Results for miniatures

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on February 12th, 2008:

• Piniature Kalimba – Needle tines on a small chip of chrome plastic from a car accident. Approaching the smallest playable with the fingers thumb piano.

yapruder (RP Collier) says it makes sound but is very difficult to hold.

• (Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers – Smashing Magazine rounds up some sites that offer delicious wallpapers
• Strange Maps – A blog about strange maps. Odd and wonderful.
• ICHIM 05 PARIS – Phase – Phase is a sound generation system, bringing sound immersion, haptic response movement and visual immersion into play.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on December 12th, 2007:

• A special “Where’s WALL-E” edition of Why For? – Jim Hill tries to put together a definitive list of where the in-jokes & self references in Pixar’s feature films & shorts are located.
• Tiny Buildings – A collection of tiny buildings handcrafted from business cards, packaging and other nice papers.
• CLAASSEN & PARTNER: MSKYO – A ghettoblaster in a granny trolley…
• Iconfactory Float – Light, airy icons for your desktop.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on October 25th, 2007:

• Daft Punk promotes new album with a widget – Daft Punk’s new live album, Alive, is promoted with an embeddable widget, which allows visitors to listen to previews of new tracks, buy the single, read Daft Punk?s biography, read the newsletter, and see a photo gallery of the band.
• Little People – Nuart show – Wonderful little people installation at Nuart. Make sure to check all the images.

Little People installation at the Nuart show

• Shure SM58 Mic Torture-Tested: Takes a Licking? – Being used to hammer nails, dropped a couple of meters, frozen, dunked in water, driven over by a car and more…
• Iconfactory Trick or Treat – A free set of Halloween icons.

This guy made a very nice paper model of Bumblebee, the lovely Autobot Transformer.

It’s the Chevrolet Camaro Bumblebee model from the 2007 Transformers film.

Bumblebee made from paper materials (click for close-up)

Visit Wonderdasher for more images.

Link via Engadget

sonicscape from Paper Art Gadgets is offering a bunch of pdfs of some cool paper models.

Paper Art Gadgets iPhone model

You can download the following models:

• Gaming
  1. Xbox 360 and display box
  2. Xbox 360 HDDVD drive
  3. Sony Playstation 3 and display box
  4. Nintendo DS Lite
  5. Atari 2600
  6. Pimped Xbox 360s #1-7
• Mobile
  1. Apple iPhone
  2. Nokia 6280
• Miscellaneous
  1. Customizable paper figurines

So if you can’t afford a real iPhone, this is your chance to at least look cool with a miniature iPhone model!

Visit Paper Art Gadgets for more information.

Japan Probe reports about Hiroyasu Imura, who made a beautiful replica of Himeji Castle.

Hiroyasu Imura and his Himeji Castle miniature

Hiroyasu Imura spent 19 years pursuing his boyhood dream of faithfully producing a replica of Himeji Castle in Hyogo Prefecture.
The 69-year-old former insurance examiner completed his model of Himeji Castle at a scale of 1:23 in the garden of his home in Ise, Mie Prefecture, in April.

More images here and here.