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Imagine living in a world where everything you read or look at, every single piece of communication and correspondence, every virtual piece of information that you create is monitored, siphoned through with a microscope and filtered.

Hell, if I can't afford a hover car, at least I'll have a hover mouse. The BAT Levitating Wireless Mouse by Kibardinde Sign harnesses the power of magnetism to float in the air as you do your cursor-moving thing.

In this economy, with these gas prices, not many people can afford to own their own car. For many, it's an unnecessary expense. Unnecessary most of the time at least.

The DRM Chair is designed to be used exactly eight times before the Arduino sensor monitoring the number of sittings tells the legs of the chair to ceremoniously fall apart.

The Socialmatic, designed to resemble the Instagram logo, will ship with a built-in printer (for printing out your own snapshots). Each photo will have a spot to write your own message, and will have a sticky strip on the back, much like a post-it note.

Times are tough. Tough enough that some people not only don't own any gaming consoles, but they don't have even own a TV that would allow them to even pretend they own a gaming console.

Novelty in the half shell. CHIA POWER! I'm pretty sure the Chia Pet was never actually "cool" per se. I feel like it was just something for a very bored generation to do. But the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Chia Pet is going to make growing plants out of sculptures cool for the first time ever.

This machine uses a CNC router bed, and Arduino RBBB, servo-powered grippers and a Dremel tool to completely decimate the cream of the Oreo cookie.

The Denver-based company RuMe has developed stickers to attach to your gadgets which have QR codes scanned onto them. When an honest bystander finds your device, they can scan the QR code and get all of the details about where to send the gadget.

And I thought my Honda Civic's nearly 40 mpg was impressive. Twelve years in the making, the incredible VW XL1 is capable of driving 261 miles on a single gallon of gas. That's the equivalent of driving from New York City to Hershey, PA for around $4.