This is a knitted roll of toilet paper. If you thought that was funny, look closely. It has eyes and a little mouth, thus giving life to an otherwise inanimate roll of wool. Want one? They aren’t for sale but lucky for you, creator Anna has whipped up a nice tutorial for knitters who’d like to make their own.
We saw Matt Daughtrey’s terrifying Halloween project on Make and before you know it, it had us shaking in our boots. OK, that’s a blatant lie; on the other hand the LMDriver platform he uses is neat. It works with LEDs to display eyes that look around and blink. It’s a project that’s begging to be put into a pumpkin, it’s just not that scary. Privates eyes, they’re watching you. Now, that’s scary.
After all those brain and IQ training games on DS, Nintendo thinks that the next thing to train would be our eyes! So they announced this all new Eye Power Training game in Japan that works your eyes in 5 ways:
1. Motion vision: the ability of picking up and seeing moving objects clearly
2. Powerful glances: the ability to catch as much information within a very short period of time
3. Eyeball motion: the ability to trace objects with responsive eyeball movements
4. Effective visual field: the ability of making use of the information you see at the rim of your visual field
5. Hand-eye coordination
Nintendo recommends training everyday, with all these polygon flying over the screen, and these oddly artificial “sports-mode” which should resemble real life situation more. Towards the end of the training, the DS will tell you how old your eyes are based on what they can do, you can save your record and see how your eyes improve (or deteriorate) as time goes by. The Eye Power Training program will be available on May31 at $33. –Sam Chan
