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【DIY】Fabric Speakers

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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...]

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Open Cube Inside A Loft

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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! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Geeky Bag

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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. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Ji Ga Zo Puzzle

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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. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Can Cars

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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! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Street Flyer

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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. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Eric Jacqmain’s ‘Death-ray’

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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. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Super-fantastic Huge Rubik’s Cube

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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. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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An Awesome Collection of Speakers

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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? [Read the rest of this entry...]

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DIY Snow Removal Three-wheeler

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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...]

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Cool Change: From Cigarette Lighter to Mini Motorbikes

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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. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Big Wheel Sled

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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? [Read the rest of this entry...]

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DIY Bicycle Tire Chains

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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! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Life Calendar

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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. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Crayola Crayon Maker

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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… [Read the rest of this entry...]

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