The Mantys might just be the future of golf carts. It looks like a one person scooter with a spot to hold your golf clubs in front of you but it’s controlled in much the same way that Segways are. You lean in to turn and stop the Mantys. The cart can hold enough charge to go 36 holes at a top speed of 12.5 MPH. They run a little over $3000 and should be available this Spring.

The only issue I see is that there’s no spot to carry along your buddies or your cooler. Your friends can get their own scooter but the cooler, well you’re going to need a backpack cooler to bring along your cold beverages.

Here’s a quick video of the Mantys in action (sorry no direct link to video, if you don’t see the video in your email or reader click through to the post to see it):

via crunchgear

Every week at the Craziest Gadgets home office here in Gadgetville, USA, we find cool new gadgets to write about and every week we go out and drink beer instead of actually writing about them. We call this feature: Gadgets Roundup. Why? Because we couldn’t think of a better name (because we’re drunk). If you have a better name, leave a comment, maybe we’ll use it. Here’s what you would have seen if we weren’t on the sauce:

Napster drops their prices to $5 for 5 DRM-free MP3 downloads plus unlimited streaming from their library of 7 million songs. If you were going to buy 5 songs a month anyway, it’s like getting free streaming service. Not a bad deal really.

Musical condoms shaped like animals that glow in the dark? ‘Nuf said. (Gizmodo)

A stuffed animal monkey that you can draw glow in the dark designs on his stomach and ears with a special UV pen. Kids, today’s lesson is graffiti. Can you spell graffiti? (nerd approved)

Working flamethrower made from LEGO Technics sounds like an ideal father/son project for this weekend. (Techeblog)

Incredible video of a crazy guy on a Segway with a Steadicam as he jumps off the Segway onto the stage and circles the performer seamlessly. (BB Gadgets)

Riding the coattails of the Snuggie (or blankettails if you will) is The Wearable Towel- a towel with two arm holes in it so you can wear it- tunic style or toga style. I wish I was making this up, but this is an actual product. (crunchgear)

Command option Z it with Mac Keyboard pillows. (geeky gadgets)

Super Mario Bros handpainted dresser. Cool, geeky, fun. (walyou, technabob)

Mario mushroom vibrating massage pillow. (geek alerts)

Random non-gadget link of the week: Beedogs.com “the premier online repository for pictures of dogs in bee costumes”. You don’t want to know how many non-premier sites I had to wade through to find this premier site for you guys.

And now back to the beer.

The Dareway is a four-wheeled Segway knockoff for your kids (well not your kids). Kids 5 and up can pretend they’re Gob Bluth and wheel themselves over to the playground to the sound of Europe’s The Final Countdown. The Dareway is powered by a rechargeable 12V battery can spin 360 degrees and costs about $220 and it looks pretty gosh darn dangerous to me. Is there a seatbelt on this thing?

via crunchgear

Vice Magazine sent an intrepid reporter to go learn how to ride a Segway, then off to the New York Jedi Academy (really!?), a “lightsaber enthusiast collective”, to learn how to properly fight with a lightsaber. Then he had a lightsaber fight on a Segway. Let me write that again because that’s easily the most awesome thing I’ve ever written here: he had a lightsaber fight on a Segway. They call it “sabersegging”.

It gets better: the guy that teaches Segway riding is Itsy Atkins, New York’s only licensed Segway instructor and generally awesome dude. He’s been a location scout and production manager for many big movies. He’s taught workshops on how to make belts and bags out of bras. He also designs handbags like the “Bush shoe throwing bag” he’s wearing. He also carries around a large leather paddle which he uses to slap ladies’ asses as they ride by on his Segway. Sounds like he’s living the good life. Here’s the video: