Who woulda thunk it?

The following:

• Drill with 1/4-inch bit
• Screwdriver
• Wrench

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Complex DIY Project: As DIY-er Tom Igoe writes: “I have a lot of anxiety about email. Every kilobyte in my Inbox destroys another minute of my life, but I can’t stop checking it. So I decided to embody my anxiety in a device that would worry about my incoming mail for me.” In short, this DIY Email Clock counts down the kilobytes of email you’ve received, putting an unorthodox counter on your procrastination. Read more

Check it out: mimicking the classic wooden setup, but in the words of Boing Boing, “this one has a working safety and is far prettier. (And heavier!)”

Here’s some family-friendly tech that doesn’t come off as boring. Kudos to Verizon for finding a natural way to advertise their FiOS service—even if they sneaked in the hard-sell from time to time.

The concept is simple: hook up a computer to the internet. Hook up lots of monitors to said computer. Set-up Windows to display photos it pulls from whichever online photo feeds you specify. The kicker is that, as new photos are added to these online streams, they show up on the so-called “memory wall”.

Less simple is how to do this. The instructions are clear enough, but we imagine it will take some master carpentry and patience to make this work. Well worth the effort though.

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Perverts, check out this camera designed for surveillance purposes.

Now that’s out of the way, abstract photography connoisseurs may be interested in this strip camera DIY. It’s hard to see the appeal of distorted sports photography, but then again, artists are never understood in their own time! Read more