With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from a lamp inspired by “an old headlight found around the workshop” and a vintage racing-inspired motorcycle to a quick and…
By now, we’re well aware of the promises that augmented reality holds for professionals – whether it is used for showing a client a scale model through an iPad or for working with CAD in the “real world” – yet we’ve seen very little in the realm of consumers outside of novelty apps. Within the…
For some, it only exists if it includes mounds of bacon and a steaming stack of syrup-soaked hot cakes. For others, it’s as simple as a bowl of shredded wheat and a handful of blueberries. No matter how you prepare it, though, chances are your first meal of the day isn’t necessarily the most pleasurable…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from the introduction of virtual reality app from the New York Times, the latest wood project from Love Hultén, how to…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from an entirely new record player from Gramovox, an freakin’ Tweeting weather station, the first footage from GoPro’s upcoming quadcopter, live-mapped…
I am currently certain that we are approaching the apex of our societal laziness. I would be surprised if future generations will even bother to walk or eat for themselves (they will probably create a button which will call a robot to do these things for them).
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from a revisit to Marty McFly’s iconic black Toyota pickup from the Back to the Future series, a 3D printable chess…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from a new (and more immersive) way to experience Google Street View, a handy video app that makes your videos look…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from the latest 3D printer offering from Formlabs (spoiler: it’s amazing), a new photo app that lets you create your comics…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from earphones machined out of solid brass, a new way to charge your Apple devices, a clever DIY project for creating…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from one of the best pencil eraser designs ever conceived, a radar-integrated weather app that’s sure to keep you dry as…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from a clock that’s sure to give 3.5 to 6.1 percent of you the creeps, a clean and simple key ring…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from a skateboard stool featuring comfy Pendleton wool to a new light-based navigational system for bicycles, an update to the popular…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from an update to the popular Leveraxe, a Star Wars-inspired nut cracker for all of your nut cracking needs, a handy…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from a Ferro Fluid-based clock and a cookie cutter that doubles as a hairstyle tool to a couple of apps from…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from a minimalist smart phone that features only the bare essentials, a timer app for helping you keep track of task…
As the Head of Research & Development at Sugru, UK design engineer Jude Pullen has undoubtedly spent more time kneading the ‘moldable glue’ than most of us – and thanks to his uncanny ability to create fun and educational projects involving various prototyping methods and materials, we all get to benefit from it. Previously, Jude…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from a minimalist wall mount for your skateboard and Pez dispenser collection, a sneak peek at Nokia’s upcoming virtual reality camera,…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from an ingenious take on an Apple Watch dock, a clock that forces you to use your math skills in order…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from a Star Wars Death Star Aromatic Infuser that’s sure to look right at home on your desk, a fancy new…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from the announcement of an even smaller new GoPro action camera, a biodegradable stool inspired by glacier formations in Alaska, the…
Although the latest camera technologies have allowed both professional and amateur photographers to have more control than ever over their photography techniques, many of today’s camera body designs lack a particular timeless charm that analog film cameras once had and – more often than not – leave a lot to be desired in the material…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from how to create your own cushions for a converted camping van, how to create a box sofa from scratch, a…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from an impressive restoration of a classic Porsche Targa, a vertical record player that’s worthy of a spot in your office,…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from a sleek new home security platform from Nest, a couple of convenient ways for learning how to code on-the-go, a…
Of all of the minor annoyances that occur in the workshop, the need for an easily-adjustable bright light while working with both hands certainly ranks high up there – especially when looking for ‘that missing screw’ ends up taking just as much time as a project assembly itself. Of course, the best solutions for these…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from two sleek new camera offerings for the pro-am photographer, an easier way to shoot and edit video on the iPhone,…
When it comes to weekend build projects that involve lasers, death rays and fire, few people can top 22-year-old chemistry, physics and math triple-major Drake Anthony in the badassery department. The self-described “old school” pyromaniac is responsible for a small library of videos on YouTube under his alter ego styropyro that document the process of…
How does building a paper airplane that is remote controlled, costs less than $10, and works like a dream sound? Intrigued? So are we – gather your soldering iron, cutting tool, glue and crafting tools or rotary tools and lets get flying. The project, which was created by Instructables user ‘Imetomi’, cleverly uses your standard…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from a sleek and smart indoor air quality monitor and a completely new take on the foosball table to how to…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from a pocket-sized synthesizer to a vacuum-sealing carry-on bag and a beautiful new app from Moleskin to how to make an…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from a custom motorcycle design worthy of a spot in the next Mad Max film, an entirely new way of buying…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from an entirely new way of thinking about our smartphones, a new offering from Sony that wants to fuse light and…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from a crazy composite wood technology bike to a new iPhone app that can make a t-shirt out of seemingly any…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from a new custom BMW motorcycle from Ken’s Factory in Japan, a wild modular smartphone case, a $20 3D Printed DSLR…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from a collection of flying cars, an R2-D2-inspired airplane, how to make a droid for just $20, the coolest nature video…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from what is quite possibly the best-designed drone ever to an update to MakerBot’s PrintShop app, a modular + stackable garden…
It stretches. It bounces. It tears and it shatters – now put it next to a magnet and it comes alive! Of course you remember playing with Silly Putty as a kid. Thinking Putty, however, is no longer just Silly; it’s all grown up and developed even more superpowers! Thinking Putty is a silicone polymer-based…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from quirky take on the upcoming Apple Watch, a much-needed update to the OS X Photos app, a 3D printed jet-powered…
Remember when you use to make things? Potholders, paintings, LEGO creatures, messes? You need to get back to that, and The 100 Day Project may just be the kick in the ass you need. It’s the brain child of Elle Luna & The Great Discontent, a quarterly print pub and online magazine. The project kicks off on April…
Most ‘zen’ practitioners will tell you that reaching a state of higher consciousness is not an art but a way of life, where “awareness” is “consciousness”. The emphasis on the present moment is perhaps Zen’s most distinctive characteristic. In modern times, finding the time and ability to disconnect from technology, busy schedules and sensory overload…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from what Quirky’s been up to with their smart product developments, a new way to think about portable light, an update…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from Twitter’s new live streaming app to a Skee Ball Machine Project, an RC Imperial Star Destroyer and more… Ready? Let’s…
Among all of the possible things that happen in a workshop, there is a seemingly endless supply of pleasurable experiences that include making a final cut, attaching the last piece to an assembly or simply just finding out that your jig concept works flawlessly. Among others though, creating a perfect mold with seamless edges and…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from a storage container inspired by eating yogurt to a hut on wheels, a new way to write emails, the launch…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from an announcement of one of the best desk toys ever – Simpsons LEGO – to our first taste of Onshape’s…
Although “remixing” existing products has become popular over the past few years thanks to desktop fabrication, fail-proof basic 3D modeling programs and a seemingly endless library of shareable 3d models, NYC-based pop artist Morgan Phillips (AKA The Sucklord) has been actively remixing his own toy designs using mass production methods for nearly two decades. Operating…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from a new take on layered felt to a T-Rex-inspired heat lamp for your shop and one-heck-of-a trippy audio/visual experiment that…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from a whale tail-inspired shower squeegee to perhaps the best weather app ever conceived and…a mom that drifts in her minivan…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. This week we saw everything from a smart dry-erase marker to a DIY project that converts an old motor oil can into an amplifier and…a VR…