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Inflatable Stand Up Paddle Surfing Board

Craziest Gadgets Jeff — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:21:24 +0000

Now you can have a full size stand up paddleboard with you no matter what type of vehicle you drive. The Ku Hoe He’e Nalu Inflatable Board (Ku Hoe He’e Nalu being the Hawaiian words for stand up surfing or SUP’ing) deflates to a large backpack (included), allowing you to stash it in your trunk and carry it anywhere on your back. You no longer need a special rack on your car to haul a stand up surfboard around with you.

The board is made of a super durable drop-stitched polyethylene that is both rigid and buoyant. It can hold riders up to 265lbs. This board is both wider and thicker than a traditional surfboard, measuring 31″ wide and ten feet long.

Inflatable Stand Up Paddle Surfing Board

Rearview Camera for Bicycles

Craziest Gadgets Jeff — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:32:34 +0000

Add an extra measure of safety to your bike with a Bicycle Rearview Camera. This camera system mounts to the bicycle’s seat post with a 3.5 inch monitor that mounts on the handlebars. See vehicles approaching from the rear without turning around. The monitor has a quick release mechanism to remove it for charging- it gets 10 hours of operation from a 2 hour charge. The camera’s red LEDs even flash during low-light conditions to provide extra visibility to traffic. Everything is vibration and weather resistant. Be safe out there!

Rearview Camera for Bicycles

Flying Hovercraft FTW

Craziest Gadgets Jeff — Fri, 11 May 2012 18:20:47 +0000

Anyone got a spare $190,000 they can give me so I can buy a Flying Hovercraft from Hammacher? I’ll give you a ride in it. This hovercraft not only glides over land and water like the regular hovercrafts you probably already have sitting in your garage, but it can also soar up to 50′ in the air thanks to wings. Fly right over your buddies in their old outdated ride-on-the-water-only hovercrafts. It’s the new style… 4 and 3 and 2 and 1…

After a ride in that, I typically go for a martini- shaken, not stirred. The Flying Hovercraft can hold up to 600lbs of passengers and cargo and the dual 9 gallon gas tanks let it go up to 160 miles on a fill up. Sure the gas mileage isn’t great, but you can make up for it by going in a straight line to your destination, over most any object. Here’s the joystick controlled cockpit:

Top speed is 70mph from the 130hp twin-cylinder liquid cooled turbocharged gas engine. You’ll need to register it as a boat. Want! Now all I need is the $190k and I’m all set.

Flying Hovercraft FTW

Jet Powered Miniature Monster Truck

Craziest Gadgets Jeff — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:22:23 +0000

It’s the world’s smallest jet powered monster truck! I wasn’t even aware that monster trucks came in any size besides “monster” but Jeff Seymour and Dieter Sturm have hooked a jet engine putting out 160lbs of thrust (when the afterburner! is ignited) at 80,000 rmp (!!!) into a tiny monster truck. Surprisingly they are not using this thing to jet down the highway but have hooked up a smoke machine to the engine so it just scoots around putting out massive amounts of smoke and sounding like a jet airplane. See the action video (without the body, use your imagination):

Personally I was expecting something much much faster, but the serious mobile smoke machine is pretty cool. It needs an oil slick button to go full Spy Hunter though. The Micro Monster Truck is available for parties, tv shoots, and any other occasion you feel the need to rent something like this.

(via hacked gadgets)

Jet Powered Miniature Monster Truck

Tacocopter, Flying Taco Delivery Drone

Craziest Gadgets Jeff — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:55:10 +0000

Tacos, so delicious yet so far away. And taco delivery? So inefficient when it’s bound by things like roads, sidewalks and the ground. Well where this taco is going, we don’t need roads. Because the Tacocopter has achieved liftoff. Sure unmanned airborne drones are not currently allowed by the FAA even for such awesome uses as delivering a taco, but that just seems like a minor hurdle to overcome. Watch the taco take flight for the first time in this video:

Ok, that was what- 1 second? 2 seconds? of actual taco flying time. So maybe FAA approval isn’t the biggest hurdle. Back to the drawing board Tacocopter. On the plus side, that sour cream cannon at the beginning of the video shows a lot of promise. (via huffpo)

Tacocopter, Flying Taco Delivery Drone

Killer Whale Personal Submarine

Craziest Gadgets Jeff — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:36:33 +0000

This submarine is totally killer. This is not a concept or design idea, you can actually buy a Killer Whale Submarine from Hammacher. This sub holds two people and breaches and submerges from the water just like an Orca whale. The sea was angry that day my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli. It’s powered by a 255hp Rotax axial flow engine and can hit 50mph skimming atop the water and 25mph underwater.

