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  Rescue Reel Lets You Escape From Burning Skyscrapers Batman-Style

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  Paranoid much?  Allay your nervous fear of being trapped atop a high-rise building with the Rescue Reel, a device intended to help you vacate your office at the 30th floor in case of emergencies (without resorting to jumping off the window and hoping you’ll survive). The naming is supposed to be a take on the fishing reel, from which the escape contraption reportedly derived its concept.  Looking at it though, getting down via the Rescue Reel looks a lot more [...]

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  A Luxury Sailboat Fit For A Pirate…Arrrr

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  Got a spare $100 million tucked under the sheets somewhere?  How about shelling that out for this one-of-a-kind luxury sailboat currently on sale at JamesList?  Called the Maltese Falcon, it sports three huge masts that’s as close as I’ve ever seen a luxury yacht get to a real pirate ship.  Just stencil a crossbones logo somewhere on the sails and you’re good to go! Everyone knows, of course, that any pirate worth his eye patch pillages the sea on sails [...]

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  Flake House Updates The Log Cabin, Decks It In Regular Wood

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  Want to build a portable log cabin?  Hmmm… something about that idea defeats the whole notion of a rugged home in the outdoors.  Good thing the OLGGA design team didn’t ask me first – I would have objected violently.  Instead, they just went ahead and designed the Flake House, a portable home concept that merges log cabin sensibilities with French architecture. Thinking about log cabins brings me images of the wild outdoors, men bruising their palms putting together a house [...]

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  Gold-To-Go Vending Machines Sell You Precious Metals On The Spot

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  Want to invest in gold but don’t know how?  Get started on the next street corner with a Gold-To-Go vending machine, which sells gold on-the-spot to anyone who can stick 31 Euros up its snout. Vending machines, over the years, have sold a variety of things from quick-fix snacks to Japanese sex toys.  A new vending machine, in fact, even pays you for feeding it garbage.  However, Gold-To-Go takes the whole concept a bit out of the normal realm, dropping [...]

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  Plug Mug Solves A Major Office Pet Peeve

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  If you’re like me, you hate strolling down the office pantry for a cup of hot coffee only to find that some clown just used your mug.  Instead of sitting clean on the cupboard as you left it yesterday, you cringe at finding it standing among the pile of dirty wares on the kitchen sink.  Sick of them insolent coworkers who think unauthorized use of your coffee mug is part of their on-the-job privileges? Fight back with the Plug Mug, [...]

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  Meet The World Record-Setting Paper Plane

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  A Japanese engineer, Takuo Toda, just set a new world record for paper airplane flight, creating a pulp craft that soared above ground for 27.9 seconds.  The chairman of Japan’s Origami Airplane Association, the feat was achieved during a competition last month at the Hiroshima Prefecture.  Going by without a name, the plane has just been recognized by the Guinness World Records as running the longest-ever flight by a paper aircraft. Just like old paper planes we used to make [...]

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  Everyday Models Helps You Rent Aspects Of Your Personal Life To Advertisers

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  Want to get paid for doing things you normally do during the regular course of your day?  Check out Everyday Models, a pioneering service that seeks to sell your everyday life as an advertising platform. If you think Abercrombie & Fitch should pay you for wearing their shirt with that large A&F logo on the front, so do these guys.  Unlike you, however, they might have a chance of actually making it happen, with a real modeling agency business behind [...]

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  Wetsuits By Diddo Let You Fake A Shark Attack, Pretend To Be A Shark Whale And More

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  Want to terrorize the army of families haunting the beaches this summer?  Do it with tall tales of sharks infesting the depths just past the shore and show off the flesh wounds on your body to prove it.  If you can manage the fabricated story but not the fake wounds, don’t worry – let By Diddo’s creative wetsuits play the part. Chillingly realistic, By Diddo’s unique waterwear comes with a slew of realistic designs that will make anyone catching sight [...]

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  Soap Knuckles Knock The Dirt Off Your Skin

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  I’m pretty sure you’ve seen a pair of brass knuckles, if not in real life, then at least in pictures.    Not long ago, we even featured 19th century all-in-one knuckles that integrated a pistol and a blade.  This year, we get introduced to Soap Knuckles, a fist-fitting and tough-looking weapon designed for your bathroom battles. Cast in the same mold as real brass knuckles, it claims to put a hurting on dirt and odors caking on your skin.  It’s definitely [...]

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  Maker Faire 2009 Has A New Mission: Remake America

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  If you live in the Bay Area, or have some extra frequent flyer miles laying around, then you may just want to consider attending this year’s Maker Faire 2009 at the San Mateo County Expo Center. If you aren’t familiar with The Maker Faire then you have missed out on one of the coolest events on the planet for the past three years, as the Maker Faire is a family friendly, two-day event that celebrates making, creating, learning, inventing, recycling, [...]

