The World Famous Design Junkies have recently stumbled upon a great little upcycling hack. They noticed a number of people re-using the plastic from old credit cards as guitar picks. While many of these DIY tools are hand cut, a company named PickPunch has developed a handheld punching device that makes the shaping process very easy.
[via Trend Hunter]

Zoybar is an open musical instrument development platform, implementing some very innovative ideas that are usually thrown around only in the realm of software development. The instrument’s components can be swapped in and out, and a standardized structure means newly-developed components can be easily integrated with existing designs. Explains the Zoybar site:
Think of the Zoybar platform as a hardware version that might be similar to the Firefox browser concept. Independent developers could create new add-ons and plugins (sound effects) that will become relevant to the whole Zoybar users and community. Almost any application can be easily attached to the Zoybar [...]