Maisie Maud Broadhead’s Cable Drawings – A series of installations created with wire flex and cable fixings – is a splendid way to deal with excess cable-age. Although you’d have to have rather a lot of excess to pull off anything resembling the masterpiece above… or an extension cord. Which would kind of defeat the object.

Turning unsightly cables into design (via Make)

This is a working Z scale model (1:220) of an N scale (1:160) train layout, which is – as its maker David Smith points out – “the equivalent of modeling at 1:35,200″ (that’s 35,200 times smaller than a real one). The whole thing measures 0.2 inches wide with a five-car passenger train running around the track and through a tunnel. It’s not actually a working train (nano technology isn’t commercialy available yet!) – instead the train is cut into the edge of a plastic tube connected to a geared motor.

Planet’s smallest model train set revealed to macro lenses, microscopes (video) (via Engadget)