Pass me the sick bucket, this has got to be the soppiest DIY project yet, the everlasting kisses kit.
This craft kit lets you make fridge magnets that are an exact replica of your pouting lips, I suppose it does mean you can smother your beer fridge with the kisses it probably deserves.
You can get you own everlasting kisses kit from Boutique to You, sick bag not included.
The site I found this next DIY gadget on has my name written all over it, the perpetual kid and it’s DIY finger tapping kit.
For $7.99 you get a pre-cut and pre-creased hit that lets you make your own thing like hand, twist the arm at the side and watch it’s fingers do the walking (well tapping).
If you’ve ever fancied making your kids their own designer furniture now you can and what’s better is it’s completely free (and a great excuse to buy a new plasma purely for the box).
The furniture has been designed by some Swiss architect known as Nicola Enrico Stäubli. There are three differenet pieces to make:
Each piece looks pretty sturdy and should take anything from 3.5 hours to make (looks like my Saturday afternoon is taken care of). You can download the full PDF plans over here for free (which is just really cool though they do require an email address). Which you’ll need to print out and then follow the instructions.
Fold School found via Inhabitat thanks Emily.
This is such a simple idea but so very useful. The MagnoGrip, a magnetic wristband.
Ok it won’t give you super human powers like Magneto but when it comes to carrying screws, nails, nuts and bolts it certainly beats using your teeth. As I’m currently neglecting renovating my house the MagnoGrip could of saved me so many trips up and down the ladder (as well as chipped teeth).
You can get hold of the MagnoGrip from Think Geek for $14.99.
Hacking about with hardware is generally more a past time for the hardcore geek (Jani for example 
), Chumby however could change that with there easy to hack and modify LCD mini machine.
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Jani the editor in chief of Metku has provided the eighth entry into our $600 gadget raffle courtesy of LogiNoki, the mouse with inbuilt LCD screen.
I must admit it’s the first time I’ve seen the CG logo (if you can call it that) on a mouse but it does look remarkably cool (though I must admit I can’t really see the need). You can learn how to embed an LCD into a mouse over at Jani’s excellent LogiNoki tutorial.
This is another entry in our $600 Gadget contest, CG reader Mark explains how he made his own digital picture frame (sort of a review I suppose). Over to you Mark.
This is my version of a digital picture frame, but better. First I bought this Mintek HD LCD TV & DVD player (model DTV-173 1,280 x 768 native pixel resolution; high 400:1 contrast ratio and high 400 cd/m2 brightness ). Then I came up with the idea that I could use it as a digital picture frame and lots more. So then I began looking for a place to put it. I have a entertainment “closet” which used to be a pantry that I’ve converted into my personal gaming/video control room. So I figured what better place to put it but in the door it self.
I called my carpenter friend (Dick T.) and told him the details of how I would like it placed and where to leave a small opening for the remote to see the IR reader, and also that I wanted the side speakers hidden by the door. My objective of the work was to have the TV placed so it would be flush with the door, to make it as slick looking as possible After ordering a solid door (for support) and locked hinges (so no one can pop them to steal the goods) we were on are way. A week later here it was. This “digital wall player” does all kinds of cool stuff for me, first (but not really necessary because of the connections it has and a DVD player right behind it) it has a DVD player built into it so I could play movies or visuals for parties.
Yeah, you’ve always wanted it, clean, pure energy, that’s cheap as free.
Well you can,,,
Ok,, do you have $50,000 USD lying around? If so, here’s the deal for how to generate your own power through a combination of solar power, electrolysis, and fuel cell power generation.
Thanks to a great article from the folks at Wired Magazine.
A guy named Stephen Friend, who is obviously a friend to the environment (what, if I don’t do the pun, it’ll just go to waste) put together a complete energy generation system that uses local water and solar power to generate energy.
He used his smarts to put together a complete mail order power generation system from the folks at the FuelCellstore.com. There they have all the stuff you could need to generate, store, and release naturally generated power in a safe and managable way. Read the rest of this entry »
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