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First I told you about the gas powered snowboard, and now this, a summer snowboard. I’m not sure, but I think the lack of snow makes this name fraudulent. However, if you can’t get enough of hitting the powder in the winter, you might want to check out the rugged, all terrain ‘360‘ summer snowboard by Francesco Sommacal. Sommacal set out to redefine extreme skateboarding through innovative design. The ‘360′ works by the rider putting their feet into the center openings of two wheels. The rider then steers the board by shifting their body weight forward or backward. Sommacal’s hope is the design will give snowboarders an alternative for practicing in the snow-less summer months.
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Combining the excitement of riding a snowmobile with the freestyle action of a snowboard, is the gas powered snowboard. It is powered by a 6 1/2 hp four-cycle gasoline engine with a maximum speed of 18 mph. Accommodating riders up to 250 lbs., on its binding free, cleated foot pads, it can run for up to two hours, on just 3/4 gallon of gas. Get yours here for a cool $2000.00.
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Available from Urban Outfitters for $15 bucks is this mold green colored, old school styled phone receiver that you can use for your modern-day VoIP calls. The plastic headset measures 8.5(W) x 2.5(H) x 2.5(D) inches and conveniently plugs into the 3.5mm microphone and headphone jacks on your computer. While the styling of this phone is clearly meant to appeal to those looking to be retro-cool, it actually seems much better than talking on standard, awkward computer headsets.
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Hitting showroom floors in late 2009 will be the latest addition to Porsche’s expanding model line. The 2010 Porsche Panamera is the automakers entry into sports sedan market, where it will compete with cars like the Maserati Quattroporte S. The four-door Porsche grand-tourer will be available in a 300 hp V6, a 4S model featuring a 400 hp 4.8L V8 and a 500 hp Turbo version which uses the same engine. Already the cars design and mere existence is stirring up immense controversy in the auto world. Many consider anything other than a sports car from Porsche sacrilegious. Most notably stirring controversy beyond the cars existence is the cars hatchback like rear-end and it’s distorted 911 stylings.
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With Christmas coming right around the corner, I’ve been thinking long and hard what to ask Santa for this year. Then it hit me, a drop-top race ready track car. I thought I was out of luck, after all not even Santa would make one of these, right? Well move aside you jolly fat hermit, and enter my new God of the winter wonderland, Ferrari. Ferrari will be producing a mere 499 of their custom 16gb iPod touch equipped (look closely at the pics after the jump and you can kind of see it) F430 Scuderia Spider 16M dream machines. That leaves 498 left for the rest of you to duke it out over.
See more images and read the official press release after the jump.
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As the old saying goes, laws records were made to be broken. This has certainly been the case for the Bugatti Veyron. First, the Veyron lost it’s seat atop the automotive world’s thrown as the fastest production car and now, the Veyron is no longer the world’s most expensive car either. Paying $1.4 million for a Veyron will now be considered a bargain, next to the Aston Martin One-77’s $2.3 million dollar price tag. The name of Aston Martin’s definition of excess reflects the number of auto’s James Bond’s manufacturer of choice will produce, just 77 (or $177,100,000. for Aston Martin). The car will be powered by a 7.0 liter V12 which is expected to get the car to 60 mph in 3.5 seconds and all the way to a top speed of over 200 mph. Also contributing to the performance is a lightweight body constructed out of aluminum and a chassis built completely from carbon fiber.
Check out parts one and two of the teaser video’s for the One-77 after the jump.
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