Squito | Throwable Panoramic Camera

Serveball

The Squito™ Throwable Panoramic Camera, currently in development in Boston, MA USA, allows its user to capture stabilized, full 360° spherical panoramic video and high-resolution images over the course of its airborne trajectory.

The Phone Police Ask You To Turn Your Phone Sideways To Take Videos

How Dolls Are Made

National Geographic

Visit a factory in Yiwu, China, where workers use 500,000 tons of polyethylene plastic to make five million Lucy dolls each year.

Sole Power | Walk to Charge Your Smartphone

SolePower is a power generating removable shoe insole for charging portable electronics while you walk. Walking 2.5-5 miles will completely charge your phone. Walking continuously, the average human walks slightly less than 3 miles in an hour.

Codlo Sous-vide Cooking

Grace Lee and Xi-Yen Tan’s Codlo plugs into your existing slow cooker or rice cooker for Sous-vide cooking without the expense of a dedicated Sous-vide machine.

Bugatti Veyron Wrapped

Yiannimize

When the female owner of a $1.5 million Bugatti Veyron found that she wasn’t driving the car as much as she wanted because the original paint was too masculine, she had the vehicle wrapped in a pearl white with pink tint.

CL | The Baddest Female

Justine Ezarik | Through Glass

Tomás Saraceno | in orbit

Art Daily

“When I look at the multilayered levels of diaphanous lines and spheres, I am reminded of models of the universe that depict the forces of gravity and planetary bodies. For me, the work visualizes the space-time continuum, the three-dimensional web of a spider, the ramifications of tissue in the brain, dark matter, or the structure of the universe. With ‘in orbit,’ proportions enter into new relationships; human bodies become planets, molecules, or social black holes.”

Visitors to Tomás Saraceno’s latest installation, “in orbit” become part of the art and have a good time. Each movement of individuals in the artwork is felt by everyone.

The artist describes the floating space as an oscillating network of relationships, neural pathways, resonances, and synchronous communication—a new digital geography, one that is experienced in physical terms.

The gigantic installation work has been assembled in Dusseldorf’s Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. At a height of more than 20 meters above the piazza of the K21 Ständehaus, Saraceno has suspended a net construction within which visitors can move, apparently weightlessly. This contemporary safety net, which covers altogether 2500 m², spreads itself out across three levels below the massive glass cupola of the K21. The levels are held apart from one another by a series of “spheres,” airfilled PVC balls measuring up to 8.5 meters in diameter.

2NE1 | Falling In Love (K-Pop Summertime Fun)

Mauro ffortissimo | Sunset Piano Opus Two for Twelve Pianos

kickstarter

In early July, Mauro ffortissimo is planning to deploy twelve pianos at select locations along the San Mateo coastline. Anyone can come and play a piano by the sea, anytime. He’s inviting bay area musicians to join him in bringing attention to the fragile state of the world’s oceans, as well as the near extinction of the “personal” piano. Piano manufacturing has dwindled, and the neglect of acoustic pianos has caused thousands of them to end up in landfills. The “Twelve Pianos” project will focus the spotlight on two species with uncertain futures.

Nataly Dawn & Ryan Lerman | Suit & Tie

Nomadic PE-09 Pencil Case

Nomadic: (1) of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads; (2) roaming about from place to place aimlessly, frequently, or without a fixed pattern of movement; (3) a Japanese (of course) company that makes pen cases, bags, backpacks, pencil cases, and more pen cases.

I've already written about the Nomadic PE-06 case that I got for my son. The PE-06 is a nice case, although it's rather small. My daughter has a much larger collection of pens and pencils, she NEEDED a new case to hold all of them, and she had me at "I want . . ." Of course, one thing led to another, which led to the Nomadic PE-09 Pencil Case. I acquired the navy blue version, which has a bright orange interior.

The Flap

Sorry about that crappy picture. Anyway, the PE-09 is huge - it has a large main compartment that is accessible via the main zipper on the top, a Velcro-affixed flap with a zippered pocket (shown in the picture above), and additional pouches and interior mesh pockets. The main compartment is basically a large interior volume with a little mesh pocket that is suitable for an eraser, a piece of candy, or a lucky bottlecap. I estimate that at least 30 standard sized pens/pencils could fit in the main pocket. Take a look:

Main Pocket

The zippered flap pouch is held in place with a couple of pieces of Velcro that make a lot of noise when the flap is released. This may be an issue if your goal is to extract that super special pen or pencil in a stealthy and inconspicuous manner. The next picture shows the "secret" pocket that is hidden behind the flap. Here you will find more storage space, and some mesh liners that are sure to please anal retentive organization freaks.

Hidden Pocket

I like all the pockets and stash spots in the PE-09 case. I don't like the noisy Velcro, but I can live with it. Another feature (or flaw) that I don't particularly like is the way that the main compartment remains accessible even though the zipper is closed. It's hard to describe: the primary zipper seals the top of the compartment, but leaves gaps on the two sides. These gaps are large enough to allow pens and pencils to slide out of the compartment, which may occur during extreme stationery competitions or simply as a result of tossing the case into a backpack. I admit that the likelihood of actually losing something is rather low, but still. Check out Exhibit A:

Pen Exit Hole

To be honest, my daughter loves this case, and it works great for her. I don't think she's lost anything yet, which means that I'm probably griping about a non-defective feature.

OK, so I'm not 100% satisfied with this particular Nomadic case (I'm glad that it's not mine). That said, Nomadic makes a bunch of other cases that are worth looking into if you are in the market for one.