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This is a fun idea. Hip New York boutique and gallery Opening Ceremony has got some completely corduroyed-over furniture &mdsah; and not just cushions. The close-up pictures reveal it to be, well, not the most exacting upholstery job, but if you were making a chest of drawers with corduroy in mind from the first, you could probably do quite a good job of it.

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Corduroy: not just on your trousers any more

Another great DIY project: making your own bottle slide out of an old wine bottle. Bottle slides, if you weren’t aware, are those great things bluesmen use to get the high lonesome sound out of a lap steel guitar

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Well, the blue bottle was my blues – and the red bottle was what I made my bottle slide out of

Contact microphones are all sorts of fun.

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Playing the world’s saddest song on the world’s smallest violin thumb piano

The iPad is getting more than its fair share of press, I think — or to be precise, it’s getting its fair share, but a lot of it could have gone to any other quality tablet device, of which at the moment there are admittedly few (the Adam comes to mind). So these days, when I read an interesting article like this one, or write that someone is making an iPad tablet version of their magazine , I deliberately conflate the terms “iPad” and “tablet.”To their credit, Apple is making a very robust reader app that’s ripe for exploiting, as Craigmod says , as a canvas for rich media. I’d never pretend that the iPad is the be-all and end-all of tablet devices.

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Interesting read: the potential of the iPad, from the perspective of a book designer

Pico-projectors are just so cute and cuddly. Amazon just so happens to be shipping the pico-sized MPro150 now for only $380. What do you get for that price, you ask

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3M’s MPro150 pico-projector is now shipping from Amazon

Lost is getting ready to wrap up starting tomorrow. Thank goodness, right?

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Lost: The Complete Collection hits Blu-ray this summer

Look! Up in the sky! It’s ColdAvenger! No! It’s a guy on skis wearing a ColdAvenger mask! He’s about to land on me! That fortune cookie was right! “You will fall on a ski hill and it’ll hurt enough that you’ll lay there for a little while looking up at the sky. Just when you’re about to stand up, some guy in a ColdAvenger mask will take the same jump you just did and will land right on top of you

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ColdAvenger mixes inhaled cold air with exhaled warm air, sounds like a superhero

It was just a day or two ago that I was recommending Brando’s flash accessory kit to someone. Among the many (many, many) products at that online shop, their photographic accessories are some of the best deals, because even the most basic softboxen and other photo extras are ridiculously expensive elsewhere.

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Lens-mounted semicircle LED ring for lighting your macro subjects

The show floor is open, and we’re going live. First thing up is an announcement (upcoming) by someone named Lady Gaga, something about becoming some sort of bigwig at Polaroid. I know! What will she do next? I’m thinking Ponzi scheme. So we’re streaming that live right now, and then we’re live from the show floor for the rest of the day.

Also: if you missed last night’s Digital Experience broadcast, check it out here. We saw a ton of products that were just announced yesterday or are yet to be announced, including a really cool new podcasting service, some extremely small and capable HD camcorders, and a pair of DLP pico projectors. We’re working hard at digging up the hidden gems of CES or, at the very least, keeping the stream fresh, so tune in.

The last 100 seats to attend Friday’s Crunchies Awards are on sale now. Act fast!

Reminder, the Crunchies Awards start at 7:30 pm Friday night at the historic Herbst Theater in San Francisco (seating opens at 6:45, and we encourage you to arrive early.) Along with our co-hosts, GigaOm and VentureBeat, we’ll announce the winners to our 18 award categories from over 125 finalists. Voting concluded at midnight last night.

The Crunchies Awards celebrate the best technology achievements of 2009.

The Richter Scales will make a repeat performance. Scott Meltzer and Katrine Spang-Hanssen from Comedy Industries will help us laugh about 2009. Other special guest appearances too, they’re a surprise.

Once these sell out, we’ll also release 100 tickets to attend just the after party. We’ve been getting non-stop requests to find a way to open up more tickets, so this will bring us to full-out party capacity.

There’s lots of good stuff to enjoy at the after-party, co-hosted with Microsoft BizSpark and award benefactor Founders Fund. DJ Inertia (aka Ryan Jeffs) is flying in to spin music for us. Ryan is one of us, a tech engineer by trade. He leads a double life as an electronic music DJ with a new startup label Republik Records. He’s been featured in the playlists of artists like Paul Van Dyk, Paul Oakenfold, Pete Tong and countless others.

Grey Goose Vodka has designed some custom celebratory cocktails for us to enjoy. Cannonball is hosting wine, and LewisPR is providing embargo-free beer. The North Light Court of City Hall will have casino games: thanks to Armor Games, Betfair, Kosmix, Outcast Communications, SecondMarket, SGN and Zong. Stop by the DailyBooth photowall. We’ll also have start-up demos for you to enjoy from SGN, Tap11 and select fbFund companies. Big thank you to Solana and the talented team at DesignAboutTown for making us look great.

We hope to see you there. If you can’t attend the event in person, please join us for the live stream, hosted by Ustream and filmed by Future-Works. Plymedia will provide live captioning of the ceremony.

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