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Date Name Progress Random

The Physical Jpeg

Progress: Animated
Interactive art installation
30 Jun 2014


Hourglass Mechanical Clock

Progress: Animated
Mechanically measures the moment the sand slide stops.
22 Feb 2016


The Offshore Golf Course

Progress: Concept
The ultimate way to waste $100 million.
1 Jul 2008


The Hydroelectric Calculator

Progress: Concept
Pioneering in renewable energy, I present the latest advancement that will save the planet.
5 Jul 2008


Stirling engine in the cooling system of a car

Progress: Concept
A way of dramatically increasing engine efficiency.
5 Jul 2008


Rowboat Wars

Progress: Concept
Water borne bumper cars.
14 Jul 2008


Shuttle launch from a blimp

Progress: Concept
A way to save fuel?
9 Aug 2008


Junkyard Mech Walker

Progress: Concept
Overkill cure for paranoia.
30 Aug 2008


Nitinol Tent Poles

Progress: Concept
Memory wire self erecting tent.
19 Oct 2008


Portable Personal Private Planetarium

Progress: Concept
The perfect pocket peripheral.
19 Nov 2008


Lenticular Traffic Lights

Progress: Concept
To reduce confusion
12 Jan 2009


Lawn Knitter

Progress: Concept
Making it easier to be green.
4 May 2009


Motherboard Irrigation

Progress: Concept
The lazy man's way to clean a PC.
6 Apr 2009


PeopleWheel

Progress: Concept
Power from people the easy way
1 Apr 2009


Nanoworld Domination

Progress: Concept
Doom and gloom for the nanopixies.
13 May 2009


Single Room Lighting

Progress: Concept
Energy saving without the effort.
20 Mar 2009


Thermochromic House Paint

Progress: Concept
For temperature control.
24 Mar 2009


KiloVolt Toilet

Progress: Concept
For men with awful aim
28 Aug 2009


Frame Lock

Progress: Concept
Bicycle anti-theft design
20 Apr 2010


Moore's Pocket Calculator

Progress: Concept
Celebrate technological advancements with your own calculator collection
26 May 2010


Intravenous Coffee Alarm

Progress: Concept
A refreshing way to wake up.
18 Feb 2010


Executive Document Fastener

Progress: Concept
Staples are so plebeian.
20 Nov 2010


Hoover MP3 Player

Progress: Concept
Practicality and style
5 Feb 2011


Water Elevator

Progress: Concept
Redefining luxury.
17 Feb 2011


Tiltrotor Autogyro Quadcopter Hybrid

Progress: Concept
A new kind of aircraft.
17 Feb 2011


Wifi Shredder

Progress: Concept
To be left inconspicuously around the office
23 May 2013


Inductive Automatic Watch Winder

Progress: Concept
Wirelessly wind an automatic watch.
25 Apr 2013


Velodrome in the Sky

Progress: Concept
Pedal power a plane
25 Jun 2013


Exercise Mower

Progress: Concept
For those proclived to exercising and mowing.
11 Aug 2013


A Self Pumping Fountain

Progress: Concept
Of purely mechanical means.
28 Sep 2011


Sophisticated Sundial

Progress: Concept
Accuracy, clarity, and maybe mobility
2 Feb 2012


Self-heating Zipper

Progress: Concept
Fed up with your sleeping bag's cold metal zip as you get in? The solution is here...
3 Jan 2014


Monster Induction Metal-breathing Jet Engine Ion Drive

Progress: Concept
Proper Spaceship Propulsion
16 Oct 2013


Old Timey Self-Checkout

Progress: Concept
A moment of calm amidst the incessant ramming of targeted advertisements into our brains.
22 Apr 2013


Mirror Blinds

Progress: Concept
Cheap, manual solar thermostat
9 Jun 2009


Solid Fuel Lighter

Progress: Concept
Candle and flint in a zippo-style case
6 Jan 2010


Time Travelling Computer

Progress: Concept
Not as useless as you'd think.
14 Jun 2012


Let Water Flow Uphill

Progress: Concept
An exciting experiment in hypothetical hydrodynamics
25 Jan 2014


