Painted some aluminum cans black, make some holes in the cans, put them in a box & you got for yourself a solar panel. Here is the guide to how to build a solar panel using soda cans.
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Candy Lips.
Truly Amazing!
Periscope Photos.
Mona Lisa Drawn In Ms Paint.
Doesn't Look Like The Picture On The Menu!
Here is a video from Metacafe for boosting your wifi signal with a soda can. We haven't tried it, just in case if you try do leave a comment how it worked out.
(via Makezine.)
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Eye Test Ads.
Circuit Box Art.
Interesting Door Mats.
Creative Business Cards.
Print Ads Using Illusions.
People have been modifying their bodies in various ways for ages now. These mods can be permanent or semi-permanent but are deliberately done to alter the human body for various reasons. And at times just to push their body to the limits. 
Source: 1, 2, 3 & 4.
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Eggshell Art.
Most Beautiful Islands.
Berlin Festival Of Lights.
Things People Write On Dollar Bills.
Have you ever thought or wondered that a regular flash light can be turned into a laser? Here is the video, check it out!
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Face Painting.
Funny Signboards.
Artistic Water Tanks.
Miniature Motorcycles.
How To Hide A Airplane Factory.
What if only your imagination limited what you could see outside your windows? Thinking of this, Ryan Hoagland came up with the idea of creating a 'virtual window'. The Virtual Windows above consists of eight 15" LCD panels connected via custom-built cables to two nVidia Quadro NVS 400 PCI video cards, each with four DVI outputs. The LCD backlight inverters are driven by their own power supply (sitting on top of the PC) and the panels get their 3.3v power from the PC's ATX power supply. The total desktop resolution is 3072x2048. A small Visual Basic app cycles pre-cut images every 15 minutes & Windows manages the arrangement. The only reason the cables are visible is because the fireplace is in the way and that wall isn't due to be remodeled for quite a while. How to go about it?
Step 1: Proof of concept.
Step 2: Power for backlight inverter.
Step 3:Custom video cables.
Step 4: Four panels in a prototype configuration.
Step 5: Build the window frames.
Step 6: Install them on the wall.
Cool isn't!
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Dog That Can Paint.
Elevator Floor Illusion.
Interesting Pencil Sculptures.
Pierre Cardin's 'Maison Bulle'.
Make a $100 super bright flashlight for less than $10. Easy to do! See the test results:
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Optical Illusion With Trucks.
Porcelain Sculptures By Guy Micheal Davis.
Here are some of the beer coolers. Which one would you opt for..
The Jet Powered Beer Cooler.
The Peltier Beer.
Igloo 12 Quart cooler Beer Cooler.
Source: 1, 2 & 3.
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Art With Beer Cans.
World Leaders (Youth Pictures).
World's Biggest Railway Model.
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So tired of using the charcoal barbecue! Here is something that you are going to love & may be who knows; you may even want to give it a try - USB BBQ. Its done using 6 USB extended cards of 5 ports with the total 30 ports to power up this small office BBQ.
6 USB extended cards of 5 ports .
As for the motherboard its 648 Max-F of MSI & power source is the 500W type of Antec.
And here is the USB extended card.
The USB extended card is attached in the motherboard.
When you see from rear, 30 USB connectors lined up gives a magnificent view.
"The individual USB cable and cement resistance are connected. As for cement resistance with 10W as for the electric power consumption per 1 here 12.5W. They are some over specifications, but it probably is inside the scope of supply."
Silicon grease is used to stick cement resistance with the metal plate & its done.
This is ready to be tested & time to power up the system. Piece of meat is placed on the plate of the USB cup warmer.
See the meat getting done.
What more do we need now, we got a USB BBQ right in our office!
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Spud: is the name for the world's lowest power consuming web server that runs on raw potato power. Yes you got it right; it uses 5 - 6 potatoes & serves around 0.2 second which makes the server very, very slow making it difficult for connecting.
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Html Code Used for Drawing!
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In this present technological evolution new systems keep coming. If technology doesn't get them, then aging does its role. But ultimately you need to remove your old system.
Here are some uses which you many give a try if you think they are worth it & this way it may also help the environment.
One can make a coffee maker out it.
Broken mouse? 
Keyboard got a new use.
A great use of a monitor.
Last but not the least, you have a barbecue. 
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Here is something for those who feel lonely online. A cool bikini mod case. Here is a series of pictures showing step-by-step construction of this mod case & how it's built by Katsuya Matsumura. Though it is not exactly a company one is looking for but still it's comforting. On a second thought, who needs a company once you are on Net?
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Personal Keyless Entry System
Here is an effective yet simple keyless process for converting a regular apartment intercom into a personal keyless entry system. This will be a great as many shared apartment buildings have a common door for letting the residents to allow visitors inside.
"My apartment building, of course, uses an intercom system to remotely unlock the front door for guests, deliveries, etc. This keychain upgrade gets me in the front door... keylessly.
This panel has a "Door", "Talk" and "Listen" button. The "Door" button is normally-open and the circuit is about 22V. In the following steps we're going to effectively bypass the button with our own circuit."
