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DIY Wire Stripper

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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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Ultimate-battlefield PC Case

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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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Posture Suspenders

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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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Wearable LED TV

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Anytime, anywhere, watch what you’d like to watch, and that’s rightly the thing David Forbes’ Wearable LED TV would help you to do. The wearable LED display involves customized display boards, circuits, batteries, iPod and speakers, making it functional enough to display some videos even during your moving.  For more details and manufacturing costs, you can check out the story at Popsci.

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Hyperspectral Camera Made with DSLR

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Hyperspectral sensors are usually quite expensive, which keeps many people away from utilizing the hyperspectral image technology. That’s so pity! Hence some scientists have decided to turn a DSLR into a hyperspectral camera using stock SLR glass, a gel diffraction filter, PVC pipe, duct tape and other materials. Certainly they succeeded, as the cheap imaging spectrometer can deliver spectral resolution equal to that of commercial solutions but at a far lower cost. The experiment and process may sound easy, but to construct such a camera you may need to master quite large amount of knowledge.

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DIY Privacy Monitor

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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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Photo Fabric Dye

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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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First Manned Flight with an E-powered Multicopter

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Innovating is everywhere, and several people from German have collaborated to make the first manned flight with an e-powered multicopter recently. The flight is easy to operate, while not featuring a good performance as that of common aircrafts we seen in the sky. Even so, it still offers a future of flight, piloting an aircraft as easily as driving a car.

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Weird Ideas For Bags

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Bags to pack, bags to ship and bags to advertise. Nowadays, just as you may have ever noticed, almost everything in daily life has been a medium for advertising. Bags are included too. Some of the bags emphasize the product’s features, some seem to be really magic and some just make the jokes. So which would be your No.1? Rank them out then. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Awesome Cameras

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We need a camera, to record beautiful scenes, lovely people, important dates, and many other valuable things. But sometimes, we use a camera, simply to show off – look at me, my cameras are so cool, huh? [Read the rest of this entry...]

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iPhone4 DIY Case

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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...]

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Wall Chair

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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...]

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Small Iris Cards

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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...]

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DIY Heart-shaped Eggs

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

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Creo Shoe Concept

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Jennifer Rieker has innovatively redefined “shoes” by allowing the wearers to participate in the production process. Every Creo Shoe is sent to the consumers in four separate parts, including footbeds, shoelaces, outer soles, and a leather envelope that doubles as the inner part. Besides, a sewing pattern is also available to instruct you. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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