Myrtle Street Labs
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Via Boing Boing Gadgets, these are LED spray cans by the French artist Aissa Logerot, a project he calls Halo.
I think these are especially awesome because they’re a better execution of my own LED spray cans I built for the 2006 Burning Man project, “The Ephemeral Graffiti Wall.”  I built this project with my friends [...]

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Cable Car Cable Roller
cable car cable inspectors

Back in May I saw these fine gentlemen walking along the Powell-Hyde Street line, lifting each removable metal cover over the cable car cable. These covers allow access to the rollers that the cable runs in and these workers were responsible for checking that each roller was in good repair. This picture was taken [...]

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No, this isn’t part of the cast of Teletubbies 2010, this is a Taiwanese “guidance and security” robot.
Via Engadget:
The An9-PR is a multi-tasker, meant for showroom floors and malls, where it can display advertisements, directions to the restroom, and missing children alerts on any of its three touchscreen LCDS, and it’s got WiFi and face [...]

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w00t!

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One way to encourage flaky vending machines to accept your money.