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.

Designer: Brian Beebe

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.

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.

If you also want to build one too, you may check out the instructions here.

Designer: Tobias Sonne

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.

Designer: David Forbes

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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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.

【More Details Here】

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.

Selling Price: $35

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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.

Designer: Thomas Senkel, Stephan Wolf & Alexander Zosel

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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.

Nail biter? Stop’nGrow helps.

Bags to Advertise Crime stories on ASPE TV

Nail Salon

Head hunters

Fitness GYM

Helping Children with Autism

A Dangerous Sale

Wheaties Cereals

Magic Shop

Sport Goods Store

Recycling Bags

Jewelry shop

Pantene Shampoo

Help the starving children in Germany

Beer bag

Another Dangerous Deal

Sperm Clinic

DIY Bra Bags
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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?

【Gun Camera】

【Cigar Lighter Camera】

【Electronics】

【Skull Camera】

【Pumpkin Camera】

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.

Selling Price: $18

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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.

Designer: Fabian Bernhard and Thomas Burkard

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.

Selling Price: $6

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Eggs not merely provide nutrition, sometimes they offer love too.

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.

Designer: Jennifer Rieker

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.

Designer: Hannah Perner-Wilson

If you don’t have enough money to get a big house outside, you may just build a two-floor house inside your loft? Wow wow, it’s still costy!

Created by Liu Ming, this eight-foot cube in his loft does not take up much space, but still features a perfect two-storey structure—with a workspace on the ground floor and a recreational area on the top floor.

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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.

Ji Ga Zo is not an ordinary puzzle as what it looks. It can present anything you’d like to arrange after you upload digital images with the Ji Ga Zo software, and thus you can create any face including even your own! Isn’t that interesting? I even couldn’t wait to try that.

Selling Price: $24.99

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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!

Designer: Sandy Sanderson

Street Flyer by Dr. Carsten Mehring seems more like an over-sized three-wheeler. But instead of sitting on the top, one is hanged beneath and moves his/her body to propel the vehicle. Even though the Street Flyer cannot compare with paragliders, it clearly offers a much safer trip of flying.

Designer: Dr. Carsten Mehring

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One may guess the power of the sunlight over the hottest and driest days in summer, while Eric Jacqmain takes on an experiment to find a more accurate answer by building a fiberglass satellite dish with 5,800 tiny mirror tiles.

At last he makes his ‘death ray’, something that can melt steel, vaporize aluminum, boil concrete, and obliterate any organic material within a few minutes. That’s really awesome. But Eric is not so content with his experiment and the 19-year-old claims to build a new one with 32000 mirror tiles in the future.

Designer: Eric Jacqmain

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Have a try with this huge magic cube that consists of 17 layers and 1539 components, and you’ll know why the toy is so charming. Simply to assemble it, the designer has spent more than 15 hours, and we really couldn’t figure out how much time you’ll need to manage the game. Just try it and let us know.

One piece of equipment that most boys and girls may be interested in is of course the speakers, and quite often they spend many months and days in making unique ones-speakers that can represent their own characteristics. And here we’d like to share some interesting concepts with you guys, so can you imagine that they’re all built by computer fanciers rather than professionals?

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?

Designer: Craig Smith

Can you imagine that all these deliberate mini motorbikes are transformed from old cigar lighters? Somebody has recently achieved a big success, by disassembling the cigar lighters and then building mini cars with all those components. Isn’t that great? You may have a try too if you have both interest and smart hands.

What would your ideal sled be like, decorated with white and red ribbons just as the one of Mr. Santa‘s, or built with a large wheel just as the one shown here?

Though seems bit of weird on the first sight, the Big Wheel Sled actually performs quite well on snowy road as the big wheel ensures a securer riding while not adding too much weight to the sled, fluorine plastic is built onto the skateboards so as to reduce the friction between the sled and the ground. More importantly, the sled is constructed with old items: its seat is cut from a merry-go-round, its engine was once built in a motorbike, and the gearlever is made of a Coca Cola souvenir. Amazing!

