Hovertrax is a handleless electric transporter created by Shane Chen of Inventist. The device is slightly similar to a Segway in design (but without a handle) and is controlled by shifting body weight to go forward, turn, and rotate.

The short documentary “Wild In The Streets: Jilly Ballistic” follows street artist Jilly Ballistic as she posts her cheeky computer dialog boxes and vintage photos around the New York City transit system.

Melon is a brain wave-sensing headband that pairs with a mobile app to track how well you focus when doing various activities.

Keyprop is a very clever key-shaped smartphone stand that fits on a key chain. The stand works with most smartphones by mounting to the phone’s headphone jack and propping up the phone in the horizontal position.

For the past 30 years Coney Island has been home to the Coney Island Mermaid Parade, an annual summer art parade that has grown over the years to become the nation’s largest art parade. This year the event is in danger of being canceled—an aftereffect of Hurricane Sandy.

Complex philosphical theories are represented by simple graphics in the “Philographics” series (Part I and Part II) by Spanish graphic designer Genís Carreras. Carreras began the series two years ago and has created designs for 95 philosophical theories.

Artist Rob Reger, creator of the comic character Emily The Strange, is on a mission to animate and give Emily a musical voice in her five-piece band, Emily and the Strangers.

Wool&Prince is a Brooklyn-based apparel startup that is developing a wool button-down shirt that is much more durable and requires less washing than a traditional cotton shirt.

Actor and director Zach Braff, best known for the TV show Scrubs and his 2004 award-winning film Garden State, is back with an upcoming original film (co-written by his brother Adam Braff) titled Wish I Was Here.

Brian Knappenberger, director of Anonymous documentary We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists, is working on a documentary about Aaron Swartz currently titled The Internet’s Own Boy.

Space Monkey is a cloud storage service that allows the user to control their own one terabyte datacenter.

Watson and Holmes by Karl Bollers and Rick Leonardi is a comic book reimagining of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories featuring Sherlock Holmes and John Watson as African Americans in New York City’s Harlem district.

Anaïs and Samantha were born twin sisters in South Korea on November 18th, 1987, but were adopted out to families on separate continents.

In honor of NASA’s Curiosity rover, a Los Angeles-based team of artists calling themselves The Desert Wizards of Mars is building an 8-passenger replica of the rover: the Mars Rover Art Car.

First Container is a prototype community center and retail pop-up space in Detroit that will be housed in two recycled shipping containers.

Nomad is an innovative portable espresso machine that only requires ground coffee and hot water to work. The machine is pressurized by a low-effort hand pump, eliminating the need for electricity, batteries, or gas cartridges.

Mike Doyle is creating the Contact Series, a collection of science fiction LEGO constructions featuring otherworldly cities. The first work depicts a peaceful meeting between extraterrestrials and spiritual humans in the city of Odan.

The Reward, an animated short from Sun Creature Studio tells the tale of two friends on an epic, Dungeons & Dragons style adventure. Now the short’s creators are looking to turn the concept into an animated series called The Tales of Alethrion.

Writer Tro Rex and illustrator Eyona Bella are working to create Littlest Lovecraft, an illustrated children’s book adaptation of The Call of Cthulhu by cosmic horror master H.P. Lovecraft.

Continuum, directed by Guy Reid, aims to tell the story of where we came from, where we are now, and what’s next for the human race through interviews with astronauts, physicists, poets, anthropologists, Tibetan lamas, and more.

STRIPPED is an upcoming feature-length documentary by Fred Schroeder and Dave Kellett of Sequential Films that explores the world of newspaper comics, webcomics and how comics survive in today’s society.

The 10-Year Hoodie is designed to last for a decade or more thanks to durable features like American-made fleece fabric, reinforced stitching, and a brass zipper.

Rob Thomas, the creator and executive producer of the popular television detective series Veronica Mars, and its star Kristen Bell, have launched a fundraising campaign on Kickstarter to finance a Veronica Mars film.

Robert Kaye and Pierre Michael of Party Robotics in San Luis Obispo, California have developed Bartendro, a modular and open source cocktail dispensing robot.

“Story War” is a combative card-based storytelling party game by Brad O’Farrell (creator of Keyboard Cat), Tom McLean (aka “frezned“) and illustrator Vondell Swain of Cantrip Games.

Lumio is an LED lamp with a clever book-like form. The lamp turns on when opened and because it is powered by rechargeable lithium batteries, it can be used virtually anywhere.

3Doodler is a 3D printer pen that makes it possible to “draw” three-dimensional plastic objects. The pen works by heating a thin plastic wire until it is pliable, and then cooling the plastic with a fan after it comes out of the pen tip.

