Engineered Reality: Prototyping Inventions for Television

Get a behind-the-scenes view of engineers hacking hardware and software to create new prototypes within time and budgetary constraints for a new TV show.

Paper: Engineered Reality: Prototyping Inventions for Television by A.G. Brooks and J. Grand

Published by IEEE Pervasive Computing: Special Issue on The Hacking Tradition, …

Perseus Athletics Posture-Tek

The Posture-Tek product line is designed to ensure proper, user-defined posture during exercise or everyday activities. By maintaining the appropriate posture, back injuries and chronic back pain is prevented. Utilizing a unique mechanism to accurately detect position changes, the system silently alerts the user when poor posture occurs.

Conceived and sold …

MAKE Magazine

MAKE, a full-color hybrid magazine/book, comes quarterly from O'Reilly Media, the Publisher of Record for geeks and technology enthusiasts everywhere.

MAKE brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. This is a magazine that celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology at your …

Hard Drive Coffee Table

The Hard Drive Coffee Table is built from an original 26 inch diameter hard drive platter from an early storage device, the Control Data Corporation 6603 Disk File Controller manufactured by Bryant-Excello circa 1967 (the Reference Manual for this vintage piece of computing history has been preserved here).

The center …