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Preview of Knurled sprinkle shaker with lid holes
By Krypto
Complexity
Multi-part assembly
MAIN PURPOSE: Sprinkle salt, spice or sugar from a grippy shaker
A small screw-lid shaker with a knurled grip and holes through the lid. For flaky salt, chilli flakes, sugar or powdered spice.
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Preview of Spiral-flute potpourri jar with heart-hole lid
By Krypto
Complexity
Multi-part assembly
MAIN PURPOSE: Let the scent of dried flowers drift out through heart holes
A round jar with twisted ridges all round and a screw lid pierced with little hearts, so the scent of potpourri, dried lavender or a scented cotton ball drifts out.
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Preview of Coaster cabinet
By Krypto
Complexity
Multi-part assembly
MAIN PURPOSE: Keep tea bags, sugar sachets and stirrers in a slim drawer under your mug
A coaster that hides a pantry. Your mug sits on the flat top, and a slim drawer underneath slides out with the tea bags, sugar sachets, stirrers and a spoon, so a desk or bedside tea break needs nothing else nearby. The drawer has no handle; a fingertip under its lip opens it, so from the side it just looks like a thick, neat coaster.
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Preview of Fake-mould anti-theft lunch box
By Krypto
Complexity
Multi-part assembly
MAIN PURPOSE: Stop office fridge thieves with a lunch box that looks like a mouldy lab sample
Every shared office fridge has a lunch thief. This box defends your sandwich by looking like the last thing anyone wants to open: its sides are covered in raised, blotchy spots like a fuzzy patch of mould, and the lid says LAB SAMPLE 7. Thieves move on to the next box. Inside, it is a perfectly clean, ordinary lunch box with a deep slip-on lid.
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Preview of Mycelium brick mould
By Krypto
Complexity
Multi-part assembly
MAIN PURPOSE: Grow a solid brick of mushroom mycelium as a biodegradable building material
Mycelium, the root network of mushrooms, can be grown into solid shapes and is already used for packaging and insulation. Pack this mould with pasteurised sawdust or hemp mixed with oyster mushroom spawn, put the lid on and leave it somewhere dark. In about a week the white mycelium has bound everything into a light, solid brick. Pop it out, bake it at 90 degrees for an hour to stop the growth, and you have a block that is fire-resistant, insulating and fully compostable. The small vents let it breathe.
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Preview of Cricket-chirp thermometer cage
By Krypto
Complexity
Multi-part assembly
MAIN PURPOSE: Keep a singing cricket and read the temperature from how fast it chirps
Crickets chirp faster when it is warm, so regularly that in 1897 the physicist Amos Dolbear turned it into a formula: count the chirps in 14 seconds and add 40 to get the temperature in Fahrenheit. (For Celsius, count chirps in 25 seconds, divide by 3 and add 4.) This ventilated cage keeps a cricket comfortable with slotted sides for air and sound, and the formula is raised on the front so the living thermometer can be read without a phone.
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Preview of Raindrop-size flour tray
By Krypto
Complexity
Multi-part assembly
MAIN PURPOSE: Measure the size of raindrops by catching them in flour
In 1898, the snowflake photographer Wilson Bentley measured raindrops by catching them in flour: each drop rolls itself into a little dough pellet the same size as the drop. Take the lid off in the rain for a few seconds, cover it again, and let the pellets dry for an hour. Sift them out and drop each through the gauge holes beside the tray, from 2 to 7 mm. Drizzle makes tiny pellets, a summer storm makes big ones, and you can compare showers through the year.
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Preview of Scytale cipher tube
By Krypto
Complexity
Multi-part assembly
MAIN PURPOSE: Send secret messages that only a tube of exactly the same width can read
The Spartans sent secret orders 2,500 years ago with a scytale. Wind a narrow strip of paper in a spiral round the tube, write your message along it, one letter per turn, then unwind it: the letters scatter into nonsense. Only someone with a tube of exactly the same width can wind it back up and read it. The flat faces of this hexagonal tube keep the lines of writing straight, and the strip lives inside it under the screw cap. Change the width before you print and your pair of tubes becomes your own unbreakable key.
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Preview of Vanishing-coin magic box
By Krypto
Complexity
Multi-part assembly
MAIN PURPOSE: Drop a coin in, shake, open the lid, and it has gone
A magician's prop with a secret in the floor. Show the empty box, drop in a coin, close the lid and give it a shake so everyone hears it rattle. Then, holding it from underneath, tilt it slightly towards you: the coin slides through a hidden slot along the floor edge straight into your palm. Shake again (silence), lift the lid, and the box is empty. Produce the coin from a spectator's ear for the finish.
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Preview of Cube-fruit growing box
By Krypto
Complexity
Multi-part assembly
MAIN PURPOSE: Grow square cucumbers, courgettes or mini melons inside a clear box
Japanese farmers first grew square watermelons in the 1970s so they would stack in shops and fit in fridges. This clear box does the same for smaller crops. Slip a young cucumber, courgette, mini melon or even an apple into it while it is still small, rest the stem in the notch and put the lid on. As it grows it fills the box and takes its shape, coming out a near-perfect cube with sharp corners. The drain holes stop rain pooling inside.
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