by Fünchkins
Chica & Jo have a wonderfully easy to follow tutorial on how to make your own home-made copper wind chimes. Depending on what you have available, you can either use copper pipes from the hardware stores, used pipes or mismatched silver cutlery from a second hand store.
If you are using copper pipes, make sure to get your hardware store to cut the pipe before you bring it home.
* The full tutorial can be found on Chica & Jo and is easy enough to adjust for older kids on snow days
If you know someone who has no problem with looking like Hannibal Lecter coming to dinner, the conceptual AIRE mask would make a great gift. Using wind from your breath, the AIRE Mask converts the energy into electrical current which charges your phone.
The AIRE Mask can be used in any situation and encourages physical exercise, the harder you breath the faster your iPhone charges. Joao Paulo Lammoglia came up with the idea and hopes to commercialize the idea in the near future.
* More information on the AIRE Mask can be found on PSFK and on Red Dot, where it won a Best of the Best Design Award
Tony Worrall’s Singing Ringing Tree is one of Lancashire’s Panopticon Sculptures dotted around the area. This one is located near Burnley and produces strange noises when the wind gusts through the pipes.
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