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How To: Make Your Night Bike Glow in the Dark with Phosphorescent Paint

With gas prices constantly digging into your wallet, biking will always be a cheap and easy alternative for getting around—and it's a perfect way to get in a little exercise. But with the fall season about a week away, it is going to start getting dark a lot earlier and that ride home might be a little more dangerous. So to save yourself an unexpected trip to the ER, take a little time to make your bicycle impossible to overlook.

How To: There's Metal Hiding in Your Pepto-Bismol and Here's How You Extract It

Got an upset stomach or a little heartburn? America's favorite pink pill will cure it right up. But did you know that there's actually metal hiding in those chewable Pepto-Bismol tablets? Yes, metal. Technically, it's a poor metal, but metal's metal, right? Well, we do tend to eat a lot of iron in our diets, because it carries oxygen throughout our bodies, so consuming metallic minerals isn't anything abnormal. But you'd never think that Pepto-Bismol is actually made up of metal.

News: This Real-Life, Working WALL-E Robot Is Absolutely Perfect (And Built Entirely from Scratch)

Want to build your own life-sized, working replica of WALL-E? Be prepared to take on a second job! Mike Senna spent two years perfecting his own version, working 25 hours a week and totaling somewhere around 3,800 hours for the whole project. He had no blueprints to go by, so he spent a lot of time watching the movie over and over to get everything just right. The video below shows some of the construction; skip to about the one minute mark to see WALL-E in action.

News: This 1974 Gas-Guzzling Beetle Is Now an Eco-Friendly Electric "Voltswagon"

Want an electric car without the price tag? You could always build your own, or maybe just hack your old gas guzzler into an eco-friendly electric machine... This weekend at Defcon, security consultant David Brown showed off his "Voltswagon" project, a 1974 Beetle named Shocky that he converted to electric for only $6,000. He removed the old combustion engine, radiator, and a few other unneeded parts to make it lighter. Then he loaded it with batteries front and back, ten Interstate DC-29, 12...

News: Quite Possibly the Best Lightsaber Replica Ever (This Is Not a Jedi Mind Trick)

Bradley Lewis is a visual effects artist for BioWare by day, but in his spare time he runs Slothfurnace, a blog dedicated to showcasing his incredibly realistic lightsaber replicas. His latest, which took 18 months to build, is Obi-Wan Kenobi's Reveal Lightsaber from A New Hope. It was made with a real crystal, just like the movies, and has a Crystal Focus Saber Core designed by Plecter Labs which controls the light and sound. The blade is composed of 84 LED lights and powered by two 3.7 volt...

News: Valve Turns Gamers into Moviemakers with Source Filmmaker Beta

If you're familiar with games like Half-Life 2, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress 2, then you've probably seen some of the cool animated movies that Valve has made for them using their Source Filmmaker moviemaking software. It's a tool built to make animated films inside their Source game engine. It's even been licensed to make the upcoming animated film Deep.

How To: Get movie star hair

Movie star hair is all about combining healthy hair with haircare products that contain silicone chemicals. Learn about using hair extensions, curling irons and haircare products to get movie star hair in this free video on haircare from an experienced hairdresser.

How To: Get rid of split ends

The only way to get rid of split ends is to cut them and to apply a shine product to moisturize the end of the hair. Learn to apply shine products to get rid of split ends using this free video from an experienced hairdresser.

How To: Repair a bad paint spot on your automobile

Performing spot repair on an automobile can be a complicated business for the non-expert, but this video describes all the steps necessary to accomplish it including pre-polishing, wetstanding, all the way through to the final polishing. Take a look at this simple guide on paint spot repair for vehicles and see how they manage to repair the paint on this Cavalier using 3M products and more.

How To: Make a fully automatic Lego Glock rubber band launcher

There is truly no limit to what you can make with Lego blocks. This video is a step-by-step pictorial demonstration of how to make a replica of a Glock 18c pistol (a fully automatic version at that) that will shoot rubber bands. Make sure you already have some freestyle Lego skills, as the video moves pretty fast and has no audio, but the final product looks very polished and should help you annoy your friends and siblings for years to come!

How To: Become a PowerSeller on eBay

If you are looking to sell a lot on eBay, while maintaining satisfaction and product integrity then you are in prime position to be an eBay PowerSeller. As long as you stay within the bounds of the requirements, you can hold this particular title.

How To: Apply a MAC Barbie eye makeup look

MAC fans are excited about the Barbie loves MAC collection, so naturally how-to videos abound with ways to use the products. The demonstrator uses a lot of MAC cosmetics (obviously) overall, but similar colors and textures will work just as well. Check out this video makeup lesson and learn how to replicate this MAC Barbie inspired look look.

How To: Protect your PC with SkyRecon's StormShield

There are two parts to the StormShield product: The server components (including the relational database and server) and the various agents that run on each endpoint. Among other things, the agent contains a host-based firewall and policy engine that can be customized to control applications and particular endpoint device features such as USB peripherals and registry entries. So watch this tutorial and learn how to protect your PC computer with SkyRecon's StormShield.

How To: Use a menstrual cup

The menstrual cup is a great alternative to tampons and pads. This feminine hygiene product is reusable, eco-friendly and much cheaper than disposable tampons and pads. This tutorial teaches you how to insert and remove the menstrual cup. Watch this how to video and maybe you will decide to use the menstrual cup.

How To: Use a Fiskars paper trimmer

This Arts & Crafts How-to video gives a demonstration and product review of the Fiskars Portable Paper Trimmer, used in scrapbooking, card making and other paper craft projects. Learn how to use the Fiskars paper trimmer to make any paper crafting project easier.

How To: Install SpeedFan

This is an introduction to the product SpeedFan. It measures what the temperature is of the Mother Board, CPU, Etc. Also has a lot of tweaks I don't recommend messing around with without knowledge of them first. WARNING: By messing with the temperatures and settings you can seriously FRY your computer. So just don't do it!

How To: Use the Panasonic HVX200 with Avid Media Composer

Download the P2 Step-by-Step Reference Guide. With Avid, editing footage captured with the Panasonic HVX200 camera is fast and easy. Avids system uses the same native file format as Panasonic P2 memory cards, so theres no need for any transcode, capture or file conversion process at all. You can edit directly and immediately from the P2 cards if you like or have Avid Media Composer create a rapid backup of your files. Nothing could be simpler or more immediate.

How To: Create a Winter Wonderland makeup look

Tired of run-of-the-mill makeup? This eye-catching Winter Wonderland look is great for pageants, dance recitals, or for the truly brave, just for day wear. The cosmetic products used to create this look are N.Y.C Yellow Concealer, Clinique Super Powder Double Face Make Up # 10 Matte Medium, Graftobian Clown White Cream Make Up, MAC Pearl Reflections Pigment, Rimmel Metallic Eye Gloss #021 Chelsea, Mac Sky Blue Pigment, Hot Topic Glitter Gloss & Eye Shadow Turquoise, Rimmel Special Eyes Trio E...