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DESIGN: Orphe LED Smart Shoes

Meet the Orphe: a smart shoe system for artists and performs. The sole of these shoes has almost 100 serially-controlled LED lights, motion sensors, a Bluetooth module, and an ARM microprocessor.

Foil impressioning: lock-picking technique that uses the lock to form a new key

Here’s a fascinating post on “foil impressioning” — a simple lockpicking technique that uses the lock itself to fashion a working key out of soft aluminium tape. You just stick a key loaded with this stuff into a lock and wiggle it around in a special way and the lock opens itself.

Artist Adam Voorhes has created a series of exploded images of everyday objects, including an Etch-a-Sketch, a handgun, a frog, and a rotary phone (my favorite, pictured here. Man, that thing is a tank).

"My life fades, the vision dims. All that remain are memories. Ruined dreams. This wasted land. But most of all, I remember Shacks of Radios."

New from Evil Mad Scientist Labs, the 2.0 version of their Watercolorbot, a plotter than uses a brush and a palette of watercolors to automatically paint watercolor pictures.