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Author Archives: Hazel Chua

Obake is an Elastic Touchscreen That You Can Manipulate in 3D

By Hazel Chua on 04/22/13 • Leave a comment!

Elastic Touchscreen

Everything’s going 3D these days, even touchscreens. Most existing touchscreens only offer a 2D experience, but MIT Media Lab’s Dhairya Dand and Rob Hemsley have set out to create a touchscreen that offers another dimension. It’s called the Obake and it has been dubbed as the touchscreen that will ‘revolutionize all other touchscreens.’

Obake is an elastic, stretchable touchscreen. The display itself will remain two-dimensional, although you will be able to manipulated whatever is on your screen in three dimensions.

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Star Wars Costumes for Your Pooch: You’ll Love ‘Em, He’ll Hate ‘Em!

By Hazel Chua on 04/22/13 • Leave a comment!

Star Wars Dog

You can’t ride a dog like you ride a horse, but you can let certain creatures ride it, provided they’re the right shape and size. I’m talking about select characters from the Star Wars franchise that are being featured in this set of doggy costumes by Costume Craze.

The costimes will transform your pooch into a Bantha, Dewback, Tauntaun, or AT-AT. And to make the reference even clearer, each of these costumes feature the appropriate passenger on the species of choice. For example, a stalwart Stormtrooper sits high and mighty on the back of the Dewback costume, ready to attack.

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‘Drop The Beat’ is a Vest With a Built-In Electronic Drum Kit

By Hazel Chua on 04/22/13 • Leave a comment!

Drum Kit Vest

This isn’t the first time someone decided to create a wearable drum set, but this is the first time they actually did it right. Those so-called ‘drum’ shirts are usually novelty items that crank out drum-like sound effects that you usually hear from kids’ toys. Industrial design student Wesley Chau noticed this and set out to create a true musical piece of clothing in the form of ‘Drop the Beat.’

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Want Some ‘Iron Man 3′ Instant Noodles? Well, Come and Get It!

By Hazel Chua on 04/22/13 • Leave a comment!

Iron Man Instant Noodles

Iron Man 3 will be hitting theaters in less than two weeks’ time and the hype is on hyperdrive. Aside from the endless barrage of trailers and promotions on the big screen as well as on the silver screen, a handful of themed toys have already been released on the market. Even stuff that you never thought would get made are getting made, like Iron Man 3 instant noodles.

It doesn’t come with a suit or any fire power, but it will give you that boost of energy your normally get after eating a particularly hearty meal.

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Edible Eco-Spoon Lets You Help Mother Nature Out, One Bite At a Time

By Hazel Chua on 04/22/13 • Leave a comment!

Edible Spoon

Whether you’re eating breakfast on the go because you woke up late or are having takeout for lunch, the common factor between both (and with most other meals that you eat outside a proper dining area) is plastic utensils. They might not seem like much since they’re relatively small and all, but a little goes a long way. And since it takes more than twenty years to fully decompose, I’d say we’ve got more than enough of these spoons currently sitting in our landfills.

So Triangle Tree came up with a solution in the form of edible spoons called the Eco-Spoon.

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No Need For Photoshop: Awesome Monochrome 1920s Costumes

By Hazel Chua on 04/19/13 • Leave a comment!

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Forget zombies and slutty nurse costumes–this should be your inspiration for your next costume party. Redditor royally_eft and her friend were off to a party, and they decided to change things up by arriving as a couple from a different era: the twenties, to be specific.

I’m sure it took a lot of work and makeup to get their skin to that particular hue. The images might look Photoshopped, but they aren’t, which makes these costumes all the more impressive.

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Eco-Bride of the Year Makes Wedding Gown from 10,000 Recycled Bread Bag Clips

By Hazel Chua on 04/18/13 • Leave a comment!

Wedding Gown

Movies often depict how little girls look forward to their wedding day, even though it’s probably still decades away. That’s not always true because some women couldn’t care less how their weddings went, just as long as they ended up with the man (or even woman) of their dreams.

Then there’s women like Stephanie Watson. She planned and looked forward to her wedding for almost ten years, but with good reason: she was still collecting the ‘material’ for her wedding dress. It’s extravagant, it’s custom-made, and it’s truly one-of-a-kind. That’s because she made it herself using over 10,000 recycled bread bag clips.

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Better Than I Imagined: If Disney Made ‘Game of Thrones’…

By Hazel Chua on 04/17/13 • Leave a comment!

A lot of people were up in arms when news broke that Disney had acquired LucasFilm and was planning to make another Star Wars movie. I guess the decision made sense since the series was made to be relatively child-friendly. But can you imagine what would happen if HBO gave the reigns of Game of Thrones to Disney?

Some people did more than just imagine, and the result is this video–and it’s surprisingly good. But maybe that’s because I grew up with Disney and princesses always have a soft spot in my heart. Watch the clip and judge for yourself.

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Lottery Ticket Sculptures Prove that Even Losers Can Be Artsy Winners

By Hazel Chua on 04/15/13 • Leave a comment!

Life isn’t about winning all the time. Sure, it feels great to be ahead or be proclaimed as the best at doing something. But if you think about it, most of the learning, fun, and adventure happens somewhere in between the beginning and the end. So if you end up losing, know that you’re walking away from whatever it is you attempted with a story to tell your future grandkids.

What greater story to tell and creations to show than sculptures made from losing lottery tickets? You might not have won the thousands you dreamed of winning when you scratched the coating off the cards. You probably didn’t even win a measly consolation prize. The biggest consolation you get at the end, though, was that you thought of a totally cool and creative way to put all those losing scratch cards to use. Now that’s winning while losing.

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