Pencil Lathe

Progress: Concept
Miniature machine exclusively for sharpening stationery.
1 Feb 2014


Russian Roulette on the Putting Green

Progress: Concept
Putt putt putt putt BANG
9 Feb 2014


Emergency Autorotating Escape Hat

Progress: Concept
Positively Ludicrous, Inspired by Nature
15 Feb 2014


Bernoulli's Barbecue Tongs

Progress: Concept
Bafflement and Bodgery Begone!
18 Feb 2014


Steam Calculator

Progress: Concept
Digital!
22 Feb 2014


South Facing Ear Trumpet

Progress: Concept
South Facing Ear Trumpet Hat
23 Feb 2014


The Megalomaniac's Melodica

Progress: Concept
Dynamics!
26 Feb 2014


Resonance Time

Progress: Concept
Hear the Hour at Night
25 Mar 2014


Whisk Sharpening Kit

Progress: Concept
New, from the Acme Utensil-Conversion Equipment Co.
29 Mar 2014


Engine Chorus

Progress: Concept
Growling duality.
7 May 2014


Mortar Conveyance Tubes

Progress: Concept
"Pneumatic" delivery system.
26 May 2014


Dambusters Play Set

Progress: Concept
Re-enact the bouncing-bomb raids in miniature
23 Jun 2014


Joule's Kettle

Progress: Concept
Splash.
29 Jun 2014


Total Balance

Progress: Concept
Full Solid Angle WB Meter
24 Aug 2014


Decent Electric Hob

Progress: Concept
A simple addition that would make the bloody things usable.
11 Oct 2014


Clockwork Battery

Progress: Concept
Retro Device Retrofit
27 Apr 2015


Tube Amp Camera

Progress: Concept
Non-linear.
1 May 2015


Inert Gas Kitchen Tap

Progress: Concept
Argon/CO2 mix from a flexible hose, located somewhere between the stove and the fridge.
14 Apr 2015


Giant Loppers

Progress: Concept
For hardcore lopping.
19 Jul 2015


Electrostatic Boots

Progress: Concept
High Voltage Footwear
10 Sep 2015


Louvre Timer

Progress: Concept
Colour-changing kitchen timer
5 Oct 2015


Biometric Toaster

Progress: Concept
Advanced toaster with fingerprint scanner.
6 Oct 2015


Solid Fuel Lighter II

Progress: Concept
Semiautomatic
23 Sep 2015


Wind-up Boots

Progress: Concept
Toasty toes
18 Oct 2015


Barometric Toaster

Progress: Concept
Hyperbaric Toasting Apparatus
16 Nov 2015


Mitre Saw Nut Cracker

Progress: Concept
For kernel extraction.
25 Nov 2015


Slinky Roomba

Progress: Concept
To boldly go where no roomba has gone before.
28 Oct 2015


Steampunk Mug

Progress: Concept
But not a pillock with gears on his hat.
25 Oct 2015


Shoe Horn

Progress: Concept
Foot-Mounted Stethoscope
23 Jan 2016


Flying Car

Progress: Concept
"It is not the car that flies, it is only yourself" ~ bald kid from the matrix.
23 Jan 2016


Geocentric Orrery Sundial Watch

Progress: Concept
It's always useful to keep a tiny orrery in your pocket.
23 Jan 2016


Pothole Fingerprints

Progress: Concept
GPS based on road texture
8 Jan 2017


Bowtie Headphones

Progress: Concept
Triangulastic
11 Sep 2017


Homing Hubcaps

Progress: Concept
Method for mitigating missing wheel rims
7 Nov 2017


Personal Globus

Progress: Concept
Model Earth
27 Feb 2018


One-Way Glass

Progress: Concept
Things can be seen through it one way, but not the other.
16 May 2018


