Machines nobody asked for: an eight-bit computer made of 920 valves and bolted to a brick wall, a $20 hotspot cut down by hand into a texting device, a frame that hears a bird and redraws it from an antique plate, and a keyboard whose keys ride conveyor belts to a hand that never moves.
Google Japan's keyboard that brings the keys to your finger
→ blog.google
A hamster wheel wired to auto-upload its runs to Strava
→ strava.com
920 triodes on a brick wall, and it warms the room
→ thetubecomputer.com
A microphone hears the bird; an e-ink frame draws it from a nineteenth-century plate
→ github.com
A $20 hotspot, a phone keyboard and a memory display, soldered into a dumb texting machine
→ bkovac.github.io
Points Meta's Neural Band at macOS, where a pinch and turn moves the volume
→ github.com