Monthly Archives: February 2010

MacGyver fix for Neotel NeoGo Connection Problem 24/02/2010, originally uploaded by Dale Nunns. A client of mine had all their and all their neighbours phone lines fail in one go when a roadside Telkom Junction box became the casualty of … Continue reading →

This is awesome, they’ve created a weapon that can identify, track and fire lasers at Mosquito’s to kill them. Now I understand that there is safety problems with firing lasers around a room, but its such a cool idea. Like … Continue reading →

I didn’t know this (via Neatorama) Supposedly the pedestrian buttons on robots (traffic lights for foreigners) in the US don’t do anything and neither do the “Close Doors” buttons in elevators/lifts. I guessed the closed door button didn’t do anything … Continue reading →

Found this while scrolling through my feed reader (from here)…

Who needs a Leatherman if you have a paper clip, I loved this show… its probably because of MacGyver that I have a habit of carrying paper clips and other weird things in my pockets.

Kodachrome curtains, originally uploaded by yarnzombie. Found this via MakeZine, its an awesome idea. The curtains are made out of slides that have been joined together with little aluminium chainmail rings. I love this idea, although I would’ve perhaps made … Continue reading →

I found this awesome mash-up between Google Maps and Weather Underground, its a full screen Google map with the weather on it, here is an example of Cape Town. It’s actually a rather nice way of displaying the weather, its … Continue reading →

Nice article on Colour theory and the subtle meaning of colour and how to use it effectively in website design, from Smashing Magazine. I’ve been thinking about a re-design of this site which is how I stumbled across this article, … Continue reading →

This is so cool, this women (I’m assuming shes a women, could be a guy… don’t know for sure.) hacked a sewing machine to improve it. I can totally understand how frustrating it is owning something that doesn’t do exactly … Continue reading →

Sketchpad – Online Paint/Drawing Application – This is all done in HTML5 no flash which is actually pretty awesome, I really need to do some reading up about HTML5. As more people switch to the new versions of browsers that … Continue reading →