SCIENCE: Ruining Everything Since 1543, a book created by illustrator Zach Weiner and published by Breadpig, will be the third printed collection of his “finest” scientific and witty online SMBC (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal) comic strips.

Ralph Bakshi, the famed indie animator & director who made the first X-rated animated feature (Fritz the Cat, 1972), has announced a new animated series: Last Days of Coney Island.

San Francisco-based candy company Pandora’s Pops has created the Boudoir Collection, a line of organic and herbal heart-shaped aphrodisiac lollipops which were created to “enhance sexual experience and boost libido.”

“Meat America” is a project by Philadelphia-based photographer Dominic Episcopo that features cuts of meat carved to look like American icons like Abraham Lincoln, Betsy Ross, and more.

When We Went MAD!: A Documentary of Echh-ic Proportions is an upcoming documentary film directed by Alan Bernstein that “looks at the history and influence of MAD Magazine over the past 60 years.”

Where the Magic Happens, an upcoming documentary that gives a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of professional magicians. For the past two years, filmmakers Marcie Hume & Christoph Baaden have been following five magicians as they passionately pursue their unusual occupation.

“American Analog” is a project by Doctor Popular which will feature his favorite black and white photos in a zine. He states, “Each issue will be 28 pages, full bleed print, on a 8.5″ X 5″ booklet.

PIXEL is an interactive picture frame that allows you to display both animated and still pixel art on a 32×32 LED based panel. You can control what image or animation is shown by using specialized apps from an Android device (iOS devices not supported).

Santa Rosa-based 13-year-old Tucker Fish has invented the College Bound candy bar as a way to help save money for his own college education and to help others with scholarships.

The InterLock is a cable lock for bikes that hides away inside the seat post of the bicycle when not in use.

Artist Devon Devereaux is in the process of making the new graphic novel anthology Tales Of Hot Rod Horror Volume 2 through his publishing company Cackling Imp Press. It will feature work from many talented artists and writers.

A documentary by James George and Jonathan Minard about current hacker-art practices. It features interviews with thirty artists, curators, designers, & critics and was created with an open-source software library called RGBDToolkit in the RGBD 3D cinema format.

The BROpener, created by friends Aaron Avallon and Matt von Mering, is a wonderful aircraft grade aluminum tab that can stick to any “waist height or lower” surface and turn it into a bottle opener.

The Loud Bicycle Horn is a bike horn that gets the attention of nearby motorists by sounding just like a car horn. The horn is based on the idea that motorists instinctively react to car horns in a way that they do not for traditional bicycle horns and bells.

ATOMS Express Toys are easy-to-use high-tech building blocks designed by Colorado-based Seamless Toy Company for kids of all ages “to make things that do things.” They are designed to work with other toys and can be controlled with an iPhone.

The Konbit Shelter Project is an ongoing project to bring innovative superadobe homes and community spaces to rural Haiti. Superadobe buildings are easy to build with local materials and labor, and are resistant to earthquakes and other disasters.

The Handlebar Minibar is a small tube designed to discreetly store “drink, banknotes or even a ready-rolled cigarette” inside of your bicycle’s handlebars.

In November 2011 legendary rocker Bob Mould played a show in LA with some friends. Now a year later there’s a Kickstarter to fund a DVD of that concert.

The Urban Air project seeks to convert outdoor advertising billboards into suspended bamboo gardens (video). Each Urban Air installation will feature live bamboo nourished by water misters. The installation will be monitored by a Wi-Fi enabled climate sensor.

Mario Warfare is a badass new web series by Beat Down Boogie that gives the classic Super Mario Brothers video game a tough and fun live-action military spin. In episode one they give us a small taste of the intense action to come.

Located at LA Mart in downtown LA, Los Angeles Makerspace is described as “a non-profit community space for makers of all ages to work on projects and take classes in software, hardware, electronics, robotics, art, filmmaking, bio-tech, eco-tech, wearable-tech and more…”

BLAZE is an ingenious bike light that uses a laser to project a warning symbol on the street in front of the bicyclist. The bright green symbol of a bicycle alerts motorists and pedestrians of the bicyclist’s approach, eliminating deadly blindspots that lead to accidents.

Brooklyn-based Cesar Kuriyama has been working on the 1 Second Everyday App, an app which can make a movie that includes every day of the rest of your life, one second at a time.

Fine glass artist GingerELA was inspired by our post, Barfing Squirrel Gravy Boat, to make an awesome one for herself. Instead of a squirrel though, she made a black cat (we assume it’s fashioned after her own kitty, Mr. B).

