L33T DIY: Limor is an MIT-trained engineer and county-board-certified brainy beauty who spends her time crafting beautiful, interesting and functional things—like a CompactFlash-based MP3 player in an Altoids tin, a machined-steel, MIDI-enhanced, USB-and-flash-memory-equipped Roland 303 reproduction, and a persistence-of-vision display for your bike spokes (with scrolling LED text) that makes spinners like so 2004—all that you can build yourself (providing you’re some kind of engineer). Check out Make Something, and you just might at http://web.media.mit.edu/~ladyada/make/.

Future past: If you’re an artist, a kustom nut or just someone who likes to gawk at retro-future Jetsonian design, Chris Hodge is your man. This U.K.-based truck enthusiast has put hundreds of mostly black-and-white photos of commercial Euro-trucks (or lorries, if you’re from Old Blighty) from the earliest days to the ’80s, but with an emphasis on the ’50s and ’60s. See bizarre Eastern Bloc campers and missile carriers, and French and British designs that didn’t spare the chrome or the sheet metal. With these sleek-and-bulbous rocketships plying the streets, it’s no wonder we’re nostalgic at www.chrishodgephotos.co.uk/pagecma/truckphotos.htm.

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