content with making every other vacuum and fan on the market seem like a cheap children’s toy, Dysonhas now set its sights on the floor mop that’s been quivering in your broom closet, awaiting its day of reckoning. The unfortunately named Dyso… … Continue reading Dyson hard replace the mop
QUQUQ transforms a van to a camper within a minute C.C. Weiss, gizmag.com Similar to the Swiss Roombox and Yatoo, the QUQUQ is a European-designed camping box that transforms a regular passenger vehicle into a fully equipped camper for two. Within just one minute, you can be sleeping, cooking or just hanging out in your… … Continue reading Ququq turns your van into a camper
nuplug surge protector attaches to furniture for easier charging Dave LeClair, gizmag.com The nuplug surge protected extension cord offers two outlets and two USB ports, but what makes this device interesting is its ability to attach to beds, couches, workbenches and other convenient locations around the home… Continue Reading nuplug… http://flip.it/hnNLs
To Advance Micro-Living Designs, Have Design Students Live in Tiny, Unfurnished Spaces. Yea or Nay? core77.com You’ve heard the expression that [American] football is a game of inches. So, increasingly, is living in Manhattan. This video of Luke Clark Tyler’s apartment (captured by Kirsten Dirksen’ … http://flip.it/B7NXm
Quirky’s Prop Power Rugged: An Extension Cord with a Snake-like Grip core77.com Those with dedicated workshops of their own design have the luxury of placing their own power outlets. Bur for DIY’ers making do in mixed-use spaces, or tradespeople on jobsites, the chaos … http://flip.it/KWKlF
Restored 1954 Flying Cloud Airstream in Mint Condition Travels Off-Road! | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Bridgette Meinhold INTERVIEW: Artist R Nelson Parrish Talks About His Eye-Popping Bioresin Color/Fast Installation INHABITAT: How does the term Colorfast describe your latest show? R Nelson Parrish: The term Colorfast originally is a textile industry … Continue reading Restored 1954 Airstream
Ikea Develops a Smart Flat-Pack Shelter for Disaster Refugees Liz Stinson, wired.com Ikea’s flat-pack shelter will come deconstructed in cardboard box and can be shipped around the world as natural disasters and conflicts displace families from their homes. http://flip.it/AFbLX Related articles Ikea Develops a Smart Flat-Pack Shelter for Disaster Refugees (feeds.wired.com)
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