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A Russian blogger has made an incredible yet simple camera just by using two matchboxes and a tin beer can. Yet the performance is not less than any other pinhole camera which can be made out from the sample images taken by this camera. 
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Mark Erikson from Infinite solutions shows how you can easily boost your wireless signals using a few common items like Wi-Fi enabled computer, cell phone, ethernet cable etc. For doing this, one needs to wrap an ethernet cord around the cell phone and then plug it into the network port. And if you are using a 3G cellular phone, then think its done. Using an aluminum foil they made a make shift satellite dish which will help to boost the signals further. Though this goes against everything we know of computers, it's hard to decipher how it boosts the wireless signal. Wonder if it's true or not.
How about cooking an egg using a cell phone? Yes its very much possible. "In an experiment, researchers placed one egg in a porcelain cup (because it is easy to conduct heat), and put one cell phone on one side and another cell phone on the other. The researchers then called from one cell phone to another and kept the cell phones on after connecting. 
During the first 15 minutes, nothing changed. After 25 minutes, however, the eggshell started to become hot and at 40 minutes, the surface of the egg became hard and bristled. Researchers found the protein in the egg had become solid although the egg yolk was still in liquid form. After 65 minutes, the whole egg was well cooked."
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Increase your wireless router signal strength with just a few, & easy to find materials such as cardboard, glue and wire mesh.
Though it doesn't look too great but if it works (and we assume it does) then your need for a signal boost & expensive add-on antennas will be taken care off. Any way we are here for its utility & not its looks. It's worthy of a try.
If you aren't interested to spend a couple of hundred dollars for an external cell phone antenna then this is a must for you. Robert had made an ultra-cheap external cell phone antenna from coax cable and a h?nger which had worked for him.
You'll need the following materials:
* A wire pants h?nger
* A length of coax cable (2' should do)
* A plug that fits into your phone's external antenna jack on your phone.
You'll need the following tools:
* A cutting tool for cutting the h?nger wire
* A drill for the cardboard portion of the h?nger
* A ruler with 1/16" increments
* A soldering iron and solder
* A pen / pencil
Construction
# Disassemble the h?nger.
The wire will be used for the antenna elements and the cardboard tube will be used mount the elements.
# Cut the following lengths of wire (except the DE at this time) and label them:
* R = 3 1/8"
* DE = 2 7/8" (remember, don't cut this one yet)
* D1= 2 13/16"
* D2 = 2 3/4"
* D3 = 2 3/4"
* D4 = 2 11/16"
* D5 = 2 5/8"
* D6 = 2 5/8"
* D7 = 2 9/16"
The piece DE (aka Driven Element for you Antenna designers out there) is going to be"J" shaped. The length of the top half will be 2 7/8" and the bottom half will be 1 7/16" and the distance between the top and bottom will be 1/2".
# Mark the cardboard tube:
Along each side of the cardboard tube, draw two lines running the length of the cardboard tube. Make them roughly opposite ends of the tube from each other. The spacing isn't critical, this will just help make the elements come out in a parallel plane.
Mark the following spots from one end of the cardboard tube on each of the lines drawn previously.
* R = 1/2 "
* DE = 1 11/16"
* D1 = 2 7/16"
* D2 = 3 3/8"
* D3 = 5"
* D4 = 6 11/16"
* D5 = 9 3/16"
* D6 = 11 11/16"
* D7 = 14 5/16"
# Drill holes in the cardboard tube.
At each of the marks on both sides of the cardboard tube. The tube is hollow, so be careful to go through only one side at a time.
# Insert the elements into their respective holes.
# Prepare the coax cable.
There are usually five layers to coax cables. The outer plastic cover, a braided set of wires. Under the braided wires is a tin-foil thick covering of metal. This covers a thick plastic section with a thick copper wire in the center. If you are using a spare cable with coax connectors on both ends, cut one end off.
Carefully cut away the outer plastic cover about 3/4" from the end of the coax of an end of the coax cable with no connector.
Separate the wires that are showing and gather them on one side. Unwrap the metal and gather it with the separated wires and twist the whole thing together.
Cut through the thick plastic center being careful not to cut the center wire.
# Attach the coax cable to the cardboard tube. Put the end you just prepared near the DE element and tape it in place. This will help with soldering.
# Solder the coax to the driven element. Just put one at the center of the top and the other just below it.
# Attach the coax cable to the phone
If you didn't buy a plug, you will want to fabricate a plug of some sort. If you're lucky, you have a phone where it's obvious where the leads go, but some have a plug with multiple leads and you would have to do some research to find which ones to use.
Tuning
This is a directional antenna, so you'll have to figure out which direction works best. If you're not sure, pick a random direction and wait 10-15 seconds to see if a better signal is registered. Generally a phone may take about 30-45 seconds to get to 4 bars. If you don't see any results, turn 45 degrees and wait again. Odds are, you should be able to figure out the optimal direction in just a couple minutes.
Wine Refrigerators are very expensive & when you a solution for it then why waste your money when you can convert your mini-fridge into a perfectly functioning make shift wine refrigerator.
