Kevin is a small-time tech hound, amateur photographer, and a general know-at-least-something of all things geeky hailing from New York. More by Kevin Lee
Cormac Relf
Photography lenses can easily be really expensive. So if you’ve got an awesome camera body lying around but no glass to go with it, you could always try and build a lens of your own like photographer and student Cormac Relf did.
DIYer Cormac built his lens out of a glass reading puck—which your grandparents might have lying around as a magnifying glass for reading tiny print—along with some construction paper and pieces of cardboard.
Kevin is a small-time tech hound, amateur photographer, and a general know-at-least-something of all things geeky hailing from New York. More by Kevin Lee
Mark Haywood
Having a robot human companion isn’t just a dream anymore. For most people, there's just one fat check separating you from your ASIMO. But one retired Baltimore cop named Mark Haywood skipped the long trip to the bank and just built the dream himself.
HEX is a real humanoid robot that stands about four feet and three inches tall that Mark built out of all kinds of household appliances. HEX isn’t just a looker, either; it’s got fully functional hands, arms, and legs.
Elizabeth Fish is a freelance writer who happens to run a hyperlocal news website in Lincoln, UK. She also covers all things geeky for TechHive. More by Elizabeth Fish
You think that you’re as fast and agile as they come just because you work out at the gym a few times a week? Maybe you need to test your skill against a hamster. Really.
The Hamster Treadmill is Daniel Bertner’s very geeky art project that consists of a hamster cage fitted with a wheel, along with a typical treadmill. The hamster wheel connects to the treadmill via an infrared-based tachometer, which measures the hamster wheel's revolutions per minute (RPM) in real time.
Cassandra Khaw is an entry-level audiophile, a street dancer, a person who writes about video games for a living, and someone who spends too much time on Twitter. More by Cassandra Khaw
William Wnekowicz
If you've never been to Reddit, you probably shouldn't start now. This modern-day bulletin board system, filled to the brim with advice animals and exhibitionists, will suck hours out of your life. Here, people 'upvote' good threads, consign bad ones to 'downvote' hell and engage in comment-wars. It's a hard life here in Reddit, which is why you should totally get a Karma Controller and simplify everything even further.
Maybe. Sort of? I don't know. Regardless of personal opinions, the Karma Controller is very much real. The Karma Controller's creator, William Wnekowicz of Will Make Things, describes it as something that will let you 'procrastinate on Reddit more productively'.
Kevin is a small-time tech hound, amateur photographer, and a general know-at-least-something of all things geeky hailing from New York. More by Kevin Lee
When it comes to creating clean, self-sustaining energy, nothing can beat plants—and that’s precisely why researchers at the University of Georgia (UGA) have worked so hard to hijack photosynthesis to create truly clean electricity.
Talk about green energy. Get it? It’s a “solar plant!”
Joshua covers a wide array of gadgetry for TechHive. He is also the editor in chief for Macgasm.net. More by Joshua Schnell
Amanda Ghassaei
TechHive intern and beard maven Albert Filice has been playing around with a 3D printer and managed to make a 3D-printed necktie. As impressive as this is, it looks like he may have some competition.
Artist Amanda Ghassaei managed to take a digital copy of a song and laser etch it into a slab of maple, thereby creating a wooden record. By etching Radiohead's "Idioteque", and the Velvet Underground's "Sunday Morning" into the wood using Python, a PDF, and a lot of math, Ghassaei may have unintentionally created sustainable music.
Kevin is a small-time tech hound, amateur photographer, and a general know-at-least-something of all things geeky hailing from New York. More by Kevin Lee
A team of researchers led by PhD student Dustin Adams at the University of California, Santa Cruz have created camera app that might help the blind take photos. No, we’re not just talking about “bad photographers,” but those who are actually visually impaired.
The camera app brings several features that make it easier for the visually impaired to take photos. For example, it replaces the somewhat hard-to-locate shutter button with a swiping motion on the screen, making it easier to snap a photograph.
Cormac Relf
Mark Haywood
William Wnekowicz
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