DIY Experiments Edit
The Top 19 Things You Can Make (SUPER GALLERY)

Sites like Makezine and Craftster are driving new energy into the hobby of DIY experiments and stuff you can build.  The following represents the most viral DIY stuff collected by Trend Hunters from around the globe. Enjoy the list, and have fun!

Custom Stuff That Glows and Burns

Make Your Own Glowing Mountain Dew (VIDEO)

This video shows you how to make your Mountain Dew glow with peroxide, baking soda and a little dedication.  Pretty cool. Trend Hunter has featured a number of experiments from sites like Craftster and Makezine which enable members to showcase their homemade DIY experiments. [More]

DIY Vodka Lamp - Fun With Empties (GALLERY)

This is a very easy way to make all your vodka (or any other booze bottle to light up). This DIY project is done in just 5 easy steps. All you need is a bottle, any LED push light, a cutter, and clusters (the more you use, the brighter it gets). [More]

Ice Bulbs - More Fun with LED Lights (VIDEO)

Over the last year, there has been a major increase in the number of projects being submitted to DIY communities like instructables.  We’ve featured a number of these interesting projects, and Ice Bulbs should be no exception.  An Ice Bulb is basically a ball of ice with a LED light in it, but the e… [More]

Fire Starting Flashlight (VIDEO)

Nope, it’s not a laser.  This is a 12v flashlight bulb which has been ‘overdriven’ to create 4000 lumens of light.  That’s enough to start things on fire.  The project is from Makezine, so maybe you can make your own.  Side note: I’m sure this isn’t dangerous at all… [More]

DIY Jacket Cuff Lights

Clearly these jacket cuff lights are something you need.  You can’t find them in stores because apparently there hasn’t been enough demand for stores like The Gap to integrate the lights into their clothing.  However, you can send $20 to the inventor and he’ll install the lights for you.  Bizarre. [More]

Stuff You Didn’t Think You Could Make

Download and Make Your Own Paper Pinhole Camera

Here’s another paper camera like the one we featured earlier in the week…  Only this one you can print!  Visit the site, download the PDF and assemble your very own paper pinhole camera.  Score. How does it work? “A pinhole is a camera that uses a very small hole, as if made by a pin instead o… [More]

Build Your Own Solar Panel Out of Pop Cans

If you like creating your own stuff and saving the world, you can now combine both your hobbies into one.  This do it yourself enthusiast build his own solar panel using painted aluminum pop cans.  Stylin.  In short, Daniel Strohl is a DIY enthusiest and he wanted to find a way to warm his south f… [More]

DIY Car - Order This Kit and Build this Car (GALLERY)

Mitsuoka Motor from Japan introduces a new toy for DIY enthusiast. Say good-bye to boring old battery powered Tamiya toy cars, the Mitsuoka K-1 Kit car can be taken for a drive on the public road after registration, so get your tools ready and start assembling! [More]

DIY Solar Powered Electric Car (VIDEO)

If you’re looking for a weekend DIY project, why not a solar powered electric car? It gets good mileage - infinity miles per gallon! A group of high school students helped build it. They weren’t happy with the exterior design, so they (ironically) tweaked it to look like a Hummer. [More]

Make Your Own Alcohol - Home Tabletop Distillation Unit

I am sure this gadget will be a dream come true for the many handymen that always had the dream of being able to distill alcohol at home without the worries of cooking pots, buckets or other utensils laying around the attic, the garage or the basement. With this brand new distilling unit making alc… [More]

Custom Media

Turn Blue - Make Your Own Blueman Show (VIDEO)

The instruments designed by the BLUEMAN Group is out now. You can now mix and fade music, play the drums and keyboard, or jam along with your favorite music on your own like the BLUEMAN Group.  Motion sensitive tubes on the instruments enable mixing, percussion, tempo change and volume control! Jus… [More]

Make Your Own Commercial Contests Still Successful - Add Heinz to the List (VIDEO)

Everyone seems to be launching “make-your-own-commercial” contests, but the latest edition by Heinz has drawn in the most contestants. Malibu Caribbean Rum only had 270 entries (only 84 hit YouTube) and the Doritos Super Bowl ad contest received about 1,000. Other similar contests were held by Pepsi… [More]

Custom Furniture and Decorations

Customizable Lampshades - Changing The Mood

These neat hanging and floor lamps allow you to change the appearance of their shades. If you’re tired of the same old look in the living room and are ready to set a different mood, try the UnderCover concept by Philip Bro Ludvigsen of LE KLINT. These shades can help transform your living room from … [More]

DIY Furniture - Carpenter Block Designs (GALLERY)

Designing furniture isn’t for everyone, but often you think, “wouldn’t it be nice if I could change this sofa just a little bit to make it fit better or more comfy”. Well, with Remo from SOZ you can. The Japanese furniture designers SOZ came up with a new range, Re:mo. The furniture is based on a mi… [More]

Rasterbator - Print your own posters.

I rasterbate a lot. And you should, too! It’s good for you and it won’t make you blind, either… Here’s what it says on the website: “The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. Upload an image, print the resulting multi-page pdf file and assemble the pages into extremely coo… [More]

DIY Fashion and Beauty

Print Your Own Bikini - Digitally Printed Ready-to-Wear Apparel

First2Print has developed fabric printing technology that enables designers to ‘print’ their clothing or swimwear directly from their designs.  Designer Armondo Barboza commented, “We are taking original painted artwork and turning it into beautiful textile designs.”… [More]

3D Object Printers - Print Your Own Jewelry

3D printers let you ‘print’ objects, typically out of plastic.  They are being widely adopted by engineering firms.  How much longer until they are in our homes? “The InVision HR 3-D printer from 3D Systems enables jewelry manufacturers to print fine-feature, highly detailed parts in a day.” (Giz M… [More]

Make Your Own Perfume with LE LABO Olfatory Kit

Feel like an excentric perfume designer with your own ikfactory kit.  Popularity of this will no doubt be propelled by the new movie Perfume,  the Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind. With this “Olfactionary” kit made by Le Labo The Olfactionary is a collection of forty 2.5 mL bottles, each fille… [More]

Make Your Own Shoes From Scratch

Mary Wales Loomis decided to hack apart a pair of shoes to find out how they were made. To her surprise the construction seemed very straightforward and simple and from that day forward Mary started making her own shoes from scratch.  She has created a website to share her wealth of information so t… [More]