GENOMICON

For the last 15 years or so, I’ve been going round telling people that in Sweden, it’s illegal to advertise to children under the age of 12. I’m not sure if it’s true, but it should be true.

via Replicator

This is a useful idea waiting to happen though I think. A web-enabled “thing” analyser/recogniser. The first possible uses that spring to mind are medical (and no, I wasn’t thinking that you’d never have to visit a VD clinic ever again. What is it with you people?)

Another possibility is a home scanner like this, which could automatically upload a scanned object to a print-shop’s 3d fabber, which could then be delivered back to you as a physcial object the next day. Ok – that’s kindof a long-shot, but you get the idea. It’s got to be useful for something. Well, something else.

from thingiverse

Remember? Everything comes true in the end. Technology never dies, and there’s this set of early industrial age skills that we’re learning again, not because we have to, but because it’s fun, and you can do cool stuff with them.

Geo mag gears – these are pretty cool because the gears don’t touch each other.

Once again there’s a whole subculture of people who have taken these simple magnetic toys, and pushed them way beyond what they were originally intended to do.

The value of these things… is also to do with what you can inspire other people to do… in fact if you deliberately emasculate the possibility of this with patents and copyrights, then your offering is kindof dead.