Flying white snow has created us a fantastic world that seemingly almost the same as the one in a fairy story, and everybody feels excited to see that scenery especially on the Christmas Eve. But when the snow covers the road, the situation will be completely different and we may have to fight against any risks of slipping on the snow and ice. So today we’d like to share a simple but practical tip to keep your bikes from slipping and falling. That is, to fasten some plastic bands onto them. Easy as that!

Nearly all the calendars we see nowadays are creative, and obviously the Life Calendar is among them too. “How was your day?” is the first of the series, which asks the users to draw different pictures so as to record their various emotions. Even though you still need to do some work, you’ll actually find it much easier to document your life with a Life Calendar rather than with a diary.

Selling Price: 9.95Euro

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I am always amazed when I hear people saving those used crayons and use them to make new ones. But the Crayola Crayon Maker proves that is practical. And now it seems as if we seldom need to buy any new crayons as long as we can own such a smart machine…

Selling Price: $27

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Italian artist Franco Recchia is a man with great curiosity. When taking apart old computers, he suddenly realized that it may be interesting to make some sculptures with their component parts and thus these mixed-media sculptures were brought to us. Each featuring rich details and clean lines, these sculptures here present a new look of Central Park, Manhattan, Boston and Pittsburgh and they’re all full of imagination and creativity. Really nice work, Recchia!

【Central Park】

【Manhattan】

【Manhattan】

【Boston】

【Pittsburgh】

Designer: Franco Recchia

Though simply removing the front wheel and mounting two wheels under the handlebars, design graduate Berk Asal has succeeded in having the three wheeler work in a totally different way. That is: Triblean’s wheels would tilt into corners for a quick conversion when running on the roads. As a result, riding a bike will be more exciting, right?

Designer: Berk Asal

The play of imagination gives a new life to an old cooking stove, which now turns into a fantastic household acoustic apparatus with four 6.5-inch loudspeakers, one 7-inch touch screen and something else. Doesn’t that look good on the pictures? I even couldn’t wait to make my own one.

It doesn’t mean that your earphones are no longer usable when something is wrong with them. In fact with this DIY Earphone System, each part and every wire of which is detachable and replaceable, everybody can easily “fix” their earphones to make them work again. To meet your different needs, the module comes in two modes: basic and Bluetooth. You can also hook up two separate sets to the central module,  if you’d like to share good music with your friend.

Designer: Choi Hyong-Suk

A luxurious but cheap couch does not always exist in IKEA, sometimes it may rightly stand in your apartment. When looking for something creative for a close friend’s wedding, Adrian Johnson came up with an idea to build a couch with a discarded refrigerator and a vintage BMW two-door coupe. And the finished item looks fine in both appearance and functions, just as shown in the pictures.

Designer: Adrian Johnson

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Admittedly not everybody has a chance to pilot a plane by himself, but at least we can try out the experience with a Moving Axis AirCraft Simulator. When you fly a virtual plane, the device will then tilt and shift as a real plane does. If you’d also like to build a similar one, you can check out the video below to see how Matt Thomas made this.

Designer: Matt Thomas

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If you could have only one piece of jewelry, you’ll never need one made of recycled bottle caps, but if you do have more than one cap in your drawers, you’d better make them into jewelry like these created by Yoav Kotik. Look, they’re really fantastic on your necks and wrists.

Designer: Yoav Kotik

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Nobody would like to collect old cans, plastic or floorboards, but I would, simply because I’d love to make an interesting guitar by myself. But before you see my work, you can now check out some awesome DIY guitars here.

【Oil Can Guitar】

【Cigar Box Guitar】

【Candy Box Guitar】

【Steampunk Guitar】

【Rifle Guitar】

【Cyclotron Recycled Guitar】

【Cyclotron Recycled Guitar】

【Big Tin Guitar】

【Altoids Guitar】

【Skateboard Guitar】

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Who would ever imagine that ugly metal cranks can be transformed into such cute cup coasters? Truly amazing. Dubbed Crank Coasters, they’re all made from discarded cranks, with yellow-colored rubber filled around.

Designer: Tom Baker

Can one single nail open a bottle? Not likely, unless the nail is built onto a walnut wood block… Handmade to fit the contour of your hands, the handy Nail Bottle Opener not only offers an interesting way to open bottles, but comes with a concealed magnet to hold the caps when they tend to fall away. Really a simple but clever design.

