Utilizing freestyle footballers, a hacking experiment features wall-mounted Guitar Hero controls placed in front of a three-story screen. Soccer balls kicked at the life-size panels provide the physical interface for the game within the game.

Nerdcore points us to a new kit for aspiring chef-scientists looking to try their hand at molecular gastronomy.

Challenging the notion that Christmas gift-giving has to be about spending lots of money, and buying the latest hot item, Folksy and Sue Ryder Careare running a competition called Upcycle Christmas.

GOOD magazine has spent this month posting selections from their first ever GOOD 100 (or so) issue, publishing a new entry every day from their collection of the most inspirational ideas, projects, people, and movements making the world better.

Matchstick Garden is an interesting easy to use gardening solution that could help anyone grow a patch of vegetables with minimal effort.

The Mandalah team down in Sao Paulo has created some interesting handmade tickets for next week’s Good Ideas in Collaboration Salon.

In Sweden, one company has created T-post, which claims to be “the world’s first wearable magazine”.

One Laptop Per Child has developed a nice solution to power their devices in areas without electricity.

Manzine is a quirky, DIY take on the glossy male-focused publication.

DIY music community newspaper SHOWPAPER is collaborating with Urban Green Initiative on “Scene & Captured” an art show that “explores waste solutions for the music scene”.

Architect Emily Fischer has created a series of quilts that map out cities and neighborhoods.

DIY inventors in Africa have developed innovative solutions to practical problems with old plastic containers.

Designed to investigate the relationships between ‘making’, ‘clothing’ and ‘living’; Natalie Purschwitz has set out to hand craft every item in her wardrobe for one whole year, including all undergarments, socks, shoes and accessories.

Welsh product designer Chris Chapman has created this fun and relatively hassle free solution to the home vege patch.

Genius sound designer Diego Stocco has come up with yet another innovative project.