I don’t know how this guy managed to build a 3118-coin coin tower on top of a 10c coin on the corner of a table but boy did he do it. It took him seven hours, over 200 dollars in change, plus some presumably insane weed-smoking to pull it off. More »
Niue may be a small island nation in the middle pacific, but collectors around the world are lining up for the country’s upcoming Star Wars coins depicting Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader and Princess Leia, amongst other characters. And get this: the coins have boxes with sound effects, like a jet taking off for the Millennium Falcon coin. More »
I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to do a DIY project more than this one. It’s a real life coin block lifted straight from Super Mario. So when you punch the bottom of the box, like Mario so often did, coins shoot out of the top (it even makes that classic sound!). More »
Dance, quarters, dance! Watching these dozens (hundreds?) of coins flex and pop is an animated wonder that makes raises up my spirits. And watching how its creators pulled it off? That just makes my head hurt. More »
In fine DIY style, a Lincoln cent works well to vent some BTUs from tiny components. Imagine opening up your new gear to find these in place of ceramic future fins. [Hacked Gadgets]
Back in the good old days of the Cold War, spies didn’t have encrypted mobile phones or digital thingamajigs to do their thing, so they did their spy business with classic spy stuff like spy camera-pens, spy shoe transmitters, spy bacon strips, and messages encoded on their spy underpants. Or these Hollow Spy Coins, which were used by the CIA and the KGB to hide poison or microfilms. Now you can buy them to store whatever is small enough to fit in them, like discarded nail bits. The coins are still in use by modern spies, however: Last year, the US Department of Defence cautioned its American contractors about hollow Canadian coins containing radio transmitters.
Coin Lamp has its heart in the right place, but I’m afraid the inevitable path that each of these concept lamps will take, given enough time, is into a garbage can. In pieces. Because your retirement fund will tank, you’ll get desperate, and you will need the $US2.35 in change this simple little lamp contains something fierce. So, it will be Coin Lamp meet hammer, and then you can afford your small latte at the expense of not being able to see that night. Kudos to designer Jethro Macey for thinking of it, as anything that keeps us mindful of our energy consumption is a welcome step forward. [Jethro Macey via Presurfer]
