Americans throw away over 12 million tons of furniture every year, and most of it ends up in landfills. But are we atrociously wasteful beings, or is furniture just not durable enough? If you ask the ...

If you’re like me, you keep whole closets full of old stuff because you know it’d make a cool project (someday). The problem is that day doesn’t always come. Loose Joints, a kit designed by German ...

The UGOT modular AI robot kit offers a fantastic way to learn more about building robots, artificial intelligence and robotics programming. Supporting the Python programming language as well as ...

Lighting can make or break a photo or video shoot, but lugging heavy equipment bags to locations can be a real drag. The folks at Spiffy Gear have developed a modular LED lighting system that's ...

You can assemble a rudimentary 2G cell-phone at home with the RePhone Kit Create, which can also be used to make wearables and IoT devices. The kit from Seeed Studios ships with separate modules that ...

Ever wanted to have your phone built into something else entirely? With RePhone you can do just that. RePhone gives you the basic innards of that fancy phone in a series of modules, the software to ...

Some of our readers will remember the Cubelets by Modular Robotics that we featured on the site back in 2010, the company now has a new modular robotics construction kit called MOSS. MOSS is designed ...

Manhattan’s Lower East Side is a bubbling nexus of housing, commerce, and consumerism. You live here, you shop here, you stroll here, you play here–that is, if you can afford it all. Call it an urban ...