50-Year-Old Basement Organ is Real-esizer, Not Synthesizer

You’ve got to admire the passion of this guy who put a whole special effects organ in his basement some 50 or so years ago. It reminds us a lot of the recent Absolut Machine. Leon Berry’s music organ earned itself the nickname “Beast...


Robot Shopping Cart Cruises Streets, Bursts into Flames

Why the hell is a dismembered pair of legs walking around willy nilly with a shopping cart? I’ll tell you why…To draw awareness to homeless people, and the cutthroat world of cart-pushing. It was designed in 1993 by a college student who t...


Motorbike to Electric Motorbike

There’s a new Instructables page up that shows you how to mod your regular motorbike into an eco-warrior electric cycle. You’ll be able to hit a top speed of 70mph after shelling out $3000 to complete the project. Thankfully, you’ll ...


Brain Machine Sunglasses Are Psychedelic, Hallucinatory, Fabulous

Here’s a brain machine made from an old pair of shades with customized lenses by Okini393939. Stick ‘em on and you have an instant meditation session thanks to the flashing lights and sound. I particularly like the instructions he put on t...


Cheap, Homemade MRI Does a Better Job Imaging Lungs Than the Real Thing

Are you one of the millions of Americans living without health insurance? If so, then you know how expensive hospital visits are, especially for fancy tests like MRIs. But hey, don’t worry. If you need an MRI, you can always just use this makesh...


DIY Wii Wheel Leaves Little to be Desired

Why fork over more money to Nintendo for a second Mario Kart Wii Wheel when you can just make one yourself? Sound difficult? It’s not, as long as you know how to tape a controller to a sauce pot lid. For some reason we didn’t spot a simila...


DIY Pocket Theremin Out-Classes Beamz with a Wave of Your Hand

Forget the crapness of the Beamz laser-harp music thing with a real touchless music system: the Theremin. The guys at Popsci have a MAKE-style DIY project online that shows you how to build a pocket-sized version of the classic device. Since it uses a...