Ramset Bikelock

Progress: Concept
I think this might be my best bike-lock idea yet.
23 Jun 2018


Autotune Slide Whistle

Progress: Concept
Finally, the war on tonality has ended
28 Sep 2018


Automatic Thermostatic Imbiber

Progress: Concept
A drinking straw. May be difficult to clean.
27 Jan 2019


Hot Server

Progress: Concept
Computers, that are hot, on purpose
31 Jan 2019


Van der Bed

Progress: Concept
An Electrostatic Night's Sleep
31 Jan 2019


Heatshrink Socks

Progress: Concept
Sock Woes Begone
31 Jan 2019


Double Helix Fountain

Progress: Concept
Moist
31 Jan 2019


Socks Machine

Progress: Concept
It's a Socks Machine
31 Jan 2019


Bubblewrap Popping Assistance Tool

Progress: Concept
Tool for assistance in the popping of bubblewrap
16 May 2019


Intracardiac Adrenaline Injection Alarm Clock

Progress: Concept
For those who really, really struggle to get out of bed
16 May 2019


Swiss Roll Nuclear Reactor

Progress: Concept
Yummy
2 Sep 2019


Clockwork Etch-a-Sketch

Progress: Concept
Mechanical drawing toy
8 Feb 2020


Geiger Chimes

Progress: Concept
A radioactive jingle
11 Feb 2020


Entanglograph

Progress: Concept
Entangled graphs, oh!
5 Mar 2020


Human-readable 2D Barcode

Progress: Concept
QR-code-like symbol, readable by both humans and machines
20 Mar 2020


Joule's Domestic Hot Water Supply

Progress: Concept
Spiritual successor to Joule's Kettle
29 Apr 2020


Alpha Pendant

Progress: Concept
An eternal heartbeat
6 Jul 2020


Shamir's Password Store

Progress: Concept
Distributed password manager
20 Mar 2021


Many Wings Make Flight Work

Progress: Concept
Flock of mechanical birds
2 Oct 2021


Lest Lint be Lost

Progress: Concept
Another episode of Laundry Zen
18 Feb 2022


Thor's Piano

Progress: Concept
For electrifying music
11 Aug 2022


Digital Hit Camera

Progress: Concept
Dreams of a tiny toy
11 Feb 2023


Endless Hourglass

Progress: Concept
A timeless illusion
13 Feb 2023


Ethereal Ball of String

Progress: Concept
Another entanglement
20 Jun 2023


Analemmagraph

Progress: Concept
Video of a day, one year in every frame
26 Sep 2023


Hand-cranked Flux Capacitor

Progress: Concept
Control the flow of time
19 Dec 2023


Simsim Pendant

Progress: Concept
Mercurial Medallion
5 Mar 2024


Talking Tines

Progress: Concept
Tuning forks that talk
29 Jun 2024


Variocentric Orrery

Progress: Demo
'Jeeves, set my orrery to the Tychonic system, post-haste!'
30 Dec 2014


Polar Coordinate Etch-a-Sketch

Progress: Demo
Escape the Cartesian system!
19 Nov 2015


AsciiCam

Progress: Demo
Terminal Vision
1 Nov 2017


Penrose Pixels

Progress: Demo
Aperiodic arrangement of image elements
28 May 2018


The Mountain Railway Morning Brew

Progress: Design Stages
Finally, an excuse to permanently lay model railway track all through my house.
5 Jul 2008


Shearing pin tumbler lock

Progress: Design Stages
Segmented pins provide added annoyance for lock pickers.
11 Jun 2009


Electric Accordion

Progress: Design Stages
Folding instrument, scissors style
19 Mar 2021


Custard Die

Progress: Design Stages
Settable loaded dice
3 Feb 2022


Jack Sparrow's Compass

Progress: Design Stages
To show me where the crow flies.
19 Aug 2022


Viola Bridge Transducer

Progress: Experimenting
New sounds resonating your way soon.
16 Jun 2012


Pot Luck

Progress: Half Baked.
Who needs Pot Noodle, when you can have Pot Luck? Just add water.
29 Oct 2008


Thought experiment: the light-second rod.

Progress: Solved
Questioning our perception of movement.
5 Jul 2008