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Posted on Aug 4 2016 - 12:12pm by Robert
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Let’s face it; at some point in their lives every sci-fi fan has dreamed of having their own Millennium Falcon to fly. While we might never get to take on Darth Vader (although we aren’t ruling it out yet), there is a new Millennium Falcon drone for sale that lets us complete at least part of our dreams. This drone can fly at up to 50mph and can do 360 degree tricks. It can even get involved in rollocking good laser fights with other drones. In fact, the description says that you can get into battle with up to a couple of dozen other...

The Hot Tug Hot Tub Boat sounds like it is part of particularly tricky tongue twister, doesn’t it? You can keep your false teeth in though, as the only thing that it is going to twist is your mind. Can you imagine floating down a river in a hot tub? It just sounds too shamelessly indulgent, doesn’t it? Well, you can now do this. A Dutch inventor has comes up with a boat which is pretty much a glorified floating hot tub. Scrub Your Back on the Clyde Frank de Brujin is the name of the crazed genius who thought that it sounded like a...

For those people who love going to camp at the lakeside or seaside but have to deal with the hassles of bringing a bulky canoe, Tsor Design Studio have come up with a very handy solution. Israeli designer Ori Levin of Tsor Design Studio created the Adhoc Folding Canoe, a foldable take-away canoe that fits into a normal backpack. The Adhoc Canoe is just 13 x 23 x 70 centimeters and weights a measly 4.1 kilos (about 9 lbs). The canoe’s frame is made from carbon fiber, while the hull is crafted from Aramid, which is a heat resistant...

Plastics have been one of the most popular and most important inventions of our time. Almost all of the products we use today, from grocery bags to device cases, are made from at least one type of plastic. Now, designers are making innovative designs for product made from recycled plastic – kind of important when you consider we are running out of oil. Designer Dror Peleg designed a bike that looks like a normal bike made from large chunks of plastic called ‘Frii.’ Peleg made use of the injection molding technology, which...

Owning a pet is fun, but sometimes, you have to be responsible for them since they can’t take care of themselves. Owners have to give them the best treatment, the perfect food for their varying diets, and of course, taking them out for their daily walk. When walking in public places, our four legged friends tend to sniff around and when nature calls, they pick the most unusual places to do their business. The right thing for responsible pet owners to do is to pick it up and throw it away, because it is very rude to just leave it...

Don’t you just love chilling in the pool playing while listening to your favorite song? It’s totally relaxing, but the problem is, the speakers and your controls are on dry land and are nowhere within your reach. An audio company called ION proudly brings to you its new WATER ROCKER that you’ll surely like. The ION WATER ROCKER is a set of portable water speakers for the iPhone or iPod. It consists of a buoyant waterproof speaker and a transmitter for your iPhone, iPod or other portable music devices. Your iPod stays...

The term ‘open source’ is commonly applied to some software these days. The term is applied to things that can be engineered without any patent infringement. Christian Carelberg, a mechanical engineer, designed an open source flashlight called HexBright. The HexBright is a flashlight that is made of solid aircraft grade aluminum and the device features a CREE XM-L LED light. The flashlight has an 18650 lithium-ion battery that can be charged via its micro-USB port. The flashlight will be shipped with four default modes, including...

Isn’t it annoying to go home from a relaxing day at the beach to find your things covered in sand? For those people who are fed up finding beach sand in their sandwiches and in uncomfortable places, the Sandless Beach Mat could be for you. The Sandless Beach Mat, initially designed for military use, is made from state of the art material that filters out sand. It was made for the Armed Forces to keep dust off when helicopters take off or land. The mat repels grains of sand or grit, allowing you to enjoy the beach rather than the...

The craziest gadgets just keep on appearing these days. A new product has been seen called the “Samurai Umbrella,” which is just an ordinary umbrella thats sports a Samurai handle. Pretty cool, huh? The Samurai Umbrella was designed by the artists from materious as part of its Umbrellas for the Civil but Discontent Man series. The designers said that the product’s concept was inspired by Sigmund Freud’s writing about how men “must check their natural aggressive tendencies” if they wanted to live in civilized...

If you’re the type of person who goes out to the wilderness alone or who jumps out of an aircraft to go to uninhabited places just to see if you can get back to civilization, you’re in luck because the popular survivor man Bear Grylls released his own line of survival kits. The Gerber Bear Grylls Ultimate Survival Kits are compact kits that include a number of survival tools. You can choose between the Basic Kit, which includes 8 tools, and the Ultimate kit, which includes 16 tools for the more advanced adventurer. The contents...