MIT Media Lab's Eric Rosenbaum (who we recently Profiled) and Jay Silver have created an invention kit which turns anything in the world into a computer keyboard. The kit, 'Makey Makey', can turn bananas into a piano, or turn buckets of water into the controls for  Dance Dance Revolution. It's the perfect plaything for beginners and experts interested in art, engineering and everything in-between.

It's really simple to use: connect a circuit board to your computer via USB and assign the 18 mouse and keyboard inputs to any conductive object which you can attach via crocodile clips. So, for example, you could load up PacMan on the internet and configure it so that the control keys are 4 pencil drawn icons on a piece of paper. Or load up a music programme, attach it to your stairs and use each step as a different button.

Inspired by the 'maker movement', they explain, "We believe that everyone is creative, inventive, and imaginative. We believe that the whole world is a construction kit, if we choose to see it that way." The duo launched the project on Kickstarter, but have already doubled their pledged goal of $25,000 with 27 days still to go.

It's an innovative project and with a projected cost of only £22 per kit, it's sure to be a huge hit. Stay posted here for more information.