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For those of you that have siblings you want to keep away from your PC, the Mousetrap Mouse Pad is the ideal solution. I mean, it’s just a mouse pad and at the same time looks like so much more. Aside from being a standard mouse pad, probably made of a rubber, it looks like a mouse trap and that ...

This is by far one of the most impressive DIY projects I’ve ever seen. Seems some guy hacked his Saucony sneakers with photoresistors to react to light. Each show has a 1/4″ jack to plug in an amp cable with and when you move your foot, a sound file is manipulated. Those NYU students are just so darn crafty. The ...

These fully customizable percussion coffee tables will soon render games like Rock Band a thing of the past. Designer Tor Clausen crafts these in his studio in Olympia, Washington. The drum table has a large variety of re-arrangeable inserts that mimic many percussion instruments and comes in four different sizes, the smallest of which accepts four of the smaller instruments ...

Valleywag has posted a great little exploit from a “Canadian computer guy” that allows you to access any private MySpace profile. Using a Yahoo! Mobile widget portal and a little URL trickery, you can easily browse through any private profile, photos included. I stopped using MySpace about two years ago, so I signed up with a throwaway Dodgit.com e-mail address ...

Nowadays, tire swings are built horizontally instead of vertically. A rope tied around a tire just isn’t as fun as it used to be for the kids. This brings a whole new area of challenges in crafting a tire swing. User adlabens from Instructables has come up with a great tutorial for making your very own horizontal tire swing. This ...

Some Japanese kid used his incredible smarts and made himself a real Pac-Man from a Roomba. 448 LED lights scatter the top surface of the robot, emulating Pac-Man’s movements and chomps. He even included the old-school sound effects too! The vacuum can be controlled via Bluetooth, allowing for an impressive wireless display of gaming. Too bad it probably becomes the ...

Talk about creepy. Apparently, there’s a zoo in Rotterdam that some gorilla named Bokito escaped from. He beat a woman up, officials decided it was because the woman was staring Bokito down and BokitoViewers were born thanks to insurance company FBTO. As you can see, these silly glasses would go well with a Smile Stick. Too bad no one will ...

Nike recently held an art show in Beijing, China to showcase the history of BMX. All the pros and legends turned out for the event, including Bob Haro, Eddie Fiola and Mat Hoffman. With the spotlight the original Haro Lightning Bolts racing plates, artists showed off their customized plates with many paying tribute to the riding style of the past. ...

Kinetic sculptor and artist Theo Jansen has been working on pseudo-living creatures for nearly ten years. Dubbed “Strand Beests,” these gigantic sculptors use the wind to walk along the wet sand of the beach in a most life-like manner. Using plastic electrical-conduit, these creatures are constructed from scratch with passive intelligence built into their motor skills enabling them to avoid ...

Messing with LEGOs is good times, even if you’re 53. That’s why some geek in Germany turned a few 2×2 transparent bricks (of a variety of colors) into high speed Bluetooth adapters. On sale in limited quantity, these bricks are priced at about $50 before shipping and handling. They’ll give you that “I’m an 8-year-old!” look and at the same ...