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Air Guitarist’s shirt
This shirt from ThinkGeek actually lets you play major chords. Rock on! From the site: “The Electronic Guitar Shirt is not a toy that plays pre-canned musical riffs, it is a real musical instrument that allows you to play your favorite songs and sound great doing it. All major chords are recorded from a real [...]
Prometheus sets a blaze.
“A transient who told police he was “Prometheus” has been arrested in connection with a blaze that charred 5 acres along a steep and rugged hillside in the Mt. Olympus area, authorities said today.” Saw this in the paper the other day (yeah, I still read the paper sometimes). LA Times
Glove-based sign language vocalization
Abdelkareem Bedri “Speaking Gloves: Arabic Deaf Sign Language” Sudan Age 22 ‘Helping the deaf be heard’ is Abdelkareem’s way of making a difference in people’s lives. Through the development of a microcontroller based system to translate Arabic sign language to an audible voice, this project will help the hearing impaired be more productive in the [...]
Cinco De Mayo LA
If you’re enjoying Cinco De Mayo in LA today, check out this post from @laist for ideas http://bit.ly/xDjYS