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  Whiskey On The Rocks… Real Rocks

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  I guess someone missed the memo about Whiskey On The Rocks.  Apparently perturbed by the fact that ordering a drink on the rocks gets the you the drink with ice cubes, someone came up with actual rocks that you can substitute in its place.  Called Whiskey Rocks, the literal interpretation makes me want to bang my head up a wall, but I think I’ll just down a shot instead. While ice is great due to its ability to chill your [...]

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  Martin Jetpack: A Fully Functional One-Man Aircraft Before The End Of The Year?

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  Jetpacks have been around in one form or another during the last few years.  Unfortunately, there hasn’t been one that worked well enough for actual commercial use.  Makers of the Martin Jetpack are claiming they’re ready, which I’ll only believe if I see one of their executives fly over a roof with this thing on his back. The Martin Jetpack first burst onto the scene last year, as the company showed off the device buoying some guy a foot or [...]

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  The Flash Will USB With You…Always

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  No matter what type of data you are attempting to transport, we promise it will be way more fun with these Star Wars flash drives known fondly as Mimobots.  These are collectibles, which means that they are toys that adults are allowed to play with, and come in 8 different character’s with a promise of more to come. The drives are 1 gigabyte and Series 1 features Chewbacca, Darth Vadar, Storm Trooper and R2-D2 while Series 2 has Luke Skywalker [...]

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  Domsai Desk Pets: Attack Of The Alien Bonsai

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  What can you do to bonsai to make them stand out?  Recognizing the similarities between growing miniaturized shrubs and raising digital Tamagotchi pets, Matteo Cibic came up with the Domsai, otherwise normal bonsai plants housed in anthropomorphic containers that make them look like two-legged creatures, complete with sci-fi glass domes over their heads. Like regular bonsai plants, Domsai “desk pets” are ornamental pieces.  Line up a bunch of them on a tabletop and you’ve got yourself a fleet of space [...]

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  Mini Sky Umbrella: For Those Who Can’t Stand Depressing Weather

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  Cloudy days get you down?  No need to – just pop the Mini Sky Umbrella open and see blue skies once again. Sometimes, fooling yourself is more preferable than facing the truth.  The ultimate in escapist design, the Mini-Sky Umbrella lets you stay oblivious amidst dark skies and torrential downpours.  Nature can unleash its wrath however it wants – if you look up and see clear skies, it’s probably real, right? Covering a 38-inch span when open, the MoMa-designed Mini [...]

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  Envirobank Reverse Vending Machines Make Recycling Easier

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  Remember how vending machines made getting drinks and snacks way easier?  Envirobank is hoping the same happens to recycling with their “cash for cans” reverse vending machines. Vending machines always worked the same way: we fed it money, it dropped down stuff.  Envirobank’s new devices turn the process around, taking in recyclables in exchange for discount coupons to nearby stores.  Instead of chucking your water bottles and softdrink cans the moment you’re done with them, the reverse vending machines can [...]

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  Bike Porter Redesigns The Handlebar, Integrates A Basket Without Looking Tacky

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  It isn’t unusual to see a bike with a basket out front. While usually not sexy, it brings extra utility to your mechanical ride. It’s quite difficult to find attractive baskets, though, especially ones that will go with your bike’s overall styling.  As such, most people compromise, either using a mounting basket they can remove when not needed or just going with the least odd-looking unit they can find. Goodmorning Technology’s new bicycle part, the Bike Porter, integrates the basket [...]

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  5 Very Cool And Different Gifts For The Mother And Women In Your Life

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  1. PORN FOR NEW MOMS Mamma Mia! With Mother’s Day just days away it’s time to start thinking about Mom’s gift – and our solution is…porn.  Okay, so this seems like it would be a much better gift for your single friend’s birthday…but we found some mom-appropriate and even mom-approved – porn. We all know that women have strange desires and cravings and such during their pregnancy, but scientists are just now discovering that these cravings carry over to life [...]

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  ZipHolder Lets You Wear Too-Tight Jeans While Keeping Your Dignity

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  If you’ve gained weight at all during the last few years, you’ve probably experienced the pants disaster it entails.  Since your waistline has grown to much bigger proportions than what your jeans or slacks are ready for, you’ll begin to notice your zipper’s unfavorable reaction, loosening itself little-by-little throughout the course of the day. The ZipHolder was designed to solve that exact problem, keeping your pants securely zipped, even with an oversized midsection threatening to pull it apart.  Whether you [...]

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