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“So what is the weather today?” Wait, wait, I’ll soon tell you something about the temperature with my hands to feel the Cryoscope. It’s not for kidding, as industrial design student Robb Godshaw’s Cryoscope is indeed an intelligent device that allows you to feel the weather with hands rather than to read cryptic icons with eyes. The Cryoscope is made from a heat sink, cooling fan, and a Peltier element, which are all housed within an aluminum cube to reflect tomorrow’s predicted air temperature by heating up or cooling down. In case that the cube may get too hot for you to touch, the designer also built the Cryoscope with a red and blue colored LED to provide a visual cue to the temperature change.

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Using an electric circuit, two razor blades, a 3D printer and an LED light, Brian Beebe has successfully created a wire stripper all by himself. The smart device is very clever: when the blades have made it through the plastic sheathing to the metal wire beneath, the circuit is then completed and thus the LED indicator is turned on to alert the users to stop cutting.

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Let our opinion become clear and unbiased now: PC games actually can offer something more important than the great fun we usually get – it provides us with creative inspirations too! Look at this Ultimate-battlefield PC Case: it’s designed and made by a PC gamer, with a really cool appearance, good functions and even a beverage storage space.

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Wanna to be pulled out of bed in a natural and mild way instead of the annoying digital alarm clocks? If so, Vera Wiedermann’s Water-powered Alarm Clock is rightly a good choice to you. The Dreamtime clock is made based on old tradition of balancing with water, and it offers a gentle chiming in the morning to make waking up an enjoyable thing. According to the time you’d like to sleep through, you can pour some amount of water into the glass bowl (something like setting the alarm time), which will then let water drip silently to another bowl during the night. As the top bowl gets lighter, it then rises and finally lets a hammer fall to create a smooth, singing chime – it’s the very time for you to get up!

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Developed by Tobias Sonne, the Posture Suspenders can detect a slouch and deliver real-time vibration alerts to help you always keep a correct posture. It’s a fully functional device, but is made with really ordinary things including an Arduino Pro Mini microcontroller board, a normal pair of suspenders, a XeBee wireless radio, and a 3.6 volt battery.

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Use your head and hands, and then you’ll create something simple but magical, just as this privacy monitor. Designed and made with an old LCD monitor, the device looks all white to everybody except you, as you’re wearing “magic” glasses. But why and how? Check out the link below for more details and you may even try to make your own privacy monitor too.

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Have a new try! Without no darkroom or specialized technical, you can print photos on fabric or wood or anything else with the magic dye, and it could get finished in four simple steps. Just paint the dye on, put a negative or object on top, put it in the sun and wash it with water, and then you’ll get exclusive clothes on the world. Available in red, orange and blue, the dye would create new colors when you mix them.

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After iPhones make we humans same, now we really need something to make us different. So we need these cross-stitch kits. They’re available in 6 colors, with 2 needles, thread and patterns for us to DIY our own iPhone cases. Or you can finish something special on it with your own imagination. Try these iPhone4 DIY Cases and try to be different. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Things will be totally different if without Fabian Bernhard and Thomas Burkard: before the item is merely a stretcher but soon after it becomes a chair leaning against the wall to keep its steadibility. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Small Iris Cards are just what the name implies: 3.5″ x 2″ business cards that can function as a mechanical iris used in photography machines. When rotating the tab on the card, you can open the hole in the center of the card gradually to a maximum size of one inch. Sometimes, you may even see a photo after the hole is opened if you’re with a special kind of Small Iris Cards. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Eggs not merely provide nutrition, sometimes they offer love too. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Making a speaker is much easier than you’ve ever imagined, and what you need to prepare is merely: textile (or paper), conductive tape and some strong magnets. Try this one made by Hannah Perner-Wilson and you’ll find it quite impressive. [Read the rest of this entry...]

42 pieces of floppy disks were recently brought together and found their new function, that is, to work as an innovative handbag! It is really a clever way to recycle old things. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Use our intelligence. We should do this because we can create innovative or even magical things with our talent, just as Sandy Sanderson makes these mini cars with old cans, metal wires and his imagination. So incredible! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Craig Smith, who lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has made a unique snow removal using his two old bikes. The new vehicle looks bit of impractical on pictures, if you couldn’t control two bikes at the same time. But according to Mr. Smith, his DIY snow removal three-wheeler performs very well in cleaning the snow. So will you make one too? [Read the rest of this entry...]