For everything from family to computers…
Don’t risk breaking any bottles next time you carry beer to a party. Now you can make your own 6 Packer, a laser cuttable six pack carrier designed by Thingiverse user timogiles. Since it’s designed in OpenSCAD, an open source parametric 3D modeling program, you can easily change the material thickness, bottle diameter, fastener size, and hand grip size and cut a 6 Packer to your own specifications. [via Pete Prodoehl]
from MAKE
I seem to recall that speaker enclosures should be rigid and massive, generally speaking, but there’s no denying the cool factor in this build-it-yourself project from Quebecois industrial designer Samuel Bernier. [via nerdstink]
from MAKE
Landlines are so 1990s. If you’d rather not use your cellphone at home but don’t want to pay for an expensive landline, you can use Google Voice and Skype to set up a cheap home phone system that won’t require everyone learning a new number. Here’s how. More »
from Lifehacker
Friend-of-Gizmodo Tonx.org has a cute little comic today bemoaning Keurig K-Cups—the little coffee pods designed to brew single servings of coffee. They’re convenient, but they’re ridiculously overpriced, and don’t make very good coffee. You can do better. More »
from Gizmodo
When HP kinda, sorta killed webOS as a money making endeavor, they promised to keep it alive as an open source project, but offered little in the way of concrete details. According to The Verge they’ve partially pulled back the curtain, revealing that Open webOS 1.0 should arrive in September. More »
from Gizmodo
In the words of Jack Nicholson acting as the president from “Mars Attacks”…
Oh well… now the war is heating up even more!
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The days of Apple and Google sitting down for a nice cup of tea are long gone. Now they’re staring across the battlements, just waiting to lawyer bomb each other into the Stone Age. Motorola’s new lawsuit against Apple—which Google had to approve—is the latest stop on the road to the inevitable clash of titans. More »
from Gizmodo
Uh oh… now we are REALLY in for trouble if this becomes a reality… it’s bad enough that the tuition rates have been climbing incredibly in recent years but to have the student loan rate DOUBLE?! Are we really crazy and that stupid?!!
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Attention college students: The interest rate on federal student loans is scheduled to double this summer unless Congress acts soon.