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Creative shoe racks may give an eye-pleasing look to your living spaces, but they usually cost you too much money. However, the rack designed by Jost Litzen is an innovative storage system that eliminates the need of purchasing expensive shoe racks. The best part is that, what the rack finally looks like is all up to you! It is quite easy to create: simply prepare several tubes, form them into certain shapes using ropes and then done! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Eraser and USB flash drives seem to be unrelated to each other, but you won’t think so after checking out these items. As you can see from the picture, the designer hides a flash drive in a white eraser, which also protects the electronic components apart from erasing the documents. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Look at my heart and you’ll know exactly about my love for you…The weirdest but most impressive gift for Valentine’s Day. [Read the rest of this entry...]

OMG, who would care about the gifts you’ve prepared, if you use so cute a box to package them! At least in my mind, such an innovative packaging is enough to surprise my buddies (they love everything that looks kawaii). If you have enough time, you could also follow the instructions to make some. Do enjoy it. [Read the rest of this entry...]

So you’re dissatisfied with the bath bombs available on the market and you’d like something distinctive? Well, maybe it’s time to DIY a bath bomb with the Bath Bomb Maker. It is easy to use: simply combine some baking soda, citric acid, water, essential oils and other needed aromatics altogether, put them into the device, push down the lever for about ten seconds and then a customized bath bomb is done. Enjoy the bath time! [Read the rest of this entry...]

If you’ve gotten too many plastic, metal and other waste materials in your life but still don’t know what to do with them, our suggestion is to create Optimus Prime Replica from them, just as a Taiwanese DIYer has done. Every part of the 14-foot Optimus Prime replica is made from junk, for example, his chest is made from old windows that may be lying in the rubbish bins. Though the replica is not that smart as the one we see in movies, it has successfully encouraged us to make full use of the waste around us. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Charles Seuleusian is quite concerned about the environment and aims to save up energy as possible as he could. His ‘Waste Basket’ is a reusable trash bin made from discarded wooden boards. How to DIY one? Surround a circle base with pieces of wooden boards, put an inflated balloon into the cylinder, fix the mouth with a splint and then done! [Read the rest of this entry...]

An apple a day…Of course that sounds familiar to everybody. But what we’re to argue today is not that famous song but an innovative calendar by Serviceplan. Designed for AOK health insurance, the calendar is actually a transparent tube that holds 28 to 31 apples, which correspondingly stands for a date of the month. As a result, you need to eat an apple everyday to get the correct date. Too bad this thing isn’t available on the market, but if you really love the idea as I do, you could make one with a tube and some apples.

Ryan has built an in-wall computer for his kitchen! In his blog, Ryan explained why he has that idea:

“For years my wife has been on at me to put a computer into the kitchen where she can manage her recipes, shopping lists, to do lists and access the internet for looking up various things.”

The computer mainly includes a touch screen, an interface cloned from the iPhone and runs Windows XP. With such an appliance inside the kitchen, Ryan and his wife could conveniently check out the weather, recipes and other information via the Internet. We have to admit, the computer has added more fun to the cooking time. So you want it, too? Click the website after the jump for a full tutorial and install one in your kitchen then. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It is a wall-mounted bookcase, not only a stylish shelf for your favorite books, but an attractive decoration on the wall. It looks just like a bird nest! Apart from that, because of the flat surface on its top, the innovative design also allows you a continuous reading without using the bookmarks.

That’s a ceiling light for real? Bravo! Including 108 LEDs and several fiber-optic cables, seemingly the lamp has created numerous shining stars in the room. You could also DIY a similar one with fishing lines and LEDs if you wouldn’t like to spend too much money on a lamp. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Perhaps except for Walter Disney, no one would agree that mice are lovely, not to mention living in the same room with them. Yes, we hate mice and we want to drive them out the house. So we’d like to introduce you a better and non-lethal idea to cope with those little guys. The perfect manner is from Blogger Chris “MacGyver” Glass, and Glass described how he caught the mouse as followings:

1. Get a toilet paper tube and crease two lines to form a flat sided tunnel.

2. Put a treat on one end of the tube: A cracker and dab of peanut butter works great.

3. Get a tall (at least 20 inches) bucket. A trash can work well.

4. Balance the tube precariously on the edge of a table or counter with the treat hanging directly over the tall sided receptacle.

5. The mouse will scurry to the treat (they like tunnels) and fall into the trap.

Set the fella loose at least a mile away from your abode.

Postnote: It worked within the hour.

Have you also been bothered by mice? If so, you should try Glass’s method as that really sounds great.

Lady Gaga, a popular American recording artist, is well-known not only for her charming music, but for the unusual dressing. And one of her impressive accessories is rightly the Video Glasses, a pair of glasses with two small digital pictures frames stuck into the eye-holes. But the one shown here is not from Lady Gaga, but from one of her fans. Anyhow, it looks quite cool, right? So if you also want to become Lady Gaga, DIY a Video Glasses then.

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Lens cap are primarily designed to protect the lens from possible scratches, but that also results some trouble to the users. If you once used a camera with a lens cap, then you must have experienced the same problem of how to hold the lens cap. Put it in your pocket? Well, do pay more attention to it as the cap may easily break up. Tie it onto the camera? That will cost you much time. And actually, things will get easy if you’re using these Lens Cap Keepers.

You needn’t pay any money as you can use wasted plastic to make some following the steps shown in the pictures below. For a full tutorial, you can check out the website after the break. [Read the rest of this entry...]

If you love the ‘Conjoined Twin Cups’ or the ‘8 cups’, you’ll surely feel excited about the Sixpack designed by oooms. It allows you to hold up to 6 cups of beer at one time! You could DIY one if you do appreciate the great idea.