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If you can’t move your legs, you might as well be able to look good while (not) doing it. I’m not sure if there are speeding laws for wheelchairs, but we imagine paraplegics must face the same laws as us leg-walkers. I think that’s only fair. The sporty yellow Speedy Electra adds a fully-featured, self-contained electric power drive to any ...

Did you think that all of your movies were shoved into those little red envelopes using a huge array of machines? Up until today, we thought that much of the Netflix system was ran by software and machinery, but as it turns out, a lot of manual human labor goes into the Netflix shipping cycle. At the Netflix plant in ...

You think you’re the ultimate Nintendo fanboy? Not even close. Why don’t you spend a weekend with some LEGOs and one up Sean Kenney. After all, he’s the dude who made a 51,324 piece DSi out of LEGOs, complete with a drawing of a strange cat. Kenney spent over 200 hours on the project which will be on display at ...

Leave it to Joel over at BBG to find the world’s most badass hand saw. It’s called the Veritas Dovetail Gang Saw and it costs a whopping $212. But you have to think about it for a minute and analyze the need for this saw. If vampires or zombies ever come after you, you’ll be prepared with three sharp blades, ...

Whether it’s a Oscar-winning picture featuring Sean Penn, the stuff you put in your cereal or the cream in your wife’s breasts, one thing is for sure: MILK rules. Especially when it’s being poured from a piece of literal packaging. Link

I’ve never heard of the firm Hardcore Design before but I’m surprised the Wachowski brothers didn’t hire them to design props for the original Matrix flick. Using pipes, aluminum, steel and other industrial products, Hardcore manages to create some of the most beautiful and unique sculptures and furniture. Hit the jump and let the pictures do all the talking.

20th Century Fox is having a bad week. Like, a really bad week. Yesterday, a work print of the upcoming movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine leaked online and consequently, made its way around the world. A work print is a copy of the movie straight from the studio, but it may be missing effects, post-production audio, etc. And such was the ...

It was bound to happen. Google loves a big player on the Internet (Youtube, Blogger, etc.) and has plenty of cash in its war chest to spend. Word is that Google and Twitter are currently in the beginning stages of talks about a buyout from Google. The expected value hasn’t been revealed but you can bet it’ll be somewhere between ...

Can’t think of the perfect way to disgrace your least favorite politicians? We humbly suggest the Shoe-Merang. Now, you can throw your Oxford at whomever you desire and be confidant that you’ll receive the shoe back, untouched by any Secret Service hands. We suppose your target doesn’t even have to be a politician or even a celebrity, but that makes ...

Don’t get the wrong impression. We’re not total scrubs or anything. We just don’t have the kind of dough it takes to own a brand-new Tesla and that’s even considering the new and affordable Model S series. With that said, the Hustler Zeon is just as cool… really (come on, we need some sort of self-delusion to keep us content)! ...