A pair of control levers let you do rolls and dives while dual foot pedals control the steering and thrust. If you owned this submarine you would be getting so much action they would call you Free Willie for two reasons. Hey is that an iPhone dock on the dashboard too? Sold! Really cool vehicle and I’m sure you’re already reaching for your credit card to buy one but first you probably want to know what the damage will be. Try $100,000. If you have to ask….

Killer Whale Personal Submarine

Super Mario Bros. Theme on NYC Subway

Craziest Gadgets Jeff — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:10:38 +0000

Best subway performance ever! If you ride the subway in New York City enough you’re bound to hear musicians of all skill levels busking on both the trains and the platforms. Sometimes you get an annoying off-key mariachi band and sometimes you get Gypsy Joe Trane jamming out the Super Mario Bros. Theme Song on guitar on the uptown R train in Manhattan. Check out the video:

Since nobody on the train seems to give him applause, consider this your Internet applause Gypsy Joe. Bravo. Well played, but the real money on the subway is selling M&M’s, not for no basketball team but to raise money and stay off the streets- oh and only having peanut M&M’s right now.

Super Mario Bros. Theme on NYC Subway

Street and Snow Scooter: That’s a Way

Craziest Gadgets Jeff — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:48:02 +0000

The ultimate transportation toy for all seasons, the Street And Snow Scooter converts from a standard razor style scooter to a ski machine. A quick screw of a wrench and you take off the included regular skate style wheels and attach the patented HDPE skis to the bottom and hit the slopes. The scooter has a rear wheel fender brake for pavement and a rear-ski fork break for snow. The handlebar is height adjustable and the slip resistant food plate is ready for sun or snow. Holds up to 140lbs. $99 only from Hammacher.

Street and Snow Scooter: That’s a Way

Bean Bag Sled

Craziest Gadgets Jeff — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:20:48 +0000

Sled riding just got a whole lot more comfortable. The Bean Bag Sled is a whole lot more than just taking a regular bean bag chair out of your dorm room and jumping down a hill on it. This tube shaped sled is designed for a soft ride to save your back from pain. It has an inflatable air bladder surrounded by bean bag filling. The top is made of double stitched PVC coated polyester for durability while the bottom has a double-coated PVC to slide down the hills quickly. To turn, you grab the straps and lean. Holds up to 220 pounds. Plus once Spring comes you could always just use it as a regular bean bag chair. $299 from Hammacher.

Bean Bag Sled

Midnight Rider: World’s Heaviest Limo Needs to be Pulled by Tractor Trailer

Craziest Gadgets Jeff — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:10:23 +0000

How pimped is your ride these days? You’re probably not really living large until you travel around in what is billed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the World’s Heaviest Limousine (we measure limos by weight now?) at a smidgen over 50,000 pounds. That’s the same as 10-12 superstretch limos. The Midnight Rider is so large it needs to be pulled by a tractor trailer.

It measures 70 feet long, 14 feet high by 8 feet wide. It can hold 40 passengers plus a crew of 5. Inside it’s cavernous luxury body is 3 separate lounges and a full sized bar.

Great for parties. The interior is modeled after a late 1800′s Pullman railroad car…except with TV’s and better booze. It took 7 years to build this bad boy.

I hope this one is from Halloween. Actually scratch that, I hope it’s not.

There’s a (not pictured) restroom twice the size of an airplane bathroom, plus it doesn’t make that weird wooshing sound when you flush. This limo has a 48 foot turning radius and needs a 435 horsepower tractor trailer to pull it’s 22 wheels down the road. Available for hire if you’re in Southern California!

(via Jalopnik)

Midnight Rider: World’s Heaviest Limo Needs to be Pulled by Tractor Trailer