Ever want to play the drums on your desk or maybe a piano on paper? How about make a book interactive or create your own interactive wall for teaching? Well, now you can. Thanks to a new Kickstarter project launched ...
Open-Source House Building
wikihouse – build a house just like Ikea furniture Think of a world where you could simply download the blueprints of your future home for free just like you download any open source software today. A team of British architects ...
Nokia Makes Qt Port to Maemo 5 and N900 Official
Nokia has recently announced that the official port of the community-driven Qt will be available for the Maemo 5 project. This announcement is meaningful mostly for developers who wish to program applications for the Nokia N900, one of the latest ...
CASSIUS – ‘Punched’ Lampshades
Stephen Williams and Hannes Walter of the Austrian based company FluidForm took individual design to an all new level with CASSIUS – a lamp shade you design for yourself with your fists. A pair of boxing gloves, a sensor enhanced ...
Stellarium – the Free Planetarium
Stellarium, a new planetarium software, enables users to view a realistic image of the night skies. Apparently, Stellarium is more accurate than other similar programs, and since it is an open-source software, can be installed and used for free. Those ...
StupidFilter – Time to Fight Back the Imbeciles
A team of American scientists are developing the “StupidFilter” – an open-source filter software that will be able to detect “rampant stupidity” of web-content in written English. Similarly to the way spam recognizing software detects suspicious e-mails, the “StupidFilter” will ...