Anyone who’s anyone uses a hipster PDA and jams to an iPod, right? Well, instead of a generic binder clip, use the iPod shuffle clip to keep your goods in order. Go here to read the funny explanation and see the "how it changed my life" video. Great stuff. [via]

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Instructables user Professor Hognutz has created a tutorial on the most terrifying of elementary-school weapons: the lip-balm gun. Never again will you be caught unprotected in the dark of night without something to shoot into your attacker’s eye.

Hognutz writes: This instructable will show you how to construct a less-than-lethal, easily concealed, personal defense weapon. The design’s only drawbacks are that it is a single shot weapon and it has the killing power of a marshmallow dropped from the height of two feet.

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I’ve seen this in a few places and finally got around to posting it. Using little spice tins and super-strong magnets, create a refrigerator or stovetop spice rack. [Stovetop via Craft]

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Make a thermometer and calibrate it using random measurements, then create your own numbers. Then, according to Instructables user Kiteman, Give your scale a name, then take delight in confusing your friends when the conversation inevitably drifts round to the weather; “Boy, it’s hot today!”
“Yeh, it was nearly forty Desmonds when I checked this morning.” [via]

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For those of you who might have missed this on Digg, here’s a real life transforming Optimus Prime that you can print out and build right from your own printer. Not only does Optimus Prime stay true to his transforming abilities, but he’s posable too. Get your Transformer on in preparation for the upcoming movie.
Papercraft Omptimus Prime.

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Lenore from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has come up with a great idea using simple iron-on felt letters. Write one message on a T-shirt, another on a zipper hoodie, and when you wear them together, they say a completely new message! Of course, this would depend on the clothes not shifting so it would say something weird and misspelled, but that could add to the fun.

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I like this idea of a keychain holder made from old USB hubs. To hang your keys, simply plug your thumbdrive into an open port. Go the extra mile and wire it to your computer for the ultimate USB hub/key station. Apparently this is from gerrysart.de, but I couldn’t find it through all the annoying flash (flash: looks pretty, but makes extremely useless websites /end rant). I saw it here first.

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Instead of making your geeky kid (or friend, or lover, or parent) a cake shaped like his or her favorite video game character, go ultra nerd and make a pixellated character (like Link, pictured here) out of many cupcakes. [via]

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This might be my favorite iPod case yet. Turn an original Game Boy into a case and — the best part — use the buttons on the Game Boy to control the iPod. [via]

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It’s time to build up your papercraft army! Readymech has got you covered with plenty of cool free papercraft monsters that mix modern design styles with good old fashioned arts and crafts. These are great for your desk at work, or as random gifts for friends. Each model is downloadable as a PDF and is designed to be printed and assembled from your standard 8.5×11 sheet of tree.

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Using parts from an old floppy disk, make yourself a model of the Starship Enterprise. It’s like 14 levels of nerdy cool … and it’s guaranteed to get you laid. Um. By a trekkie chick, I mean.

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Tom the Geek’s keyboard wasn’t working so well, so instead of coughing up the big bucks for a new laptop keyboard, he spliced in a USB keyboard. It doesn’t completely fit the space, but, as Tom put it, I kinda like the way it makes the laptop look like a Frankenstein or something. [via]

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With this safety-enhancing light system for your bike, you won’t feel so badly about not wearing a helmet. [via]

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Simultaneously disgusting, hysterical and actually quite pretty: fishing lures made into a necklace. [via]

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Add this to the list of things to do with the quickly fading CD: make them into amazing sculptures like artist George Radebaugh does. [via]

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