James Brown of Morlock Enterprises (a company that makes a large variety of custom merchandise) has come upon a new Combat Kitchenware venture, which starts with the creation of customized battle worthy frying pans that have a sword hilt acting as the handle.

American Commune is an upcoming documentary about the rise and fall of The Farm, a community in rural Tennessee that was once America’s largest commune (trailer).

PROSPECT is a conceptual sci-fi film short being produced by SHEP Films that tells a coming of age story about a teen girl who is with her father on a toxic foreign planet trying to prospect a valuable resin from rare bugs.

“Anatomica di Revolutis” is an intricate 3D printed sculpture of a winged skull by artist Joshua Harker. It consists of three main components—the filigree skull, the 75-piece mechanical wings, and the pyramidal “crooked cairn,” which serves as a pull chain to activate the wings.

San Francisco’s Roxie Theater, one of the city’s last remaining independent movie theaters, is turning to Kickstarter to help fund much needed upgrades and the theater’s 2012-2013 programming.

The Yes Men Are Revolting is an upcoming documentary by and about media pranksters The Yes Men, and their work during the height of the Occupy movement and the Arab Spring. It also encourages viewers to take matters into their own hands and join the global movement for change.

Socrates Sock Co. is making men’s socks with kevlar-carbon matrix reinforcements designed to make the socks extraordinarily durable. Socrates founder Cam Carter came up with the idea while working for the American military in Italy.

The Impress Coffee Brewer is an ingenious single serving coffee press that doubles as a travel cup.

In late 2011, artists Mark Rosen and Wendy Marvel created Mechanical Flipbooks, motorized flip books that display vintage motion picture animations by film pioneer Eadweard Muybridge (video).

Photographer Dave Engledow has created, with help from his wife Jen, an amazing and funny World’s Best Father photo series where he portrays a clueless, sleep-deprived and unsafe Dad to his adorable daughter Alice Bee, which is the type of father that he never plans to be.

During his travels over the past four years, San Francisco-based artist Bernard Bolter has been creating digital photo composites of each city he visits for his “Digital City Series.”

LIFX is a Wi-Fi-enabled LED light bulb that can be controlled from anywhere by a mobile device. The bulb can be turned on and off, set on a timer, dimmed, and its color can even be changed, all by a mobile app for iPhone or Android devices.

Chicago-based social worker Elizabeth D. Ormesher Salcedo invented the Everpurse, a small zippable purse that charges your smartphone all day (it fits within a bigger bag), after always running out of battery charge on her cellphone.

The Impossible Instant Lab is a device that creates a Polaroid-style instant photo out of any photo on your iPhone. The device is essentially an analog instant camera with an iPhone mount on a collapsible tower that allows the camera to take a photo of the iPhone’s screen.

Wakaliwood is an upcoming documentary about Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey Nabwana, a filmmaker who creates feature films in his hometown of Wakaliga, Uganda.

Dungeons & Dragons: A Documentary (aka “D&D: AD“) will give us a look at the fantasy role-playing game phenomenon Dungeons & Dragons, an in-depth history behind it and the influence that is has had on our culture today.

New York artist Ray Sumser is putting the finishing touches on his amazing Characternity illustration that contains over 2,500 cartoon, comic book, video game and other pop culture characters.

DEVOBOTS is an upcoming DEVO-authorized iOS app that is a combination robot maker and synthesizer. Users will be able to create their own DEVO-inspired robot characters from a library of 10,000 robot parts.

Instacube is an LCD photo frame that displays a live feed of Instagram photos. The device uses Wi-Fi to sync with the user’s Instagram account. Instacube has a few simple controls including a favorite button and a feed toggle button.

Slim is an ultra thin elastic wallet for the minimalist who mainly carries cards. The wallet is normally .12 inches thick but can expand to accommodate a stack of cards. Slim is currently under development by Supr Good Co. of Minneapolis with the first wallets expected in Sept.

Leafcutter Designs‘ Lea Redmond, creator of the World’s Smallest Post Service, The Small Times mini newspaper and Punch Boxes, has a new and interesting project called Seed Money, which are paper coins she makes that you can plant.

Connectify Dispatch is a PC app that increases the speed and reliability of your Internet connection by letting you use all your available Internet connections at the same time.

Delicious City Prints is a fun typographic poster series from Philadelphia-based designer Roni Lagin that celebrates worldwide regional foods. He’s got several cities covered so far, like Boston, London, New Orleans and more.

