Here is a great bathroom idea! Standard LEDs have a life of 100,000 hours so these should have no problem lasting till the next renovation.

“Ceramic tile installations are meant to last a long time- We hope that LED’s live as long as their reputation or this bathroom is going to look pretty silly in a couple of years. The idea of marking steps and edges with LED’s is interesting; they could be a great safety feature. Steuler Tile of Germany has introduced a line of ceramics featuring LED’s, primarily for decorative purposes. Available as single LED inserts or continuous strips. We look forward to LED’s becoming part of the fabric of our buildings- when a light source is cool and long-lasting, why not build it into corners, stairs and doorknobs?”

Via: Gizmodo

If you have a few Red LEDs looking for a purpose, this desk lamp looks like a great project. Might be able to do it with a little less regulation but taking the cautious road never hurts.

“Need a red lamp to provide soft red illumination around the telescope? Described here is an easy way to do this. Take a commonly available desklamp and convert it to LED’s. This is a single evening project, taking just a few hours to accomplish once the parts have been obtained.

I have found the resulting light extremely useful when observing. No more holding the flashlight in your mouth when reading charts or making observing notes.

Because the light can light up a whole area when turned fully on it can be used as a worklight when breaking down gear and packing it into the vehicle without bothering other observers at a dark observing site. Or build the 120V version for a personal observatory.”

Via: Make

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Interesting mod, this makes an old laptop into a pong clock. It works in same way the wall hanging pong clock worked.

Via: TechEBlog

This RC Helicopter is so smooth, the design is also quite unique.

“The Proxflyer Mosquito Twin-tail has 4 ch. control and is operated just as a normal
helicopter, yaw, pitch and roll and it can fly sideways due to the two tail propellers.
It is still absolutely stable and easy to fly. The Proxflyer Mosquito Twin-tail is a
prototype and it is not for sale.”

Stick some playing cards in the spokes and ride off into the sunset with one of these bikes!

“These chopper bikes would definitely make you shun your Harley; if all that you are craving for is something out of the planet. The image gallery gives you an awesome tour of the bikes designed to kill. The chopper bikes certainly scores much above their motorized companions, not only because of the inimitable looks, but also because of the freedom of maneuverability they offer, coupled with extra comfort and pride.”

Via: Gizmowatch

Quite amaizing what some number crunching can do. This device would be easy to market to some of the large casinos where bigger is better.

“Some clever fellas at Akishima Laboratories, in Japan, have come up with a way to “draw” words and pictures on the surface of water, using an enclosure surrounded by 50 wave generators. The image is created by water pixels formed from the simultaneous intersection of all those waves. As you can imagine, a powerful computer is needed to perform the complex Bessel Function calculations involved in creating this effect.

Each letter or drawing remains in the water for a short while only, then fades away, but the machine can reproduce the same image every three seconds.

Of course, at this point, this setup isn’t much more than a proof of concept, and it might take quite some time before it makes it out into the marketplace, if ever. However, we think that this would be a very popular pool accessory, albeit a presumably expensalicious one.”

Via: OhGizmo

After you have made the Make Magazine version of the Hamster-Powered Generator you can scale things up a bit and power some larger items. This would be a great prank for Candid Camera, have an apartment set up with this wheel and have temps come in to power the apartment with it. I could just imagine the apartment owner sitting on the couch watching TV with the wheel spinning in the background. When the apartment owner wants to cook a meal the temp would have to run faster… Check out more pictures of this crazy contraption here.

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