The Houdini Automotive Escape Tool and Houdini Pro Emergency Rescue tool are designed to safely extract people who are trapped in vehicles. The Automotive Escape Tool is designed with the DIY escape in mind, it features a safety whistle, LED light, spring loaded glass punch and a seatbelt cutter, and is compact enough to fit on a keyring. The Houdini Pro has the same stuff but with professional specifications aimed at firefighters, police and fantasists alike.

The Houdini Automotive Escape Tool and the Houdini Pro Emergency Rescue Tool will cost $24.95 and $39.95, respectively. [ via Gear Diary]

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I have seen a lot of crazy experiments in my time, but this one has to take the cake. Theo Gray over at Pop Sci managed to make himself a glass ornament on a charcoal grill. By adding washing soda, lime or borax to silica beach sand, it is possible to reduce the temperature required to make glass from 3,000-3,500°F to a still toasty and very dangerous 2,000°F. He manages to attain this temperature using a vacuum cleaner and a Weber grill and produces a small glass ornament for his troubles.

He adds the disclaimer, which is worth noting, that pushing a grill beyond its intended temperature range is very dangerous (the video is proof enough of this). Video after the jump. (more…)

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This DIY coffee table takes its inspiration from a global graffiti trend in as much as it does from the game. The table makes use of handmade Mexican Talavera tiles to give the pixellated space invaders a less-precise, handmade touch.

According to Sean Ragan, who created the table:

These (handmade Mexican Talavera) tiles, like most handmade artifacts, are imprecise and show significant natural lumpiness and variation. The depiction of the precise, orderly, pixellated image of the space invader sprite would be boring if executed in precisely manufactured injection-molded bathroom tiles from the big orange store. The slightly uneven tile heights and lightly meandering grout lines lend a warmth to the image which would otherwise be lacking.

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Some things really are so simple that they should be tried. The picture above is a bottle opener in the African nation of Togo. Apart from the beaded handle it is just a stick and a screw and makes me feel kinda stupid for all of the dumbass alternatives that I have tried when there have been no bottle openers in the house. [Afrigadget via MAKE]

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The Mavrinac website provides full instructions as to how you too can turn your broken SNES into an oversized digital clock. Sure, there might not be any actual reason to do this, but it does provide a great place to showcase one’s skills, and an extremely geeky objet d’art for the game room.

Video after the jump. (more…)

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