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This week, Windell Oskay of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories joins me to teach you how to make a super clever little circuit called the Joule Thief! The Joule Thief allows you to squeeze the life out of what most people think of as "dead"...

A man by the name of PlasmaBoy creates insanely quick electric vehicles that are capable of annihilating suped up muscle cars using lithium instead of gasoline. His latest creation, White Zombie, holds several world speed records. The video above...

After fatally injuring his middle finger in an epic guitar hero battle, this hacker decided to build new, custom midi controllers for the game.  Included are a midi keyboard and drum set which work both on rock band and guitar hero. View the...

Siftables is the latest example of a Tangible User Interface (TUI), an emerging technology that aims to use physical objects as interface for computing needs.  Siftables, however, differ from traditional models with the addition of a sensor...

Using nothing but a few threads and a projector, you can create what’s called a wiremap which is a 3d visualization of light. For such a simple setup, the results are downright fantastic.  The video above is just a small sample of what the...

The title says it all!  Got squirrels and hooligans running around your yard? Take them out with this remote controlled airsoft gun. It can rotate on all axis and has a rapid rate of fire for maximum damage. View the Full...

Odds are you have a pile of dead hard drives lying around. Utilizing the RPM of the hard drive platter, you can create a grinder or even a sander out of a bad drive. Basically, crack it open, glue on a sanding disc (or grinding disc) , and plug...

Like most people, we’re huge fans of home automation.  We’ve even covered quite a few ways people have used Twitter to automate your home.  This time, however, we’ll be automating our homes by managing SmartHome’s X10 home automation...

By simply analyzing a picture of each side of the cube, the iPhone application “CubeCheater” will walk you through solving the cube’s puzzle.  Of course, it takes the fun out of the legendary cube but the ingeinuity of the app is...

Here’s another fantastic tutorial from Jay, our DIY lasers expert. See all of our DIY laser projects! In this project, I’ll show you how to create your own super powerful Blu-Ray Star Trek Phaser using a 1994 Classic Star Trek...