Aquarium owner shows how he added a sandfall, or sand waterfall

In this very easy but rewarding "hack", a nice acoustic guitar is made to sound like a nasty banjo. The trick? Put a balloon in the hole and blow it up a bit. READ THE REST

Here is the most impractical and beautiful entry so far in the YouTube genre of taking a lump of random old metal and turning it into a kitchen knife. Bismuth (melting point 271.4°C) is melted into a block, sawed into the desired knife shape, carefully re-dipped to coat it in a profusion of crystal forms,… READ THE REST

Good news, Texas! All you need to charge your phone is some aluminum foil, copper wire, charcoal, a charger cable you don't mind cutting, and urine. Sure, if you're squeamish, you can use salt water instead. READ THE REST

Microsoft has Windows. Apple has Mac OS. Between them, they're the operating systems running 92 percent of the computers in the world. And they were created, developed, owned, and sold as proprietary software by those two companies for use on their particular machines. Linux? Linux is the very definition of a free agent. A versatile,… READ THE REST

Not too many years ago, just about every home had a basic printer for handling a variety of household projects from protecting major documents to printing reports or information from the web. More upscale households even had laser printers or photo quality printers for creating high-end images that were virtually indistinguishable from photographs. That's not… READ THE REST

It may all seem like fun, but game developers don't have it easy. In addition to trying to infuse next-level creativity into the hard-and-fast rigors of coding and unforgiving tech, they're also trying to keep an eye on innovations that could change the whole development arena as we know it. It wasn't all that long… READ THE REST