The San Francisco-based Honey Badger Sauce Company has concocted Honey Badger BBQ Sauce, ‘badass’ barbecue sauce made with honey & habanero chili peppers that was inspired by the Honey Badger internet meme.

Sculpture artist Ryan S Ballard of New Orleans-based Mardi Gras parade organization, The Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus is building a custom-made Millenium Falcon Golfcart for Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca in Star Wars) to ride in the Chewbacchus 2013 Parade.

Now in its third year, the RE/Mixed Media Festival is an annual event that “celebrates remixing, mashups, copyright reform, and fair use.” This year’s event happens at Brooklyn Lyceum in Brooklyn, New York on Saturday November 10, 2012.

Animator, voice actor and Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi is on a mission to bring the original Ren & Stimpy character George Liquor back to life in the cartoon Cans Without Labels and needs your help to get it done.

Invented by Tigere Chiriga, The Floating Mug is both a porcelain mug and coaster, where the handle acts as a coaster to prevent heat and moisture rings from getting on furniture. The mug’s uniquely-shaped handle/coaster was inspired by the design of a hanging banana holder.

The Faraday Porteur is a handsome electric bicycle with artfully concealed batteries and a 250 watt motor that together provide 10 to 15 miles of pedal assist on a single charge.

blink(1) is a hackable LED indicator light that plugs into any USB port. The light serves as a visual status update for any event that occurs on a computer or the Internet—new emails, weather conditions, Twitter notifications, computer system alerts, etc.

Drew Wise has taken his many years of art experience and launched the Kickstarter project Pixel Portrait Poster Project. Up to 800 backers of the project will receive a unique 8-bit pixel portrait of themselves created by Drew after submitting him a photo.

Penny Arcade is looking to convert their current website to a completely ad free and service rich version, just like the good old days.

Are We Not Men? is an upcoming authorized documentary about the influential punk rock/new wave band Devo (trailer). The film follows the band from its origins at Kent State University in the early 70s to its present day tours.

The artistic husband and wife duo Mike Yamada and Victoria Ying of Extracurricular Activities are creating a mysteriously fun book called Curiosities: An Illustrated History of Ancestral Oddity.

Knut is a Wi-Fi enabled sensor hub that can transmit messages about temperature, humidity, opening doors & other conditions to your computer or mobile device (video). A single Knut can have up to four sensors attached to it and multiple Knuts can easily be monitored by one user.

Zachary Weiner of the comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal has authored an interactive choosable pathway gamebook. Trial of the Clone is a “comedy science fiction story set in the future” with over 20 illustrations by Chris Jones.

Mitch Altman has spent the past seven years working on the NeuroDreamer Sleep Mask. The mask is an open source device that gets placed over your eyes and uses fading lights and soothing music to “gently guide your brainwaves into a pattern of rest”.

In 2012, The Feast is presenting an initiative titled The World’s Fare which is a series of global dinner parties all held on October 5, 2012 at 7 PM ET, the final day of The Feast Social Innovation Conference in New York City.

Makey Makey is an easy to use kit for converting everyday objects into computer input devices. Bananas, Play Doh, people, and other conductive objects can be connected to the Makey Makey board via alligator clips.

And We Were Young is an upcoming animated documentary by Andy Smetanka about American involvement in one of the final battles of World War I.

In 2010, London-based photographer Martin Usborne shot poignant images of dogs in cars as a personal project. Those images are now being made into a book titled Dogs In Cars, A Photography Art Book.

Brooklyn-based art cooperative United Photo Industries will host Photoville, a large-scale photographic village created with shipping containers in Brooklyn Bridge Park in summer 2012. Photoville starts Friday June 22, 2012 and runs through Sunday July 1, 2012.

Andy Baio of Waxy.org, along with Andy McMillan, have just announced XOXO, an arts and technology conference and festival that celebrates disruptive creativity that he is organizing at the Yu Contemporary in Portland, OR this September 13-16.

gTar is an iPhone-powered electronic guitar that is designed to be played by anyone, regardless of their musical ability. The heart of the instrument is a docked iPhone running the gTar app.

The Amphibious Red Couch is a “Bicycle-Pedal-Powered Paddlewheel Pontoon Couch” project created by Dawn Thomas and Robert Van de Walle that they will bring to aquatic events like Ephemerisle, Camp Tipsy, and the Rivertown Revival. It uses a fancy red velvet couch for seating.

Kelly Greenlief Sapp has designed Atticus Kitsch, a purple anthropomorphic gentleman octopus who wears a top hat and a monocle.

