These paper toys are cute, they are the character from Marvel Comic, but more on X-men. I’m not good at folding these, but maybe I can try them someday. Anyway, you can download them at harlancore for free, print it out yourself and start folding one. From the left, we got the Spiderman, Cyclops, Wolverine, Magneto and Professor X, all sticking their tongues out There are more characters such as Storm, Beast etc. Read more…

You fixed an Alpine, Sony, Pioneer or whatever branded player in your car and you start worry when you park outside your house or the mall that someone may break in and steal it away. It happens often, that’s why some people choose to use CD changer. There are many ways to prevent it from stolen, first ~ the new player now most comes with detachable panel, make a good habit of taking it out before you leave your car. Second way ~ in case you don’t have a detachable panel maybe like the double-din type, that case you can fixed a little bit inner that cover it with the original cover (if you still keep it) when you leave your car. Also, for those who have amp always fixed it at a hidden place especially car with visible car boot like van. At last, fixed a fake cassette player faceplate like the above, you can get the instructions of making at Instructables.

There’s a way to build your own Google Image search. Take a look at this example, with the city of Stockholm. Screen shot at Google at cut it out. Isn’t that creative? One more shot after the break. Read more…

Wearing a sunglasses doesn’t help to cover your face from paparazzi. But this does help, the anti-paparazzi glasses. It has two infrared LEDs fixed on the frames and the cables run to the earpieces and they were powered by two button batteries. When you put on these glasses, they press against the batteries making those two lights glow. It is undetected to human eye but bright enough to distort your face for security / paparazzi cameras. Video embed not available, click here to watch the video.

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Do you collect those useless phone cards, credit cards, gift card or whatever plastic? Do throw them away, they can be use to make guitar picks. Other materials like cardboard, “Handi Snacks” stick, CD, Toshiba laptop, and plastic packaging can be use too. Just use a marker pen and draw the pick shape on the card and card it with scissor, piece of cake. Read more…

Gakken Japan is offering the Personal windmill kit which provides you all the thing to make your own windmill. It can be fitted on top of a plastic bottle to prevent falling from a strong wind. It does not need any battery and it even has an LED which will lights up when the windmill in motion. The DIY Windmill is available only in Japan at the price of ¥2300 ($22). More pictures after the jump. Read more…

iPod Touch Mod blog has come out with a homemade mic dongle for VoIP with the preamp that neatly fits into the dock connector. It is small and black colored and does voice input on your Touch. Check out more after the jump. Read more…

JVC-Victor has released a DIY speaker set called the SX-WD1KT Wood Cone Speaker Kit. Everything thing will come in pieces so you will need to fix them up by yourself. Parts include solid cherry cabinets, 8.5cm wood cone speakers, damping material, and bass ports. The JVC SX-WD1KT Wood Cone Speaker Kit is available for $369.

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iPhone is pretty fragile so try not to drop. If you got a crack screen then you need to draw $250 from your wallet to get a new one from Apple. But there’s a cheaper way to replace the screen and that’s by a sheet of 1/32-inch thick plastic, the whole thing will cost you only $5. Get a piece of that plastic, a razor blade, Goo Gone (sticky lifter tool), scissors and glasses for eye protection, now scrap of the broken glass with the glue then you will see those sticky glue on it so remove those glue using the Goo Gone. After that, measures and cut the plastic and rounded the corners. Color the part that is supposed to be black with either paint or marker. And finally you got your iPhone back. It’s a pretty hard work but you’ve work for $245. It’s done by SomethingAwful forum member named Epic Proportions. More images after the jump. Read more…

This is one thing good about slim phone. Take a look at this one, the Motorola SLVR, it is encased in an old NES controller. People might just laugh at you when you answer call in town, just be sure you show them that it’s a phone. I think it’s easy to make one, just not sure where can you get this old NES controller.

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