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  • Bottleclip Keeps Stylish Cyclists Hydrated

    Bottleclip Keeps Stylish Cyclists Hydrated

    Matthias Ries has come up with an ingenious solution for carrying water bottles on bikes, especially for the accessory-phobic fixed-gear rider. The Bottleclip is a standard sized screw cap and a snap-on clip combined into one small plastic chunk. Screw in almost any normal PET water bottle and it hangs from the top-tube of the [...]

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  • Netbooks Mutate to Meet Market Challenges

    Netbooks Mutate to Meet Market Challenges

    The word netbook may soon vanish into irrelevance, but the products that resulted from the category are not going away any time soon. Indeed, they’re on the verge of injecting their DNA into a broad swath of the PC market. Despite their shipments slowing down in the first quarter of 2009, inexpensive and low-powered netbooks are [...]

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  • Scary-Looking Concept Bike is All Corners

    Scary-Looking Concept Bike is All Corners

    While we like the thinking behind the BaubBike, a bicycle both modular in design and also fairly easy to build from standard square-section steel tubes, in practice it looks both dangerous and rather uncomfortable. There’s a reason bike frames have been triangular for so long: stiffness. A steel frame will flex a lot, and the triangle [...]

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  • Of Course: ToastIt Toaster Bags

    Of Course: ToastIt Toaster Bags

    toaster bagThe future! Please observe ToastIt Toaster Bags. Non-toxic, non-stick bags that are heat-resistant up to 500 degrees, dishwasher safe, and cost $4.50 for two. You build a delicious sandwich, put it in a toaster bag, and drop it in your toaster. Boom, hot melty sandwich.

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