makedo is a reusable connector system for creating amazing objects and spaces from recycled materials. The possibilities of what you can make with makedo are limited only by the materials you find and your imagination.  And when you’re done, you simply pull it all apart and reuse the connectors over and over again…

I have a fondness for slightly lost translations… maybe you have a ‘nostalgy’ for film cameras too? PowerShovel is a Japanese company born out of a passion for music and photography. According to their website, ‘We never wanted cameras as precision machines, rather we imagine the camera as a sort of sketch book, something with which you easily record bits of your life. This has contributed to open up a new market in Japan called ‘toy camera’. Just as how people thought, after CDs appeared, that the noise of analogue records was eloquent, after the appearance of digital cameras, people are starting to feel something more than mere nostalgy towards analogue cameras.’ They go on to say, ‘It may not seem like a great vision, but the ideal of PowerShovel is to have today in laughter and in delight.’ I think that their vision sounds ideal and the cameras sound kind of like fun too.

Waiting (i.e. if The Hurt Locker won the Oscar for Best Motion Picture Of The Year) can be very uncomfortable, you might be too nervous to really concentrate on your reading, restless legs or feet… Here’s a thing that will remind many of you of the times in the old school days when you kept busy in break hours with Rubik’s Cube or Rubik’s Magic. The new thing is called The Perplexus and it looks quite cool. Read the story of how it was invented by Michael McGinnis in the current issue of Wired’s UK Edition.