Christian, a nine-year-old leukemia patient, wished for a backyard fort shaped like the Millennium Falcon. The Make-A-Wish Foundation granted his wish.

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Polaboy is an enlarged polaroid on a scale of 10:1 (to 88x107cm) and backlit with cutting edge LED technology. It is a giant polaroid-shaped frame that can be customized with your own polaroids and changed at any time. It can work as your own personal window to a cool landscape or a moment in time. Love it.

Artist Simon Femandez is behind this clever outdoor advertisement for sun lotion. The billboard is covered in a 1 million tiny beads which reveals hidden artwork featuring a sunbathing woman when hit by sunshine. Femandez was hired by Brazilian ad agency Click Isobar for the project.

Robert Chaplin is a man driven to accomplish the “never been done before”. A true maverick, he is the publisher of The Matchbook (a copy resides in the library of the Tate Museum) and also the smallest book ever written: Teeny Ted from Turnip Town written by Malcolm Chaplin has a total size of less that 0.07mm x 0.10mm. The Robert Chaplin/SFU Nanobook project was produced using a focused-gallium-ion beam with the assistance of Dr. Li Yang, and Dr. Karen L. Kavanagh of Simon Fraser University.

When I came across this challenge on the Good website, I was floored. I’m a big fan of crowd sourcing and how powerful the small things in life can be. I believe that a million tiny acts of kindness can have more impact than a few great big ones. Not only does it help people out, but it encourages people to keep doing it.

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Alex McLean and Nick Collins are legends of the Live Coding scene, a geekfest of performance virtuosity in which music is made by writing the code that makes the music live on stage. It would be no surprise if Live Coding does not make it to Top of the Pops any time soon, if there is never to be a Steve Vai of the Live Coding world. I’m not even sure if I’m that into what comes out.

It doesn’t matter. It is seriously interesting. The Chordpunch label is a new venture of theirs, releasing music that is made using one or another generative process, and features luminaries such as Yee-King and Lars from Mars.

I think that people ought to to be nicer to one another. The thing that irks me the most is that people readily buy into Leo Durocher’s famous misquotation, ‘Nice Guys Finish Last’. Nothing could be farther from the truth. So when I stumbled across this site, I was elated. It’s great to see talented and smart people like Tim Kring show us that we can be nice and also cool. My favorite part is the Deny Access button!

In today’s over-saturated smart phone app market, it is very easy to over look quality products. From chopping up vegetables, to running through old temples, these games get pumped out quickly, played hap-hazardly, and then forgotten. Catball Eats it All, is a phenomenon is this world of short downloads and shorter attention spans because of its consideration to every detail. Artist, muralist, and illustrator Yis Goodwin hand painted every character, item, and background to create a smart phone game that is visually like no other I’ve ever seen. Though the concept is simple, eat all the items on the course before the dog tries to eat you, this visually stunning game keeps me coming back for more.

Nondescript crates open up to reveal sofas, beds, workstations, wardrobes, kitchens, foosball tables, home cinemas. Now all we need is a place for all these boxes.

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Remember the classic arcade game you used to play on your beatdown PC when you got bored? Time is not the real enemy, mines are. As a kid growing up in Afghanistan, Massoud Hassani used to make toys that got lost forever after the wind carried them into minefields. Now he has now designed a real minesweeper that wanders where winds blow, scouting out mines to reap their long overdue death. His invention is now being tested by the Dutch army.

If supervillains don’t actually exist, then who the hell is buying these $44,750 ergonomic work stations complete with LED-backlit 24-inch touchscreen displays and built-in air-filtration systems?

Pugz Luv Beats is halfway between an iPad game and a musical instrument. As you send your pups running around harvesting some love for themselves, they start making different beats. It’s easy to get distracted from playing the game and lose myself in making jams.

Once upon a time I was totally into visions of the future that included vehicles such as this Lit Motors C-1 fully-enclosed electric motorcycle. Now, I’m foreseeing a bit more Mad Max crossed with Lord of the Flies.

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If you love to stare at a starry sky, this will change your life. It shows you planets, constellations and all kinds of planetarium info in real time, as you point your iPad at the sky.

Although this is a bit high tech, this device is a nice step backward in the land of personal communications. Nicer than an email and more personal than an SMS, you can record on multiple channels to leave live messages to your lover, mother, other, from yourself or your dog. Tactile, too.

Kickstarter project founder Ashlee Casserly is a Washington D.C resident. She is looking to revive an old-school white spirit called Poitín (pronounced puh-cheen) which originated in Ireland about 1,000 years ago. Poitín is Gaelic for ‘little pot’, derived from small coppers pots used by the home distillers.

Distilled from malted barley grain or potatoes, it is one of the strongest alcoholic beverages in the world. The background? In 1661, the Bristish Crown outlawed the Irish spirit, and surprisingly, the Poitín ban lasted more than 300 years, during which time recipes were handed down and batches of Poitín were secretly distilled and shared in Ireland. I have pledged twice and can’t wait to get my hands on one of the first bottles to hit the States. Spread the word and you very well might be knocking back a Poitín cocktail on St Paddy’s Day yourself. Sláinte!

Marketing executive Jonathan Kiekbush has a pretty interesting night job: he breaks up people’s relationships. That’s right, for a small set fee (£5 plus expenses), he’s a professional dumper. Trivial fact: most of his clients are men. Not surprisingly, as our friends at Oddity Central have noted, he’s single himself.

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Breakdance and skateboarding are from yesteryear: Hockern is the new trend sport on the streets these days. The origins of Hockern can be traced back to the German coast city of Kiel, where people with too much time on their hands and not much interest in breaking their bones invented a few tricks that have since spread around the world. Hockern loosely translates into ‘stooling’, although the more appropriate expression for it would be ‘extreme sitting’. The actual activitiy can be described as simply as this: ‘Just grab a stool and rock it like a hockstar!’

Dustin Wong’s announced his Say Your Dream, Create a Sound project in which you tell him a dream, and he will compose a song based on your discription. He will begin posting the songs on his Soundcloud page starting February 20.

Now, this is clever, contentious and a big step into the unknown. Put simply (in their own words): ‘ReDigi is the world’s first online marketplace for pre-owned digital music. Its genius is in its ability to facilitate the transfer of a digital music file from one user to another without copying or file sharing. This gives digital music a resale value for the first time ever, and consumers the freedom to buy and sell the music they rightfully own. ReDigi also gives back to artists and labels through generous payments with every track sold (and resold)’. Sold? So are we. Kind of.