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Cyclone Is A Working Rollercoaster For Your Desk

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Model trains on your desk at work? Been there, done that. Lego spaceships and novelty figurines? So over it. If you’ve been hankering for something else to make the doldrums of office hours more tolerable, you might fancy trying the Cyclone, an old-school-style wooden roller-coaster. Designed to resemble the wooden amusement park attractions of old, this miniature reproduction simulates all the twists and turns of the classic ride, without the more modern loops and jumps that feed today’s adrenaline-seeking appetites. [...]

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PAL-V ONE, A Hybrid Road Car And Gyrocopter

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Flying cars are like jetpacks. We’ve been seeing them for years but no one ever seems to come close to real commercial availability. That doesn’t mean we can’t gush after every new model that shows up to tease us with their super transporting powers. And that’s exactly what we’re gonna do with the PAL-V ONE, a combo gyrocopter and three-wheeled land vehicle. A personal-sized flying car, the vehicle can sit two folks, so you can bring a friend along while [...]

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Seabreacher Y Personal Submarine Looks Like A Killer Whale

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Remember the Seabreacher X, that personal submarine decked to look and run like a shark while on water? Yeah, it’s pretty special. Except you’re scared of sharks. In fact, you intentionally stay away from the TV and the internet during Shark Week. Maybe the Seabreacher Y, a personal sub that looks like a killer whale, will be more suited to your tastes. Made by Innespace, the watercraft doesn’t just have the external appearance of the Orcinus Orca, it breaches and [...]

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Breakfast Express Makes Omelet And Waffle At The Same Time

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A waffle iron is a wonderful thing. While designed to make delicious breakfast waffles, it can do a decent job making omelets, grilling burgers and baking brownies, too. The result is rarely pretty, but nothing stays pretty once it enters your mouth anyway. The Waring Breakfast Express is like a standard waffle iron but twice the awesome, sporting two separate forms for cooking a waffle and an omelet simultaneously. And, yes, we’re guessing you can make burgers and brownies on [...]

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Kai Table Hides Multiple Storage Areas With Creative Openings

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At first glance, the Kai Table looks just like a plain wooden coffee table for sitting in the center of your living room. Except with a bunch of rectangular lines etched in irregular patterns all around its boxy dimensions. Get busy on the edges, though, and out flip a bunch of doors, revealing a whole mass of storage spaces built into the deceptive furnishing. Designed by Naoki Hirakoso and Takamitsu Kitahara, it’s a low-standing coffee table and multi-panel storage box. [...]

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Swimmer’s Treadmill Is Like Endless Pool For The Poor

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It’s 2012 — the year of the great deluge that will wipe out humanity. If you want to be one of the few survivors to restore human life on this earth, you’re going to have to learn to stay alive on the water. We suggest installing a pool in your backyard and practicing now (hey, your money won’t be worth crap when the flooding descends). If you don’t quite have the space for a real pool, try this: the Swimmer’s [...]

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Hangups And Baggage’s Cool Space Organizers As Seen At NYIGF 2012

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Hangups and Baggage launched a new line of products at the New York International Gift Fair 2012 that looks like a very interesting attempt to add both beauty and function to your walls when it comes to hanging stuff. This new collection includes neat new space organizers/wall decors (we really liked the Robot one) to replace your traditional coat-racks, mail holders and hat racks. Enjoy the picture gallery below. More at HangAndBag

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MakerBot Replicator Can 3D Print Two-Color, Loaf-Sized Objects

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MakerBot has been cranking out their impressive desktop 3D printers for a couple years now. Their latest, called the MakerBot Replicator, steps up its game, producing larger 3D objects than previous releases and doing it in two colors. Since this is still a “desktop 3D printer,” it won’t let you automagically print a living pod for the backyard just yet. Instead, the new model can produce items about as big as a loaf of bread (yes, before you eat a [...]

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5 Best Tablets Of 2011 Not Named iPad

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No matter how you dice it, the iPad 2 remained the dominant tablet of 2011. That doesn’t mean it didn’t have some worthy competition to keep Apple honest. These five represent what we feel to be the best iPad alternatives of the last 12 months. ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime I am not a fan of really with long names for products. Beyond that though, there’s little to dislike about the Transformer Prime whose big selling point is the [...]

