Light show: If your interests include DIY electronics, blinding people and causing fires, pay attention to this video from Kipkay. Using an LED Mini Maglite ($28) and the laser diode from a DVD-R drive ($50) you can build a poor man’s Light Saber that can pop a balloon or light a match, just by touching it with the laser beam. Dangerous? You bet. Illegal? Probably. Get you arrested? No doubt. Fun? Incredibly. Set the night on fire at www.kipkay.com.
Loud and dumb: People laugh at stupid things. If they didn’t, Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell would be working at Home Depot, and America’s Funniest Home Videos would be eclipsed in the ratings by Masterpiece Theatre. Some guys on the Internet mount giant train horns on their car and drive around scaring the bejeezus out of people with a hearing-loss-inducing 115 decibel blast from an air horn, getting a real kick out of it as they go. You might too at www.hornblasters.com.
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