Kinetic Creatures are cardboard walking animal sculptures by Alyssa Hamel & Lucas Ainsworth. The sculptures are made of cut cardboard parts that fit together with tabs and slots. They walk via a hand crank or on their own with an optional electric gear kit.

Avant-garde performer and musician Amanda Palmer recently began a fundraising to promote, mix, manufacture and distribute her first studio album since 2008.

Created by University of Washington students Mariah Gentry and Kyle Bartlow, the JoeyBra is a bra with discreet side pockets so women can safely store small items like phones and credit cards on their body.

Brydge is a combination keyboard and case for iPad that when attached, converts the tablet into a laptop (video). It is made of machined aluminum and attaches to the iPad with a special quick release hinge. Brydge is by Los Angeles-based designer Brad Leong, Sam, & Eddy.

Flint and Tinder is an ambitious apparel startup by Jake Bronstein that will manufacture premium quality men’s underwear entirely in the United States.

Pebble is an e-paper watch that syncs with Android smartphones and iPhones and can be customized with apps and interchangeable faces. Engineer Eric Migicovksy and a small engineering and design team are preparing the watch for manufacture.

Plastic Galaxy is an upcoming documentary by Brian Stillman about Star Wars toys.

Washington-based inventor Scott Baumann has designed Chalktrail, a universally-fitting attachment for bicycles or scooters that allows the rider to decorate riding surfaces with chalk designs. It not only looks incredibly easy to install but it also looks really fun to use.

Andrew Hyde has spent the past 20 months traveling the world and is now writing a book about his travels titled This Book Is About Travel (A Manual For Modern Travel).

Thor Muller and Lane Becker have authored Get Lucky: How to Put Planned Serendipity to Work for You and Your Business. To complement the book’s release, they have scheduled a springtime Go Luck Yourself cross-country tour in the RVIP Lounge & Karaoke Cabaret.

The Ubooly is a plush case for an iPhone or iPod touch that turns the device into an interactive educational tool for children ages 4 to 9. It is able to download “content every month over wifi, including games, stories, and adventures.”

The Lynch Three Project is an upcoming feature length documentary about the life of film auteur David Lynch. The film is directed by Jason S., director of two previous non-biographical documentaries about David Lynch.

Ze Frank is bringing back The Show.

The Defender by Gotham Bicycle Defense Industries is a theft-resistant bicycle light with a design inspired by the cylinder of a revolver.

Stack Soap solves the problem of the pesky soap slivers that remain when bar soap is nearly used-up. Stack Soap’s grooved design allows a leftover soap sliver to be nested in the new bar.

The Polka Dots: Learn To Polka! is a cute new book project by artist and toy designer Attaboy, author of You Might Be a Monster (& Other Stories I Made Up).

“This is Not a Conspiracy Theory” is a new political web series by Kirby Ferguson, creator of the wonderful and recently completed series “Everything is a Remix”. The new series will focus on politics in the United States, and what has led to the current status quo.

Diesel Sweeties pixelated webcomic creator Richard Stevens has launched Diesel Sweeties eBook-Stravaganza 3000, a fundraising campaign on Kickstarter to produce an eBook of his first 3,000 comics.

Double Fine is a project to fund development of a retro point & click adventure video game. It will also fund a documentary film team from 2 Player Productions. The filmmakers will document the entire game making process as it happens.

The Elevation iPhone Dock from Oregon-based industrial design firm Elevation Lab is a well-crafted aluminum dock for the iPhone, the iPod Touch and iPod Nano.

Writer and illustrator Rich Burlew has been writing The Order of the Stick, a comedic webcomic about D&D-style roleplaying games and medieval fantasy, for nearly 10 years. In addition to the online versions, Burlew has been self-publishing hard copy compilations for his fans.

Rewind This! is an upcoming documentary about the cultural significance and history of the VHS videocassette. The film is being made by Austin, Texas-based Imperial PolyFarm Productions.

Street prank collective Improv Everywhere is the subject of an upcoming documentary directed by the group’s longtime documentarian, Matt Adams. The feature length film will cover the history of the group and will include interviews with over 50 Improv Everywhere performers.

Cassette is an upcoming documentary about the cultural significance and history of the tape cassette being made by Zack Taylor and Seth Smoot.

"The Silent City" is an upcoming post apocalyptic web video series in which a lone man in New York City fights to survive.

Graphic designer Safwat Saleem created a series of illustrations designed to inspire the viewer to say “Oh Shit!”. Themes include: unicorns, zombies, and flamethrowers. Saleem is raising funds to produce limited edition prints and shirts.