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10 Great Sounding Mobile Speakers That Look Good Too

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As awesome as today’s smartphones and tablets are, their built-in speakers are usually a letdown. If you want to pipe your tunes out loud while away from home, these ten mobile speakers are your best bet for avoiding disappointment. Jawbone Jambox While it was technically released back in November of 2010, the Jambox remains one of the most crave worthy mobile speaker creations in the market today. With nearly every review we’ve seen the entire year singing its praises, [...]

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10 Cool Last Minute Gifts For The Console Gamer In Your Life

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Just in case you didn’t know, we’re talking about you. Yes, you. Spending all day playing Skyrim and texting people you could have come to their party but you took an arrow to the knee and stuff. Even you deserve a gift, so get yourself something before the year ends. Preferably something that lets you feed your gaming addiction even further. Hey, it ain’t going away, so might as well embrace it. 1. G155 Mobile Gaming Environment Even gamers need [...]

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USB Mini Scanner Looks Convenient

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Your wallet-sized scanner and scanner mouse still too big for what you use an image scanner for? How about one that’s as tiny as a thumb drive? If that’s more along the lines you’re thinking of, then you want this USB Mini Scanner. Measuring just 3.5 x 1 x 0.78 inches and weighing 2 ounces, this is as out of the way as a scanner gets. While you’ll likely torture yourself using it to scan a coffee table hardcover, it [...]

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Gumball Pinball Machine Forces You To Play Before Dispensing Gum

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Tired of your gumball machine popping out a piece of gum as soon as you punch a button? Want to add some challenge to your life? Do away with that weak no-resistance dispenser and make getting round mounds of gum feel like work with the Gumball Pinball Machine. Yep, it’s a gumball dispenser that requires you to exercise well-honed pinball skills before sending a color-coated chewing gum your way. That way, you’ll have to run through hoops awhile before popping [...]

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Bean Bag Sled Softens Hard Landings And Icy Bumps

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Use a bean bag for a sled? We’re pretty sure someone, somewhere already did that. We doubt they made it down the slope with a smile as big as that dude, though. Man, that’s one big ass grin. And all of it became possible because of the Bean Bag Sled. Why bean bags? Because bean bags are soft and cushy, absorbing the brunt of hard landings and icy bumps to save your crotch and posterior regions from taking damage. And, [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving To All The Cool Cravers!

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Today in United States, we celebrate the holiday dedicated to giving thanks. What better way to do that but to thank our readers for your loyal support, tips and all the interesting comments! So whether you are in the US or not, its a holiday for you or not, don’t forget to be thankful for your blessings and spend some quality time with friends and family. We’ll be doing the same and off course watching some football along with delicious [...]

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A Motorized Wheelrider Fit For Gotham City Defender

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Superheroes need a ride. And since your driving license got suspended after crashing into a cop car last month, your replica Batmobile will have to stay in the garage just a little while longer. You might want to consider this Motorized Wheelrider instead. Clad in a style and color scheme that doesn’t veer too far from standard Gotham City fare, the ride should make a decent alternative for getting around town. At a 20mph top speed, all the baddies on [...]

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IRIS 9000 Turns Your iPhone 4S Into HAL 9000

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When Siri first rolled out on the iPhone 4S, many sci-fi geeks were thinking one thing: it’s like the progenitor for our very own HAL 9000. As it turns out, we don’t have to wait for Siri’s future incarnations to get that with the IRIS 9000, a voice control module that turns your iPhone into a clone of Arthur C. Clarke’s AI robot. A unique iPhone accessory, it consists of a cradle for docking your handset and a tower-style speaker [...]

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Pumpkin Gutter Carving Tool Attaches To Your Power Drill

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Carving pumpkins is hard work. And just a little gross. Turns out it doesn’t have to be with the Pumpkin Gutter. A pumpkin carving attachment that you can use with any standard powered drill, all you have to do is stick it in place of the usual twisting bit. With that, you just power the tool on and start hacking at that pumpkin, gutting and thinning it out at a fraction of the time compared to traditional methods. And the [...]

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SpyNet Laser Trip Wire Turns Your Cubicle Into A Secure Fort

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Want to turn your office cubicle into a secure area? We suggest rabid dogs along the entryways. In case that won’t fly with building security, you can set up an alarm system to alert you of intruders with the Spynet Laser Trip Wire. Yep, it’s a real laser-based trip wire system that activates a built-in alarm once it detects an intruder crossing in your midst. Whether you want to be alerted to give you time to close that browser-based MMO [...]

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