Hasta La Ideas

New York City-based skater and photographer Josh Maready finally figured out how to kill a GoPro camera: Attach it to the bottom of your skateboard, then go for an insane middle-of-the-street cruise through Manhattan (somewhere on the west side, by the looks of the surroundings).

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Redverz Gear (formerly known as The Nomad Tent Company) is a Colorado-based outdoor gear manufacturer started by Kevin Muggleton, an ex-UK-military guy who’s spent twenty years traveling the world with a motorcycle. During his time on the road, Muggleton had a series of bad travel experiences involving the bike—trying to fix it in the middle of a sandstorm, trying to keep it dry overnight during a rainstorm, fear of passersby stealing it in dicey areas—that prompted him to design a solution.

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Device, a Barcelona-based motion/graphic design studio, recently unveiled their new Printed Circuit Board (PCB) business card: a wallet-sized chunk of circuitboard—printed with the requisite contact information—accompanied by a DIY project kit.

It can be used as a standard business card or you can turn it into an electronic decision maker device. When you press the button the main chip generates a random answer showed by the LEDs.

If you want to increase your self-confidence, just let us know and we’ll send you an unmounted kit (with all the components and the instructions).

Well, if the detailed instructions (on their site) are any indication, it’s not paint-by-the-numbers… but it’s not rocket science either. Visual learners can follow along with the video:

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We’re digging this “repeatable, stackable and sustainable cutlery solution for disaster relief” by North-Carolina-based designer Ryan Klinger.

Called Conserve Cutlery, the aims of the concept are to wring useability out of every last square inch of plastic, with the knives nesting perfectly between the sporks, and to make it easy to ship. Sadly those two images are the only documentation of the project on Klinger’s site.

A better-documented project of Klinger’s is his proposal for a task light that would be made by Irwin:

It looks to be either a school project or an actual pitch, containing tons of presentation boards and research. Check it out here.

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Remember Andrews Myers’ screw-based pixel art? Along the same lines, a Finland-based artist going by the name of “Tomi” has created pixel art using an MDF-based CNC router to drill holes of different depths into stained plywood. The resultant halftone images take about an hour to produce and contain roughly 3,000 “pixels:”

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