Off Beat

Window blinds offering you partial sunlight during the day are a common sight, but what if a similar arrangement brought light during the night? The sunlight window lighting is a wall mounted lamp with blinds that control the exposure to light….

Designers Yong-kai Tan and Priscilla Lui from NUS Design Incubation Centre have come up with a GPS tracking device called Dandella. It can be used to locate friends in a crowded place, find a pre specified location or help parents to keep track of…

Taking human-light interaction to an entire new level is a human light system that responds to touch. Dubbed “Light Brix,” it uses a modular light system of architecture that responds to human touch through the electromagnetic fields of the human.

Kim Pohjonen, in a day or two (on/before August 2nd) will be performing at the Queensland Music Festival. For his performance, Earth Machine Music, he has spent a lot of time recording a series of sounds from Queensland farmyards. These sounds range.

Mint clock5: Progress bar clock, is a sideway clock that moves from left to right. As the time progresses, it feels like the day is filling up. The clock is driven by two driveshafts (at both ends) which are connected to a motor. These driveshafts…

How do you grab people’s attention when there is better yo-yo showman around? Well, either practice those yo-yo tricks and outclass him directly, or go there with a hamburger yo-yo and do nothing. The choice is yours!!

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Tow n Stow is a car-towable trailer that doubles as a storage unit. Weighing 180 kg, this trailer can haul load thrice its weight and can be towed with almost any regular vehicle. When not in use, just place it vertically in your garage and use it…

Good news for those who have always wanted to have a pet but dropped the idea just because of the mess they create: Sony PlayStation 3 is out with its latest release, the Eyepet, which enables players to fiddle around with their virtual pet using a.

So that you apply the right amount of torque while working with your tools, this Digital Ratchet Monkey Type gives you the precise torque reading. Well, I would prefer damaging those threads (in nuts and bolts) rather than paying $323 for a wrench….