All you need is a pen, some scissors and access to a sewing machine. No fancy stitches either, nice and simple. Check out the two page, easy to follow tutorial.

http://www.ecouterre.com/recycle-an-old-t-shirt-into-a-produce-grocery-bag-diy-tutorial/

Images from www.ecouterre.com

That’s great, I hear you say, but what is it? It’s multipurpose! You can use it when giving wine as a gift, you can use it to carry your wine when you head out to dinner, but you can also utilise the used wine bottle to create a one-of-a-kind energy efficient desk lamp! AND Re-Wine’s innovative design allows the case to interlock with each other to create a wine rack!

http://www.miniwiz.com/en/products/food-a-beverage/re-wine

Images from inhabitat.com and livbit.com.

Simply snap a photo of someone in profile with an iPhone or Android device and the app will recognise the profile. It then uses data derived from the image so that the user can create a custom object based on it from existing designs.

Download the app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad with iOS 5.0 or later, go through the selection of customisable objects, which includes the personal Pixel Cup, Profile Vase, Ego-Datamug and customised iPhone case. Users can also adjust all aspects of the object’s design, including size, dimensions, colour and material. Designs can be saved and shared on Facebook or Twitter too. How will you print your face?!

http://www.sculpteo.com/en/app/

For those of you who need help from your friends to stay focussed on your goals, this could be just the thing! Check it out. (Text and images below from Aherk.com)

Aherk! helps you achieve your goals by putting some pressure on you.

Aherk! is a goal-oriented self-blackmailing service in three easy steps:

Step 1: Define a goal.
Tell us what you want to achieve and set a deadline.

Step 2: Put your ass on the line.
Upload a compromising picture that will be posted to Facebook in case you fail to achieve your goal.

Step 3: Your friends decide.
After your deadline expires, your Facebook friends will tell us if you achieved your goal or not.

Tee hee, simple!

Yes! Believe it or not people ARE starting to think outside the box or in this case inside it!

After a few single stores across the world used shipping containers, the idea then morphed and moved to London with the opening of Boxpark Shoreditch, London’s first pop-up shopping mall made completely from shipping containers.

Boxpark Shoreditch - Image Ravi Sidhu

It then appeared as a brilliant idea to help a city move forward after the Christchurch earthquake as part of the City Mall Re:START project, with 27 stores in brightly coloured boxes.

Cashel Mall - Image NZ Raw

Cashel Mall - Image NZ Raw

Not only are these type of malls cheaper to put together, they can also utilise thin and strangely shaped pieces of land. In the case of Christchurch, it meant that businesses and the city could move towards getting “back to normal” without waiting for lengthy construction. They also get increased traffic from tourists curious to see how it’s all done.

Architectural firm LOT-EK in the US is now also putting plans together for a 9 story shipping container mall on the corner of 42^nd Street and 5^th Avenue, New York!

Artists impression of the proposed LOT-EK Shipping Container Mall NYC

The smart thinkers over at boxplayforkids.com have come up with an ingenious way to utilise household recycling like cereal boxes and egg cartons, by turning them into everything from a choo-choo-train to a turtle!

All of the stickers are eco-friendly, 100% recycled so it’s not only fun for the kids, it’s good for the planet too.

As you arrive, each person places their phone face down in the center of the table. A stack looks great! As the meal goes on, the phones will ring and buzz but you have to resist the urge to pick them up.

The first person to cave in to a beep or a buzz from their phone picks up the bill for the whole table!

A 20 yr old from California, Stephanie, is getting the credit.

Do you dare give it a try?

Called The Obliteration Room, you can see how it got it’s name. What a delight for the eyes. It amazes me that it looks so well considered but it is simply utter chaos! I guess that’s due to the fact that all the stickers were round…. What do you think?

Images courtesy Queensland Art Gallery, photographer Mark Sherwood, Stuart Addelsee andheybubbles.