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12,000-lb. Giant Mechanical Spider
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Giant Mechanical Spider stands at 11 feet and measures over 8 feet in width. Capable of transporting 8 people including driver on its 23 feet long body and 12,000 lbs(approx 6 tons!), the mechanical spider is a marvel of engineering capabilities. A single stride that extends to about 5 feet.
Powered by 454 cubic inch chevy V-8 married to a modified TH400 trans coupled to two klune extreme under drive planetary gear boxes, uses a rockwell 2 1/2 ton military axle to supply power to the leg crank shafts, The final drive ratio is 125:1.

Joy Slippers Version 2 - Draw by Your feet
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Joy Slippers Version 2 is updated by the previous Joy Slippers version. The slippers have 4 analog pressure sensors embedded. They can be used to feed Up, Down, Left and Right values into your computer replacing your mouse, joystick... It is really fun! You will see the setp of how to make a pair of Joy Slippers[ intro, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ].



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Baylis Eco Ep-Mx71 Hand-Cranked Media Player
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Baylis Eco Ep-Mx71 Media Player(GBP 130) is a hand-cranked Media Player. Eco Media Player (EP-MX71) is a wind-up video player with a full colour LCD screen. It also offers a digital FM radio, MP3 player, LED torch, mobile phone charger, SD card reader, memo recorder, photo viewer, e-book viewer, and data storage - all powered by hand winding. It packed a 1.8 inch 0.26 million pixel colour LCD through which supports multi-media files(wmv, avi, and mpeg vedio played; mp3, wma, asf, and wav formatted audio files). The internal lithium ion battery can be recharged fully via PC/Laptop USB port and emergency charge for popular mobile phones. Cool!
Price: GBP 130   |   BUY

The Torch - World's Brightest and Most Powerful Flashlight
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The Torch($300) being reviewed by The Guinness Book of World Records, it is the world's brightest and most powerful flashlight. This flashlight can lighting paper on fire within seconds, and if you want, frying an egg or a marshmallow on a stick! wow! It uses an halogen light bulb rated at 100 Watts features 4100 lumens, the 4100 lumens can be adjusted via a high efficiency reflector. The casing is made from aerospace grade aluminum. It comes with one rechargeable battery, and the battery lasts for 15min.
Price: $300   |   BUY

Neighbour Rod
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Neighbour Rod is a product that acknowledges the frustrations, curiosities and perversions of apartment living. A stethoscope and a white rubber hammer, knock for silence or listen in.

LightWedge Mini
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The LightWedge Mini($15) is a perfect light for reading maps or books in the dark. A lens is built in which magnifies the text by 1.5 times. It is portable and perfect for reading small print documents. This LightWedge Mini powered using two CR2 batteries which provide 20 hours of light. It included a big version - LightWedge Reading Light.
Price: $15   |   BUY

"Peggy," A Light Emitting Pegboard Display
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With all the cool things that you can do with LEDs today. The Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have proudced a cool new kit called " Peggy(Bare board: $50; Full kit: $80) ", which is an open-source LED pegboard display that you can DIY your LEDs. Full Kit includes the circuit board, preprogrammed microcontroller, battery holder, photosensor, switches, buttons, rubber feet and all other components needed to make the pegboard display base, along with full color printed instructions. Just add batteries and LEDs. You can make an LED sign for your window, a geeky valentine for your sweetie, one bad-ass birthday card, or freak the holy bejesus out of Boston.
Price: $50-80   |   BUY
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Wii Remote Control Phone
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A Japanese DIY Wii Remote Control Phone, Cool! He transform a normal PHS Window mobile based cellphone into WILLCOM brand cellphone. This fella also created a Game & Watch cell phone as well, which you can check out at the site, link.

To-Do Tattoo
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You'll never blame you forget your to do list, or forget bring your PDA, because it is in your hand! To-Do Tattoo kit includes 12 graphic "To Do" forms that you can apply to your body wherever it's most convenient (or creative) and a skin-safe, washable-ink gel pen.

Pistol Camera for $25,000
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The half-frame 35mm camera, shaped like a pistol - Mamiya Pistol camera - a pistol camera! Created in 1954 by Mamiya of Japan, only 250 were made for police training purposes, and were never offered to the public. It features half-size onto 35mm film, and had fixed-focus 45mm lenses. In 1993, one of these cameras got sold for $16,500 and the one at eBay is expected to fetch $25,000.
Price: $25,227   |   BUY

Jet-Engine-Powered Wing
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If you want to be a jet plane? This Jet-Engine-Powered Wing is really cool! The Swiss pilot Yves Rossy propel himself through the sky with a rigid wing boosted up with jet engines. The foldable carbon graphite wing has 4 jet engines, includes fuel, backup batteries, and of course some oil in the kerosene for lubricating the engine, so it's a full blown DIY machine up there. First you climb up around 8000 ft and jump(jump out of the plane), it can provide enough thrust to propel the pilot horizontally for 4-6 minutes at 115 mph, landings are accomplished via parachute. If you want to see this thing in action, jump to more.
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The Chargepod
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Chargepod($50) is a 6-way charging device that allow you charges six gadgets at the same time. It features you can build a custom Chargepod which Compatible with over a thousand mobile devices such as cell phones, Bluetooth headsets, PDAs, digital cameras, mp3 players and portable gaming systems via device-specific adapters. It also packed the blue indicator lights up on each port to ensure device is charging.
Price: $50   |   BUY

Tentacle Arm

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If you love this? While we've been using primitive, apelike arms like a bunch of jerks, the squids of the world have been clutching their prey with their superior tentacles and laughing at us. Now, you can have Tentacle Arm($15) of your very own. It equipped with suction cups and plenty of creepy greenness.
Price: $15   |   BUY

Tempo Time Tag
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If you're no longer tied to your wrist watch? It is a tiny time watch. You'll probably want a little glimpse of time everywhere else... one for your bag, one for your coat, one for your friend that's always late. The Tempo Time Tag($15) just 0.45 x 1.1 x 0.3" (11 x 28 x 8mm). Features stainless steel and polycarbonate replaceable watch battery. This set includes one left and one right-handed time tag.
Price: $15   |   BUY

Red Cross Radio - Solar Powered Radio with Flashlight and Cellphone Charge, for Emergency

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We have seen many Emergency Radios, this is my first time see the solar powered emergency radio. Eton Corp has introduced the American Red Cross FR150 Microlink Radio($30; February 2008) that it can be charged via its hand-crank, solar cell or USB port. Among the other amazing features is a set of seven NOAA All-Hazard Alert, AM/FM and it has cellphone charging capabilities and the weather channels as well.
Price: $30   |   BUY
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