Gamepop Tetris
via Dezeen:
The paper cover integrates a custom matrix of 180 two-millimetre RGB LEDs, soldered onto a flexible circuit board with a thickness of just a tenth of a millimetre.
The circuit board is sandwiched between layers of paper, creating a bendable cover that measures roughly five millimetres at its thickest point, where the rechargeable coin-cell batteries are housed.
The game is controlled using seven touch sensors that are etched into the circuit board to replace physical buttons, and the falling tetrominoes appear as small cells of light that shine through the paper.
KLUMPEN
I love this idea - and its 2001-meets-MIDSOMMAR aesthetic:
Klumpen™ is a complete, off-grid utility core containing everything required for modern life: solar-generated electricity, satellite broadband, shower, lavatory, and a compact kitchen.'It's not a "house". It's the 5% of a house that takes 95% of the time to build.'
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Wayang Kulit: Raden Soelardi’s Illustrations of Javanese Puppets (1919) | Public Domain Review
List of unusual deaths in the 20th century | Wikipedia
What is Jeong, the spirit of Korean craft and design? | World of Interiors
Toyota Once Used a Fake Dining Room Set to Teach Executives How Big Americans Are | The Drive
LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy | Ars Technica
metal_0089 :: phone stand 03 (flatrod 08)
Wanted to do this one along with 0087 and 0088 yesterday but ran out of what limited brain power I have.
“un-useless”
“Chindogu are inventions that defy concise explanation. They aren't useful. But they aren't completely useless either. Their creator, Kenji Kawakami, describes them as "un-useless." - Chindogu: The Unuseless inventions of Kenji Kawakami