Selling Price: $22

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The camera in the photo above looks really huge, right? But the big guy is on the contrary much cheaper than most mini cameras you’ve ever met. It has cost photographer Chris McCaw merely $150! However, it is undeniable that cheap things are not good enough and you may have to rent a luggage cart whenever you’d like to go out and take a photo. Save money or save time? You always need to choose one.

Designer: Chris McCaw

I am ready to bet you were preparing to make some cardboard wheelers and handles at home. Just like what David Graham have done to create the Move-It concept. It’s an easy do-it-yourself project, consisting of wheels and handles that are made from cardboard. The parts are self-adhesive, making them easy to assemble; the handles are available in two different types, allowing you to haul the cargo in any positions that best suit you. And most importantly, the simple Move-It concept makes moving the cargo no longer a trouble and everyone can easily handle it.

Designer: David Graham

Since we can produce some energy while riding a bike, why don’t we utilize that to do more things? An Instructables.com user asked that question before making the USB Bike Generator and now the designer wants to share the interesting experience with you guys.

【Step1】BikeGen Testing.

【Step2】Prepare the Needed tools and parts.

【Step3】Build the Electronics.

【Step4】Build the Generator Mount.

Full Tutorial Here

Czech design student Jiri Richter has offered us a possible solution to recycle materials. He bounded dozens of empty 2L Coca Cola bottles together and therefore created the lightweight, portable concave seating unit. You may have thought of the same concept, but it is Jiri Richter that gives us a real one.

Designer: Jiri Richter

Just as its name implied, the concept put forward by Shao Wen is a simple player that can easily shift between a cellphone, PMP, GPS, an e-book, gaming consoles and other gadgets you may need. It consists of a base screen and several detachable modules, allowing for various combinations.

Designer: Shao Wen

See what happens when Daniel Reese combines web, video games, comics and movies with Nike shoes… The results are really impressive. The 21 years old designer have changed plain Nike shoes into distinctive and innovative ones, making them more attractive than those you’ve seen at stores. If you’d also like one of these unusual sneakers, click the website below to order one pair, which would cost Daniel 4-6weeks and cost you about $260.

【Twitter】

【Super Sonic】

【Miles “Tails” Prower】

【Knuckles the Echidna】

【Pacman】

【Super Mario】

【Bioshock】

【Michael Jackson】

【Michael Jackson / Thriller】

【Run-DMC】

【John Lennon】

【Bob Marley】

【2 Pac】

【Kid Cudi】

【Justice League】

【Green Latern】

【Flash】

【Captain America】

【Batman】

【Kick-Ass】

【V for Vendetta】

【Reservoir Dogs】

【Kill Bill】

【Iron Man】

【The Simpsons】

Designer: Daniel Reese

Selling Price: $260

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Welcome to New York, and we’d like to show you a truly amazing architecture — an art studio made from recycled shipping containers. To make sure that the room will have a good lighting, the designer has built the two containers on top of a foundation wall that measures 2.75meters high. Therefore when standing in the interior, you’ll find the two story studio featuring an atmosphere of spaciousness, also with plenty of sunshine. Good news for those who also want such a perfect container building is that you can contact the Mb Architecture here to make an order now.

Designer: Mb Architecture

Your room is overcrowded with inner packaging sheets ever used for wrapping the refrigerators and computers? Then you’d thank us a lot for introducing you a good way to deal with them. And our suggestion is to use them to make a lamp, just as the one shown in the pictures. It is created by one Instructables user, who also adopts a sophisticated ventilating system to keep the foam sheets from melting. For full tutorial, check out the website here.

Here at I New Idea we find that people always have a vivid imagination and boundless creative power. During the days gone by, we’ve introduced you various types of shelves. And today, we’d like to show you a new one, the Ladder Shelf. It features three movable boxes, each of which could be easily pulled out to form a ladder. As a result, you’ll find reaching for the items on high shelves no longer a hassle. Do you like it?

The Italian designer Alessandro Zambelli has provided another new idea for DIY enthusiasts. He made this colorful cute children’s chair simply using a polyethylene bucket. Do you like it? For details, please visit the site of Alessandro Zambelli.