Activity Corner

• Caffeine: A User's Guide to Getting Optimally Wired


• We're all familiar with pictures of optical illusions. But knitting them? How to Illusion Knit.


• You know how you can rub the rim of a glass to make sound? Check out the crazy mad skills of this guy.


• Rejected Valentine's Day card from Shoebox Greetings: Funny, but no.


• Apparently, when you can't afford the real thing, you get a wishlist necklace.


• Teaching Chinese children English is harder than you might think, especially if you use these word blocks.


• Dominoes plus pool equals, well, domino pool.


• It's one thing to have a large projection screen system for your neighbors to be jealous of. It's another thing to take it to another level and have one they can actually watch. Backyard Drive-In.


• Close encounters of the desktop kind.


• Christopher Conte's amazing biomechanical sculptures.


• Love to play Xbox, but tired of your thumbs doing all the work while your other fingers just hang out, doing almost nothing? Then you'll want to check out Head in the Game controllers.


• Tired of forgetting to charge your MP3 player? Or are you just a tree-hugger? Either way, you might like this hand-charged MP3/video player. It also has a flashlight and can be an emergency charger for your cellphone!


• While we're talking eco-friendly, now you can kill bugs with sunlight! It's the solar-powered bug zapper.


• Do you like hot dogs? Do you like eggs? Do you like popcorn? Then you'll love the 4-in-1 Hotdog Maker!


• This has been all over the internet, but I have to put it here in case you haven't seen the "Room in a Box". Here's the video and the product page.


• The translation from Dutch is a little painful, but it's worth it to see the amazing Stirling machines powered by candles.


• Check out these amazing lamps made from everyday objects: Lamponi's Lamps.


• If you've opened a bottle of wine but don't want to wait for all that fancy "breathing" to get your buzz on, then you need the SpinWine decanter.


• Everyone knows about Star Trek's medical hypospray device. Now a company has developed a laser epidermal drug delivery system called P.L.E.A.S.E. Can the transporter be far behind now?


• Bagpipes without bagpipes.